Daily Archives: October 12, 2022

First Abroad Scholarship

Every year, Texas Global awards The First Abroad Scholarship to twenty-five eligible first-year students. Each student receives $3,000 to apply towards any credit-bearing or experiential learning opportunity abroad during the standard fours year of their undergraduate studies at UT Austin, starting in Fall 2023. Find more info in the attached and at https://global.utexas.edu/abroad/funding/scholarships/first-abroad.

The deadline to apply for the First Abroad Scholarship this year is Nov. 18, 2022.

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The Land Torn Asunder

Please join the Digital Writing and Research Lab and Bureau for Experimental Ethnography on Thursday October 13th at 3:30 PM in the Eastwoods Room (Texas Union 2.102) for a talk from Dustin Edwards, “The Land Torn Asunder: Stories from Copper Country.” Dr. Edwards’s work focuses on digital rhetoric, material infrastructures, and environmental justice; and his talk explores what archival extraction means for regimes of labor, histories of violence, and the colonial Anthropocene. A short Q&A will follow the talk. 

Orientation Advisor Recruitment

Build a BRIGHT Future. Be an Orientation Advisor. 

If you are looking for a fun and rewarding leadership opportunity, working with a socially conscious group of campus leaders, then consider applying to become an Orientation Advisor (OA). OAs have a significant impact on incoming students—they are among the first people new students and families meet in their Longhorn journey! On-campus housing and meals, hourly wages and UT swag are simply the monetary benefits of becoming and OA. Learn more about the application process here: https://newstudentservices.utexas.edu/student-leadership-opportunities

Truman Scholarship

The Harry S. Truman Scholarship provides $30,000 towards a public service-related graduate degree to students who aspire to work in a public service career.  The Truman foundation broadly defines public service to include employment in government, public-interest organizations, nongovernmental research, academic institutions, and nonprofit organizations. Juniors, or seniors, graduating in 2023-24, OR, seniors graduating early (3 years or less) in 2022-23 are eligible to apply.

The campus deadline for the Truman Scholarship is October 28, 2022. For more information, students can visit the ODPS website.

Research-MAP — applications open for first-time undergrad researchers

The UT Student Research Committee, in collaboration with the office of the Vice President for Student Affairs and the Office of Undergraduate Research, is announcing Research Mentorship and Apprenticeship Program applications for 2023-24. Research-MAP increases access to undergrad research on campus by providing research opportunities to first-time undergraduate researchers, underrepresented students and majors, and students with financial barriers to participating in research.

This program is made up of a cohort of 10-15 students, who each participate in paid research assistantships with a faculty mentor. Students in the program will receive up to $2,000 in research assistantship funding in fall 2023 and $2,000 in spring 2024, and will take part in professional development and research presentation events. Students do not need to already have a research mentor to apply for Research-MAP; accepted students without a faculty mentor will be connected with one through the assistance of an OUR advisor.

Faculty who are interested in the program are invited to fill out this non-binding interest form. More information can be found on the OUR web site.

Please pass this along to any students you’d like to encourage to apply. The application deadline is Nov. 7, 2022.

UTLA Summer 2023 Application Deadline & Upcoming Info. Sessions

Interested in spending next summer living in Los Angeles and working in the entertainment industry? The Semester in Los Angeles (UTLA) program will be holding a few upcoming information sessions for students interested in participating during the Summer 2023 semester and beyond.

General Information Session (In-Person)

Thursday, October 13, 5:00PM central, CMB Studio 6A

Breaking Into the Entertainment Industry: UTLA Alumni Panel (Online)

Sunday, October 16, 5:00PM central, Zoom

General Information Session (Online)

Wednesday, October 19, 5:00PM central, Zoom

Summer 2023 UTLA Application Walk-Thru (Online)

Monday, October 24, 5:00PM central, Zoom

To RSVP for any of these sessions, go here.

The deadline to APPLY for UTLA Summer 2023 is November 1, 2022.

For more information about UTLA, visit here. As a reminder, UTLA is open to ALL UT majors.

UTLA Week Handout

Genocide of the Uyghurs: A Discussion from Nury Turkel, Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom

The Bech-Loughlin First Amendment Center, along with the Asia Policy Program, would like to invite you to our next event. Nury Turkel, Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, will join us on Friday, October 21st to discuss his new book No Escape: The True Story of China’s Genocide of the Uyghurs. Lunch will be offered.

No Escape: The True Story of China’s Genocide of the Uyghurs is a harrowing personal account of the biggest human rights crisis of the twenty-first century.

It describes conditions in the Uyghur homeland, referred to by the Chinese government as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. In the past few years, the entire region has been turned into an intensive surveillance state, with millions placed in modern-day “re-education” camps in what is the largest mass detention of an ethnoreligious group since the Holocaust.

For more details and to register, please visit the link below. We hope you join us!

https://nuryturkelandsheenagreitens.eventbrite.com 

Date: October 21st, 2022 at LBJ Bass Lecture Hall (2315 Red River St., Austin, TX, 78712) from 12:15pm-1:30pm

Contact info for further questions: sandra.garcia@law.utexas.edu or colincraw3@gmail.com

Get Paid to Study Foreign Languages at UT or Abroad!

Each year the Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship program, funded through the US Department of Education, provides almost $1 million in funding to UT undergraduate and graduate students from all disciplines to study foreign languages and cultures at UT and elsewhere in the US and abroad. Applications for the 2022-23 academic year and 2023 summer fellowships will open in early to mid-November and close in early to mid-February.

INFORMATION SESSIONS

In-person

Thursday, October 20 • 4:00 – 5:30pm

RLP 1.302B West Conference Room

Virtual

Monday, October 24 • 4:00 – 5:30pm

REGISTER HERE

FLAS Languages Approved for Study

Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies

Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Yiddish*, Persian/Tajik*, and other pre-approved contemporary Russian/East European languages

*Must be studied in a context relevant to Eastern Europe/Former Soviet states. CREEES FLAS are not intended for students studying these languages in a West European or Middle Eastern Studies context. 

Center for European Studies

Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese*, Romanian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish*, Ukrainian, Yiddish

Graduate FLAS also available in French*, Spanish*, & German (intermediate & advanced levels only)

*CES FLAS awards in Portuguese are not intended for students studying Brazil or South America, nor the study of Spanish in relation to Mexico, Latin America, and the Caribbean. CES FLAS awards must be used for study in a European context

South Asia Institute


Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Persian*, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, and other pre-approved contemporary South Asian languages 

*Must be studied in a context relevant to South Asia.

Teresa Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies

Portuguese*, K’iche’, Nahuatl, Kaqchikel, Quechua, Haitian Creole, Chatino, and other Latin American modern languages 

*Must be studied in a context relevant to Latin America.