Honors Quiz Bowl on Saturday, April 6

The fourth annual Honors Quiz Bowl will take place on Saturday, April 6 in Mezes from noon until 4 p.m. LAH won last year and we need to keep the tradition going.

The Quiz Bowl Basics:

Honors Quiz Bowl involves 3-person teams from each UT honors program competing against each other to answer professionally written trivia questions spanning almost every academic subject and cultural topic. We welcome multiple teams from each program.

Registration is free, and teams should email me at this address (kayla.oliver@utexas.edu) to sign up. Their email should include:

  • Team members’ names
  • A team name of their choice (ex: “Plan 2 Destroy”)
  • Contact information (email address and phone number) for at least one team member

Texas Undergraduate Law Review

The Texas Undergraduate Law Review is now accepting articles for the second edition that will be published in June. Any undergraduate student attending the University of Texas at Austin is welcome to submit an article, and being published in a journal looks great on a law school application! We require that the submission be from 6 to 12 pages, double-spaced, size 12 font, without graphic materials. You are welcome to use any term papers or portions of your thesis that is related to legal issues. If you are looking for examples, feel free to check out the TULR Monthly that is posted in texasulr.org or Columbia’s ULR –>http://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/culr/files/2012/12/CULR-Fall-2012-Body.pdf. The due date will be April 21st at 11:59 for first drafts. Please submit your article to texasulr@gmail.com by that time. Any questions can be emailed to texasulr@gmail.com as well.

Evan Smith public guest lecture “The Evolution will be Digitized: The Future of the New News”

On Thursday, March 28th, at 7:30 p.m., Evan Smith will give a talk in the Joynes Reading Room (CRD 007) entitled “The Evolution will be Digitized: The Future of the New News.” Smith is Editor of The Texas Tribune, a non-profit digital news organization based in Austin. The Tribune’s deep coverage of Texas politics can be found on its own website as well as in the pages of the New York Times, and in newspapers, radio programs and TV shows throughout the state. Before co-founding the Tribune, Smith spent eighteen years at Texas Monthly, including eight years as Editor and a year as President and Editor in Chief. This lecture is free and open to everybody. For questions about this event, call 512-471-5692.

Senate of College Councils Study Abroad Scholarship

Studying abroad over summer 2013 or fall 2014 and need some aid? Apply to the bi-annual Study Abroad Scholarship sponsored by the Senate of College Councils! $1000 will be awarded to one student studying abroad through a UT program. You can find the application on the UT Global Assist at http://utdirect.utexas.edu/student/abroad/globalassist.WBX. The deadline is April 15th at 11:59. Please email Judy Hong atjudyhong93@gmail.com for questions.

Latin American Studies Travel Scholarships

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 2013 and for academic year 2013-2014.  For summer 2013, we are offering four to six $2,500 travel scholarships; students must attend a degree-granting institution this summer and return with at least six hours of college credit.  For academic year 2013-2014, we will award six $5,000 travel scholarships for semester-long study abroad.  The students must attend degree-granting institutions and return with at least 12 hours of college credit.

Applications and letters of recommendation are due on April 1, 2013, without exception.  Please follow the link to the scholarship portal:

http://bit.ly/WNaeWm

SUBMIT TO ECHO BY MARCH 20

Been working on a short story or poem? Been taking some photographs?

Submit them to ECHO for the chance to be published in our 2013 Issue. We are doing our best to make this ECHO the best one yet, but the most important part is the content, and for that we need you! Our theme for the issue is “Flux,” but keep in mind that is a loose guideline.

So finish that story, finish that poem, finish those pictures, and submit them to ECHO by March 20.

You can submit your work by emailing echolitmag@gmail.com.