Monthly Archives: September 2022

Education Abroad: Gilman Scholarship for Pell Students

One of the most important aspects of planning for a study abroad experience is understanding the many scholarship and funding resources and opportunities students may take advantage of. The Gilman Scholarship in particular is a program we want to highlight as we have some upcoming events to help students in the application process.

The Gilman Scholarship is a generous federal scholarship for study abroad and a great opportunity for U.S. citizens receiving a Federal Pell Grant to fund their international experience. UT Austin is consistently a top producer of Gilman Scholars.

Education Abroad is hosting 2 virtual information sessions to help students prepare a competitive application. During the information sessions, we will cover scholarship details, selection criteria, and tips for submitting a competitive application. We will also host a writing workshop for essay review.

Gilman Scholarship: Information Sessions

Gilman Scholarship: Writing Workshop

  • Friday, September 30th 1-4pm inGAR 2.112.

The online application is now open for applicants whose in-person or virtual programs start between December 1, 2022 to October 31, 2023. The deadline to apply is October 6th, 2022.

Longhorn Impact Entrepreneurship Social

Meet new friends – and perhaps even a co-founder – at this social for UT Austin students interested in impact entrepreneurship!

About this event

Ever wonder how society can address the many challenges we face? We’ll give you a primer at our social for UT-Austin students interested in sustainability and impact entrepreneurship! The event will include food, networking with passionate fellow students, an impact entrepreneurship resource fair, and fun games with prizes.

This event is organized by the Global Sustainability Leadership Institute and cohosted by the following organizations: KS WELI, HKEC, TVL, Office of Inclusive Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Texas Global, and IC2.

Access it here

UTNY Summer 2023 Application Deadline & Upcoming Info. Sessions

Hope your fall semester is off to a good start…We are currently recruiting for the Summer 2023 UTNY program, and I’m hoping you can help share some information with your undergraduate students.

The deadline to submit an application for participation during the Summer 2023 semester is on October 1, 2022.

In conjunction, we are holding a few in-person info. sessions/panels this week for any student (or advisor) who would like to learn more about the UTNY program. To learn more (and RSVP to attend), visit here.

As a reminder, UTNY is open to ALL UT majors. If possible, please consider sharing the informational snippet below and/or the attached .jpeg with your students—via email, newsletter, social media, blog, etc..

If you have any questions or would like to learn more about UTNY, be sure to check out our website, and don’t hesitate to reach out to me directly.

Best,

JEFFREY MARSH, M.A. | Assistant Director for UTLA & UTNY Recruitment and Admissions

Moody College of Communication | The University of Texas at Austin

jmarsh@austin.utexas.edu

 

Interested in spending next summer living and working in NYC? The UT in New York (UTNY) program will be holding a few upcoming information sessions for students interested in participating during the Summer 2023 semester and beyond.

General Information Session

Wednesday, September 7, 5:00PM central, DMC 1.202

Internships & Careers in NYC: UTNY Student Alumni Panel

Thursday, September 8, 5:00PM central, DMC 5.102

These sessions will be general in nature and intended for anyone with questions about the program, online application, costs, internships, classes, etc. To RSVP, go here. Walk-ins also welcome. As a reminder, UTNY is open to ALL UT majors.

The deadline to APPLY online for UTNY Summer 2023 is October 1, 2022.

For more information about UTNY, visit here.

 

Teach for America

Explore Teach for America – UT Alumni Panel

Tuesday, September 27, 2022 4:00pm – 5:00pm CDT

 

Interested in becoming a teacher? Want to learn more about post-graduation opportunities to serve youth across America as a corp. member? Join Texas Career Engagement for a panel with Teach For America recruiters and alumni. Hear their service stories, gain application advice, and learn valuable insight into the program and recruitment timeline. There will be a Q&A to follow the panel. Pizza is provided for first attendees!

Check it out here

 

Black Queer Studies Student Awards!

The UT Libraries is thrilled to announce the inaugural Black Queer Studies Student Awards. This an annual prize celebrates UT’s Black Queer Studies Collection and recognizes our students’ scholarship and creativity inspired by it.

  • The Richardson Award honors graduate student work, $1,200 (pre-tax).
  • The Hogan/Schell honors undergraduate work, $800 (pre-tax).

To apply: See Instructions, Eligibility and Criteria on this guide: https://guides.lib.utexas.edu/bqsc/awards

Submissions are due Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022.

About the Awards:

These awards are named for Professor Matt Richardson and former UT Librarians Kristen Hogan and Lindsey Schell, who founded the Black Queer Studies Collection in 2009-2010. The prize money is dispersed through the UT Libraries, and primarily draws from the Black Queer Studies Collection Endowment, originally funded through a crowd-sourced fundraising campaign in 2021.

Learn more about the UT Libraries’ Black Queer Studies Collection, including the story of its founding: https://guides.lib.utexas.edu/bqsc/

Refugee Student Mentor Program – Call for volunteers!

Don’t miss the chance to help refugees right here in Austin!

The Refugee Student Mentor Program (RSMP) brings members of the UT community who speak various languages into Austin public schools, where they mentor refugee and asylee students. The program has been running continuously since 2015, beginning in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Our other partners on campus include the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies; The South Asia Institute; and the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

Please contact Erin Kelleher at ekell@utexas.edu as soon as possible if you are interested in volunteering. We will be holding an orientation on Zoom this coming week, time and date TBD.

Uwem Akpan: Author Reading and Book Signing

Thursday, September 8, 2022 at 6 pm CST
Prothro Theater, Harry Ransom Center 

Nigerian writer Uwem Akpan (New York, My Village and Say You’re One of Them) will read from his latest work in this talk co-sponsored by the Michener Center for Writers and the Harry Ransom Center. Akpan’s fiction and autobiographical pieces have appeared in The New Yorker and The Guardian, and O, The Oprah Magazine, among others. His collection, Say You’re One of Them, was published by Little, Brown in 2008 and has been translated into twelve languages. It won the Commonwealth Prize (Africa Region), the Open Book Prize, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and was the 2009 Oprah Book Club selection.

Akpan, who teaches in the University of Florida’s MFA program, was born in Ikot Akpan Eda in Akwa Ibom State in Nigeria. His first book, Say You’re One of Them made the “Best of the Year” on a number of lists, including those in People magazine and The Wall Street Journal. In his second book and first novel, New York, My Village, Akpan writes with the same promise and pain about New York City as he did about African cities in Say You’re One of Them.

New York, My Village will be available to purchase and a book signing will follow the reading.

Seating is limited, please RSVP. This program is in-person only and will not be available online.