Here are two award competitions where you can submit great papers from this past school year:

Undergraduate Awards

http://www.undergraduateawards.com/submission-2/

The Undergraduate Awards deadline of June 14th is one week away. Juniors and Seniors can submit up to three A papers from any discipline! There is no cost to enter, and Global Winners of the award will be brought over to Dublin for the 2016 Global UA Summit (November 2016) – all expenses paid. Please remember that submissions need to be anonymous and within the word count or else they’ll be disqualified.

Read about one UT student’s experience going to the conference in Ireland, and find out how easy it is to submit your paper: http://www.utexas.edu/ugs/news/undergrad-awards-16. 

Inman Award

http://intelligencestudies.utexas.edu/inman-award

The Inman Award competition is designed to recognize outstanding research and writing by students at the undergraduate or graduate levels on topics related to intelligence and national security. There is no prescribed topic, format or length for papers submitted. The deadline to submit is June 30th. The grand prize is $5000.

The Amorous Mayhew Carlson Scholarship is an annual $500 scholarship awarded by the Liberal Arts Honors Student Council to an LAH student who has demonstrated their academic excellence and high level of involvement in the Liberal Arts Honors program and other organizations at The University of Texas at Austin. 

All current LAH freshmen, sophomores and juniors are encouraged to apply. Members of LAHSC are eligible to apply for this award. The deadline for scholarship applications is Wednesday, May 18 at noon. Please email completed applications to smfischer@utexas.edu by the deadline. 

And here is a link to the application: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qvcm3tL_caKsvX-NhvMGkhIItA7HTxPxCO32ta7hSeA/edit?usp=sharing

The 2016-2017 General ISSS Financial Aid Award from the International Office provides up to $2,500/semester for the fall and spring, and up to $1,500 in the summer semester for eligible international students. Both graduate and undergraduate students are eligible for this award!  More details are here: https://world.utexas.edu/isss/students/financial-aid/tpeg

 Please spread the word to any interested international students you may work with/advise who qualify. Any questions regarding the award can be directed to me, Phuoc Bui, at p.bui@austin.utexas.edu.

The Senate of College Councils has a $1,000 study abroad scholarship to give out for the Summer 2016 semester.

The Summer 2016 Study Abroad Scholarship offers a merit-based $1,000 scholarship to a qualifying student to pursue his or her education around the world through programs offered through UT’s Study Abroad Office.
Eligibility: Open to all UT Austin students, including international students, studying abroad in Summer 2016. Maymester study abroad students are NOT eligible. Applicants may apply for the Academic Enrichment Study Abroad Scholarship as many times as they wish, but once an individual has been awarded the scholarship, he/she may not be awarded the scholarship a second time.
Deadline: Friday, April 1st at 11:59pm. Completed application and one page resume sent to:
senateae@gmail.com

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program funds 8-12 months abroad to study, research or teach English in countries around the world. 

FULBRIGHT GRANT INFO SESSIONS

Wednesday, March 2

4-5pm in CLA 1.106

&

Friday, April 8

4-5pm in CLA 1.106

Fulbright awards graduating seniors, recent graduates and alumni to travel for academic work in all disciplines, including the sciences, social sciences, humanities, engineering, and the performing and creative arts.  A number of countries also offer grants for those who wish to serve as English teaching assistants.

If your students aren’t quite ready, the competition happens every year, and we’d like to put the Fulbright Program in exceptional students’ minds as a goal to strive for after graduation!  Fulbright@austin.utexas.edu

The Fine Print:

                The 2017-2018 Fulbright U.S. Student competition will open on March 31, 2016.  The Fulbright U.S. Student program is open to graduate students at all levels, undergraduates who will have completed their degree by the beginning of the grant period (for most countries, Sept. 1, 2017) and alumni who hold a bachelor’s degree.  The program is restricted to U.S. citizens.  The grants are for study and research abroad, and are available for most countries.  Grants are awarded for all disciplines, including the sciences, social sciences, humanities, engineering, and the performing and creative arts.  A number of countries also offer grants for those who wish to serve as English teaching assistants.

Information sessions and Q & A for prospective applicants will be held Wednesday, March 2 and Friday April 8 in CLA 1.106.

Deadlines and Procedures:

1.  The applicant should go to the Fulbright U.S. Student Program website

(http://us.fulbrightonline.org/home.html) for country summaries, information about preparing an application, and, starting March 31, to begin the online application process.

2.  The applicant should also review our campus website:

http://world.utexas.edu/abroad/funding/scholarships/fulbright

3. Potential applicants should register with us by beginning an application in the Embark Application System.

4.  Campus Deadline: The applicant must submit a preliminary application through the Embark Online Application system by 5 PM on September 8, 2016. Interviews with the Fulbright Campus Committee are tentatively scheduled between September 19 and September 30. 

5. National Deadline: Tuesday, October 11, 2016 at 4pm Central time.

The Academic Counselors Association (ACA) is proud to offer $300 scholarships to University of Texas at Austin students who support the vision and values of the academic advising community. It is the hope of ACA that these scholarships will assist students in their academic pursuits and endeavors.

Eligibility requirements: Candidates must be undergraduate students who assist in advising or other academic/student support services and have a cumulative GPA of at least 2.00 (to be verified by the ACA Awards and Recognition Committee). 

To apply for this award, please follow the instructions on our 2016 Student Development Scholarship online application. Please note that the application will require you to upload an application document. 

Questions? Please contact Christine Anderson at canderson@austin.utexas.edu. 

The Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies is now offering a number of travel scholarships for study abroad in Latin America, both for summer 2016 and for academic year 2016-2017.  For summer 2016, we are offering eight $2,500 travel scholarships.  Students must attend degree-granting institutions in Latin America this coming summer and return with at least six hours of college credit.  For academic year 2016-2017, we will award six $5,000 travel scholarships for semester-long study abroad in Latin America.  Awardees must attend degree-granting institutions in Latin America and return with at least 12 hours of college credit.  

Applications and letters of recommendation are due on March 7, 2015, without exception.  Please follow the link to the scholarship portal:

http://bit.ly/WNaeWm

My name is Jeremy Doran and I am an at-large representative from the Senate of College Councils. Every year, our committee, Recruitment and Retention, gives out two $500 scholarships to two hardworking students who have shown significant improvement in their academics. Students who are qualified for this are those who have attended at least 2 semesters at UT and could be a sophomore, junior, or senior. The student must have had at least a 2.75 GPA two semesters ago and have improved significantly the next semester (GPA-wise). We also look at how the students utilized campus resources to help them improve their GPA. The due date of the application is Wednesday, March 2nd at 11:59pm.

Attached below is the application for the scholarship. The application also requires an unofficial transcript and must be submitted to senateacademicimprovement@gmail.com.