United Nations Young Professionals

Join United Nations Young Professionals, a student-led organization committed to advancing and supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. See our flyer for our recruitment timeline and access our Linktree to join our recruitment GroupMe (which will have recruitment info and our Zoom link), view our socials, and visit our website!

Attending an Info Session is not required, but is highly recommended to help you write your application, which will be due September 18th at 11:59 pm. We hope to see you at an info session to learn about our initiatives, collaborations, committees, and more!

Exercise Study

The EMBARK Lab in the UT Austin Psychology Department is recruiting young women ages 16–25 who are able to exercise for a research study examining the effects of exercise among individuals who restrict their eating. Participation involves three in-person visits, with approximately 5–7.5 hours of total participation, and participants can earn up to $150 for completing the study.

If you are interested, scan the QR code or email embarklab@austin.utexas.edu to learn more and complete a brief eligibility survey!

West Campus Collective

Over 1.24 million pounds of food are wasted every day in Austin, and 23% of undergraduates nationwide face food insecurity.  West Campus Collective works to change that. If you are in need of food assistance, please follow our Instagram (@westcampuscollective) and join our Remind (text “wcc-3” to 81010) to watch for distributions in West Campus.

If you are interested in joining WCC, applications are now open, and you can find out more on our Instagram. If your org has any meetings or events with leftover food, please contact us to become a Food Partner. Thanks so much, and remember to recycle! :)

Psychology Research

Interested in gaining psychology research experience? Want to learn more about a different psychology area? All majors and years are welcome!

Join upperclassmen psychology students as they share tips and tricks on how to get involved in psychology research on campus! Learn about the different areas of psychology research, ways to get involved as an undergraduate (labs, internships, programs), and more. Our presenters will discuss clinical psychology, behavioral neuroscience, cognitive psychology, evolutionary psychology, social psychology, developmental psychology, human development & family sciences, and educational psychology. Come with questions!

The presentation will be held on Monday, October 26th, from 6 PM – 7 PM in the SEAY 4.244 Library.

Please contact Iris Wei at ikw229@utexas.edu if you have any questions or cannot attend due to scheduling conflicts.

Kultura Dallas, an offshoot publication of the Dallas Asian American Historical Society, is now accepting submissions for our fall cluster! We accept reflections, reviews, essays, etc. from anyone with something real to say about Asian American life in DFW and beyond.

Our current cluster considers representation. We want to hear your perspective on Asian American representation in media, whether it has given you words for your own experience or reinforced harmful stereotypes. To submit, email your submission to jered@dallasasianhistory.org along with a short, 50-word bio.

Fall 2026 First-Day Luncheon

Welcome back, LAHers! Five days until the first class day and that means five days until the annual first day luncheon! Please join the LAH director, staff, and faculty for lunch in the WCP Ballroom from noon-2 p.m. on Monday, August 24.

Represent LAH at the COLA Resource Fair – RSVP by 8/24

The College of Liberal Arts will be hosting its annual fall resource fair on Tuesday, August 25 in the Union from noon-3 p.m. We need help from sophomores, juniors, or seniors to represent the Humanities major and college honors/upper-division LAH. This is an opportunity to bring visibility to honors programs students can enter after they matriculate to the university. If you are interested in helping out, please complete this form by noon on the first class day.

Open Honors Classes

Continuing students are now able to register for the honors sections previously reserved for freshmen! If you are looking for a social science, we have honors sections of PSY 301 and LIN 306. If you need a science, or are an Anthopology major who has not yet taken 301, we’ve got an honors section of ANT 301. Why take a large lecture when you could have a small seminar with other honors students?

We have open seats in upper-division LAH courses, particularly in two courses that were added at the end of the last registration period: LAH 350 Archives Memory Human Rights and LAH 350 World History of Soccer. The first class will count as an experiential learning credit for LAH Scholars and will give everyone an opportunity to get out of the classroom and into campus archives while looking at human rights work. The second class will discuss something many of us enjoyed watching this summer. This class examines the history of the beautiful game and its interactions with empire, immigration, nationalism, globalization, European integration, decolonization, development, conflict, and soft power.

For more information on these and other open classes, you can go here to see course descriptions: https://utexas.box.com/s/p4emtw5yp36xl76e1dj35hld4mqwy1n7

Inaugural LAH Photography Contest

Stylized photo from Salzburg

The inaugural LAH Photography Awards recognize excellence and artistry in photography and support the accomplishments of our LAH students.

Eligibility: Current Liberal Arts Honors Students

Specifications: Submit an original photograph taken during the past academic year (1 September 2025 – 1 September 2026)

Award Brief: “Small World”

While travel photography often seeks the grand and the distant, our “Small World” brief challenges you to shrink the map. We are not looking for the sprawling of horizons or famous landmarks that define a destination; instead, we invite you to document the intimate, often overlooked moments that prove the world is much smaller than it appears.

What We Are Looking For: We want to see the “spirit of adventure” captured through a narrower lens. Your submission should explore common threads that bind us across borders, cultures, and environments. Whether you are shooting in a bustling city or a remote village, your work should highlight:

  • The Miniature Detail: Textures, patterns, or objects that are unique to a place but universal in their beauty.
  • Shared Human Gestures: Candid moments of connection, camaraderies, or daily ritual that make a foreign land feel intimate.
  • Narrative Scale: Innovative uses of perspective that play with scale, making the vast feel intimate or the ordinary feel monumental.

Creative Freedom: Participants are encouraged to interpret this them from any angle —be it street, portraiture, or documentary. Images can be shot on any device (including a phone) and in any style. We are searching for work that triggers memory and expands our collective horizons, whether during a study abroad experience, in Austin, or your hometown.

Awards: We anticipate making three awards of $1000 each. Additionally, we will print and frame each of the award-winning photographs and display them in the LAH Suite.

Submissions: Your context submission are due by 12 pm CDT on September 1, 2026. Submit your digital file (jpeg, tiff or raw) via the UT Box link below. Please be sure to include your name and EID in the title of the file and at the top of your work.

Submission Link: HERE