Daily Archives: October 2, 2020

Orientation Advisor Recruitment 2021

New Student Services is recruiting Orientation Advisors (OAs) for the 2021 orientation season and we would like your help.

OAs support new freshman and transfer students as they transition to The University of Texas at Austin and are among the first people new students and families meet in their Longhorn journey. To prepare for this important role, OAs gain extensive leadership development and valuable work experience that serve them throughout their time at UT and beyond. They also learn valuable academic advising skills, engage in thoughtful discussions, write and perform in productions, develop creative media, plan large-scale events and much more.

This past summer, even amidst the adjustments due to COVID-19, our Orientation Advisors successfully led through the changes, fostering an environment of welcome and spirit through the online orientation program. Orientation Advisors are a very important ingredient to UT’s Orientation, and their work to transition and support new students will continue no matter the format of the Orientation program.

We want to build a team of diverse, talented and committed students who will represent the university well as they assist us with welcoming our newest Longhorns to UT Austin.  If you know a student who has the potential to be an outstanding OA, please encourage them to attend one of the eight required OA Information Sessions occurring from Oct. 6-19 at varying times via Zoom. Students from any college and classification are eligible to become an Orientation Advisor.

You may also make a formal recommendation to New Student Services here: https://utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6mmkM5f4IzQJRM9.

Students MUST attend one of the following OA Information Sessions to receive an application:

For more information and to see the job description, visit orientation.utexas.edu/OA. You can also follow Texas Orientation on Twitter and Instagram at @utorientation and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/utorientation/.

Texas Social Innovation Challenge: Impact & Sustainability Social and Fall Workshops

What: In a world of social distancing, find your place among impact-oriented innovators through the Texas Social Innovation Challenge, funded by Bumble! Part workshop, part networking, and part competition, TSIC is your one-stop-program for taking a passion for sustainable impact to pitching a venture for funding. Learn more and meet others at our Fall workshops and October 7th social! All UT-Austin students welcome.

When:

  • Impact and Sustainability Social – October 7th at 5:30 p.m.
  • Systems Thinking for Impact – October 13th at 6 p.m.
  • Human Centered-Design for Impact – October 23rd at 6:30 p.m.

 Where: Online; links to be sent to those who RSVP

How:

More info:

Kenneth Judd – Paul H. Bauer Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace

Salem Policy Seminar: Monday October 5th, 12-1:30pm

Climate Change Policy Analysis: An Example of how Supercomputing can Solve “Intractable” Economic Models

Models that analyze climate change policies are necessarily complex because they need to include elements of both the climate and economic systems. The result is that the literature is full of papers that investigate a few features of an integrated system, justifying unrealistic simplifications by asserting that doing more “is intractable”. I will describe the DSICE framework which takes basic deterministic models developed by Nordhaus and adds elements of economic and climate uncertainty. I will illustrate applications to the social cost of carbon, how direct capture of CO2 could affect policy, and implications for scenarios of global warming.

Join the Seminar via Zoom

 

Policy@McCombs: Monday October 5th, 4-5:30pm

When Will the Fed Join the Third Millennium?

The U.S. Government and most businesses use powerful computing tools, but the Federal Reserve stands out as one government agency that has rejected modern computational tools. It is easy to document this description, but difficult to find good reasons for these gaps. This raises questions about the ability of a laptop-based Fed to regulate financial institutions that use supercomputers to decide how to respond to Fed regulations. I will describe the gap between computational science and computation in economics, and efforts to close it.

Join the event via Zoom

Soros New Americans Fellowship–webinar registration

If you or your parents are immigrants to the US, you may apply for a $90,000 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. This Fellowship is to support full-time graduate degrees in the US.

A webinar describing the Fellowship and application process will take place Tuesday, October 6, from 3:00-4:00 pm. Please register at the following link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_P90Cls8mQ-OVWBxvnbfPcA

Eligibility for the Fellowship is described here: https://www.pdsoros.org/apply/eligibility