The University Honors Center invites you to apply for a position as an Honors Colloquium student mentor for the 29th annual Honors Colloquium, held July 22-24, 2010.
The Honors Colloquium is a three-day recruiting event, which takes place on The University of Texas at Austin campus and is designed to introduce rising high school seniors to life at the university while encouraging them to apply to UT and its honors programs.
Student mentors are a critical component to our program. They interact with participants and provide support for Colloquium activities. Most importantly, they have fun!
You may learn more about the position and application here:
http://www.utexas.edu/ugs/hc/mentor
All materials must be submitted by Wednesday, April 14 at 11:59 p.m.
Please direct questions to James Tolleson at j.tolleson@austin.utexas.edu.We look forward to working with you this summer!
Hey everybody!
It’s that time of year again for Honors Quiz Bowl! Each year LAHSC hosts a quiz bowl in which various honors organizations around campus compete against each other in a trivia challenge. This year’s contest will be on Sunday April 11 from 1:00-3:00. If you’re interested in being a part of an LAH team, please email me, Tamara, at leiderkannichnicht@mail.utexas.edu with your name and telephone number. I’ll be making the teams based on a first-come, first-serve basis, so let me know soon!
Thanks!
Tamara Marshall
ELLE Magazine is in need of some exceptional Fashion Market interns for this summer. Intern duties will include: trafficking samples, day to day scheduling, general administrative tasks and assisting on photo shoots. Successful candidates will be highly organized, self-starters with previous fashion experience. Candidates must be available beginning in May through August for 5 days a week. Please submit your resume and a short cover letter to fashionintern.elle@gmail.com
Come hear our graduating Humanities majors present their research on Friday, April 9 from 2-6 pm in JGB 2.218. You are welcome to come and go in between panels.
Health and Culture 2:15 – 3:00
Paige Binder
“Influence of Parents on Physical Activity Levels of Elementary School Children”
Supervisor: Jules Elkins Second Reader: Andrew Springer
Katherine Hathaway
“The Contribution of Diabetes and Other Factors to Memory among Mexican Americans
in the Rio Grande Valley”
Supervisor: Leanne Field Second Reader: Jennifer Gay
Michelle Miro
“Rural Water Supply in Tamil Nadu, India: A Provider-Based Approach”
Supervisor: Catherine Boone Second Reader: Sankaran Radhakrishnan
Communication and Politics 3:15 – 4:00
Cori Dickie
“Technology Expansion and American Quality of Life”
Supervisor: Penne Restad Second Reader: Gregory Curtis
Ryan Storey
“Moments of Accountability: The Daily Show, Media Constraints and Democracy”
Supervisor: Natalie Stroud Second Reader: Renita Coleman
Will Clark
“Eminent Domain: An Analysis of Equity, Efficiency, and Texas Reforms”
Supervisor: Alan Sager Second Reader: Helen Schneider
Cultural Studies 4:15 – 5:00
Jenna Miller
“Theories of Soft Power Hegemony”
Supervisor: Pascale Bos Second Reader: Inga Markovits
Nicole Hutchins
“Social Enterprise as a Tool for Economic Development in Latin America”
Supervisor: Melvin Hinich Second Reader: Charles Krecz
Anne Hulsey
“Politics as an Expression of Culture: Honor in Turkish International Relations”
Supervisor: Zoltan Barany Second Reader: George Gavrilis
Literary Perspectives 5:15 – 5:45
Eleanor Hooker
“The Migration of Novel Form: Text, Image, Space”
Supervisor: Karen Grumberg Second Reader: Taek El-Ariss
Matthew Morton
“Imperfect Glimpses of the Sky: Poems and a Story: Poems and a Story”
Supervisor: Michael Adams Second Reader: Dean Young
On April 13th, the Student Events Center will be hosting a free
screening of the Academy-Award Winning documentary, The Cove. This
event is open to all students and faculty with a UT ID plus one
non-UT guest.
Check out the trailer for The Cove.
The screening will be in the Texas Union Theatre at 7:30 pm.
For more information, please visit utsec.org/fc or call 512-475-6630.
Thinking about Graduate School?
Then you should enroll in a Pre-Graduate School Internship!
What is the internship?
It’s an opportunity for bright UT students in ALL colleges and schools to work closely with a graduate student mentor. Discover the unique aspects of graduate study that make it distinct from the undergraduate experience and decide if graduate school is for you!
What would I have to do?
You’ll attend monthly workshops and meetings with other interns to discuss your experiences, plus you’ll get the opportunity to interact with faculty and graduate student panels. In addition, you and your graduate student mentor determine your projects and assignments for the semester collaboratively.
What Students Say about the Program:
This IE Internship has opened my eyes to possibilities I never before had contemplated. It has allowed me to think about my education and discipline from the bottom up, rather than the top down. How odd that it took until my final year and a class outside my field to be given the opportunity to make these discoveries.” “A doctorate was something I had never considered, but now I feel it is one career path I would want to pursue. The IE program broadened my career choices.”
Because of the generosity of several UT deans, undergraduates who do their pre-grad internship in programs in the following colleges will be eligible to receive travel grants to help cover part of the cost of attending an academic conference (with their grad mentor)– Law, Public Affairs, Communication, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Pharmacy, Business, Social Work, Education, Natural Sciences, Fine Arts.
To find out more about the program and about how to enroll, please visit: http://communication.utexas.edu/ie/
For further information, please contact: Professor Richard Cherwitz, spaj737@uts.cc.utexas.edu .
If you know you will be in Austin over the summer and want to show the new LAH class of 2014 just how awesome the students of LAH are, sign up to be an LAH Orientation Peer Adviser. Orientation sessions begin June 8 thru July 15. We need volunteers to advise all day on ‘Day 3’ of Orientation (typically on Thursdays) and to help out in the morning with registration on Day 4 (typically on Fridays). You can sign up for the weeks and times that work best for you.
We will hold a training session prior to the start of Orientation . Date and time TBA.
Sign up in the LAH office if you are interested.
If you are interested in working as a writing tutor for LAH 102H for Fall 2010, please respond to the prompt below in a 2-3 page essay:
“What you think a good tutor does and what does a student need from a good tutor?”
Writing Tutors must be able to attend LAH 102H on Mondays 4 – 5:30 and meet briefly after class. LAH pays tutors a stipend of $750 for the semester.
Please submit your response to lmayhew@austin.utexas.edu by Friday, April 9.
Are you graduating in May, August or December of 2010?
Join us on May 19, 2010
to celebrate your success at the
Lavender Graduation!
Lavender Graduation is for any students identifying as gay, lesbian,
bisexual, transgender, quesitoning, gender-queer and their allies.
Register to walk the Lavender Stage and get more info at:
www.utexas.edu/diversity/ddce/gsc/lavendergrad.php
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