The James “Rhio” O’Connor Memorial Scholarship Fund is offering its scholarship again this year. It is an essay contest open to all college students. The essay subject concerns cancer and the scholarships are $5,000 for first place, $2,000 for second place, and $1,000 for third place. Students can receive more information and request an application packet at this website: http://www.cancermonthly.com/scholarship.asp
Hey LAHers – a former LAHer coordinates this internship opportunity. With this position, you will help HCB Health develop a revolutionary website for a non-profit that supports people suffering from head and neck cancer. This is a great opportunity to get your hands dirty with web content and do some good as well.
Here are further details:
Description
The HCB Health Interactive team is looking for a smart, adaptive, insightful liberal arts major to assist with content research and strategy. We offer an entrée into the advertising industry — for someone willing to step up to the challenge.
The ideal candidate can think critically about:
Agency Profile
HCB Health delivers smart, effective advertising and marketing to the health industry. Our Interactive team creates engaging online experiences — i.e. websites — to build relationships and win customers.
Description
As the Content Research Intern, you’ll assist HCB Health’s Digital marketing team with a range of tasks. In the process, you’ll get a crash course in copywriting, interactive marketing, website creation and more.
Our intern should be able to handle various tasks, including:
Qualifications
We’re looking for a liberal arts major who writes effectively and is a self-starter. By “self-starter,” we mean someone who’ll pull out all the stops to get the right answers. The ability to self-edit is desired, and the ability to take direction is a must. A good sense of humor and cheerful attitude go a long way.
Compensation
The internship is paid and available for academic credit.
Requirements
Must be available at least two days a week. Ideal candidates will be able to work consistent Tuesday/Thursday or Monday/Wednesday/Friday schedules.
Dates of Internship
January 23, 2012 – May 18, 2012
Think you have all of this (and more)? Prove it to us in an email at interactive.jobs@hcbhealth.com.
Attention all those who signed up for a Ransom Reading Group. Times and locations are now posted on the RRG Google Doc sign up sheets.
Please mark your calendar to remember to attend your reading group.
If you have not yet signed up, there are a few open spaces left.
Center for Safe Energy (CSE) is seeking an intern to assist the Austin Program Manager in coordinating two environmental delegations from the former Soviet Union visiting Austin next spring. The delegations are part of the Library of Congress’s Open World Program (http://www.openworld.gov) and will consist of environmental leaders from Kazakhstan (in Austin March 2-10, 2012) and from Ukraine (June 2-10, 2012).
CSE is a Berkeley, CA-based organization that supports the growth of independent non-governmental organizations concerned with environmental issues in the former Soviet Union and links them in joint efforts with their counterparts in America and other countries. To learn more about the Center, please visit www.centerforsafeenergy.org.
CSE is seeking an intern who has an interest in the environment and Eurasia, and is preferably a Russian-language speaker (or Kazakh or Ukrainian). Scheduling is flexible with a minimum of 10-15 hours per week preferred, starting in mid- to late-January. This is an unpaid position with a stipend possible.
Responsibilities:
• Work with the project manager to set up meetings with local organizations and government representatives
• Help find host families for delegates in Austin
• Research restaurants, meeting rooms & cultural events; make reservations when required
• Help put together documents for the delegates and for reporting purposes
• Help market the project by reaching out to local media through press releases and phone calls
• Other projects as assigned by staff
Qualifications:
• Proficient in MSWord and Excel on PC platform
• Experience coordinating events and meetings preferred
• Strong knowledge of Austin area restaurants, events, organizations and/or government offices
• Self-starter and self-motivated
• Strong organizational & multi-tasking skills and an ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to use own laptop for this project (working from home can be scheduled, as well)
• Russian speaker preferred
REU Summer 2012 Program
Immigration, Geography, and Race/Ethnicity in the United States
Population Research Center and Department of Sociology, UT-Austin
The Population Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with the Department of Sociology, is hosting the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program in Immigration, Geography, and Race/Ethnicity in the U.S. for the summer of 2012. This eight-week summer program, which is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation (but also with significant contributions from the UT Population Research Center, Department of Sociology, Graduate School and College of Liberal Arts), offers eight very selective upper-division undergraduate students from both UT-Austin and from around the country the opportunity to study social demography through course work and a mentored research experience with senior PRC graduate students. The program pays for tuition, room and board, and computer expenses. REU students also receive a $4,000 stipend for participation in the program, which allows the selected students to fully concentrate on their REU experience over the 2-month program. Students register for a 3-hour summer course in during the first half of the summer, then dedicate the second half of the summer to their own projects in collaboration with their graduate student mentor and under the overall guidance of the faculty co-directors, Nestor Rodriguez and Rebecca Torres. Student papers are then presented at the fall meeting of the Southern Demographic Association. Former students from the REU program are now on the faculties of Johns Hopkins University, Rice University, Pennsylvania State University, University of Texas at Austin, University of Kansas, University of Denver, and more, and currently in social science graduate programs at the Universities of Wisconsin, Chicago, North Carolina, Texas, Pennsylvania, Indiana, California at Los Angeles, and California at Santa Cruz, as well as Stanford University, Texas A&M University, Pennsylvania State University, and more. This program is specifically geared toward students with junior standing who are seriously thinking about attending graduate school in the social sciences and, particularly, in sociology, demography, or geography.
The 2012 summer REU Program application deadline is February 17, 2012.
See http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/prc/training-and-fellowships/undergraduate.php for details about the REU program and the program application, as well as information about other research and training programs of the UT Population Research Center
LAH alumni Kim Miller works for Ogilvy and passed along this internship announcement. Please feel free to contact her with any questions about Ogilvy or New York.
It’s summer intern recruitment season! Please direct all interested current college juniors to bitly.com/ogilvycraftsmen for the OPR Summer Internship application (Job ID: 762BR) as well as the Ogilvy Internship and Associates Program applications. All candidates must complete the initial application online by January 13, 2012 in order to be considered.
Kimberly Miller
Assistant Account Executive
Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide
636 11th Avenue, New York, NY 10036
office: 212-880-5378
cell: 940-594-2606
kimberly.miller@ogilvy.com
Such tricks hath strong imagination,
That if it would but apprehend some joy,
It comprehends some bringer of that joy.
Or in the night, imagining some fear,
How easy is a bush supposed a bear!
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V, Scene 1
“Disorders of intellect,” answered Imlac, “happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command.”
Samuel Johnson, Rasselas, Chapter 44, “The Dangerous Prevalence of the Imagination”
“As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact; it is in the higher gift of imagination that they are so sadly to seek.”
Kenneth Grahame, The Finding of the Princess
“You cannot tell from appearances how things will go. Sometimes imagination makes things out far worse than they are; yet without imagination not much can be done. Those people who are imaginative see many more dangers than perhaps exist; certainly many more than will happen; but then they must also pray to be given that extra courage to carry this far-reaching imagination.”
Winston Churchill, talk at the Harrow School, October 9, 1941
The Topic: Write an essay in which you explore what role, if any, imagination should play in a college education. Needless to say, the more well developed your thoughts, the more specific your language, the better.
Eligibility: Current Liberal Arts Honors Freshmen and Sophomores
Specifications: 750-1000 words, titled, double-spaced, and typed, with your name in the upper-right hand corner. No cover page.
Awards:
1st Prize: $1500
2nd Prize: $500
3rd Prize: $250
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, January 17, 5:00 p.m. in the Liberal Arts Honors Office. The judges reserve the right to withhold awards in the absence of prize worthy essays.
The All-Honors Formal is this Saturday at the Austin Children’s Museum.
Tickets are now available for $10 at the LAH office!
Please bring cash and buy them now or pay $12 at the door!
Event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=199601063453251