Category Archives: Dates and Deadlines

Friar Society Accepting Applications

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The Friar Society is the University’s oldest honor society and is dedicated to recognizing students who have made lasting and significant contributions to the University.  Membership is open to any graduate student or any undergraduate student who has 75 hours.

The Friar Society encourages any student who is interested in applying to download an application from the Friar Society website (www.friarsociety.org).  In order to be fully considered, the application should be turned in by 5 PM on March 23rd to the Student Organization Center desk on the 4th Floor of the Student Services Building.  You can also contact Dave Player (daveplayer@utexas.edu) or Reid Long (Reid.Long@utexas.edu) with additional questions.

Echo Literary Magazine

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This is just another reminder that the Echo Literary Magazine is accepting submissions of poetry, prose, and photography. Submissions are due at the end of spring break, so time is running out to your writing. If you submit you will have a good chance of being published in this year’s magazine!

For more information check out http://www.utexas.edu/cola/progs/lahonors/student-organizations/echo.php or just submit to echolitmag@gmail.com

Phi Kappa Phi Study Abroad Grants Deadline 4/1

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Phi Kappa Phi Study Abroad Grants are designed to help support undergraduates as they seek knowledge and experience in their academic fields by studying abroad. Fifty $1,000 grants are awarded each year. These awards are available to all University of Texas at Austin undergraduates, not just Phi Kappa Phi members. Students at The University of Texas at Austin are also eligible for a $500 chapter Study Abroad Grant. For complete instructions, eligibility requirements and application forms, please visit http://www.utexas.edu/ugs/pkp/study-abroad-grants. All applications must be postmarked by April 1, 2012. If you have any questions, please contact the chapter at PKP@austin.utexas.edu.

Founded in 1897 at the University of Maine, Phi Kappa Phi is the nation’s oldest, largest, and most selective honor society for all academic disciplines. The University of Texas at Austin chapter was founded in 1962. The society gets its name from the initial letters of the Greek words forming its adopted motto: Philosophía Krateíto Photôn, “Let the love of learning rule humanity.” Phi Kappa Phi awards more than $800,000 annually through graduate and undergraduate scholarships, member and chapter awards, and grants for local and national literacy initiatives. Membership is by invitation only to the top 7.5 percent of second semester juniors, the top 10 percent of seniors and graduate students with a 4.0 GPA. The student must have completed at least seventy-two semester hours of coursework at the University. New members are inducted in the spring semester. More information about the UT chapter is available at http://www.utexas.edu/ugs/pkp.

Apply for Junior Fellows

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Junior Fellows

The Junior Fellows Program was begun in 1959 by Harry Ransom as a means of encouraging academic excellence in the College of Arts and Sciences.  At that time it was essentially an honor society to which students were elected at the end of their freshman year.  Over the years, the Junior Fellows has evolved into a society of juniors and seniors from the University at large who are engaged in independent research projects under the direction of members of the faculty.

Fellows are required to attend meetings of the group, held every other week in both the fall and spring semesters. Besides project presentations, meetings feature discussions led by eminent scholars from on and off campus. Fellows have the opportunity to participate in field trips, seminars, and other academic activities. It is possible to earn academic credit for work done as a Junior Fellow, by enrolling in the appropriate conference course with the supervising professor. For example, Humanities and Plan II majors usually use their senior theses as their Junior Fellows projects. Students pursuing Special Honors in their major use the honors thesis number. Other non-honors courses are also available, for example ARH 376, E 367C, CH 475K, RTF 336.  Fellows should register for the course that is approved by their advisers, fits into their degree plans, and has the right format for the chosen topic. Funds are available to assist Fellows with expenses involved in their research. There is also some money available for Fellows who can demonstrate financial need.

Application Procedure

Application is open to any qualified student from any program on campus who will have completed 60 hours prior to the Fall semester.  Junior Fellows normally have a GPA of at least 3.75, but outstanding students whose abilities are manifested in other waysshould not hesitate to apply. Although administered by the College of Liberal Arts, the program is open to all qualified students on campus. Many students from outside Liberal Arts are presently members.

For more informationcontact Dr. Larry Carver (carver@austin.utexas.edu) in the Plan I Honors Office by email or phone at 471-3458.

Download Application Form <http://www.utexas.edu/cola/student-affairs/_files/pdf/jr_fellows_app_2010.pdf>  (PDF, 104K)

Applications are due Friday, March 23, 2012 for the 2012-2013 academic year.

Membership in Junior Fellows begins the fall semester following the spring recruitment period.

Fun Lectures for Honors Students

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1.) Medical ethicist Walter Glannon lectures on “Neuroscience, Free Will and Moral Responsibility”

Dr. Glannon is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Calgary. He has published four books on medical ethics, including his most recent, Brain Body, and Mind: Neuroethics with a Human Face. He will speak in the Joynes Reading Room (CRD 007) at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, February 8, in an event open to everyone. No RSVP is required. More info and poster available here.

2.) Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Nicholas Kristof addresses human trafficking

Writing for the New York Times, Kristof has travelled the globe to document the ongoing traffic of women and girls sold into sexual slavery. Through his column, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2006, Kristof has introduced readers to heroes fighting against human trafficking and survivors who have become activists themselves. Kristof will deliver the 2012 Liz Carpenter Lecture in the auditorium of the LBJ Library Monday night, February 13, at 7 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. No RSVP is required. While supplies last, honors students may request (in person) a free copy of Kristof’s book Half the Sky at the front desk of the Joynes Reading Room.

3.) In a new graphic novel, author Mark Long presents a true story of the civil rights movement in Texas

The Silence of Our Friends recounts the stories of two families in Houston, one black and one white, at a critical point during the civil rights movement. On Tuesday night, 7 p.m., February 21 in the Joynes Reading Room (CRD 007), author Mark Long will discuss the story and his collaboration with illustrator Nate Powell. While supplies last, honors students may request (in person) a free copy of The Silence of Our Friends at the front desk of the Joynes Reading Room.

Call 512-471-5787 or write to mvalentine@mail.utexas.edu with questions about any of these special events

New FAFSA Priority Filing Deadline: March 15

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FYI for LAHers:

Filing FAFSAs by March 15 ensures that OSFS gets timely access to the data it needs to evaluate prospective and current students’ eligibility for more than $220 million a year in federal and state grants, low-interest loans, and work-study jobs.  A press release issued today to media contacts across Texas provides more detail.

OSFS will host seven FAFSA completion sessions beginning next month.  The counselors will be available in MEZ 2.120 during these sessions to help students fully and accurately complete their FAFSAs.

Foot in the Door Auditions January 24 and 25

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Auditions for Foot in the Door’s 2012 spring season:

DOUBT by John Patrick Shanley
Directed by Colin McLaughlin

THE SHAPE OF THINGS by Neil LaBute
Directed by Emily Neie

and

LIFE X 3 by Yasmina Reza
Directed by Kelsi Tyler
Assistant Directed by Allison Dillon and Lee Henry

Auditions will be held:

Tuesday January 24 in WEL 3.502 at 7:00 p.m.

Wednesday January 25 in WEL 1.308 at 7:00 p.m.

No preparation necessary
Non-actors are encouraged to stop by and apply for technical positions
For more information about the play/characters, feel free to email ktyler08@gmail.com

REU Summer 2012 Program: Immigration, Geography, and Race/Ethnicity in the United States

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REU Summer 2012 Program
Immigration, Geography, and Race/Ethnicity in the United States
Population Research Center and Department of Sociology, UT-Austin

The Population Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with the Department of Sociology, is hosting the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program in Immigration, Geography, and Race/Ethnicity in the U.S. for the summer of 2012. This eight-week summer program, which is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation (but also with significant contributions from the UT Population Research Center, Department of Sociology, Graduate School and College of Liberal Arts), offers eight very selective upper-division undergraduate students from both UT-Austin and from around the country the opportunity to study social demography through course work and a mentored research experience with senior PRC graduate students. The program pays for tuition, room and board, and computer expenses. REU students also receive a $4,000 stipend for participation in the program, which allows the selected students to fully concentrate on their REU experience over the 2-month program. Students register for a 3-hour summer course in during the first half of the summer, then dedicate the second half of the summer to their own projects in collaboration with their graduate student mentor and under the overall guidance of the faculty co-directors, Nestor Rodriguez and Rebecca Torres. Student papers are then presented at the fall meeting of the Southern Demographic Association.  Former students from the REU program are now on the faculties of Johns Hopkins University, Rice University, Pennsylvania State University, University of Texas at Austin, University of Kansas, University of Denver, and more, and currently in social science graduate programs at the Universities of Wisconsin, Chicago, North Carolina, Texas, Pennsylvania, Indiana, California at Los Angeles, and California at Santa Cruz, as well as Stanford University, Texas A&M University, Pennsylvania State University, and more.  This program is specifically geared toward students with junior standing who are seriously thinking about attending graduate school in the social sciences and, particularly, in sociology, demography, or geography.

The 2012 summer REU Program application deadline is February 17, 2012.

See http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/prc/training-and-fellowships/undergraduate.php for details about the REU program and the program application, as well as information about other research and training programs of the UT Population Research Center