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Register for Lavender Graduation 2016 today!

Wednesday, 05/18/2016

4:00pm

@ SAC Ballroom

The Gender and Sexuality Center and the Texas Exes LGBT Network are pleased to invite you to the 9th annual Lavender Graduation at the University of Texas at Austin, on Wednesday, May 18th 2016.

Anyone who will be attending the ceremony or Alumni Celebration should sign up here, and if you are planning on graduating, there is a second set of questions for you. If you have questions please contact the Gender and Sexuality Center at gsc@austin.utexas.edu or 512-232-1831.

Register here!

Feminist Action Project Seeks Cosponsorship

My name is Mia Ferguson, and I am a student representative for the Feminist Action Project here on campus. The Feminist Action Project is a student group that organizes an annual activist conference for gender justice in today’s world. 

The title of our conference this year is, “Mapping Out the Crossroads, Beyond Mainstream Feminism”. At this year’s conference, we hope to cultivate an environment where feminism can be explored through intersectionality and explore concepts that transcend the dialogue found in everyday media, such as toxic masculinity, colorism and activist self-care. We are honored to announce our keynote speaker, Kim Katrin Millan, an award-winning, internationally acclaimed artist, educator and writer. I wanted to see if you would be interested in co-sponsoring the program with us. I realize that the Texas Parents Association has already distributed funds to UT student organizations for the year, but there are many ways to co-sponsor other than financially. Our organization would be incredibly grateful for any of them.

 

Feminist Action Project Conference: 

This year’s Feminist Action Project Conference will be held in the evening of Friday, April 8th and Saturday, April 9th in the Student Activity Center.

Ways you can help:

Sponsor our keynote: $1,500 (or any percentage of this fee)

Donate funding for breakfast and lunch: $1,000 (or any percentage of this fee)

Volunteer to take photos.

Volunteer to check people in at registration table, help set up/break down.

Spread the word! Tell your friends, students, faculty, and staff about the event. http://tinyurl.com/FeministAction2016 

Just let us know, and of course you will be recognized at the event, on the programs, and on the Facebook event. 

Learn more about our keynote: http://www.kimkatrinmilan.com/ 

Learn more about our organization: http://feministactionproject.blogspot.com/ 

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/618950668257803/ 

 

Thank you for considering our request to co-sponsor the 2016 Feminist Action Project Conference.  If you have any questions, please contact us by email at feministactionproject@gmail.com. Thank you for your time and consideration, and we look forward to hearing from you.

SW360K Experiential Leadership I

SW 360K Experiential Leadership I

Wednesday evenings 6-8pm SSW 1.214 and Gregory Gym

Due to popular demand, The School of Social Work is again offering a series of two interdisciplinary courses in collaboration with the Experiential Learning and Opportunities Program (ELOP) through the Division of Recreational Sports. The courses bring together the combined expertise of Recreational Sports in experiential learning, outdoor leadership and therapeutic recreation with social work expertise in group work, social justice, community engagement and social change. In the first course, students will progress through a series of classroom lectures, discussions, activities, prominent guest speakers and experiential exercises (e.g. high and low ropes course) along with civic engagement service learning projects to facilitate the development of ELOP core competencies: Social Responsibility; Leadership; Problem Solving and Decision Making; and Group Facilitation. This first course prepares students for the spring course, Experiential Leadership II, although students are not required to take the second course in this series. The spring course will involve more advanced recreational leadership skill building activities (e.g. indoor rock climbing and an overnight adventure trip), peer group facilitation, community service learning projects that will involve the application of skills learned, and additional certification opportunities.

These courses will be co-taught by Chris Burnett, Senior Associate Director of Recreational Sports, Outdoor Recreation and Community Outreach and Mary Beer, LCSW. Both Chris and Mary are adjunct professors in the School of Social Work. Chris brings his years of experience teaching Outdoor Wilderness Leadership courses and his expertise in experiential learning and therapeutic recreation and Mary brings her expertise in group work, leadership and social justice to the course. This creative faculty collaboration will offer a dynamic, challenging and meaningful learning experience that will provide students with valuable skills to bring to their future careers as well as numerous opportunities for personal growth.

There will be approximately two service learning events in the community that will occur outside the regular class time. An additional course fee will be required for this class.

Class size will be limited due to the experiential nature of the course ands permission to register for the course requires an interview. Interviews will be scheduled during the week of 4/18-4/22.

For more information or to schedule an interview, contact Chris Burnett at: Chris Burnett  burnett@austin.utexas.edu

Upcoming Joynes lecture, with free books for honors students

“Dirty Secrets: The environmental impact of factory farming”

Thursday, March 31st, 7 p.m.

Joynes Reading Room (CRD 007)

(512) 471-5787

Will Potter is an award-winning investigative journalist and author based in Washington, D.C. He specializes in dissident politics and culture, the policing of dissent, and civil liberties post-9/11. His work has appeared in the world’s top media outlets, including the Washington Post, CNN, National Geographic, WIRED, NPR, the History Channel, and Rolling Stone. His award-winnning book, Green Is The New Red: An Insider’s Account of a Social Movement Under Siege, exposes how non-violent animal rights and environmental protesters came to be classified by the FBI as “eco-terrorists.” This year he was selected as a TED Senior Fellow, and he recently was appointed the Marsh Visiting Professor in Journalism at the University of Michigan. The Joynes Reading Room has a limited number of free books by Will Potter which we will give away to interested honors students who inquire in person at the front desk, CRD 007. 

Local Field School in Historical Archaeology

Field School in Historical Archaeology Focuses on Local African American History

This summer the Department of Anthropology will offer a field school located in the nearby town of Buda (about 15 miles south of Austin). The research will focus on the archaeology of formerly enslaved African Americans, or “freedmen”, and their descendants. In the late 1860s, freedmen founded an all-black settlement in Buda that they named Antioch Colony, which still exists today. The site’s earliest settlers were families who purchased land adjacent to one another, and most of these households made their living as farmers. During the 1870s, the colonists built a church and school, and established a cemetery. Over the years, Antioch Colony’s close-knit community was successful in educating its children, strengthening social networks through marriage and church, and living off the land. There are still descendants of the original settlers living in Antioch Colony, and in 2011 the Texas Historical Commission acknowledged the significance of the community and its heritage by granting Antioch a Texas Historical Marker.

The 2016 summer field school (June 2 to July 7) will focus on the survey and excavation of the remains of a house once occupied by Kate Friend Bunton (b. 1872, d. 1954) and its associated trash midden. Students will be instructed in basic field and lab methods, and will learn about local African American history.

For more information about this field school, please email Dr. Franklin at mfranklin@austin.utexas.edu. Students must provide their own transportation to and from the site. (Note: in the past, students have carpooled to the site, so this may be an option.)

An information session will be held on Monday, April 4, from noon-1pm in SAC 4.120.

*Please note that if you already have credit for ANT 662, it may be repeated for credit on the pass/fail basis only.

Maria Franklin

Associate Professor

Graduate Advisor

Department of Anthropology 

Courtesy Appointment, Department of African and African Diaspora Studies (AADS)

Affiliated, Warfield Center of African and African American Studies (CAAAS)

Friar Society Invitation

The Friar Society is the University of Texas at Austin’s oldest honor society and is dedicated to recognizing student who have made lasting and significant contributions to the University. More than 600 projects have been undertaken by Society members since its inception in 1911. From the Friar Centennial Teaching Fellowship to the construction of the Student Services Building, the Texas Union, and the Student Activity Center, Friars have left their mark on the Forty Acres.

We invite you to apply today at www.friarsociety.org! The application is open to any graduate and undergraduate student who has at least 75 hours. Applications are due by Friday, March 25 at 5:00pm. 

For

any questions regarding the Friar Society or the application process, please contact Abbot Carl Thorne – Thomsen (friarabbot@gmail.com) or Councilors Charlie Adkins (ctadkins@utexas.edu) and Christle Nwora (christle.nwora@gmail.com). Check out our Facebook page to learn more about the Friar Society and our membership!

Schwarzman Scholars Info Session

Inspired by the Rhodes Scholarship, Schwarzman Scholars is a highly selective international scholarship program designed to prepare future leaders for success in a world where China plays a key global role. The program will give the best and brightest young leaders from around the world the opportunity to develop their leadership skills through a fully-funded one-year Master’s Degree at Tsinghua University in Beijing – one of China’s most prestigious universities. Scholars chosen for this highly selective program will live in Beijing for a year of study and cultural immersion, attending lectures, traveling and developing a better understanding of China. Applications this cycle will open in April of 2016.

Schwarzman Scholars is pleased to host the following campus information session: 

 

Schwarzman Scholars Information Session at The University of Texas at Austin

Date: Wednesday, March 23rd, 2016 

Location: College of Liberal Arts Building (CLA) 1.302B 

Session Time: 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM

 

Harry Ransom Center Internships

The Liberal Arts Honors Program offers an internship at the Harry Ransom Center (http://www.hrc.utexas.edu) that is designed to provide an LAH senior or advanced junior with experience in the nature and operation of a major humanities research center. The experience gained by interns will benefit them in their own research projects, in possible graduate studies, and even as a career option in such fields as librarianship, museum studies, archival or curatorial work, as well as public affairs, marketing, public programming and event management.

Once selected, interns will choose from a variety of opportunities within the center. These vary from year to year, but will likely include:

processing collections

planning exhibitions

doing editorial and publicity work

working on website enhancement projects

marketing and public affairs

 

Academic year 2016-2017:

Three LAH internships are available for the academic year 2016-2017. Internships begin the second week of classes and conclude on the last class day. Most interns work in a single department throughout the year, but some choose to change at semester break.

The position is not a benefits-eligible one, but there is a stipend of $1500 per semester, for which the intern is expected to put in a 10-hour work week. The student must be registered for a minimum of six hours of coursework. In addition there is the possibility of academic credit if the student registers for a conference course (either TC or English) with an appropriate supervising professor.

Applying

An applicant should provide the following:

a one-page resumé,

a letter from the student describing his/her interest and qualifications,

a letter of recommendation from a UT faculty member or someone who knows the candidate’s professional qualification pertinent to this internship

Both letters should be addressed to Danielle Brune Sigler, Associate Director for Scholarly Programs, but should be attached to the resumé and delivered to the LAH office.

Deadline for 2016-2017 academic year applications is April 4, 2016 in the LAH Office. 

Well-paid summer internship for social sciences majors with Visa’s User Experience team

The Visa User Experience team has a 12 week long paid summer internship that is a fantastic opportunity for social sciences students to learn more about user experience (UX) design and research while getting valuable work experience. (Our successful interns are often offered full-time positions after graduation.) A number of us on the team are psychology, sociology, or anthropology grads and we’ve found that our backgrounds really serve us well in this field, and we wanted to reach out specifically to students in these fields. The Liberal Arts Honors program has an excellent reputation, and we wanted to make sure your students were aware of this opportunity.

 

We are a team of interaction designers and user researchers located at Visa’s beautiful new campus at 183 and Oak Knoll in Northwest Austin, and we have a state of the art 1200 sq foot usability lab—one of the nicest in the country. Our intern will have the chance to learn about user interface design, user research, design thinking and usability testing and will be working on projects with the whole team throughout the summer.

 

UX as a whole is a growing field with many job opportunities and the same kind of salary-earning potential as software engineering. It’s a really rewarding career for people who are technologically curious, good communicators who enjoy working with people, and who want to actually use some of the skills learned in social sciences courses in the real world. It’s also a lot of fun!

 

What we’re looking for: Students who are good writers and good verbal communicators, who can think logically and analytically, and have an interest in design and technology. (They don’t need to know how to code.) Bonus points if they’ve taken research methods courses, statistics, survey design, ethnography, or usability courses.

 

Requirements: Students must be graduating in December 2016 or May 2017.

 

Nice to haves: Knowledge of HTML, Adobe products, audio/video editing tools

 

When, where, what: 12 week long paid internship at Visa’s Northwest Austin office. Pay rate is $22-26/hour based on experience.

 

Perks: Free garage parking, onsite gym, fitness and yoga classes, game room, cafeteria and Starbucks on campus. Visa offers many extra activities and experiences throughout the summer for interns, including a week-long all expenses-paid trip to the Visa mothership in the San Francisco Bay Area.

 

INTERESTED? Students can email their resume to me, Charlotte Wise (cwise@visa.com) along with a short writing sample (academic papers are fine) ASAP. We are accepting applications through April 25, 2016.

 

CASL Language Science Summer Scholarship: Linguistics, Psychology, CSD students

CASL Language Science Summer Scholarship

The Office of the Vice President of Research at the University of Maryland, College Park is sponsoring the Language Science Summer Scholarship Program for undergraduates, through the Center for Advanced Study of Language (CASL; http://www.casl.umd.edu/). This program is entering its fifth summer and has been a great success. 

 UMD is home to the largest and most integrated language science community in North America (http://languagescience.umd.edu/). Given CASL’s status as a university affiliated research center (UARC) – and as the first and only national resource dedicated to addressing the language science needs of the intelligence community (IC) – student projects have the opportunity to demonstrate how the research is relevant to, and has potential impact on, national security issues.

Purpose of this program: 

·         To involve undergraduates in cutting-edge language science research with Maryland faculty.

·         To introduce student scholars to government communities that may use and benefit from basic-plus-applied language science research.

·         To build links between research in language science on the University of Maryland campus and at CASL.

·         To create a small, dedicated forum for students to attend weekly lunches with UMD faculty in language science.

At the end of the program, students will create and deliver a short presentation in the early fall that summarizes their work. Non-UMD students will have the opportunity to video conference in and give their presentations instead of returning to campus.

Award and Application Process:

The program will offer $3000 stipends to approximately 10 students to fund their participation in language science research in faculty laboratories across campus.

CASL Language Science Summer Scholarships are available to undergraduate students with prior training in language science who wish to pursue language science research under close faculty supervision. A minimum commitment of eight weeks is typically expected (but is flexible based on student-mentor arrangements) .

 

Applicants must be currently enrolled as undergraduates at a US college or university.

 Required Items

Applicants for a CASL Summer Scholarship must submit:

  • A cover letter. This should outline the applicant’s background and experience. Cover letters should be in PDF format (please name the file in the following format: firstinitial.lastname_cover.pdf).
  • A current curriculum vitae or resume in PDF format (please name the file this way: firstinitial.lastname _cv.pdf).

 

Deadline

Review of applications will begin immediately, and will continue until the positions are filled. However, for best consideration, completed applications should be received by April 15, 2016.

All application materials should be submitted electronically to Hana Kabashi (hkabashi@umd.edu).

NOTE: Please include “CASL Summer Scholarship” in the subject line.

 

POC: Hana Kabashi MA, CRA, hkabashi@umd.edu; 301-226-8916