Daily Archives: September 17, 2012

Apply for Peer Mentor Position with TIP

Dear Liberal Arts Honors Students,

You are invited to apply for a Peer Mentor position within the Texas Interdisciplinary Plan (TIP) for the Fall 2013-Spring 2014 academic year. Liberal Arts Honors students have an exemplary reputation as a part of our mentoring staff and we would very much like to work with YOU in the future. If you enjoy working with incoming students and wish to encourage their academic excellence and ease their transition into university life please keep reading!

Please go to the TIP Mentor Page and click on the “Apply to be a TIP Peer Mentor” link on the left-hand side of the page. From the Mentor Application Flyer there is a direct link in RED Text that leads you to the application which is housed in ScienceWorks. Applications are due Friday, September 28^th, 2012 at 5:00 pm.

Please keep in mind that experience as a student (academic and campus involvement) is highly valued during the selection process. We will also be increasing the number of alternate mentors we will be accepting this year as well. Please read and review the information on the link provided and if you have additional questions please contact TIP Peer Mentor Coordinator, Jenny Smith at: jlsmith@austin.utexas.edu

Thank you again – We look forward to reading your applications.

Sincerely,

Jenny Smith

Jennifer L. Smith, M.Ed.

Sr. Student Affairs Administrator & Lecturer

Texas Interdisciplinary Plan (TIP) Mentor Academy Coordinator

College of Natural Sciences Peer Leader Academy Coordinator

The University of Texas at Austin

http://cns.utexas.edu/academics/tip

http://cns.utexas.edu/careers/peer-leader-academy

Join the Echo Editorial Staff

Echo is the annual Liberal Arts Honors literary journal. The journal contains various student submissions of prose, poetry, and photography. A new edition comes out each Spring semester, and we begin accepting submissions at the start of the Fall semester. Feel free to submit any number of pieces in any or all of the categories. To have your work considered for publication email echolitmag@gmail.com.

To join the Echo editorial staff, please email the same address or contact co-editors Andy Bowman or Cindy Brzostowski to be put on the mailing list. We will begin sending out information regarding reading sessions in the Spring semester.

This year we will be looking for dedicated and hardworking individuals to train to take over the literary magazine next year as the co-editors will have graduated.

Archaeology in Portugal

Interested in archaeology? Want to spend your summer in Europe?

If yes, you should consider our Summer 2013 program in Vila do Conde, Portugal!

This archaeological field school is directed by Dr. Mariah Wade, a professor in the Department of Anthropology. The excavation site is a hilltop fort and settlement that spanned the period from the Bronze Age to the Roman era.

Want to learn more? Come to an info session!

Tuesday, September 18 at 5:30pm in SAC 4.174

Wednesday, October 10 at 5:00pm in SAC 4.174

Tuesday, October 23 at 5:00pm in SAC 5.124

This is a great opportunity for students interested in archaeology and/or working toward a minor in Anthropology. All majors are welcome. No experience is required although students should have successfully completed ANT 304.

For a student perspective, read Caitlin Gulihur’s essay in the Fall 2011 LAH Newsletter.

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