Watch the homecoming of one of the Harry Ransom Center’s most famous and frequently borrowed art works, Frida Kahlo’s "Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird" (1940). Featuring interviews with curators and installers, the video narrates the painting's return to the Ransom Center, its unpacking and assessment, and finally, its installation on the first floor. The painting will be on display for a limited time in the Ransom Center’s lobby through Jan. 3, 2010.
Frida returns
Beloved self-portrait back home at the Ransom Center.
(5:32)
Four tales of fright
Faculty read excerpts from select spooky literature
(10:20)
Bench to bedside
Researchers and clinicians collaborate under same roof to advance diagnosis and therapies for children's health.
(2:27)
Intellectual Entrepreneurship
Undergrads find their passion
(4:18)
Organic micro devices
Lab collaborations yield potential for medical technology.
(6:32)
Poe Mania
Ransom Center celebrates Edgar Allan Poe this week
(1:04)
Barbara Jordan honored
The first statue of a woman unveiled on campus.
(7:23)
Journey to the Stars
UT supercomputer renders Sun anew for most advanced planetarium show ever produced.
(1:18)
Accounting in the community
Student volunteers provide free tax services.
(7:12)
Teaching excellence
Professor wins largest undergraduate teaching honor.
(5:51)
Student artists get physical
Enter a sculpture class where young studio artists hone their craft.
(8:42)
Conducting business
Opera entrepreneur creates sustainable business model for arts organizations.
(3:51)
Brain injury survivor
Faith, family and bilingual education help student overcome obstacles to graduate.
(3:08)
Finding a way home
PhD candidate negotiates war, classrooms, and motherhood with courage and wit.
(4:07)
The small college experience
Texas Interdisciplinary Plan challenges students to excel.
(5:14)
See the Earth turn
Foucault pendulum provides meditative spot on campus, exact calculation of time.
(3:52)
Art for everyone
Landmarks program brings public art to campus.
(3:24)
Resistance Fighter
Student's tuberculosis research could help Afghanistan.
(2:34)
Millennium Seed Bank
Project collects seeds from 24,000 plant species.
(8:09)
First Bytes
Young women dig into technology at campus summer camp.
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