Category Archives: Events

CIA Information Sessions

Central Intelligence Information Session

The CIA will be on campus and we have many open hiring requirements across various disciplines. Join this information session to learn about the analyst and other non-operations career opportunities. 

Date: Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Time: 7:00 – 8:00 PM

Location: CLA 1.302B

The CIA is the premier agency responsible for providing global intelligence on the ever-changing political, social, economic, technological and military environment. Here, your paramount goal and mission will be to protect the national security of the United States. Virtually any job you can imagine is available at the CIA — plus, some you can’t even imagine.

 

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CIA Director of Operations Information Session

*Formally known as Clandestine Service

Are you interested in being on the front lines of human intelligence collection and applying your foreign language skills and cultural insights in support of operations worldwide? 

Date: Thursday, September 8, 2016

Time:  5:30 – 7:00 PM

Location: Liberal Arts Career Services, FAC 18

Explore this event and register: https://www.myinterfase.com/lacs/event_view.aspx?token=R9CWYodchhlqXreFFrc+Qg%3d%3d

The Directorate of Operations’ (DO) mission is to strengthen national security and foreign policy objectives through the clandestine collections of human intelligence and by covert action as directed by the President. CIA DO Officers recruit the human sources who provide the foreign intelligence that cannot be collected any other way and that is needed by US policymakers, the military, and law enforcement services to protect the national security and policy interests of the US. There are several careers in the DO (all trained to recruit sources and write intelligence reports) as follows:

·         Operations Officers:  On the front line of human intelligence collection.  Clandestinely recruit and handle sources of foreign intelligence worldwide.

·         Collection Management Officers:  (link to US foreign policy community and Intelligence Community analysts).  Must have a solid understanding of international issues and overseas operating environments.  Manage the collection, evaluation and dissemination of foreign intelligence information.

·         Staff Operations Officer:  (link to headquarters, acting as an advocate for all operational support ).  Guide, coordinate and support overseas intelligence operations to ensure they are run safely, smoothly and productively. Have a thorough understanding of operations and develop areas of expertise such as terrorism, counter-proliferation or a geographic region.

·         Operational Targeting Officer:  Directly support and drive complex worldwide operations to develop actionable intelligence against the highest priority threats to US national security.

·         DO Language Officer:  Apply advanced foreign language skills as well as cultural insight to provide high-quality translation, interpretation and support to a variety of DO operations worldwide. Applicants with mission-critical languages are highly encouraged to apply.

Illuminate Reproductive Justice Art Competition

The art competition Illuminate Reproductive Justice will serve to uplift Texas specific narratives around reproductive experiences. We’re collecting artwork (poetry, painting, photography etc) created by Texans in an effort to disseminate diverse imagery that speaks to reproductive experiences and justice throughout the state.

  • Preferred themes will speak to abortion access, rights, and stigma as well as related reproductive experiences at large.
  • This includes any experience that has had a significant or substantial effect on the ability to choose whether or not to have a family and having adequate resources to make such choices.
  • The Illuminate RJ Art Competition will launch May 1 of 2016 and will conclude in November 1st of 2016. The deadline to submit all entries is November 1st at 11:59pm.
  • The top 15 competition finalists will receive a stipend of $50 for their contribution to the publication. The winners and top 3 finalists of the competition will receive a grand prize of $600 (first place), $400 (second place), and $250 (third place).  In addition, all finalists’ work will be published in a book containing art and stories collected by Illuminate RJ.

Research Training Certificate

To support students preparing for careers as researchers, the Office of Undergraduate Research has created an informal certificate to recognize those who have participated in a series of research training workshops. As an informal certificate, it will not appear on your transcript. Certificate recipients attend five approved workshops, with at least one workshop in each of three areas: research preparation, research methods, and research communication. Students who attend the required number of workshops will be recognized at the end of each academic year with a printed certificate listing the workshops they attended.

Students who would like to opt into this certificate should provide the OUR with their information, along with a list of previously attended workshops.

The following recent and upcoming workshops count toward the requirements of the certificate. Each workshop belongs to at least one of the three categories that must be represented in the certificate: research preparation (RP), research methods (RM), and research communication (RC). Please also refer to the most up-to-date list of upcoming workshops organized by the PCL, many of which satisfy certificate requirements, as well as the list of upcoming OUR info sessions and poster workshops.

RTF End of Semester Screenings

Event name: RTF End of Semester Screenings

Date: May 11-15, 2016

Location: Various

Event description: Please join UT’s Department of Radio-Television-Film May 11-15, as we showcase this spring’s student work. The free screenings and demonstrations will take place on the UT campus at various venues and will culminate towards the end of the week, with advanced undergraduate and graduate films. Details can be found here: http://rtf.utexas.edu/news/end-semester-screenings-spring-2016

Event name: Screening of New East Austin Stories Documentaries

Date: Friday, 5/13 from 6:00-7:30 PM

Location: Belo Center for New Media, room 2.106

Event description: East Austin has changed dramatically in the last fifteen years and throughout that time a University of Texas film class has been making documentaries in and about the area. For the 15th year in a row, individuals, families, groups, and businesses in East Austin collaborated with the film students in the East Austin Stories class, led by filmmaker and professor, Andrew Garrison, to tell local stories in a free evening of documentaries.

Theorizing Consent: Educational and Legal Perspectives on Campus Rape

Theorizing Consent:

Educational and Legal Perspectives on Campus Rape

Friday, April 29 & Saturday, April 30

All Conference Sessions take place in Flawn Academic Center 21

The conference is co-sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts, Plan II, Liberal Arts Honors, the Department of Classics, the James R. Dougherty, Jr. Centennial Professorship, the William A. Percy Foundation for Social and Historical Studies, and numerous individual donors, including Ms. Nina Giannangeli. Please contact Prof. Thomas Hubbard (tkh@utexas.edu) or Khoa Tran (khoabtran@austin.utexas.edu) if you have questions.

See the website for complete details: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/classics/events/theorizing-consent-educational-and-legal-perspectives-on-campus-rape1/

Caring for Your Personal Collections: Preserving Media and Digital Content

In celebration of Preservation Week 2016, join UT Libraries staff members to learn how to preserve your media-based collections and digital files. Many of us have items of personal significance such as photographs, research, correspondence, home video, and more saved on media formats or as digital files.  These formats and files can deteriorate or become obsolete over time, rendering the content inaccessible. In this session learn how to mitigate the problems of deterioration and obsolescence and how to plan for the long term safekeeping of your content.      

April 28, 1:00-2:30 – Learning Lab 3 in PCL

Caring for Your Personal Collections: Preserving Media and Digital Content

 

We will cover: 

  • basic preservation recommendations for physical media formats such as VHS tapes, floppy disks, and CDs.
  • tips for preparing and organizing your personal media collection for ongoing and future use, including transfer to digital format
  • guidelines for managing personal digital files and preserving them for posterity

Taught by UT Librarians: Wendy Martin, Anna Lamphear and Jessica Trelogan

Teaching English Abroad Panel This Friday!

Teaching English Abroad: Panel Presentation

Friday, April 22, 4:30-5:30pm

MEZ 2.124

Learn about Teaching ESL/EFL from a panel of professionals in the field. 

Topics include: rewards and challenges of teaching English abroad, how to get a job, 

what to know before you go, and how to get a CELTA certificate at UT-Austin.

Please RSVP at: https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/ugs/my/events/

All Majors Welcome!

NYT Bestselling YA Author Julie Murphy at UT Austin: Tues, MAY 3, 12pm

Grab Your Crown & Come on Down: Julie Murphy on Dumplin’

Tuesday, May 3, 12:00-1:30pm

Glickman Conference Center, CLA 1.302E

RSVP HERE

Join us for a fireside chat with Julie Murphy, the #1 New York Times bestselling young adult author of Dumplin’ and Side Effects May Vary. We’ll talk body diversity and issues of representation in YA literature. A Q&A session and book signing will follow, and light refreshments will be provided. So grab your crown and come on down! 

“Research for Historical Fiction”- FREE Books for honors students

“Research for Historical Fiction” (part of UGS Research Week)

Friday, April 22, 2016,  3 p.m. in the Joynes Reading Room (CRD 007)

Three distinguished writers of historical fiction—Elizabeth Crook, Dominic Smith, and Karen Olsson—will discuss the research that helped them accurately and vividly depict the settings of their critically-acclaimed novels. Karen Olsson’s latest book, ALL THE HOUSES, is partly set in Washington DC during the Iran Contra Scandal. Dominic Smith’s latest book, THE LAST PAINTING OF SARA DE VOS, is set in 17th-century Holland. Elizabeth Crook’s latest book, MONDAY, MONDAY, is set at the University of Texas during the Charles Whitman shooting in 1966. The Joynes Room has a limited number of FREE BOOKS by each author, which we will give away in advance of the event. Books will be distributed on a first-come basis to honors students who inquire in person at the front desk of the Joynes Reading Room.

Facebook event page: 

https://www.facebook.com/events/1607854889540346/

Managing Your Online Research Identity

Learn how to showcase the research you’ve done at UT to impress prospective employers and graduate schools. We’ll discuss the best ways to use both popular and scholarly social media platforms, explain UT Austin’s online archive and how you can submit your work, show you how to collect usage statistics on your work, and provide examples of how to incorporate your online research identity into your resume, CV, or online profile.

This workshop counts as a research communications workshop for the Research Training Certificate offered by the Office of Undergraduate Research.

Taught by UT librarian, Colleen Lyon

April 19, 3-4pm

PCL Learning Lab 2