Daily Archives: February 26, 2025

COLA Academic Excellence Award

The College of Liberal Arts Academic Excellence Award is an academic merit and financial need-based scholarship competition for currently enrolled Liberal Arts undergraduate majors. Applicants who are selected to receive the award will be matched with one of COLA’s many endowed scholarships and excellence funds. The competition is run each spring semester, and applications are reviewed and ranked by a faculty committee in the College of Liberal Arts.

Scholarship Information:

  • Amount of awards: $2,000 – $5,000
  • Multiple awards are made each year.
  • Applications can be accessed via LASSO

Eligibility Requirements:

  • Only currently enrolled Liberal Arts undergraduates at The University of Texas at Austin may apply.
  • Applicants must have a minimum overall in-residence UT GPA of 3.6 and 12 hours completed in-residence.
  • Applicants must demonstrate evidence of achievement in leadership and service to the College and community.

For additional information regarding eligibility and payment, please click the link here!

LAH Study Abroad Scholarships

The Liberal Arts Honors Program will award scholarships in varying amounts to support LAH students and Humanities majors who will be studying abroad in the Spring, Summer, and/or Fall.  An LAH student may apply for this scholarship by writing a one-page statement of his or her study abroad plans. The statement should include where and what the student will be studying, the projected cost involved, and the role that study abroad and the mastery of a foreign language plays in the student’s academic and career goals.

The deadline for Fall/Summer Abroad is April 1st, 11:59 pm. Maymesters may also apply in Spring, as long as they are able to confirm participation.

Please submit your application online through the LASSO Scholarship system!

Both LAH students and Humanities majors are eligible to apply for the LAH Study Abroad scholarship. Please contact the LAH office with any questions.

UTLA Fall 2025 Semester

Spend a semester in Los Angeles to jump-start your career in the entertainment industry. Open to all UT Austin students regardless of major, the UTLA program is a chance to get hands-on training at an internship, take classes taught by industry insiders, and explore new career paths to set yourself up for success after graduation.

UTLA Fall 2025 Deadline | Apply now!

  • Explore the entertainment industry this fall in Los Angeles. Scholarships available! Due Tuesday, March 4 at 11:59 p.m.

UTLA Application Walk Through | RSVP Here

Learn what the admissions committee is looking for in your essays and resume.

  • Tuesday, Feb. 25 at 5 p.m. on Zoom

UTLA Drop Ins

Ask a quick question about the program. No appointment needed!

  • March 3, 2-3:30 p.m., ZOOM
  • March 4, 9-10 a.m. + 3:30-4:30 p.m., DMC 1.206

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship

Applications for UT’s Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program (MMUF) are being accepted through March 14th, 2025. MMUF’s goal is to expand access to the professoriate in higher education by helping students confidently navigate academia and pursue a PhD.

MMUF fellows:

  • Engage in an intellectual community through weekly seminars and workshops focused on topics including Applying to Grad School, Conducting Research, Abstract Writing, and Conference Presentations.
  • Receive individualized mentorship from program coordinators and faculty advisor(s).
  • Pursue independent research projects during their time in the program, including over the summer(s).
  • Receive financial support to conduct academic year and summer research, apply to graduate school, and explore professional development opportunities.
  • Obtain post-graduate benefits, including loan repayment and graduate research funding.

If interested, please consider accessing the MMUF flyer here for more information.

Husain Family Legal Essay Competition

The Liberal Arts Honors Program is happy to announce the Husain Family Legal Essay Competition. To enter the competition, please write and submit an essay that responds to the prompt below:

Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment Rights

  • The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution says that no person shall be “deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” This is commonly known as substantive due process—i.e., the rights of people that are not listed in the Constitution but which the Supreme Court has recognized as essential to daily life. Over time, the Supreme Court has identified new rights—e.g., the right to privacy, the right to interracial marriage, and the right to contract for one’s own labor—as having Constitutional protection. The right to an abortion (as a matter of privacy) was recently removed from this list, in Dobbs v. Jackson, 597 U.S. 215 (2022). But what limits or lack of limits exist on the Supreme Court to categorize or un-categorize rights as substantive due process are not clear. What should the criteria be to identify new rights or to remove rights from Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment protections?

Eligibility: Current Liberal Arts Honors Scholars

Specifications: 750 – 1,000 words, double-spaced with name, EID, and essay title.

Awards:

  • 1st Prize: $1,000
  • 2nd Prize: $500
  • 3rd Prize: $250

Submission Details: Send a pdf or doc of your essay to Husain_.7h0548w9yomv18dz@u.box.com by Monday, March 10th, 2025, at midnight. Any text in the body of the email will not come through. Please be sure to include your name and EID in the title of file and at the top of your essay.