Daily Archives: February 18, 2014

Honors Quiz Bowl

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As Liberal Arts Honors Student Council’s academic chair, I’m happy to announce that the fifth annual Honors Quiz Bowl will take place on Saturday, April 5 in Mezes from noon until 4 p.m. The Quiz Bowl involves 3-person teams from each UT honors program competing against one other to answer professionally written trivia questions spanning almost every academic subject and cultural topic. We welcome more than one team from each honors program (especially LAH)!

Registration is free, and teams should email me at this address (kayla.oliver@utexas.edu) by March 15 to sign up. Their email should include:

•    Team members’ names

•    A team name of their choice (ex: “Plan 2 Destroy”)

•    Contact information (email address and phone number) for at least one team member

Please don’t hesitate to get in touch with any questions. Looking forward to a great quiz bowl!

Now is a great time to declare your major!

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If you are currently undeclared, now is a great time to declare your major.  To declare your major, you need to go see a departmental advisor. The beginning semester rush is over, so many departmental advisors will have time to chat with you about the department, major requirements, and your future goals.  If you need help finding the departmental adviser, ask Linda or Stacey.

Now is also a good time to claim AP credits and sign up for the Texas only test, which you will pair with your AP Government credit to count as the GOV 310L course. You can claim credit and sign up for placement tests through Student Testing Services: https://ctl.utexas.edu/studenttesting/welcome-to-student-testing-services/

Texas Exes Scholarships Due March 1

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Who can apply? All full-time undergraduate or graduate students enrolled at The University of Texas at Austin. Students transferring to the University are eligible for only select scholarships.

When?  Students must apply by March 1. Scholarships are for the following academic year. Recipients are chosen by the Texas Exes scholarship selection committees each spring. Only students receiving scholarships will be notified.

How to apply?

Students should apply online at www.utexas.edu/student/finaid by March 1. To apply for our scholarships, select “Texas Exes Scholarships” under Scholarship Choices.

To apply for specific scholarships, you must type the scholarship code on the application in the Other Scholarships section. For a complete listing of all the scholarships we administer, go to http://scholarships.texasexes.org/named-scholarships-for-current-students/

How much?  Most scholarships are based on earnings from investment of the endowed funds, so amounts vary from year to year. Awards range from $500 to $8,000, with most scholarships falling within the $1,000 – $2,000 range.

Questions? TexasExesScholarships@alumni.utexas.edu or 1 (800) 594-3937 Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/TESFoundation

Supreme Court Internship Program

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This is a great opportunity if you will be in DC for a semester.  Currently, we have one LAHer on the Archer program who is interning with the Supreme Court.  Don’t pass up applying for this greta opportunity.

Judicial Internship Program

For more than 40 years, the Judicial Internship Program in the Office of the Counselor to the Chief Justice has provided advanced undergraduate students and recent college graduates with the opportunity to support and study the non-adjudicative responsibilities of the Chief Justice in his role as head of the Federal Judiciary. Many prior Judicial Interns have become practicing attorneys. Some have become law clerks at the Supreme Court and other federal courts, professors and deans of leading law and business schools, senior staff members in Congress, and attorneys at the U.S. Department of Justice.

More details here: http://www.supremecourt.gov/jobs/jip/jip.aspx