I am excited to let you know about an upcoming (FREE!) opportunity to learn more about graduate school and research at Purdue Engineering!

Purdue Engineering Virtual Graduate Showcase – September 25 – 26, 2022.
Meet Purdue Engineering Graduate Programs and Faculty and learn about both graduate research and summer undergraduate research programs at Purdue. Free, online, and interactive.

• Register to access pre-event content
• Present a research poster for cash prizes (optional) – best poster and people’s choice
• Attend event to receive an application fee waiver, in order to apply to Purdue Graduate Programs for FREE (good for up to two years)!

National Conferences
If you are attending any of this year’s virtual conference below, stop by our online booth to talk to a Purdue representative. All of these events offer an application fee waiver to Purdue if you stop by our booth and complete a contact card. Please confirm event dates, times, and details with the conference, since exhibitor times are still being finalized for many of these events!

• September 29^th –  Tau Beta Pi National Convention Career Fair – Knoxville, TN
• October 22 – 22^nd – SWE National Conference – Houston, TX
• October 27 – 28th – Engineering Education Open House – West Lafayette, IN (or online)
• ​​​​​​​November 2 – 6^th –SHPE National Convention– Charlotte, NC
• March 2023 – NSBE49 – Kansas City, MO

Registration Link:https://purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7aCmXvkECuqk8Ky

The call for proposals for the UT Libraries Map & Geospatial Collections Explorer Fellowship, an annual research incentive initiative, is now open.

This award is designed to encourage University of Texas at Austin students and faculty to develop scholarly and creative projects that utilize or enhance map and geospatial assets from UTL collections, such as those made available through the Texas GeoData portal, the Collections portal, and the UT Libraries’ Map Collections site.

Award Eligibility

• Students at all levels and from all disciplines who are currently enrolled in a degree earning program at the University of Texas at Austin at the time of submission. One $1,500 award available.
• Faculty and post-docs in a current, paid position at the University of Texas at Austin at the time of submission. One $1,500 award available.

Timeline

Proposals due: MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2022

Winners contacted: Early November

Winners publicly announced: GIS Day (Wednesday, November 16, 2022)

Details and Requirements

Visit this LibGuide for additional details about the Fellowship and how to apply. We welcome and await your project proposal!

Please see the attached call and Fellowship LibGuide for additional information.

Are you curious about how clinical research can improve the health of thousands, if not millions of people at a time? Thinking about devoting time to research in your healthcare career? 

The Heath Transformation Research Institute (HTRI) is excited to start this year’s Senior Scientist Seminar Series (S⁴), highlighting experienced contributors to Dell Med’s scientific research and exploring their career path. This is a great opportunity for students and healthcare trainees to learn from experienced role-model clinician-scientists in order to inform their own research-scoped career paths. Please join us Thursday, September 22, noon-1pm, when William Schwartz, MD, will present ‘A Tale From the Neurology Clinic: The Man Who Had an Upside-Down Circadian Clock’. More information is attached and you may register for this online event here. 

The Muth bumblebee cognition lab ( www.beecognition.com) is looking to recruit an undergraduate with engineering expertise to work with us to design and construct materials used in bumblebee behavior research. This will be carried out in conjunction with graduate students and postdocs in the lab who will work with the student to describe the (rather specific!) engineering needs we have for our research. The lab has a basic 3D printer and building supplies.    

The position can either be for course credit (3 credits) or paid ($12/hour minimum, sliding scale based on experience). Please contact Dr Felicity Muth felicity.muth@austin.utexas.edu with any questions; to apply please send her an email with your CV attached.  

The Male Contraceptive Initiative is a 501c3 based in Durham, North Carolina that advocates for and funds development of new, reversible, non-hormonal methods of male contraception. Their Youth Advisory Board has an annual grant where they award funds to undergraduates working on an advocacy or research project related to new male contraception. This year, they are also looking for projects related to policy advocacy and new male contraception. The call for applications is here. Applications close Oct 31.

Is it possible to change an individual’s perceptions about climate change? Definitely! Join us for a conversation with Michael Ranney, whose research focuses on understanding and explaining challenging information, including concepts such as global warming and its impacts. Prof. Ranney shares interventions that have proven to be effective in increasing the acceptance of climate change by people across the political spectrum. The event will take place on Friday, September 23^rd at 7 p.m. You can get your tickets here!

The event will be streamed live through our Facebook and YouTube channels and will include a Q&A with Dr. Ranney. Get your tickets to get access to the livestream links.

Consider participating in a study exploring the Arab American college student experience. The primary focus of this study will be about how Arab American college students navigate their identity and how they experience belonging. Participants should meet the following criteria:

• Self-identify as Arab American
• Be born in the United States
• Have a least one parent who immigrated to the United States from the Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) region and they identify as Arab
• Be enrolled as a second-year or later as an undergraduate student at The University of Texas at Austin

To participate please email Jinane at jinane@utexas.edu

Arab American Student Exprience – Recruitment Flyer

Arab Amercian College Student Experience – Recruitment Letter

PathwaysToScience.org has over 70 portable scholarships and fellowships posted. These include undergraduate funding opportunities with an emphasis on increasing diversity in STEM. Undergraduate scholarships and tips and resources for applying: https://pathwaystoscience.org/Undergrads.aspx. A quick video tutorial on using the advanced search functions to find funding opportunities: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxKsAGk8dAw&t=16s 

Undergraduate researchers from UT and across Texas will speak on their research projects in the biological and chemical sciences and may participate in the Science Slam! General sessions will include 8-minute research presentations followed by 2 minutes of questions. Science Slam talks are 3 minute “elevator” talks in which students describe their research targeting a non-scientist/layperson audience.  

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jason McLellan of UT, the recipient of the 2022 O’Donnell Award in Medicine for his work on COVID spike protein structure, “The ‘Overnight’ Vaccine: Years in the Making”. 

15 graduate schools from across Texas will also be at the event for recruiting! 

Date: Sat, Sept 24, 2022
Time: 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM CST
Location: Lower level (floor 0), Patton Hall 

Find more info and sign up to volunteer here. Please contact mbsa.furs@gmail.com with any questions