Fulbright Info Session and Competition

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The 2013-2014 Fulbright U.S. Student competition will open on May 1, 2012.  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, 2013) and non-students 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.

An information session for prospective applicants will be presented by an Alumni Ambassador from the Institute of International Education on Monday, March 26 from 7:00-8:00 PM in Burdine 130.

Deadlines and Procedures:

1.  Potential applicants must register with us, by sending an email to:  Fulbright@austin.utexas.edu.  The email should give the applicant’s name, contact information, academic status (i.e., undergrad, grad, alumnus), country or region of interest, and area of study or research topic.

2.  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 May 1, to begin the online application process.

3.  The applicant should also review our campus website: http://world.utexas.edu/abroad/funding/scholarships/fulbright

4.  Campus Deadline: The applicant must submit copies of all application materials electronically to our office by September 5. Interviews are tentatively scheduled between September 17 and September 28.  While the deadline for final submission tothe national office has not yet been announced, my expectation is that it will be around mid-October.

As a Fulbrighter myself (Brazil, 1990), I can testify to the lifelong value of this extraordinary program, and I am hoping that we can make that experience available to you as well.

Best,

Lindsay Hale, Ph.D.

Department of Religious Studies

Chair, Fulbright U.S. Student Program Campus Committee

2012 Lavender Graduation

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Lavender Graduation is a special graduation ceremony that honors the achievements ofgraduating lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and ally students on campus. Lavender Graduation is co-hosted by the Gender and Sexuality Center (GSC) and the Queer Students Alliance (QSA). Our goal is to provide a venue to demonstrate the success of our community members in apersonal, entertaining and celebratory way.

Wednesday, May 16
4:00-6:00pm
Student Activity Center Ballroom
Reception immediately following in the UT Alumni Center

Please register by APril 23, 2012 at 5 pm to participate.

ACA Student Development Scholarship application

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Are you an undergraduate student working in student support services?  Are you an orientation advisor, a peer advisor or mentor, a resident adviser, or in some other position on campus that allows you to help your fellow students?  If you are, and if you love what you are doing, you can apply for a Student Development Scholarship sponsored by the Academic Counselor’s Association (ACA)!

ACA is offering two $250 scholarships to UT students who support the mission and goals of the academic advising community.  It is the hope of ACA that these scholarships will assist students in their academic pursuits and endeavors.

 

To be eligible, candidates must assist in advising or other student support services and be in good academic standing (GPA of 2.0 or better). 

 

Applying is easy!  Just follow the directions on the attached form, turn in your application by Wednesday, March 21, 2012, and one of these scholarships could be yours!

You can find more information and links to the application on the ACA website: http://www.utexas.edu/staff/aca/news/aca-scholarship-opportunities-staff-and-students-0

Good luck!

-ACA Awards and Recognition Committee

Internship at the Harry Ransom Center

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The Liberal Arts Honors Program offers an internship at the Harry Ransom Center (http://www.hrc.utexas.edu) that is designed to provide an LAH senior or advanced junior with experience in the nature and operations of a major humanities research center.  The experience gained by interns will benefit them in their own research projects, in possible graduate studies, and even as a career option in such fields as librarianship, museum studies, archival or curatorial work as well as public affairs, marketing, public programming and event management.

In addition to providing general support for Ransom Center programs and services, an intern may be asked to work in any and all of the following areas:

–answering research queries

–processing collections

–conducting bibliographic searches

–preserving collection materials

–planning exhibitions

–doing editorial and publicity work

–working on web-site enhancement projects

–assisting with guest speakers events

–event planning and management

–marketing and public affairs

The internship will be for the entire academic year (fall and spring semester).There will be opportunities to work in a number of different departments of the Center, learning multiple skills, from preservation to collection processing and editorial work. There will be an orientation period during the last week of August.  Internships run for three months in the fall: September, October, and November; and three in the spring: February, March, and April.  Thus, the internship will end each semester before finals begin.

The position is not a benefits-eligible one, but there is a stipend of $1500 per semester, for which the intern is expected to work 10 hours per week.  In addition there is the possibility of academic credit if the student registers for a conference course.

Applicants should provide the following: a one-page resumé, a letter from the student describing his/her interest and qualifications, and a letter of recommendation from a UT faculty member or someone who knows the student’s professional qualifications for the work described above.  Both letters should be addressed to Danielle Sigler, Assistant Director and Curator for Academic Programs, but should be attached to the resumé anddelivered to Professor Larry Carver in the Liberal Arts Honors office, Gebauer 1.206.

Deadline for applications is April 2, 2012.

Honors Quiz Bowl Seeking Competitors

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Registration for the 4th annual Honors Quiz Bowl has opened and the most trivia-savvy honors program students are invited to participate! This is an excellent opportunity to compete against some of UT’s best and brightest students and to prove once and for all which honors program is the smartest! The Honors Quiz Bowl consists of three-person teams from each honors program competing against each other to answer professionally-written trivia questions spanning almost every academic subject and cultural topic. Plan II/Engineering Honors won last year’s tournament.

The tournament will take place on Saturday, March 31st in Mezes. All honors program students who wish to participate must register by filling out the information form accessible at the URL below (registration deadline is Friday, March 23rd at 5pm)

http://tinyurl.com/UTQuizBowl

Please email any questions to the LAH Student Council at jamie.hill@utexas.edu or nolan.oldham@utexas.edu

2011 Tournament Results: 1st – Plan II/Engineering Honors, 2nd – Dean’s Scholars
2010 Tournament Results: 1st – Plan II, 2nd – LAH, 3rd (tie) – Dean’s Scholars, Business Honors
2009 Tournament Results: 1st – Business Honors, 2nd – Dean’s Scholars, 3rd (tie) LAH, Plan II

The following organizations have been invited to participate this year:
Liberal Arts Honors, Plan II, Business Honors, Engineering Honors, Dean Scholars, Health Science Honors, Senior Fellows, Humanities Honors, Turing Scholars, Junior Fellows and several departmental honors programs.

This year’s questions will include (but are not limited to) the following subjects: History, Current Events, Sports, Law, Geography, Business, Biology, Philosophy, Engineering, Astronomy, Math, Economics, Pop Culture, English Literature, World Literature, Medicine, Chemistry, Physics, Mythology, Music, and Art. [It is not expected for any one team to be proficient in every topic].

Texas Quidditch

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How would you like to see 70 Quidditch teams play right in your back yard?

Last year Texas Quidditch placed 9th overall in New York at the World Cup. We think we can make it #1 if we get the World Cup moved to Dallas (we’re even talking to someone to have it held in the Cotton Bowl). All you have to do is like this page and pass it on!

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=619085916#!/pages/Bring-the-Quidditch-World-Cup-to-Dallas/169530873158494

Friar Society Accepting Applications

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The Friar Society is the University’s oldest honor society and is dedicated to recognizing students who have made lasting and significant contributions to the University.  Membership is open to any graduate student or any undergraduate student who has 75 hours.

The Friar Society encourages any student who is interested in applying to download an application from the Friar Society website (www.friarsociety.org).  In order to be fully considered, the application should be turned in by 5 PM on March 23rd to the Student Organization Center desk on the 4th Floor of the Student Services Building.  You can also contact Dave Player (daveplayer@utexas.edu) or Reid Long (Reid.Long@utexas.edu) with additional questions.

Texas Cable & Telecommunications Association Endowed Scholarship

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This scholarship is open to all UT students.

Application deadline: 5:00 p.m. March 30, 2012

Awarded by the College of Communication to any UT junior, senior or graduate student who has a high degree of interest in a career in the cable television industry.

Non-Communication applicants must email the College of Communication Scholarship Coordinator for full details and application access:  comm-osascholarship@austin.utexas.edu

Language and Cultural Studies Career Boot Camp

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If you missed the LAH Boot Camp and study languages or area studies, I highly recommend attending this.  Career Services has very helpful information.

We would like to invite your majors to a Career Boot Camp for language majors and majors from the smaller cultural studies programs.  We will be holding the event on Wednesday, March 28, from 5-7, in the Gebauer fourth-floor conference room.  And there will be pizza!!

To attend, you will need to RSVP  to Joni Carpenter (joni.carpenter@austin.utexas.edu) by March 21, at the latest, so they can get a pizza-ordering head count.