Daily Archives: September 19, 2024

Longhorn SHARE Project

Looking for alternative mental health support options or just craving genuine connection with peers? Check out the Longhorn SHARE Project (Support, Healing, Active listening, Reciprocity, Empowerment), a peer support program focused on mental health and social connection! A team of trained peer ‘SHARE Support Specialists’ facilitate non-clinical, non-hierarchical opportunities for students to open up and find validation around shared struggles and exchange support and resources using the combined wisdom of their lived experiences. The following are open to all UT undergraduate and graduate students:

  • SHARE Communities: Weekly peer-led communities for support & connection around specific concerns or identities.
  • SHARE Circles: An impactful group activity for student orgs, classes, and res halls! Increase community, empathy, and understanding in your group with a turn-taking structure that ensures everyone’s voices are heard.

Check out our website for more information or consider filling out a no-commitment interest form for the SHARE Communities!

Walker Fellowship

The Walker Fellowship is excited to announce that the application for the Fall 2024 Fellows has opened. Guided by student and advisory board members, including Professor Lee Walker (first president of Dell Technologies), the Fellowship exists to provide UT students with a holistic set of tools to collaborate alongside community leaders and develop comprehensive solutions for sustainable social impact. Fellows collaborate as a cohort on initiatives of their choice and receive personalized resources, including interactive sessions with experts in civic engagement, group tours and volunteering events with local Austin organizations, and personalized mentorship relationships with renowned UT faculty and other community leaders.

Check out the Fellowship’s website (linked here) or Instagram for more information (@thewalkerfellowship). The application is due Wednesday, September 25th at 5pm and can be accessed here! Please email the Fellowship if you have any questions.

Gilman Scholarship for Pell Students

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 two 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 an in-person writing workshop for essay review.

Information Sessions:

  • Tuesday, September 17, 5:00-6:30 pm via Zoom
  • Friday, September 27, 12:00-1:30 pm via Zoom

Writing Workshop:

  • Friday, October 4, 12:00-3:00 pm in UTC 1.130

The online application is now open for applicants whose in-person programs or internships start between December 1, 2024, to October 31, 2025. This cycle encompasses Winter or January term 2025, Spring 2025, May term 2025, Summer 2025, Fall 2025, and academic year 2025-2026 abroad programs. The application deadline is Thursday, October 10, 2024. For more information, consider visiting the link here!