Will you be here all or part of the summer? Are you interested in volunteering at this summer’s LAH orientations? If the answer is yes, sign up to attend a LAH Summer Orientation Peer Adviser meeting on Monday, May 13th from 3:30-5pm in the LAH Commons Room. Food will be provided!  Sign up here: https://forms.gle/WXLbNdaKx61u5vWC8

If you can’t make the meeting but are still interested in volunteering this summer, please email Stacey-samorous@austin.utexas.edu

Volunteering entails helping advise incoming LAH freshman with their fall schedules on one day, and then helping them register the next day. You don’t have to be available for both days or even the entire summer.
We are flexible! You can just sign up for the days and times that work in your schedule.

We would like to have at least 4-5 peer advisers throughout the entire day of pre-advising.

For Orientation Registration, we need about 4 volunteers in the afternoon (approx 12:30-2:00) to help our new LAHers register and become acquainted with the Web Resources available to them. I have reserved a computer lab CLA 1.402 in our building for our new students to register for classes.

Orientation dates volunteers are needed:

June 11 (pre-advising) June 12 (Registration) 12:30-2:00 June 18 (pre-advising) June 19 (Registration) 12:30-2:00
June 25 (pre-advising) June 26 (Registration) 12:30-2:00 July 2 (pre-advising) July 3 (Registration) 12:30-2:00 July 9 (pre-advising) July 10 (Registration) 12:30-2:00 July 16 (pre-advising) July 17 (Registration) 12:30-2:00 July 23 (pre-advising) July 24 (Registration) 12:30-2:00

August 21-23 (Times TBA)

We invite you to participate in a free leadership development program focused on building an ethical and socially responsible foundation of leadership! Leadership Education and Progress (LEAP) is a six-week workshop series that will prepare students for leadership on the Forty Acres and beyond. Find out more at our website.

Registration for the Orange Cohort is open now through September 4^th via Hornslink. 

In anticipation of the Spring 2020 application period closing on May 13th, the Semester in Los Angeles (UTLA) program at the Wofford Denius UTLA Center for Entertainment & Media Studies will be holding two general information sessions intended for students interested in participating during the Spring 2020

Monday, May 6^th, 6:00pm, BMC 5.102

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

The deadline to APPLY for Spring 2020 is on May 13^th, 2019.

As a reminder, the UTLA program is open to ALL UT majors and students can participate up to one full year after graduation. In addition, students pursuing the Media and Entertainment Industries minor in Radio-Television-Film can satisfy up to nine hours (of the fifteen required for the minor) by participating in the program. 

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

Foot-in-the-door is LAH’s very own theatre group! If you’re interested in directing a play, whether or not you’re affiliated with LAH, please check visit this site.

Past plays include original student-written works such as Apocalypse Later, Cleanup on Aisle 10, and Swiss Cheesecake, as well as works written by established authors such as The Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Radio Scripts-On Stage, Twelfth Night, Arsenic and Old Lace, Clue, Hedda Gabbler, The Misanthrope, Comic Potential, Shakespeare’s Pericles: Prince of Tyre, You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, and many more!

Executive Producer: Sunny Ananthanarayan

Assistant Producer: Rohan Teredesai

Our contact email: lahfootinthedoor@gmail.com

The Pediatric Coping and Language (PCL) Lab in UT’s School of Educational Psychology is currently conducting a longitudinal research study with low income Latinx families in Austin. We are hoping to better understand the relationships among bilingualism, parenting, youth coping, youth depression and other factors in this population. The team is looking for a bilingual (Spanish/English) undergraduate student to help us with the project.

Primary roles/responsibilities:

*Administering assessments in families’ homes in Spanish & English

* Scheduling assessments with families over the phone in Spanish & English

*Scoring, entering and analyzing data

*Attending weekly meetings & community events

Time commitment:

*8-10 hours/week, 1 year minimum commitment

*Available starting Summer or Fall 2019

Required qualifications:

*High proficiency in spoken and written Spanish.

*Minimum 3.0 GPA.

*Must enroll for course credit in either EDP 379L OR be involved in a university undergraduate research program (e.g., Bridging Disciplines, Intellectual Entrepreneurship Pre-Graduate School Internship).

Preferred Qualifications:

*Major in psychology, social work, human development, or related field

*Previous experience working with Latinx community and/or with youth and families

*Interest in psychology research

*Familiarity with SPSS software

If interested, please submit a brief cover letter with relevant experiences and how this

project relates to your interest/future goals. Also feel free to contact if you have any

questions. Contact Gabriela Echavarría Moats gmoats@utexas.edu. Lab website: http://sites.edb.utexas.edu/pcllab/

We are examining the interplay between genes, hormones, risky behavior, and cognitive functioning in a sample of child and adolescent twins in grades 3 to 12. We are seeking reliable assistants who are motivated and have the ability to learn quickly. Research assistants should be comfortable interacting with child and adolescent participants and their parents. You can join as a volunteer or receive course credit by enrolling in PSY 357.

Qualifications: RAs who can commit 10 or more hours per week are preferred. Spanish-speaking is a HUGE plus. Prior research experience is not required. All RAs will be extensively trained on task administration before working with participants. The lab is open 7 days a week in the summer, RAs are asked to commit to two 5 hour shifts a week. Applicants need to be available for both the summer I & II sessions.   

When: 6/3/2019 until Mid-August 2019 with the option to extend

Faculty sponsors: Dr. Kathryn Paige Harden & Dr. Elliot Tucker-Drob

contact name: Sam Freis

Contact e-mail: sfreis@utexas.edu

OUR Info Sessions

The last research information sessions for Spring 2019 will take place on:

Wed., May 8, 2-3 p.m. FAC 330

Thurs., May 9, 12:30-1:30 p.m. FAC 330

The info session for Monday, May 6, has been cancelled.

You can find upcoming workshops hosted by the UT libraries at https://www.lib.utexas.edu/research-help-support/workshops

The AMCAS application is almost open! All of those years of volunteer work and medical research and MCAT prep are culminating in this one application. So, you better make it count!
Do not let all of that hard work to go to waste with silly mistakes on your AMCAS application. Learn what a strong AMCAS looks like at our webinar!

During this presentation, we will cover:
-How admissions committee members will read and analyze your AMCAS
-Key strategies to make your primary application stand out from the crowd
-Ways to craft a compelling story throughout your application
-A look at the worst mistakes to make for every single piece of the primary application
-A discussion of what can trigger AMCAS delays

Join Emily Balkin, a Former Admissions Committee Member from Harvard Medical School, for our FREE webinar on 5/6 at 8pm EST!

Register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/6015559397302/WN__0hr3p-eQp-Z2fnk_qHbTw