Spring Break 2015: New Orleans, LA

Applications due: Thursday, 11/20/2014
11:59pm

This Spring Break (March 14th- 21st) 21 students from across the UT campus will travel to New Orleans, LA, to participate in a week of service. We are looking for students who want to learn and serve alongside a new community, while developing their leadership skills.Students will immerse themselves in the New Orleans culture, while gaining a deeper understanding of the social issues facing the community. The student group will work on a Habitat for Humanity rebuild, along with an Edible Schoolyard for children.

Apply Here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1P9yv4Eg3NE3Y9BoIw3bv_TsBAt7CB0jn5maeSFRMyto/viewform

If you’d like additional information about the trip, please contact: Hali Hoyt (hhoyt@austin.utexas.edu) or visit our webpage at http://ddce.utexas.edu/civicengagement/alternative-breaks/

Meeting Information: General meeting, Featuring Speaker: Farhana Khanja

Date & Time: Tuesday, 11/18, 7:30 pm

Place: BUR 108

Description:Join your fellow non-traditional pre-med majors for an evening chat with a current medical student about the ins and outs of medical school! We will have discussion, free food, and Smartypants giftcard giveaway. We hope to see you there on Tuesday, November 18th, in BUR 108 at 7:30 pm.

Malachi Black is the author of the poetry collection Storm Toward Morning (Copper Canyon Press, 2014).  His poems appear in journals including Poetry, Ploughshares, Boston Review, AGNI, Narrative, The Southern Review, and Southwest Review, among others, and his work has several times been set to music and otherwise featured in exhibitions both in the U.S. and abroad. He is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of San Diego. Black will read in the Joynes Room (CRD 007) on Thursday, November 20th at 7 p.m. While supplies last, honors students may claim a free book by Malachi Black in person at the front desk of the Joynes Reading Room (CRD 007). 

UT AUSTIN STARTUP JOB FAIR

Hosted by the Longhorn Entrepreneurship Agency

Friday, November 21, 2014

9:00 AM to 12:00 PM

SAC Ballroom

Learn More & RSVP Here

The event is organized by Student Government’s Longhorn Entrepreneurship Agency and sponsored by Liberal Arts Career Services office (LACS).

 LACS will be hosting a “How to Make the Most out of the Startup Job Fair” webinar at noon on 11/17. The list of startups will be released during that webinar. Everyone who registers for the fair on this page will receive an invite to the webinar.

 While there is no dress code at this fair – you should dress to impress. As for resumes, you don’t need to bring one but one can be very helpful when communicating your skills to a potential employer.

Thanks,

NICK SPILLER, Student Ventures Coordinator

The University of Texas at Austin | Liberal Arts Student Ventures Program | 810-814-0727 | utexas.edu/cola/orgs/lacs/ | linkedin.com/in/nickspiller

You are invited to join IRG faculty and students this coming Thursday (11/13) for our IRG featured fall lecture event!  This lecture will focus on Global Health Advocacy and will be led by Porter Delaney of the  Kyle House Group.

Porter Delaney founded the Kyle House Group in 2010 after more than a decade of senior level work in the political and international relations spheres. Prior to founding the Kyle House Group, Porter led the lobbying and policy efforts of a boutique political consulting firm in DC. Porter has represented several high-profile foundations, NGOs, coalitions and celebrities on political strategies that resulted in multibillion dollar funding increases for U.S. development assistance programs, and the bipartisan passage and signing into law of major development legislation. Porter has also advised a number of fortune 500 companies on their community development and corporate social responsibility programs around the globe. Porter has traveled extensively throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, and other areas of the developing world.

What: Talk on Global Health Advocacy with Porter Delaney

When: Thursday, November 13th at 6pm

Where: CLA 0.126

This is IRG’s featured fall lecture event, so we look forward to seeing many UT students, faculty, and staff in attendance!