Monthly Archives: March 2016

Local Field School in Historical Archaeology

Field School in Historical Archaeology Focuses on Local African American History

This summer the Department of Anthropology will offer a field school located in the nearby town of Buda (about 15 miles south of Austin). The research will focus on the archaeology of formerly enslaved African Americans, or “freedmen”, and their descendants. In the late 1860s, freedmen founded an all-black settlement in Buda that they named Antioch Colony, which still exists today. The site’s earliest settlers were families who purchased land adjacent to one another, and most of these households made their living as farmers. During the 1870s, the colonists built a church and school, and established a cemetery. Over the years, Antioch Colony’s close-knit community was successful in educating its children, strengthening social networks through marriage and church, and living off the land. There are still descendants of the original settlers living in Antioch Colony, and in 2011 the Texas Historical Commission acknowledged the significance of the community and its heritage by granting Antioch a Texas Historical Marker.

The 2016 summer field school (June 2 to July 7) will focus on the survey and excavation of the remains of a house once occupied by Kate Friend Bunton (b. 1872, d. 1954) and its associated trash midden. Students will be instructed in basic field and lab methods, and will learn about local African American history.

For more information about this field school, please email Dr. Franklin at mfranklin@austin.utexas.edu. Students must provide their own transportation to and from the site. (Note: in the past, students have carpooled to the site, so this may be an option.)

An information session will be held on Monday, April 4, from noon-1pm in SAC 4.120.

*Please note that if you already have credit for ANT 662, it may be repeated for credit on the pass/fail basis only.

Maria Franklin

Associate Professor

Graduate Advisor

Department of Anthropology 

Courtesy Appointment, Department of African and African Diaspora Studies (AADS)

Affiliated, Warfield Center of African and African American Studies (CAAAS)

Friar Society Invitation

The Friar Society is the University of Texas at Austin’s oldest honor society and is dedicated to recognizing student who have made lasting and significant contributions to the University. More than 600 projects have been undertaken by Society members since its inception in 1911. From the Friar Centennial Teaching Fellowship to the construction of the Student Services Building, the Texas Union, and the Student Activity Center, Friars have left their mark on the Forty Acres.

We invite you to apply today at www.friarsociety.org! The application is open to any graduate and undergraduate student who has at least 75 hours. Applications are due by Friday, March 25 at 5:00pm. 

For

any questions regarding the Friar Society or the application process, please contact Abbot Carl Thorne – Thomsen (friarabbot@gmail.com) or Councilors Charlie Adkins (ctadkins@utexas.edu) and Christle Nwora (christle.nwora@gmail.com). Check out our Facebook page to learn more about the Friar Society and our membership!

Schwarzman Scholars Info Session

Inspired by the Rhodes Scholarship, Schwarzman Scholars is a highly selective international scholarship program designed to prepare future leaders for success in a world where China plays a key global role. The program will give the best and brightest young leaders from around the world the opportunity to develop their leadership skills through a fully-funded one-year Master’s Degree at Tsinghua University in Beijing – one of China’s most prestigious universities. Scholars chosen for this highly selective program will live in Beijing for a year of study and cultural immersion, attending lectures, traveling and developing a better understanding of China. Applications this cycle will open in April of 2016.

Schwarzman Scholars is pleased to host the following campus information session: 

 

Schwarzman Scholars Information Session at The University of Texas at Austin

Date: Wednesday, March 23rd, 2016 

Location: College of Liberal Arts Building (CLA) 1.302B 

Session Time: 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM

 

Harry Ransom Center Internships

The Liberal Arts Honors Program offers an internship at the Harry Ransom Center (http://www.hrc.utexas.edu) that is designed to provide an LAH senior or advanced junior with experience in the nature and operation of a major humanities research center. The experience gained by interns will benefit them in their own research projects, in possible graduate studies, and even as a career option in such fields as librarianship, museum studies, archival or curatorial work, as well as public affairs, marketing, public programming and event management.

Once selected, interns will choose from a variety of opportunities within the center. These vary from year to year, but will likely include:

processing collections

planning exhibitions

doing editorial and publicity work

working on website enhancement projects

marketing and public affairs

 

Academic year 2016-2017:

Three LAH internships are available for the academic year 2016-2017. Internships begin the second week of classes and conclude on the last class day. Most interns work in a single department throughout the year, but some choose to change at semester break.

The position is not a benefits-eligible one, but there is a stipend of $1500 per semester, for which the intern is expected to put in a 10-hour work week. The student must be registered for a minimum of six hours of coursework. In addition there is the possibility of academic credit if the student registers for a conference course (either TC or English) with an appropriate supervising professor.

Applying

An applicant should provide the following:

a one-page resumé,

a letter from the student describing his/her interest and qualifications,

a letter of recommendation from a UT faculty member or someone who knows the candidate’s professional qualification pertinent to this internship

Both letters should be addressed to Danielle Brune Sigler, Associate Director for Scholarly Programs, but should be attached to the resumé and delivered to the LAH office.

Deadline for 2016-2017 academic year applications is April 4, 2016 in the LAH Office. 

Well-paid summer internship for social sciences majors with Visa’s User Experience team

The Visa User Experience team has a 12 week long paid summer internship that is a fantastic opportunity for social sciences students to learn more about user experience (UX) design and research while getting valuable work experience. (Our successful interns are often offered full-time positions after graduation.) A number of us on the team are psychology, sociology, or anthropology grads and we’ve found that our backgrounds really serve us well in this field, and we wanted to reach out specifically to students in these fields. The Liberal Arts Honors program has an excellent reputation, and we wanted to make sure your students were aware of this opportunity.

 

We are a team of interaction designers and user researchers located at Visa’s beautiful new campus at 183 and Oak Knoll in Northwest Austin, and we have a state of the art 1200 sq foot usability lab—one of the nicest in the country. Our intern will have the chance to learn about user interface design, user research, design thinking and usability testing and will be working on projects with the whole team throughout the summer.

 

UX as a whole is a growing field with many job opportunities and the same kind of salary-earning potential as software engineering. It’s a really rewarding career for people who are technologically curious, good communicators who enjoy working with people, and who want to actually use some of the skills learned in social sciences courses in the real world. It’s also a lot of fun!

 

What we’re looking for: Students who are good writers and good verbal communicators, who can think logically and analytically, and have an interest in design and technology. (They don’t need to know how to code.) Bonus points if they’ve taken research methods courses, statistics, survey design, ethnography, or usability courses.

 

Requirements: Students must be graduating in December 2016 or May 2017.

 

Nice to haves: Knowledge of HTML, Adobe products, audio/video editing tools

 

When, where, what: 12 week long paid internship at Visa’s Northwest Austin office. Pay rate is $22-26/hour based on experience.

 

Perks: Free garage parking, onsite gym, fitness and yoga classes, game room, cafeteria and Starbucks on campus. Visa offers many extra activities and experiences throughout the summer for interns, including a week-long all expenses-paid trip to the Visa mothership in the San Francisco Bay Area.

 

INTERESTED? Students can email their resume to me, Charlotte Wise (cwise@visa.com) along with a short writing sample (academic papers are fine) ASAP. We are accepting applications through April 25, 2016.

 

CASL Language Science Summer Scholarship: Linguistics, Psychology, CSD students

CASL Language Science Summer Scholarship

The Office of the Vice President of Research at the University of Maryland, College Park is sponsoring the Language Science Summer Scholarship Program for undergraduates, through the Center for Advanced Study of Language (CASL; http://www.casl.umd.edu/). This program is entering its fifth summer and has been a great success. 

 UMD is home to the largest and most integrated language science community in North America (http://languagescience.umd.edu/). Given CASL’s status as a university affiliated research center (UARC) – and as the first and only national resource dedicated to addressing the language science needs of the intelligence community (IC) – student projects have the opportunity to demonstrate how the research is relevant to, and has potential impact on, national security issues.

Purpose of this program: 

·         To involve undergraduates in cutting-edge language science research with Maryland faculty.

·         To introduce student scholars to government communities that may use and benefit from basic-plus-applied language science research.

·         To build links between research in language science on the University of Maryland campus and at CASL.

·         To create a small, dedicated forum for students to attend weekly lunches with UMD faculty in language science.

At the end of the program, students will create and deliver a short presentation in the early fall that summarizes their work. Non-UMD students will have the opportunity to video conference in and give their presentations instead of returning to campus.

Award and Application Process:

The program will offer $3000 stipends to approximately 10 students to fund their participation in language science research in faculty laboratories across campus.

CASL Language Science Summer Scholarships are available to undergraduate students with prior training in language science who wish to pursue language science research under close faculty supervision. A minimum commitment of eight weeks is typically expected (but is flexible based on student-mentor arrangements) .

 

Applicants must be currently enrolled as undergraduates at a US college or university.

 Required Items

Applicants for a CASL Summer Scholarship must submit:

  • A cover letter. This should outline the applicant’s background and experience. Cover letters should be in PDF format (please name the file in the following format: firstinitial.lastname_cover.pdf).
  • A current curriculum vitae or resume in PDF format (please name the file this way: firstinitial.lastname _cv.pdf).

 

Deadline

Review of applications will begin immediately, and will continue until the positions are filled. However, for best consideration, completed applications should be received by April 15, 2016.

All application materials should be submitted electronically to Hana Kabashi (hkabashi@umd.edu).

NOTE: Please include “CASL Summer Scholarship” in the subject line.

 

POC: Hana Kabashi MA, CRA, hkabashi@umd.edu; 301-226-8916

UT Austin Student Training & Internship Program for HCM & IT Consulting Career Paths

UT Austin announces a new training and internship program for students interested in Human Capital Management, Systems and IT consulting. 

This program is designed to train UT-Austin undergraduates in cloud-based HCM, Payroll and Financial Administration systems in support of the University’s implementation of the new Workday enterprise application. During this spring and summer program, students will be trained on Workday technologies and business processes, and complete a full-time internship at UT Austin working on the Workday application configuration, quality assurance, implementation, security and business process adoption.

Program Details & How to Apply

Explore the full details of the program and access the online application form here. The application deadline is Wednesday, March 23, 2016. Save the date for the program’s online information session on March 21, from 5:00-6:00 pm CST. Logon instructions will be provided on this webpage after March 17. 

Program Overview

  • Title: Administrative Systems Modernization Program (ASMP) – Workday Analyst Internship
  • Eligibility: UT Austin undergraduate students with a 2.7 or higher GPA and graduating in 2017 or 2018. Explore the full internship requirements listed at the link above.
  • Pay: $18 per hour
  • Training: Workday@College provides comprehensive human capital management training in online and on-site courses. Training covers organizational structures, staffing, compensation, business processes, security and report writing. Training takes place online April 1-29 and on-site May 16-23.
  • Internship: The UT Austin ASMP Workday Analyst internship portion of this program takes place during the summer, from May 25 – August 12, 2016. This is a full-time internship, requiring 40 hours per week, Monday-Friday from 8am-5pm. 
    • Immediately contribute to the implementation of the cloud-based Workday HCM solution on campus
    • Work in a dynamic team environment
    • Gather and analyze business requirements
    • Assist as needed with the design, implementation, testing and optimization of Workday business processes, configuration, reporting, and integrations
    • Advise on options, risks, and any impact on current processes or systems
    • Learn about on-going organizational change management, communication, training to facilitate adoption
    • Be among one of the first college students trained on Workday, a game-changing and in-demand solution
  • Fall Semester & Beyond: Beginning in fall 2016, the internship converts to a 20 hour/week student campus job until graduation.

Competitive Career Skills

This program provides intensive systems consulting and cloud-based enterprise application implementation training and project management experience using Workday, the industry leader in finance and human capital management software.

The skills and experience gained in this program are highly sought after in the job market and will make you a competitive candidate for IT and systems consulting opportunities. Consulting firms – such as Deloitte and Accenture – and other Fortune 500 companies and organizations actively recruit and hire individuals to implement Workday applications. Additionally, organizations that have deployed Workday hire individuals to help with ongoing updates and support.

2016 Crane Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in the Arts

Accepting Submissions for the

Roy Crane Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts

2016 – VISUAL ARTS

Deadline: April 11, 2016

http://provost.utexas.edu/academics/undergraduate-awards/crane/

The Roy Crane Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts is given each year to a student of The University of Texas at Austin for unique, creative effort in the performing, literary and visual arts. In 2016, the award(s) will be given in the area of visual arts. An undergraduate or graduate student from any major or area of study may compete for the award. The selection committee will give no weight to any entrant’s grade point average or other academic achievement.

The award is between $1,000 and $4,500.

To compete for the award, a student must be recommended by a faculty member. The recommendation must be for one’s creative effort while a student at UT Austin. Research or analysis does not qualify. No faculty member may nominate more than two students for the award.

Submission requirements (Student will submit work during completion of information form – please have work prepared to upload when you begin the form.)

Faculty must complete online nomination form

Student must complete online information form

Student must submit a digital portfolio:

Include all work and information in one PDF document.  Use a separate page for each image and then join all pages into a single document. Each image must include the following information:

– Artist name

– Title

– Date

– Materials

– Size (H x W x D)

– Other information (if image is a video still, you may include a link to an excerpt of the video. All video works should be no more than 3 minutes total.)

You may submit no more than 15 images of up to 10 artworks.

Contact Lydia Cornell at lydia.cornell@austin.utexas.edu if you have any questions.

Fall Internship in Moscow at Higher School of Economics

Call for Applications: Internship in Moscow – Fall 2016

The Faculty of Economics Sciences at Higher School of Economics (HSE) is proud to begin receiving applications for semester-long unpaid internships during the Fall 2016. UT students in their junior and senior years as well as recent graduates are invited to apply. The internship comes with a $1,000 travel stipend.

You do not have to speak Russian, but could enroll in a class if you like!

Deadline to apply: April 15, 2016 at 12:00 AM Central Standard Time.

For more information and instructions on how to apply, click HERE!

Paid Summer Internship with Texas Parents

Paid, summer leadership opportunity with Texas Parents for the 2016 Family Orientation program!  We have extended the application deadline to Friday, March 11 by Noon.

Texas Parents is now accepting applications for the Family Orientation student staff positions: Family Orientation Student Leaders and Membership Recruitment Student Leaders. Our staff equips new Longhorn families with resources and information that assist them in supporting their student through the transition to UT. Visit the Texas Parents website [http://www.texasparents.org/jobs_home.php] for job details and application.