Category Archives: Scholarships

Inaugural LAH Photography Contest

Stylized photo from Salzburg

The inaugural LAH Photography Awards recognize excellence and artistry in photography and support the accomplishments of our LAH students.

Eligibility: Current Liberal Arts Honors Students

Specifications: Submit an original photograph taken during the past academic year (1 September 2025 – 1 September 2026)

Award Brief: “Small World”

While travel photography often seeks the grand and the distant, our “Small World” brief challenges you to shrink the map. We are not looking for the sprawling of horizons or famous landmarks that define a destination; instead, we invite you to document the intimate, often overlooked moments that prove the world is much smaller than it appears.

What We Are Looking For: We want to see the “spirit of adventure” captured through a narrower lens. Your submission should explore common threads that bind us across borders, cultures, and environments. Whether you are shooting in a bustling city or a remote village, your work should highlight:

  • The Miniature Detail: Textures, patterns, or objects that are unique to a place but universal in their beauty.
  • Shared Human Gestures: Candid moments of connection, camaraderies, or daily ritual that make a foreign land feel intimate.
  • Narrative Scale: Innovative uses of perspective that play with scale, making the vast feel intimate or the ordinary feel monumental.

Creative Freedom: Participants are encouraged to interpret this them from any angle —be it street, portraiture, or documentary. Images can be shot on any device (including a phone) and in any style. We are searching for work that triggers memory and expands our collective horizons, whether during a study abroad experience, in Austin, or your hometown.

Awards: We anticipate making three awards of $1000 each. Additionally, we will print and frame each of the award-winning photographs and display them in the LAH Suite.

Submissions: Your context submission are due by 12 pm CDT on September 1, 2026. Submit your digital file (jpeg, tiff or raw) via the UT Box link below. Please be sure to include your name and EID in the title of the file and at the top of your work.

Submission Link: HERE

COLA Academic Excellence Award

The College of Liberal Arts Academic Excellence Award is an academic merit and financial need-based scholarship competition for currently enrolled Liberal Arts undergraduate majors. Applicants who are selected to receive the award will be matched with one of COLA’s many endowed scholarships and excellence funds. The competition is run each spring semester, and applications are reviewed and ranked by a faculty committee in the College of Liberal Arts.

Scholarship Information:

  • Amount of awards: $2,000 – $5,000
  • Multiple awards are made each year.
  • Applications can be accessed via LASSO

Eligibility Requirements:

  • Only currently enrolled Liberal Arts undergraduates at The University of Texas at Austin may apply.
  • Applicants must have a minimum overall in-residence UT GPA of 3.6 and 12 hours completed in-residence.
  • Applicants must demonstrate evidence of achievement in leadership and service to the College and community.

For additional information regarding eligibility and payment, please click the link here!

LAH Study Abroad Scholarships

The Liberal Arts Honors Program will award scholarships in varying amounts to support LAH students and Humanities majors who will be studying abroad in the Spring, Summer, and/or Fall.  An LAH student may apply for this scholarship by writing a one-page statement of his or her study abroad plans. The statement should include where and what the student will be studying, the projected cost involved, and the role that study abroad and the mastery of a foreign language plays in the student’s academic and career goals.

The deadline for Fall/Summer Abroad is April 1st, 11:59 pm. Maymesters may also apply in Spring, as long as they are able to confirm participation.

Please submit your application online through the LASSO Scholarship system!

Both LAH students and Humanities majors are eligible to apply for the LAH Study Abroad scholarship. Please contact the LAH office with any questions.

Fall 2025 Education Abroad Scholarships

The following scholarship applications for Fall 2025 are live and accepting applications on LASSO. Please visit their respective links to find more information regarding eligibility, the application process, and more!

The deadline to apply for each of these awards is April 1st, 11:59PM on LASSO. We will also host our Education Abroad Fall 2025 Scholarship Presentation on February 20, 2025, at 1 pm. Students can register for the event on Qualtrics (linked here). The presentation will be recorded and emailed to everyone who RSVPed.

UT Co-op Mitchell Award

Each spring, with the generous support of the University Co-op, UT recognizes undergraduate students for superior scholarly or creative achievement. Four will receive awards of $5,000, and two students will receive the top award of $7,000.

The application and all supporting materials, including a faculty recommendation, must be received by Wednesday, March 26th.

Applicants must be either a junior or senior currently enrolled at UT or a UT graduate who received their undergraduate degree in December 2024. Students must demonstrate superior scholarly or creative achievement through a notable paper or thesis, research project, creative or artistic endeavor, or other product of their academic work. Submitted work should be finished or almost finished (e.g. a complete draft of a thesis or research paper). Previous Mitchell Award recipients are eligible only if the submitted work is a completely different project.

Students can complete their applications via Interfolio. More information about the process can be found by clicking the link here!

LAH Study Abroad Scholarships

The Liberal Arts Honors Program will award scholarships in varying amounts to support LAH students and Humanities majors who will be studying abroad in Summer, and/or Fall.  An LAH student may apply for this scholarship by writing a one-page statement of his or her study abroad plans. The statement should include where and what the student will be studying, the projected cost involved, and the role that study abroad and the mastery of a foreign language plays in the student’s academic and career goals.

Now is the time to apply! Deadlines are:

April 1st, 11:59 pm for Fall and Summer.

Maymesters may apply in Spring or Fall, as long as they are able to confirm participation.

Please submit your application online through LASSO (linked here). Both LAH students and Humanities majors are eligible to apply for the LAH Study Abroad scholarship. Please contact the LAH office with any questions!

Tyler Fellowships

The Office of Undergraduate Research is accepting applications for 2025 Tyler Fellows at The University of Texas at Austin. Six Tyler Fellows will be awarded between $3,000 and $3,500 each to support independent research abroad during spring or summer 2025. Funding for these awards is provided by the Tyler Center for Global Studies. Applications are due 11:59 p.m. Monday, Feb. 3, 2025.

Find out more about the application process for these awards, as well as tips for applying for other sources of funding, at our funding info sessions on Zoom Thursday, Jan. 16 at 2 p.m. and again on Friday, Jan. 17 at 2 p.m. To receive the Zoom information, please register in advance. Learn more and apply by clicking the link here!

Brodnax Recreation Fund

The Brodnax Recreation Fund is focused on expanding access to RecSports for students who may face financial barriers to participating in programs.

We are currently accepting applications for spring 2025 funding with a priority application deadline of Friday, Dec. 20. Students can apply to have any one of the following programs fully funded for next term:

  • TeXercise All-Access Pass
  • Climbing Wall Pass
  • Intramural Sports Team Entry
  • Day or Weekend Adventure Trip Registration