Applications for UT’s Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program (MMUF) are being accepted through February 15th, 2024.  MMUF’s goal is to expand access to the professoriate in higher education by helping students confidently navigate academia and pursue a PhD.

MMUF fellows:

• Engage in an intellectual community through weekly seminars and workshops focused on topics including Applying to Grad School, Conducting Research, Abstract Writing, and Conference Presentations.
• Receive individualized mentorship from program coordinators and faculty advisors.
• Pursue independent research projects during their time in the program, including over the summer(s).
• Receive financial support to conduct academic year and summer research, apply to graduate school, and explore professional development opportunities.
• Obtain post-graduate benefits, including loan repayment and graduate research funding.

Who Can Apply:

• Students who are interested in earning a PhD and pursuing a career in academia.
• Current sophomores or juniors graduating in 2026.
• Students whose major is in one of the MMUF-designated social science, humanities, or fine arts fields (view list of Eligible Fields on website).
• Students committed to working with a faculty mentor on a Mellon-approved research project during their junior and senior years.

Interested in applying? Click here for more information!

The College of Liberal Arts MA Program in Humanities, Health, and Medicine and the Dell Medical School are delighted to announce a lecture by Dr. Abraham Verghese titled “The Story After the Story: Humanism and Medicine Post-Covid.” 

Date: Friday November 10, 2023
Time: 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
Location: Health Learning Building Auditorium, Dell Medical School, 1501 Red River St. (parking available next door in the Health Center Garage)

For more information about this event and to register, please click here!

The Texas Undergraduate Research Journal (URJ) is a work of multi-disciplinary research produced and edited by University of Texas at Austin undergraduate students. The Journal is published every spring semester, circulated across campus, and housed in the Library of Congress. Moreover, the URJ organizes various events throughout the academic year to promote student engagement with research on campus.

Applications for the 2023 – 2024 academic year are now open. All submissions will be due Monday, January 8th, 2024 by 11:59pm promptly. For more information about Volume 23 Submissions, please click here!

Support Texas Prisons by donating books from now to the end of the semester. Drop your books in the box by the front desk in the LAH office!

The Longhorn Center for Academic Equity is hosting events this fall as part of its Strive Grad Prep Academy. Events are open to any and all undergraduates making plans for postgraduate studies, including law school, medical school, and graduate school.

For event details, resources, and service details, click here!

IDH Research Apprenticeships are mixed level, undergraduate and graduate, research experiences that include opportunities to work on faculty and staff-led digital humanities projects at UT for credit and a small stipend ($250 for each undergraduate student and $500 for each graduate student). Faculty and staff sponsors can support one undergraduate student and one graduate student.

The Spring 2024 topic will be “Digital Humanities and Social Justice Archives.”

For more program information, topic details, and to apply, click here!

The UT Libraries is thrilled to announce the 2nd Annual Black Queer Studies Collection Student Awards!

This annual prize celebrates UT’s Black Queer Studies Collection and recognizes our students’ scholarship and creativity inspired by it.

Interested in applying? Submissions are due Monday, February 5th, 2024. Click here!

The Digital Scholarship Office at LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections, The University of Texas at Austin, cordially invites you to the fall installment of the Digital Scholarship in the Americas Speaker Series: Cantos Cautivos!

This event is free and open to the public online. To learn more about this event, click here. To RSVP for this event, click here.

Interested in pursuing a Master of Arts in Economics at UT? The MA Economics program will be hosting an information session on November 9th, 2023.

You may RSVP for this upcoming information session by contacting ma-econ@austin.utexas.edu for the Zoom link!

Every year, Texas Global awards The First Abroad Scholarship to twenty-five eligible first-year students. Each student receives $3,000 to apply towards any credit-bearing or experiential learning opportunity abroad during the standard fours year of their undergraduate studies at UT Austin, starting in Fall 2024.

The deadline to apply for the First Abroad Scholarship this year is December 1, 2023. For more information on eligibility and application requirements, click here!