Category Archives: Research Opportunities

Undergraduate Research Scholarships

Please read below for information on 4 scholarships:

  • $1000 Senate of College Councils Undergraduate Research Grant (URG), due Nov. 2
  • $1000 Senate of College Councils Academic Enrichment Study Abroad Scholarship, due Nov. 5
  • $100-$350 Office of Undergraduate Research Conference or Research Travel Scholarships, due Nov. 20

Senate of College Councils Undergraduate Research Grant (URG) 

The URG seeks to encourage students to become actively involved with research in their undergraduate experience by providing funding to a deserving applicant. Eligible applicants include students assisting a faculty member with a research project, as well as students conducting independent or partnered research. Applicants must be a full-time undergraduate student as determined by the University of Texas at Austin’s Office of the Registrar. One winner will receive a $1,000 grant from the Senate of College Councils to be used toward funding his or her research.

The deadline for all required materials is November 2nd, 2015 at 11:45 PM. Please note that you must provide a Social Security Number when applying for this grant. The application is available on the Senate of College Councils HornsLink page, under forms. In the event that an electronic submission is not possible, you may submit your application in a manila envelope, in person, to Becky Carreon. Her desk is located in the Senate of College Councils’ office in SAC 2.102.

Please contact Gregory Ross and Praveen Satarasinghe at SenateURC@gmail.com with any questions regarding the application.

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Senate of College Councils Scholarship

2015-2016 Academic Enrichment Study Abroad Scholarship

The Senate of College Councils is commissioned by the Board of Regents with the specific task of representing students of The University of Texas at Austin in academics.  In recent years, Senate has standardized the process of acquiring student feedback on tuition increase proposals, led the effort to create and enforce the university’s Honor Code, has established numerous scholarships, and assisted in reforming UT’s undergraduate curriculum.

Academic Enrichment in particular is assigned with the duties of promoting study abroad throughout the University of Texas at Austin. In this venture, Academic Enrichment has designed at $1000 scholarship, which will go towards assisting students studying abroad in an upcoming academic year with funds.

It is DUE on November 5th, 2015 at 5 pm at senateae@gmail.com

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Office of Undergraduate Research Conference or Research Travel Scholarships

The Office of Undergraduate Research invites you to apply for funding to support

research travel or travel to a conference or professional meeting to present your research.

Awards typically range between $100 and $350. Funds can be

used for future or past travel, as long as the student documents and submits expenses

for past travel and the travel takes place between September 1, 2015 and August 31, 2016.

Completed and signed applications may be submitted in person to the Office of

Undergraduate Research in FAC 33 by the Friday, Nov. 20, 2015 deadline at 4 p.m.

Please contact the OUR with any questions at uresearch@austin.utexas.edu or (512) 471-7152.

Applications for the U.S. Dept. of State’s Summer 2016 Critical Language Scholarship

Applications are now being accepted for the U.S. Department of State’s Summer 2016 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Programin 14 critical foreign languages.

The application is available online at: http://www.clscholarship.org    Application deadline: November 23, 2015, 7:59 pm Eastern Standard Time.

The CLS Program is overseen by the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. It is a overseas,intensive language and cultural immersion program for American undergraduate and graduate students.CLS has summer sessions each year in a variety of overseas locations, and uses an intensive, group-based method of language instruction.  CLS goals are to increase the number of Americans studying and mastering critical languages, and to build relationships between the people of the United States and other countries.

CLS provides opportunities to a diverse range of students, from across the United States, at every level of language learning.  The CLS Program seeks participants with diverse interests, from a wide variety of fields of study, backgrounds and career paths, with the purpose of representing the full diversity of the United States. Students from all academic disciplines, including business, engineering, law, medicine, science, social sciences, arts and humanities are encouraged to apply.

Eligibility requirements – Applicants must be a U.S. citizen at the time of application, and be enrolled in an accredited U.S. degree-granting program at the undergraduate (associate’s/bachelor’s) or graduate (master’s/doctoral/professional degree) level.  For more information about CLS eligibility requirements, visit:

     http://www.clscholarship.org/information-for/applicants.

The 14 CLS languages areArabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Swahili, Turkish, and Urdu.  Swahili will, for the first time, be offered at the beginning through advanced levels. Most CLS languages do not require prior language training, but there are prerequisites for Arabic, Chinese, Persian, Russian, and Japanese.  For more information about prerequisites, visit: http://www.clscholarship.org/information-for/applicants.

Costs covered by CLS include:  Intensive overseas group-based language courses (20+ hours per week); room and board, often with a host family; a full cultural program; host community language partner; U.S. academic credit issued through Bryn Mawr College; domestic and international airfare; and a small stipend to cover incidental expenses and meals not provided by the program.

There is no requirement for CLS alumni to perform U.S. Government service after they participate in the program. Participants are, however, expected to continue their language study beyond the scholarship period, and to later apply their critical language skills in their professional careers. Participants are selected based on their commitment to language learning and plans to apply their language skills to their future academic or professional pursuits.

Prior to preparing their applications, interested students should review the full eligibility and application information on the CLS Program website:
http://www.clscholarship.org/information-for/applicants.

For news, updates and more information about the CLS Program, please visit the CLS website and Facebook page:

Website: http://www.clscholarship.org ; Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/CLScholarship

For questions not covered in the CLS website’s FAQs, , please contact: cls@americancouncils.org

Voting is now open for the Texas Student Research Showdown!

Voting is now open for the Texas Student Research Showdown! You can now view 15 short videos made by UT undergraduates to explain their research to a general audience. From movie trailer to time-lapse, animation to idea pitch, these videos bring alive the student research happening in all disciplines across campus. Only currently enrolled UT undergraduates can vote on their favorite entries, and the researchers with the top videos will go on to compete for $2,500 in a TED-style talk showdown to an audience and judging panel on Nov. 12 in Avaya Auditorium.

The videos are viewable on the Showdown website, and on the online voting form itself. Students can vote for as many videos as they want, but each student can only submit the voting form once—multiple submissions will be rejected. Students will need to provide an EID to verify student status, but otherwise the vote is anonymous. Voting runs through Oct. 21.

Please spread the word to anyone with an interest in research communication, in students’ involvement in the world-changing work done at UT, and in supporting their friends and classmates.

Texas Student Research Showdown

The Oct. 5 deadline is fast approaching for submissions to the Texas Student Research Showdown! All undergraduate researchers at The University of Texas at Austin are invited to create a 2-minute video recap of their work, to be voted on by UT students. The top submitters will present to a live audience and judging panel Nov. 12 for a chance to win up to $1,500 in awards.

Please join us for a workshop on creating short research videos Tuesday, Sept. 29 from 3:30-4:45 in the PCL Media Lab (register here).

The Showdown is open to any current UT undergraduate involved in research or creative activity in any major. Your work can be an independent project, or a collaboration to which you have made substantive contributions.

The 2015 Texas Student Research Showdown Final Round is scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015 at 3:30-4:30 p.m. in the Avaya Auditorium (POB 2.302).

For more details, visit http://www.utexas.edu/ugs/our/showdown.

20th annual undergraduate poster session on Capitol Hill

Dear student researchers,

In the Spring of 2016 the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) will host its 20th annual undergraduate poster session on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.  There will be an evening poster session and reception where students will have the opportunity to speak directly to members of Congress and demonstrate how they have been impacted by program supporting research.

Submission Process: Applications due Wednesday, November 4, 2015, including letter of recommendation

Students: The Council on Undergraduate Research invites students to submit an abstract for the 20th Annual Posters on the Hill. Your research should represent one of CUR’s Divisions (Arts and Humanities, Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, Geosciences, Health Sciences, Mathematics/Computer Science, Physics/Astronomy, Psychology, and Social Sciences). Abstract submissions should describe your research, scholarship, or creative activity and discuss its significance to society (i.e. what larger issues or problems were you trying address or understand?; how does your work relate to current policy issues?).

Review Process:

Reviewers are CUR members and Councilors in our disciplinary divisions. Your application will be reviewed by these individuals within the same discipline as you indicate on your application. The reviewers are asked to consider:

The readability of the abstract to an educated audience outside of the discipline

The student’s demonstrated ability to present to a non-technical audience

The technical merit or methodology of the project

The broader interest of the project

Is the research complete or is it reasonable to assume that the research will be completed by April?

The primary selection criteria include:

project quality, (e.g. timeliness, level of completion, and interest to both the scholarly and general communities),

communication skills (e.g. being understandable by any educated person), and

disciplinary and geographical distribution.

It is unlikely that more than one student project will be selected per school, but up to four students may be associated with a project. The University of Texas at Austin has an institutional membership to the Council on Undergraduate Research, so there is no need for submitters to have an individual membership.

For more information on the submission process, please visit http://www.cur.org/conferences_and_events/student_events/posters_on_the_hill_call_for_abstracts/

Robert V. Reichle, Ph.D.

Senior Program Coordinator

Office of Undergraduate Research

School of Undergraduate Studies

The University of Texas at Austin

robert.reichle@austin.utexas.edu

512.232.5792

Students compete for $1,500 at the Texas Student Research Showdown

All undergraduate researchers at The University of Texas at Austin are invited to compete for $1,500 in the Texas Student Research Showdown, a video and presentation competition this fall.

In the first round of the Showdown, entrants will create 2-minute videos about their research, to be voted on by UT students. In the final round, the top six students will give 6-minute research presentations to a live audience and judging panel. Winners will receive scholarships to recognize their excellence in research communication. A series of workshops offers support at every step of the process. The 2015 Texas Student Research Showdown Final Round is scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015 at 3:30-4:30 p.m. in the Avaya Auditorium (POB 2.302).

Why enter?

We want to help UT’s top students sell their ideas—and their stories as researchers—to a general audience. All entrants will walk away with a 2-minute video that explains their work to friends, family, grad school committees, and future employers. If your video is in the top six, you’ll take part in the Final Round live competition on Nov. 12. A panel of judges will award scholarship prizes for 1st ($1,500), 2nd ($750), and 3rd ($250) place. Prizes will be awarded based on communication skill and the merit of the research.

Why short videos and mini-presentations?

Short videos are ideal for communicating on social media, and mini-presentations of a style similar to short TED talks are perfect for telling the narrative of your work without overwhelming a general audience. If you’ve never communicated in these formats before, that’s okay—we’ll help you learn how. Attend one of our workshops on making a knockout video and talk.

Who can enter?

The Showdown is open to any current UT undergraduate involved in research or creative activity in any major. Your work can be an independent project, or a collaboration with a professor to which you have made substantive contributions.

What are the deadlines?

First Round: Video submissions are due Oct. 5. Voting will take place Oct. 7-21.
Final Round: The live competition will take place Thursday, Nov. 12 at 3:30 p.m.

For more details, visit http://www.utexas.edu/ugs/our/showdown.

Call for Government Department Research Practicum The University of Texas at Austin Fall 2015 & Spring 2016

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This fall semester we are pleased to announce that the Government Department will be offering a research practicum under the direction of Dr. Michael Findley (Department of Government) and Henry Pascoe (Department of Government).

This course is the first semester of a two-semester program (with upper-division course credit) to introduce undergraduate students to the research process in the social sciences. In this program, students will get hands on experience by contributing to research projects

similar to the lab setting of the natural sciences. In the first semester, taken in fall semester, students will develop and present their own research proposal. In the second semester

(spring), students will complete and present their results.

Throughout both courses, we will discuss issues encountered when conducting applied social

We expect that students will engage in research about foreign aid, political violence, peace processes, and international development. Other topics of interest to students are also possible. Training in research methodologies and statistical analysis will be provided.

Past iterations of the research practicum have proven very successful for students. Last year, four students in the course were accepted to present their research at the Midwest Political Science Association meeting in Chicago, IL. Two students won best project awards at this year’s undergraduate research fairs. Students have gone on to terrific internships in Washington D.C., Uganda, Senegal, Timor Leste, Mexico, and numerous other countries. And in years past, some students have gone on to publish their research in high profile academic and policy outlets.

Please contact Dr. Michael Findley (mikefindley@austin.utexas.edu) or Henry Pascoe (hbpascoe@utexas.edu) as soon as possible if you have any questions or if you would like to participate in the course. Only a limited number of seats are available in the course.

Schwarzman Scholars

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Dear Friends,

Schwarzman Scholars is pleased to announce the application is now open for exceptional students, recent alumni, and young professionals to apply for its inaugural class.

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 world’s best and brightest students the opportunity to develop their leadership skills through a fully-funded one-year Master’s Degree at Tsinghua University – one of China’s most prestigious universities. For those ready to make their mark on the world, Schwarzman Scholars is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to:

·         Access World-Class Curriculum and Faculty  

·         Learn Beyond the Classroom and Experience the Real China

·         Engage in Multi-Dimensional Leadership Training  

 The application is now available, and the deadline is October 1, 2015. Additional information on the application process, including key dates, requirements and eligibility criteria can be found on our website.

Schwarzman Scholars is seeking high-caliber individuals who will represent the world’s next generation of leaders in business, politics, and civil society. We invite you to circulate this announcement to students, young professionals, and recent alumni from your institution.

We will host a prospective student webinar on April 23rd from 5:00-6:30PM (EDT). Please pass along the following information to any students or alumni who are interested in learning more about the application process.

Open to interested applicants: To register, please click here.If you do not have a Google account, you may view the webinar via YouTube.

For additional information and updates we encourage you to:

·         Stay informed by filling out the inquiry form

·         Follow us on Facebook and Twitter

·         Contact us with any questions

Sincerely,

Stephen A. Schwarzman

Call for Papers: The University of Texas at Austin Announces the “Bobby R. Inman Award” for Student Scholarship on Intelligence

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The Intelligence Studies Project of the University of Texas at Austin announces the inaugural round of an annual competition recognizing outstanding student research and writing on topics related to intelligence and national security.  The winner of the “Inman Award” will receive a cash prize of $5000, with two semifinalists each receiving a cash prize of $2500.  This competition is open to unpublished work by undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in degree programs at accredited U.S. higher education institutions during the 2014-15 academic year.  The deadline for submitting papers is June 30, 2015. 

The Intelligence Studies Project was established at the University of Texas at Austin in 2013 as a joint venture of the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law and the William P. Clements, Jr. Center for History, Strategy and Statecraft in collaboration with the LBJ School of Public Affairs. The Project’s mission is to improve understanding of intelligence activities and institutions through research, courses and public events bringing intelligence practitioners together with scholars, students and the public.

The award recognizes more than six decades of distinguished public service by Bobby R. Inman, Admiral, U.S. Navy (Ret.).  Admiral Inman has served in multiple leadership positions in the U.S. military, intelligence community, private industry and the University of Texas.  His previous intelligence posts include Director of Naval Intelligence, Vice-Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Director of the National Security Agency and Deputy Director of Central Intelligence.  He continues to serve as a teacher and mentor to students, faculty members and current government officials while occupying the Lyndon B. Johnson Centennial Chair in National Policy at the LBJ School.

Additional information on the Inman Award competition and the Intelligence Studies Project is available at www.strausscenter.org/inmanaward

Need Partner for the Intellectual Entrepreneurship Program

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My name is Jackie Chorush and I’m looking for a partner for the Intellectual Entrepreneurship Program this summer that was included in the latest Herald. I already have my business idea: a hostel which runs based on a cooperative business model. I’ve been living in a cooperative for a couple of years now and I’m pretty familiar with the local cooperative scene. But I’m still open to other suggestions. I think this will be a fun, useful project and a cool opportunity. Please get in touch with me! jchorush@utexas.edu