Monthly Archives: October 2015

UTLA Information Sessions Next Week!

Upcoming UTLA Information Sessions

The Semester in Los Angeles (UTLA) program will be hosting two upcoming information sessions at the beginning of November, with UTLA Executive Director Phil Nemy in attendance:

Tuesday, November 3rd at 1:00pm in CMA 5.136

Thursday, November 5th at 3:30pm in BMC 5.102

These sessions will be general in nature and intended for anyone with questions about the program, online application, costs, L.A., etc.

Future UTLA Application Deadlines:

Summer 2016 – October 31, 2015

Fall 2016 – February 15, 2016

Spring 2017 – May 2, 2016

For more information on the Semester in the Los Angeles Program (including a link to the online application), visit here.

UT Law Week, November 2-5, 2015

Liberal Arts Career Services announces UT Law Week, November 2-5, 2015.

UT Law Week offers a series of presentations, workshops and events culminating in the annual Law Fair. If law school is in your future, or if you’re applying to law schools this year, Law Week is the best way to connect with law school professionals and to learn what you can do to develop a competitive application. Law Week events are open to all majors!

UT LAW WEEK:

11/2 Law School Admissions Panel

Monday, November 2 | CLA 1.302B | 12 – 1:30 pm | Please join us for an Admissions Panel with admissions committee members from The University of Texas at Austin, University of Southern California, New York University, Northwestern University, & University of California: Berkeley for what promises to be an engaging panel discussion followed by the opportunity for Q&A.

11/3 Law School Crash Course

Tuesday, November 3 | FAC 18 | 11:30 am – 12:30 pm | Mark Levy, Assistant Attorney General and Plan II alumnus, will host a crash course on law school. This crash course is an introduction of what every student should expect during their first year as a law student.

11/4 Making the Most of the Law Fair

Wednesday, November 4 | FAC 18 | 12 – 1 pm | Do you want to know how to talk with law schools and ask the right questions at the Law Fair on November 5, 2015? If so, this workshop is for you!

11/4 Meeting the Deans

Wednesday, November 4 | CLA 1.302E | 6 – 7 pm | Emory, George Washington Law, and UCLA Law will host the first “Meet the Deans” workshop.  They will discuss how to craft strong personal statements, choose the best writers for letters of recommendation,and choose the law school that best suits you.

11/5 Law Fair

Thursday, November 5 | Texas Union Ballroom | 10 am – 1 pm

Law Fair is an annual event that brings representatives from 100+ law schools to campus to recruit UT students. UT Law Fair is one of the largest school-sponsored law fairs in the nation! This is a unique opportunity to learn a great deal about many different law schools all in one day. Oftentimes the person at the booth is the same person who will be reading your application down the road! Law Fair is free and open to the public. Business casual dress is recommended. View the list of participating law schools here.

Athletics Mentor and Tutor Positions

The University of Texas at Austin’s Intercollegiate Athletics Department is looking for graduate students to fill Academic Mentor and Tutor positions. Descriptions for the positions are provided below, along with links to the UT Athletics job postings with instructions on how to apply.

Academic Mentors work with students in a structured environment to assist in the development of each student’s ability to effectively transition from high school to college and to develop study skills they will be able to use throughout their college experience. The Academic Mentor works to oversee each student’s daily academic preparation, which includes monitoring individual class progress and attendance in addition to teaching study skills and time management. Ideal Mentor candidates will have prior teaching experience or career goals in education.

Tutors work with students on mastering course specific content and are hired according to the subject area needs of the Intercollegiate Athletics Department. Ideal Tutor candidates will have prior teaching or tutoring experience at the university level as well as a strong and complete working knowledge of the applicable field of study.

If interested in applying, please follow the following links to the job descriptions and application process:

Academic Mentor

Tutor

Critical Languages Scholarship (CLS) Information Session at UT

Critical Languages Scholarship (CLS)

Information Session at UT

Wed, Nov. 4th at 2:00pm in BUR 231

Join us next week to hear more about the program from UT students who are alumni of the Summer 2015 CLS Russian language program! See the promotional flier for the CLS Program HERE

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The Critical Language Scholarship is a prestigious and intensive language program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State.

The CLS Program is part of a U.S. government effort to expand dramatically the number of Americans studying and mastering critical foreign languages. Students of diverse disciplines and majors are encouraged to apply. Participants are expected to continue their language study beyond the scholarship period, and later apply their critical language skills in their future professional careers. Please visit the CLS language specific pages for more information:

The deadline to submit a CLS application this year is November 23rd, 2015 at 7:59 EST, which is only about a month away.

UT School of Information Open House Nov. 2

The UT School of Information (iSchool) is offering more electives for you to get a taste of what information science is all about.  In some of these courses you will be sitting side by side with current graduate students so this is a great opportunity to see if graduate school is for you.  Other courses are online for your convenience.  Check out the options on iSchool Course Listings page (undergrad & grad marked): https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/courses/classes or on the UT Course Schedule under “INF.”  Feel free to register now!  For more information about the iSchool, we invite you to come to our Undergrad Open House on Monday, Nov 2nd.

iSchool Undergraduate Open House
Monday, Nov. 2nd
4:00-5:00 pm
UTA building, room 1.502 & Tocker Lounge
1616 Guadalupe St.
Treats Served – Please RSVP by clicking here.
Event Description: Come learn about the only graduate program that is open to students of all majors.  During this Open House we will tell you more about the School of Information and give you tours of our cool modern space.  We have all the benefits of a small top-ranked private school, but the backing of the UT brand and resources.

Worried about finding a job?  Career prospects for our MS Grads are phenomenal with a whopping 90% employed within 3 months of graduation in the some fields!  We have a dedicated Career Office that you are welcome to talk to about your potential path and options.

Avg. salary for All Students is $55,969;  Avg. salary for Private Sector is $65,171;  Avg. salary for UX/IA-related jobs is  $76,175    (from Class of 2014 data)

We hope to meet you next Monday or in the near future!

Best,
Tara Iagulli
Director of Career Development
tara.iagulli@austin.utexas.edu
512-471-8806

ARC 351R VISUALIZATION/DIG REP IN DSGN

Open to Non-majors with permission from instructor.

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Visualization/Digital Representation in Design

Spring 2016

  • ARC 351R: 865, 870
  • ARC 381R: 1030, 1035
  • LAR 381R: 1730, 1725

This course is ideally suited for advanced beginner to intermediate level students who seek an opportunity to hone their skills in a controlled course environment. Lectures, demonstrations, and student projects will focus on the digital translation of spatial experience, including the visualization techniques associated with rendering texture, character and environment.  The course is open to graduate and undergraduate students in the school of architecture in addition to qualified undergraduate non-majors in architecture. (Non-majors will require permission from the instructor)

Note for Bridging Discipline Students:
The course is also open to qualified students as part of the Bridging Disciplines Program at the University of Texas at Austin.  RTF students with substantial modeling experience will not be challenged by the level of software immersion. The course is ideally suited for those with intermediate level experience or those interested in producing dimensionally accurate building and landscape models and their physical environments.

 This course presents a sequence of digital visualization techniques that enable students to model three dimensional environments and motion with digital media.  The founding principle of the course is to present students the underlying data structures and software environments that dictate representation choices. In other words, course participants are not trained in particular software but encouraged to embrace the infinite flexibility of digital models and data structures in the representation of the built environment.  All demonstrations and laboratory sessions will be conducted on the Windows platform and using Windows computers.  Course participants should anticipate using the following programs, AutoCAD, 3D Max, Rhino, Form Z, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere and have computers that meet the School of Architecture Design Student computer requirements.  Course participants are also expected to have and utilize two active back up devices for coursework.

RHE 368C Writing Center Internships

Consider applying for RHE 368C Writing Center Internship.  Completing this class gives you the opportunity to work in the Undergraduate Writing Center on campus.  This is also a wonderful class to take if you would like to apply to work as an LAH 102H Writing Fellow for Fall 2016 (we’ll have a call for applications in March).

The deadline to apply is December 1.  Application guidelines can be found here: http://uwc.utexas.edu/jobs/

 

Joynes Reading Room Series Presents-Acclaimed Ethiopian-American Novelist, Dinaw Mengestu, Tuesday, October 27

On Tuesday, October 27th, at 7 p.m., the Joynes Room will host acclaimed Ethiopian-American novelist Dinaw Mengestu  on a reading and Q&A. A graduate of Georgetown and Columbia, Mengestu was named a “20 under 40” writer by The New Yorker and received the National Book Award Foundation’s “5 under 35” Award for his dazzling debut, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears. The author of three novels, Mengestu speaks with profound eloquence about the immigrant experience. While supplies last, honors students who commit to attend the reading can receive a free copy of a book by Dinaw Mengestu by inquiring in person at the front desk of the Joynes Reading Room (CRD 007).

“All Our Names” is a book about an immigrant, but more profoundly it is a story about finding out who you are, about how much of you is formed by your family and your homeland, and what happens when those things go up in smoke. There is great sadness and much hard truth in this novel, as there is everywhere in Mengestu’s fiction. But like the best storytellers, he knows that endings don’t have to be happy to be satisfying, that mysteries don’t need to be explained, that discriminating between what can and can’t be known is more than enough. And he is generous enough to imbue his characters with this awareness as well.” —Malcolm Jones, New York Times Sunday Book Review

Undergraduate Research Scholarships

Please read below for information on 4 scholarships:

  • $1000 Senate of College Councils Undergraduate Research Grant (URG), due Nov. 2
  • $1000 Senate of College Councils Academic Enrichment Study Abroad Scholarship, due Nov. 5
  • $100-$350 Office of Undergraduate Research Conference or Research Travel Scholarships, due Nov. 20

Senate of College Councils Undergraduate Research Grant (URG) 

The URG seeks to encourage students to become actively involved with research in their undergraduate experience by providing funding to a deserving applicant. Eligible applicants include students assisting a faculty member with a research project, as well as students conducting independent or partnered research. Applicants must be a full-time undergraduate student as determined by the University of Texas at Austin’s Office of the Registrar. One winner will receive a $1,000 grant from the Senate of College Councils to be used toward funding his or her research.

The deadline for all required materials is November 2nd, 2015 at 11:45 PM. Please note that you must provide a Social Security Number when applying for this grant. The application is available on the Senate of College Councils HornsLink page, under forms. In the event that an electronic submission is not possible, you may submit your application in a manila envelope, in person, to Becky Carreon. Her desk is located in the Senate of College Councils’ office in SAC 2.102.

Please contact Gregory Ross and Praveen Satarasinghe at SenateURC@gmail.com with any questions regarding the application.

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Senate of College Councils Scholarship

2015-2016 Academic Enrichment Study Abroad Scholarship

The Senate of College Councils is commissioned by the Board of Regents with the specific task of representing students of The University of Texas at Austin in academics.  In recent years, Senate has standardized the process of acquiring student feedback on tuition increase proposals, led the effort to create and enforce the university’s Honor Code, has established numerous scholarships, and assisted in reforming UT’s undergraduate curriculum.

Academic Enrichment in particular is assigned with the duties of promoting study abroad throughout the University of Texas at Austin. In this venture, Academic Enrichment has designed at $1000 scholarship, which will go towards assisting students studying abroad in an upcoming academic year with funds.

It is DUE on November 5th, 2015 at 5 pm at senateae@gmail.com

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Office of Undergraduate Research Conference or Research Travel Scholarships

The Office of Undergraduate Research invites you to apply for funding to support

research travel or travel to a conference or professional meeting to present your research.

Awards typically range between $100 and $350. Funds can be

used for future or past travel, as long as the student documents and submits expenses

for past travel and the travel takes place between September 1, 2015 and August 31, 2016.

Completed and signed applications may be submitted in person to the Office of

Undergraduate Research in FAC 33 by the Friday, Nov. 20, 2015 deadline at 4 p.m.

Please contact the OUR with any questions at uresearch@austin.utexas.edu or (512) 471-7152.