We are having our last meeting next Tuesday at Burdine 116 at 7 pm. We will be discussing next years plans and provide free Austin’s pizza!
LAH Pre-Med Society – Last Meeting for Spring
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Monthly Archives: April 2012
Lead a LAH Fall Orientation Bike Ride
Like to cycle?
Want to introduce first year LAHers to Austin?
We are planning a new LAH event to kick off the fall semester: an Orientation Bike Ride. To introduce our first year LAHers to Austin and to the LAH community, we would like to offer them a chance to take a bike ride around town right before classes start on Monday, August 27.
I need LAH volunteers to lead these bikes rides! Design a plan for a bike ride around Austin – any distance or level of difficulty is fine. We will need a mix of all different levels – some for experts and some for beginners.
Use google maps: http://maps.google.com/ to plan your route and calculate mileage. Send me your plan by Monday, May 14. Along with your route, please include 1- estimated ride time and 2 – departure time.
A few requirements:
1- All rides should depart from Gebauer
2- Departure time should be sometime in the morning, by 11 am
3- Return to Gebauer by 1 pm (for ice cream!)
Last year, the most popular rides centered around eating. You don’t have to go somewhere to eat, but remember that it will be hot, so it is better to plan a shorter, doable ride.
Want to lead a group on foot? Those proposals are welcome too!
If you need help coming up with ideas, just let me know and I can brainstorm with you.
Contact Linda Mayhew lmayhew@austin.utexas.edu with questions.
Congratulations to the 2012-2013 LAHSC Officers!
President – Elisabeth Eikrem
Vice President – Jamie Hill
Secretary – Sam Naik
Treasurer – David Oh
Vice Treasurer (Fundraising) – Heather Wong
Publicity chair – Caroline Suh (vice – Brandon Sanchez)
Social chair – Sarah Lusher (vice – Sarah Luckey)
Mentoring chair – Andy Bowman (vice – Allie Hollander, Tracy Frydberg)
Academic chair – Kayla Oliver (vice – Anne Pennington)
LAHSO liason – Catherine Moreno, James Stratton
Historian – Julia Gallagher
INSPIRE Applications are Open!
What is INSPIRE?
Since 2009, the INSPIRE program has served as UT’s signature leadership program for women undergraduates. The INSPIRE program is sponsored by the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. It has been created specifically to empower undergraduate women to re-envision and enact what leadership means in a global society.
We envision the women who go through the program will create a world that opens up opportunities to create change in women’s lives in the workplace, higher education, and in every aspect of their lives Other opporunities that the program offers are:
• Community service/development
• Mentoring and networking
• Internship/career assistance
• Attendance of conferences
The program inspires and supports students in the classroom, on campus, and in community leadership roles. Students will develop skills applicable to diverse social settings: critical thinking, public presentation, group motivation, and negotiation. The participants build leadership skills by engaging in community service, and working with other young women in supportive and interdisciplinary environments. Moreover, they learn directly from the experiences of successful female mentors drawn from both the academy and the community.
The application can be found here.
(Two LAHers are in the program: Sanjna Zadoo and Caroline Suh)
Sign up to be a LAH Summer Orientation Peer Adviser. Info and Training Meeting May 7 at 3:00
Will you be here all or part of the summer and want to help pre-advise and meet the incoming LAH class of 2016 during Orientation? Sign up to attend the LAH Summer Orientation Peer Adviser Info and Training Session
Monday, May 7 at 3:00 in the CEB 4th Floor Conference room. (we will have food). Sign up on the google doc link.
Orientation dates are listed below, but we will need the most help on day 2 of Orientation. Advising Day- June 7, 14, 21, 28, July 12, 17)
June 6-8
June 13-15
June 20-22
June 27-29
July 11-13
July 16-18
August 22-23
Help Texas 4000 raise money to fight cancer!
Take a minute out of your week to raise money for cancer research. 1-800-Oncologist has agreed to donate 50 cents for every person that “likes” their Facebook page and leaves a comment mentioning Texas 4000. All of the money raised will go directly to impacting the fight against cancer.
To like the page click here: https://www.facebook.com/1800TKOCancer
To learn more about Texas 4000 visit: www.texas4000.org
*Save the Date* Graduation Reception on Friday May 18
The College of Liberal Arts
cordially invites you
to a reception honoring
the Spring 2012 graduates of the
Liberal Arts Honors and
Departmental Honors Programs
Friday, May 18, 2012
Flawn Academic Center 101
The University of Texas at Austin
1:30 – 3:00 P.M.
Remarks at 2 pm.
*All graduating students who have participated in Liberal Arts Honors, whether it be our first year honors program, college honors, or departmental honors are invited. We will ask you for RSVPs as the date gets closer.*
LAH Pre-Med Society Hosts Lecture on Healthcare Reform
Tuesday, April 17, Liberal Arts Pre Med will be hosting another guest speaker. Cheasty Anderson from Texas Well and Healthy will be discussing the Healthcare reform. This meeting is again required for all members and encouraged for non members as well. It would be great if this was posted in the LAH Herald. It will take place at Burdine 116 at 7 pm.
Meet Fulbright Chair Tom Healy
As Board Chair, appointed to the Board directly by President Obama, Tom plays a key role in shaping Fulbright policy and representing the program to the world. He is a dynamic personality and has personal global connections, including with Presidents Obama and Clinton, with world leaders and with Fulbright Commissions across the globe. Furthermore, he is a very good at helping others to make good connections.
Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2:00 – 4:00 PM
Location: International Office, Multi-Purpose Room
University Towers, 715 West 23rd Street (entrance is shared with Abel’s Copies)
Agenda:
2-3 PM: Interested students, Fulbright alumni, interested faculty scholars and non-U.S. Fulbright scholarship students discuss what the program has to offer and the sharing of experiences with the program.
For more information:
http://us.fulbrightonline.org/overview_program.html?page=us/overview_program
3-4 PM: Senior scholars (faculty) discuss ideas for recruitment of high quality scholars to participate in Fulbright opportunities abroad at the research or teaching level.
For more information:
For more information about Tom Healy:
Undergraduate Research Week Presentations
Undergraduate Research Week is next week!
Please let your students and coworkers know about this exciting event that they can attend:
ORAL PRESENTATION SYMPOSIUM
Wednesday, April 18, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
And
Thursday, April 19, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Gebauer (GEB) 3.312
Please drop in any time throughout the day to view ongoing short presentations given by Liberal Arts Undergraduate Researchers. Below is the schedule for the department clusters and presenter’s name:
Wednesday, April 18
Psychology, 10 – 10:45 a.m.
Courtney Lewis
Love/Hate
Keela Thomson
The Effects of Decision-Making Strategies on Financial Choices
Economics, 10:45 – 11:30 a.m.
Shuoyu Li
How Important Exchange Rate is in International Bonds Investing
Hamid Poorsafar
Transit Economics: A Caspian Approach
English, 11:30 – 1 p.m.
Chris Graves
“For a Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing”: A Comparative Reading of Karl Marx’s and Paul K. Feyerabend’s Methodology
Zachary Garber
History and Nation-Building in the Novels of Sir Walter Scott
Laurel Richards
Dysfunctional Families and Reconstructive Dynamics in Diana Wynne Jones’ Chrestomanci Novels
Travis Alexander
Politics, Literary Ambitions, and Counterculture Critiques of H.S. Thompson
Christopher Barton
Expanding Original Practices
Government, 1 – 3 p.m.
Andres Eaton
The Cost of Apathy: Obama and the Black Vote
Joshua Tang
Mexican American Clemency from 1923-1972
Ainee Athar
The Politics of Dream Activism
Julieta Cuellar
In the Wake of the “October Revolution”: Otpor! Post-October 5, 2000
Joshua Fjelstul
Accession Conditionality in the European Union
American Studies, 3 – 4 p.m.
Natalie San Luis
Represent the Realness: Black Authenticity and Contemporary Rap
Lauren White
Don’t Blame the Grease, Blame the TV: Soul Food and the Media
Jillian Owens
A Wide Net of Hope: Understanding the Success of the Lakewood Church
Thursday, April 19
Classics, 11 a.m. – noon
Tu-Uyen Nguyen
Human and Virgin Sacrifice in Ancient Greece and Rome
Blagoje Djordjevic
Perceptions of Science in Late Byzantine Theology
Elizabeth Morgan de Marigny
Occupational Imagery in the Age of Augustus
Linguistics, 1 – 2 p.m.
Delwin Campbell
The Future of Folklore: Internet Memes
Victoria Heckenlaible
Arabic-English Code-Switching: Negotiating Social Networks in Jordan
Nancy Yuan
The Einsteinian Religion
Anthropology/Urban Studies, 2 – 3 p.m.
Jonathan Carrillo
Cost Benefit Analysis of Adding Real-Time Global Positioning System
Jandy Gu
Color Me Weird: Street Art in Austin
Jenna Stewart
Research on Celtic Symbolism in Europe
Cultural Studies, 3 – 4 p.m.
Lynn Romero
The Silencing of Mexico’s Journalists
Courtney Lee
El Grano de Oro: A Recent History of Bolivian Identity and Quinoa
Jose Luis Rodriguez Aquino
Order and Progress: Brazilian Leadership in South America
Our researchers have worked very hard on their presentations, so let’s support them and take a minute out of our day to learn about what they’ve been doing!
Thanks for your help!