People who have used their One Time Exception (OTE) drop and are attending college for the first time at UT (excluding dual credit) are invited to participate in a paid focus group.
For participating in a one-hour focus group, you’ll get $10 cash and yummy baked goods.
To participate, complete the brief interest form here: bit.ly/OTEFocusGroup
Max Boot: The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in VietnamSenior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Wednesday, Jan 24, 2018 | 12:15-1:30 PM | Texas Eastwoods Room
Max Boot is a military historian and foreign-policy analyst who has been called one of the “world’s leading authorities on armed conflict” by the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Please join us on Wednesday, January 24th for a talk with Boot on his new book The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam. This event, which will be held in the Texas Union Eastwoods Room at 12:15pm, is free and open to the public but seating is limited.
Ionut Popescu: Emergent Strategy and Grand Strategy: How American Presidents Succeed in Foreign Policy
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Texas State University
Tuesday, Jan 30, 2018 | 12:30-2:00 PM | CLA 1.302B
Please join us on Tuesday, January 30th for a talk with Ionut Popescu on his new book Emergent Strategy and Grand Strategy: How American Presidents Succeed in Foreign Policy. Popescu is a former Clements Center Postdoctoral Fellow and currently is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Texas State University. This event, which will be held at the College of Liberal Arts Glickman Center (CLA 1.302B) at 12:30pm, is free and open to the public.
Chris Miller: Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia
Assistant Professor of International History, Tufts University
Thursday, Feb 01, 2018 | 5:00-6:30 PM | Jamail Room (MAI 212)
Please join us on Thursday, February 1st for a talk with Chris Miller on his new book Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia. Dr. Chris Miller is Assistant Professor of International History at The Fletcher School at Tufts University. He has previously served as the Associate Director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale, a lecturer at the New Economic School in Moscow, a visiting researcher at the Carnegie Moscow Center, a research associate at the Brookings Institution, and as a fellow at the German Marshall Fund’s Transatlantic Academy. This event, from 5:00-6:30pm in the Main Building’s Jamail Room (MAI 212), is free and open to the public.
Michael J. Green: The North Korea Crisis and American Grand Strategy in Asia
Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair, CSIS
Thursday, Feb 08, 2018 | 12:30-2:00 PM | Jamail Room (MAI 212)
Please join us on Thursday, February 8th for a talk with Michael Green on the topic of “The North Korea Crisis and American Grand Strategy in Asia”. Dr. Green is Senior Vice President for Asia at CSIS and a professor of foreign policy at Georgetown University. He has served on the staff of the National Security Council and was a special assistant to the president for national security affairs and senior director for Asia. This event, from 12:30-2:00pm in the Main Building’s Jamail Room (MAI 212), is free and open to the public.
Professional Development Workshop: How to Get an Internship
Monday, Feb 12, 2018 | 4:30-6:00 PM | CLA 1.302B
On Monday, February 14th at 4:30pm in CLA 1.302B, the Clements Center will host a professional development workshop on ‘How to Get an Internship.’ We will convene a panel of experienced professionals to provide tips and strategies to students for applying to summer internships in the fields of national security, international relations, and foreign policy. Fellow UT students will also talk about their experiences with the application process, internship programs, and financial resources.
Information Sessions for the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program
Application Deadline: February 15, 2018
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program
Named after Dr. Benjamin E. Mays, educator, college president, and civil rights activist and underwritten by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, this competitive program is designed to increase the number of minority students and others with a demonstrated commitment to eradicating social disparities, who will purse PhDs and subsequent careers in academia.
The Fellowship affords financial support and mentorship that allows students to work on research projects during the academic year, and to pursue full-time research during the summers. The program also allows students to decrease their undergraduate and graduate educational loan obligations.
Eligibility Requirements
fields of study
doctoral degree, a letter of recommendation from the prospective mentor, and resume
Contact Information
Professor Almeida Jacqueline Toribio: toribio@austin.utexas.edu
Calling all creative writers! LAH is teaming up with Echo Literary Magazine to offer the first LAH Creative Writing Prize.
Starting on January 1st, Echo will be accepting prose submissions that are no longer than 10 pages double spaced (and not already published in another journal). Submitters must be current undergraduates in LAH. The winner(s) will receive a scholarship of up to $2500 and have their work published in the spring edition of Echo!
Send in your submissions to echolitmag@gmail.com by February 1st!
If you are interested in working with Team Collier during summer 2018, be sure to fill out an application using this link.
Entries are being accepted for display in the Showcase section of the Headliners Foundation’s website by qualifying news organizations or reporters, editors and other members of the professional media community for stories whose initial publication or broadcast has been since Jan. 1, 2017. The deadline to submit 2017 stories is end-of-day on February 6, 2018.
Submitting a 2017 entry for this award is easy:
Liberal Arts Council will be hosting a discussion on diversity in honors programs in the College of Liberal Arts (Plan II, Liberal Arts Honors, Humanities, Departmental Honors, etc.) on Thursday, November 30th, from 7-8pm in Garrison Hall room 3.116. Come on out to hear from other COLA students in different programs and discuss ways that all of our programs can improve their representation, outreach, curriculum, and accessibility for students of color!
The German Marshall Fund in Berlin is currently seeking interns. The office is specifically looking for German-speaking Americans, so if you are studying international relations, government, or any related field, please apply using this link.
We need your input!
The Counseling and Mental Health Center (CMHC) at the University of Texas at Austin is partnering with the College of Liberal Arts to pilot a project examining how faculty and departments can support student well-being in the classroom. Before we officially begin the project, we’d like to get students’ feedback related to their perspectives of well-being, learning, and instruction and how their well-being can be supported both inside and outside the classroom.
To get this feedback, we are conducting two student focus groups on the following days and at the following times:
They will take place in the Student Services Building. Snacks will be provided.
If you would like to participate, please click on the link below and fill out the survey:
Thank you!