Daily Archives: April 13, 2012

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:

http://www.cies.org/

For more information about Tom Healy:

http://exchanges.state.gov/academicexchanges/fulbright/ffsb/fulbright-foreign-scholarship-board-members/tom-healy.html

 

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!

Undergraduate Philosophy Association

UT Students in all Disciplines,

The Undergraduate Philosophy Association would like to cordially invite you the first annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, this Friday, April 13 at 3:00 PM in Waggener 302.  Seven of our best thinkers will have the opportunity to present their research to an audience of like-minded peers like you, who are encouraged to ask questions, offer objections, and engage in philosophic dialogue.  The presentations consider a variety of queries:  Can thoughts be construed as actions, and do thoughts have moral weight?  What exact are the laws of nature?  Does ‘fallacy’ mean the same thing everywhere?  How objective is mathematics?

If these questions intrigue you, or if you’ve ever found yourself thinking about them on your own before (as happens so often in philosophy), that we would love to have you with us as we explore the answers – and the questions that arise thereof – together.  Again, it is this Friday, April 13 at 3:00 PM in Waggener 302.

Hope to see you there!

Sincerely,
Kyle and Armando, Co-Presidents, Undergraduate Philosophy Association

PS:  There will be free pizza and soft drinks!!

For more information:

 

upatexas@gmail.com

 

http://sites.utexas.edu/upa/

Foot in the Door Presents Doubt and That Shape of Things

BOTH SHOWS

April 13th, 14th, and 15th

Friday, Saturday at 8:00 PM

Saturday, Sunday at 2:00 PM

 

Doubt

by John Patrick Shanley

 

directed by Colin McLoughlin

 

CAST

Megan Rabuse as Sister Aloysius

Aza Pace as Sister James

Yahya Khan as Father Flynn

Sam Moore as Mrs. Muller

 

***there will be a fifteen minute intermission between shows***

 

The Shape of Things

by Neil LaBute

 

directed by Emily Neie

assistant director: Jennifer Harrison

 

CAST

James Fisk as Adam

Susan Bennett as Evelyn

Christine Pedersen as Jenny

Joseph Crowley as Phillip

 

*for mature audiences only*

 

Executive producer: Kelsi Tyler

Producers: Stephanie Donowho and Rajvi Patel