The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates

Applications to the Jefferson Scholars Program are now open! To apply, visit the Applicants page.

The Jefferson Scholars Program is a challenging, six-course integrated sequence in the great books and ideas of the ancient, medieval, and modern worlds. Taught by stellar faculty and including extensive opportunities for discussion and practice in writing, this program allows you to meet six UT core requirements while earning the Certificate in Core Texts and Ideas, which will be recognized on your transcript at graduation.

An Education for Liberty
You are young, talented, and the world lies before you. No one else can decide for you how you should use the unprecedented freedom we enjoy in America. Reflect on what freedom is, when and why it is good, and how you might best take advantage of it.

An Education for Leaders in Every Field
Learn what great leadership is all about. Learn to ask the questions no one else is asking, but should be. Explore the deepest needs and passions that motivate people. Reflect upon where we should be going as a people, and what it might take to get us there.

An Education for Life
Have great conversations. Make friends with fascinating people. Think about what you really believe in, and what you really want to accomplish in this one life you have to live.

Undergraduate Students: Next Generation Scholars 

The Strauss Center launched the Next Generation Scholars (NGS) program in 2010 with the goal of providing new research and mentorship opportunities for promising UT undergraduate students interested in careers in international security and law. Through a partnership with the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service, this program now also includes a focus on civic engagement, expanding the reach of the program by engaging more students and involving faculty members on a wider range of local, national, and international policy issues. Involving undergraduates in international affairs and civic engagement early in their career is an important part of the Strauss and RGK Centers’ missions to prepare the next generation of leaders to help develop solutions to the most pressing public policy challenges.

This one-year program includes two key components: First, students will take a 3-credit research training and professional development course, taught in the Fall of 2017. This course is designed to introduce students to policy work, including basic skills in policy research, analysis, and writing. Students will be trained on designing research strategies and proposals, conducting policy analysis, writing resumes and statements of purpose, crafting op-eds and blog posts, and planning for the steps in their career development. This course will be led by Dr. Kate Weaver, Associate Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and a Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar.

Second, in the spring semester, the Next Generation Scholars will work closely with Dr. Weaver on a collaborative policy report and blog site. Students should expect to maintain weekly contact with Dr. Weaver and the NGS coordinator and also meet biweekly for short meetings to assess progress on research and writing. The exact schedule for the spring will be determined at a later date to work around students’ course schedules. Students will also be awarded a stipend of $500 for the spring semester. Students may use this stipend for independent research, travel to a study abroad program or summer internship, travel to a professional conference, or other experiential and scholarly pursuits approved by Dr. Weaver. Funding permitting, and contingent on positive performance evaluations, students may have the possibility of continuing as research interns at the Strauss or RGK Center after the year-long Next Generation Scholars program concludes.

Please see the attached documents for application information. The application deadline for both the Brumley Next Generation Fellows and Scholars programs is March 28, 2017. For more information about the programs, please contact Anne Clary at anneclary@austin.utexas.edu.

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The College of Liberal Arts is now accepting applications for the Honors Day Poster Presentation Session as a part of Research Week. Presenters will have their posters professionally printed, courtesy of the College, and will present them at the Liberal Arts Honors Day reception from 3:30 – 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 8. Students will also have the chance to apply to present their research at the Liberal Arts Dean’s Research Reception, hosted by Dean Diehl, on Wednesday, April 19 from 3 – 4:30 p.m.

All Liberal Arts students may apply to participate regardless of what stage their research is in. For more details on these events, or to apply, please visit our website. The deadline to apply is Friday, March 10.

Questions about Research Week or the application can be directed to Agnes Savich.

My name is Yana Zlochistaya, and I am the Editor in Chief of the Comparative Literature Undergraduate Journal (CLUJ) at the University of California, Berkeley.

I am writing to inform you that we are currently accepting submissions for the Spring 2017 issue and would like to extend this call for papers to all interested undergraduates. Since its founding in 2011, the Journal has published premier undergraduate research in comparative texts and media, treating a broad range of topics including, but not limited to, theoretical literary discourse, international trends in literature, and comparisons of national literature. With every issue, we seek original undergraduate research within the literary humanities. A detailed description of our submission criteria as well as the submission form can be found on our website athttps://ucbcluj.org/submissions/. The deadline to submit to the Fall 2017 issue is January 29 at 11:59 PM, Pacific Time.

We would also like to take this opportunity to encourage students to send applications to Berkeley’s sixth annual Comparative Literature Undergraduate Symposium. I have attached additional information theme_guidelines-2017-symposium about the symposium to this email. Though we fall under the same department, the selection processes for the two are completely separate, therefore duplicate submissions are not only accepted, but encouraged.

We would really appreciate it if you could circulate this email among your students to let them know about this opportunity. Please do not hesitate to contact me should you have any questions regarding this CFP. We look forward to receiving your submissions.

Kindest regards,

Yana Zlochistaya
Editor in Chief
Comparative Literature Undergraduate Journal
University of California, Berkeley

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CLUJ | www.ucbcluj.org

Department of Comparative Literature

University of California, Berkeley

Register now for the Clements Center’s new Undergraduate Certificate in Security Studies

The Clements Center would like to invite all College of Liberal Arts undergraduate students to register for our new Undergraduate Certificate in Security Studies.

The Undergraduate Certificate in Security Studies recognizes students who focus their studies on international and national security affairs. Through the transcript-recognized certificate, students develop an interdisciplinary expertise and professional experience in security studies. Students must take GOV 360N International Security and GOV 362L Government Research Internship, as well as 15 additional hours from a selection of approved courses.

Interested students should complete the registration form in order to signal their intent to complete the Certificate program. A member of the Clements Center staff will reach out to schedule a brief advising session.

For more information about the certificate, please review our website. 

A few positions for student workers have opened up in the Student Divison of CoLA (in Gebauer) . These students work with everyone in Liberal Arts, dropping classes, changing majors, making appointments with advisors, and passing on policies to students and parents. If you are interested in this, please apply!  You can find the job on the Hire a Longhorn website, under “Senior Student Associate/Peer Advisor,” or job ID 63355.

Pedestrian experience

Have you ever wondered why some people cut across a parking lot to get to a store while others follow the sidewalk? Why there are places where everyone jaywalks, even though a crosswalk is just 100 ft. away? How those narrow walking paths in the grass near the street get made? I am looking for an undergrad student who is willing to help me figure out answers to these questions as part of my thesis research. My name is Farzad Mashhood, a master’s student in Community and Regional Planning in the School of Architecture. My study is looking at how people make their own paths in everyday urban spaces that are often seen as car-oriented with little designed for the pedestrian experience. Researchers would be observing people as they walk in the Rundberg neighborhood of North Austin. I am starting my field research very soon and need someone willing to commit to at least two 2-hour blocks over the course of two weeks, from Oct. 10 to 23. Please email me as soon as you can if you are interested, atfarzadkmashhood@gmail.com.

Analyzing electroencephalogram (EEG) data

We are seeking motivated students (BA/BSc/MA) who would like to work on biomedical data analysis. The data consists of clinical electrophysiology (EEG) recordings of brain activity from patients diagnosed with epilepsy. The work is aiming to yield a publication, thus co-authorship is one of the incentives. If you need a publication, this is a good project with almost sure success. Working hours are flexible, but we need to achieve set milestones. Regular meetings, but no in-lab times. Click here for more information.

2017 Summer Research Fellowship Program

The Tulane National Primate Research Center is accept applications for the 2017 Summer Research Fellowship Program that will be held June 2, 2017 to August 4, 2017. Please note the application deadline is February 1, 2017.  Please see attached program announcement for more specific information. If you need additional information regarding this program, please feel free to contact Jennifer D’Aquin at either (985) 871-6363 or jdaquin@tulane.edu.

Apply Now for Fall WGS/AFR/MAS/SW/TD Course & LGBTQA+ Justice Program

Want to make a difference on campus, build teaching skills, & meet community?

Looking for classes on intersectional LGBTQA+ justice?

APPLY NOW to Join Peers for Pride 16-17: http://tinyurl.com/PfPFall2016 

& Facilitate the Queer on Campus Workshops

No Experience Required! Applications accepted until the course is full.

* Take WGS335/AFR372D/MAS374/SW360K/TD357T: Confronting LGBTQA+ Oppression this fall and the second course in spring 2017 with Dr. Kristen Hogan

* Get your COURSE FLAGS in Cultural Diversity in the United States and Ethics and Leadership

* Learn more about LGBTQA+ activism & how it’s connected with racial, class, & dis/ability justice

* Create & FACILITATE performance-based Queer on Campus workshops around UT

* Consider what health queer communities look like

* Make campus safer for & among LGBTQA+ folks

* Have FUN together!

Here’s what former students have to say about Peers for Pride and being peer educators:

“Peers for Pride has been one of my most meaningful experiences in college. I have become much more comfortable having difficult conversations with people, have an easier time expressing my opinion on different topics, and feel that I have grown not only as an ally to identities that I did not know much about before, but that I am now able to help others begin or advance their personal journey of allyship.” – Peers for Pride Peer Educator, 14-15

“Through brainstorming multiple answers, strategies and possible outcomes to a moment of struggle, a moment of oppression or injustice, I use my facilitation as a rehearsal for life for myself and the audience.” – Bex Orton, Peers for Pride Peer Educator, 15-16

“I teach because it is also my goal to educate other queer people to be good allies to others within the queer community. For example, during my facilitation portion of one of the open workshops, I explained that it is important to think about racial identity within queer communities and how standards of beauty within society, i.e. heteronormative standards, affect our interactions with other queer people.” – Ruben Sáenz, Peers for Pride Educator, 15-16

Apply Now: http://tinyurl.com/PfPFall2016 

Questions? I look forward to hearing from you at hogank@austin.utexas.edu

Peers for Pride is a project of the Gender & Sexuality Center: Serving Women & LGBTQA Communities

Peers for Pride is supported by the Center for Women’s & Gender Studies

Kristen Hogan, PhD | Pronouns: she, her, hers

Education Coordinator

Gender & Sexuality Center: Serving Women & LGBTQA Communities

The University of Texas at Austin

512.232.1790 | hogank@austin.utexas.edu

Author of The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism & Feminist Accountability (Duke University Press 2016)

“The fact is that there is no other work but the work of creating and re-creating ourselves within the context of community.” – M. Jacqui Alexander, Pedagogies of Crossing (Duke University Press 2006)

The Harry Ransom Center is currently seeking volunteers to work with the public at the visitor desk, at special events, and as docents from mid-August 2016 through May 2017. Descriptions of the positions are online at www.hrc.utexas.edu/volunteer.

These public outreach volunteers ensure all visitors have a positive and enjoyable experience at the Ransom Center, and they also gain a behind-the-scenes perspective into a world-renowned humanities research library and museum.

We encourage applications from any individual (student, staff, graduate student, community member) with strong communication and customer service skills, who listens well and is comfortable interacting with the public. We would greatly appreciate your help in sharing these volunteer opportunities with anyone who may be interested. Applications are due Wednesday, June 10.

To apply or learn more, visit http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/volunteer/.