Careers for the Liberal Arts Major
Learn about different ways to market Liberal Arts skills for careers in diverse industries, such as business, non-profit, government, education, health, and so much more.
Tuesday, April 27
5:30-6:30 pm
Sanger Learning & Career Center
Space is limited. Please RSVP to:
http://enroll.utlc.utexas.edu/survey/rsvp/rsvp.php?u=4544790&e=530
The UT Counseling and Mental Health Center, is asking for your help in promoting mental health on campus!
We’re creating a short video on how students can reach out to help a friend who’s struggling with a mental health concern. Have you yourself helped a friend who was going through a tough time with something like stress, depression, anxiety etc? OR did a friend help you? If so, we’d love to hear your stories and share them with other students. We will select some stories to be part of this video that will be featured on our website.
Please read the attached document Student_PSA_Video_Submission[1] for details on how to submit your story. You may either send an email or record your story. All entries are due on April 18, 2011. Students will be notified if their story is selected.
If you have questions about this video, please contact Marian Trattner, Coordinator for the Be That One Suicide Prevention Program, UT Counseling and Mental Health Center, at (512)475-6962 or mtrattner@austin.utexas.edu
Thank you for helping to make a difference in the lives of students and our campus community.
A fellow LAHer needs your help with a research assignment. Please help her by filling out this survey: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dDd5cmtxbU91Q09sbGpmZklReEhLdUE6MA
Monday, April 18, 7PM
The major novelist Russell Banks, author of 20 published books including The Sweet Hereafter and Continental Drift, will read from new work. Evan Carton, Professor of English at UT, will interview Banks and moderate questions from the audience. A limited number of free books by Russell Banks are available for honors students. To claim a free book, visit the front desk of the Joynes Reading Room (CRD 007). The books we are giving away are both collections of short stories (The Angel on the Roof and Success Stories). Please only take a book if you are sure you can come to the event Monday night.
Thursday, April 21, 7PM
Nigerian-American novelist and short story writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will read from and discuss new work. Adichie is author of the bestselling novels Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun. She is also the recipient of a presitigious MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant. While supplies last, honors students may claim a free copy of her short story collection The Thing Around Your Neck at the front desk of the Joynes Reading Room (CRD 007). Please only take a book if you are certain that you can attend the event Thursday night.
Wednesday, April 27, 7PM
Three top contemporary photographers who use antique photographic techniques (such as daguerrotype and bromoil processes) will show slides of their work and discuss their careers. Dan Burkholder and Jill Skupin Burkholder teach photography in New York. Robb Kendrick lives in Laredo, and is a regular contributor to National Geographic magazine.
All of these events are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Matt Valentine at mvalentine@mail.utexas.edu, or call the Joynes Reading Room: 512-471-5787.
The 2012-2013 Fulbright U.S. Student competition will open on May 1, 2011. The Fulbright U.S. Student program is open to graduate students at all levels, undergraduates who will have completed their degree by the beginning of the grant period (for most countries, Sept. 1, 2012) and non-students who hold a bachelor’s degree. The program is restricted to U.S. citizens. The grants are for study and research abroad, and are available for most countries. Grants are awarded for all disciplines, including the sciences, social sciences, humanities, engineering, and the performing and creative arts. A number of countries also offer grants for those who wish to serve as English teaching assistants.
An information session for prospective applicants will be presented by an Alumni Ambassador from the Institute of International Education’s Houston office on Tuesday, April 19 from 2:00-3:00 PM in Parlin 201.
Deadlines and Procedures:
1. Potential applicants must register with us, by sending an email to: Fulbright@austin.utexas.edu. The email should give the applicant’s name, contact information, academic status (i.e., undergrad, grad, alumnus), country or region of interest, and area of study or research topic.
2. The applicant should go to the Fulbright U.S. Student Program website (http://us.fulbrightonline.org/home.html) for country summaries, information about preparing an application, and, starting May 1, to begin the online application process.
3. The applicant should also review our campus website: http://www.utexas.edu/student/abroad/funding/fulbright.html
4. Campus Deadline: The applicant must submit copies of all application materials electronically to our office by September 7. Interviews are tentatively scheduled between September 19 and September 30. While the deadline for final submission to the national office has not yet been announced, my expectation is that it will be around mid-October.
As a Fulbrighter myself (Brazil, 1990), I can testify to the lifelong value of this extraordinary program, and I am hoping that we can make that experience available to your students as well.
Best,
Lindsay Hale, Ph.D.
Department of Religious Studies
Chair, Fulbright U.S. Student Program Campus Committee
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