Echo Accepting Submissions

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Echo is now accepting submissions for the 2011 edition! Please submit your poetry, prose, and photography echolitmag@gmail.com by March 21. Our theme this year is “Illumination”. While this is the chosen theme, please do not limit the content that you submit; however, think of it as a general guideline with which you can explore the boundaries. “Illuminate” can mean a spiritual enlightenment, a clarification, or simply a change from dark to light. It can involve some sort of physical transformation or a realization (the familiar light bulb sparking in your mind).The possibilities are endless and are yours for the taking. We feel you all are an enlightened group full of energy and pizzazz, and we look forward to a fine batch of submissions. Please feel free to submit any number of pieces in any or all of the categories!

Sincerely,

The Echo Team

P.S.

If you are interested in helping out the Echo Team read submissions and put together the magazine, please email the same email, echolitmag@gmail.com. We will begin emailing out all the submissions to start reading on March 23rd, and then we will meet April 1st to make final decisions.

Finding Non-UT Scholarships

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Money Matters Plus is about finding non-UT scholarships and outside funding opportunities to fund your study abroad experience. It will be led by Allison Chandler Supancic, Director of the Regional Foundation Library, at the International Office, WOH 2.102. The session will be held on Wednesday, February 2, 2011 at 12-1pm. However, capacity is limited so please RSVP by January 27th.

Confirm your spot here: http://tinyurl.com/4zxve8l

Funding for Travel and Study Abroad:

There are many sources of funding which allow you to support your activities abroad: the key is finding the right match for you. Whether you plan to learn or improve a language skill, travel to a conference, do summer research or simply visit the museums of the world, there is something that will help you achieve your goals and dreams.

Thank you,

Thomas B. Ward
Program Coordinator at the
Study Abroad Office
University of Texas at Austin
P.O. Box A
Austin, Texas 78713-8901
International Building, WOH 2.120

Headliners Foundation Scholarship for Writing

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The College of Liberal Arts is now recruiting applicants for the he Headliners Foundation Undergraduate Scholarship 2011 – 2012. This is $3,000 award for students who excel in writing and who have a serious interest in journalism.

The application is available on line and should be submitted directly to the Headliners Foundation: (http://www.headlinersfoundation.org/scholarship.html).  Dr. Carver will be happy to respond to any questions you may have about your applications.

Students who are gifted writers and who have written for The Texan or other publications are encouraged to apply. In 2005 three students from the College of Liberal Arts—Delaney Hall, Rebekah Perry, and Rachel Pearson—were awarded Headliners Scholarships. In 2006 awards went to Kim Garza, Ryan Guerrero, Daniel Carter, J.J. Hermes, and Tobias Salinger. In 2007 four of our students—Ingrid Norton, Monica Riese, Jesse Cordes Selbin, and Margaret Sharp—were awarded Headliner’ Scholarships. In 2008 we had five winners: Andrew Kreighbaum, Jonathan Tjarks, Brad Gray, Monica Riese, and Leah Finnegan. In 2009 Andrew Kreighbaum and Lauren Winchester hold Headliner’s Scholarships. This year Andrew Kreighbaum, Elana Estrin, and Molly Wahlberg hold Headliners’ Scholarships.  Many of these students are LAHers and we would like to add many more students to this list for 2011-2012.

The deadline for this year’s competition is Friday, February 11.

Foot in the Door Auditions for the Country Wife

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Auditions for Foot in the Door’s Spring production of the Country Wife will be held Tuesday, January 25 and Wednesday, January 26 from 7:00-9:00 pm in WEL 2.246

from Wikipedia:

The Country Wife is a  Restoration comedy written in 1675 by William Wycherley. A product of the tolerant early Restoration period, the play reflects an aristocratic  and anti-Puritan ideology, and was controversial for its sexual explicitness even in its own time.

The original play is a stage favourite today, and is also acclaimed by academic critics, who praise its linguistic energy, sharp social satire, and openness to different interpretations.

Pinto Carver Scholarship Application Due Jan 21

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The Topic

In the Dictionnaire Philosophique (1764), Voltaire wrote, “Le mieux est l’ennemie du bien” (“The best is the enemy of the good”), a saying often quoted, often repeated in various forms. The late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan in a 1987 speech, for example, put it this way: “If we get into the mind-set where the good becomes the enemy of the best, we will get nothing.” Write an essay in which you agree or disagree with Voltaire’s assertion. 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: Friday, January 21, 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

Ransom Reading Groups Dates, Times and Location

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If you signed up for a Ransom Reading Group listed below are the dates and times of the group meetings. All groups will be held in the LAH Commons Room.


The Finkler Question
Leader: Dr. Carver
Tuesday, 18 January 5:00-6:00pm

Freedom
Leader: Professor Sullivan
Wednesday, 19 January 5:00-6:00pm

Mountains Beyond Mountains
Leader: Professor Ekland-Olson
Monday, 24 January 4:00-5:00pm

Death in the Andes
Leader: Professor Dietz
Tuesday, 25 January 4:00-5:00pm

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Leader: Professor Casey
Tuesday, 25 January 6:00-7:00pm

Parable of the Sower
Leader: Professor Jensen
Wednesday, 26 January 5:00-6:00pm

Tracks
Leader: Professor Cox
Thursday, 27 January 4:00-5:00pm

Ten Cent Plague
Leader: Professor Restad
Thursday, 27 January 5:00-6:00pm

Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program

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Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program

Summer & Fall 2011 Applications Open

In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Gilman Scholarship Program, we are proud to announce the expansion of our summer awards to include all academic majors. We anticipate this will be our most competitive cycle ever so please utilize all available Gilman resources. For more information about the Gilman Scholarship please visit the Gilman website at www.iie.org/gilman.

Summer & Fall 2011 online applications are due March 1, 2011.

For students applying for any academic term (Academic Year, Fall, Spring or Summer) please find the eligibility requirements below:

  • Enrolled as an undergraduate student at a two or four-year U.S. Institution
  • United States citizen
  • Receiving a Federal Pell Grant at the time of application or during the term of study abroad
  • Participating in a study abroad program that is no less than 4 weeks in one country and no more than an academic year
  • Receiving academic credit
  • Study in any country not currently under a U.S. State Department Travel Warning or Cuba

For more information, please contact the appropriate person below:

Applicants (last name A-L):

Aileen O’Donnell
gilman@iie.org
713.621.6300 ext. 25

Applicants (last name M-Z):
Olga Tunga
gilmanapp@iie.org
713.621.6300 ext. 24

Available Honors Courses

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We have a couple of upper-division LAH 350 courses with availability.

LAH 350 # 30265 China’s Great Wall/Silk Rd Lit. TTH 2:00-3:30. We will waive the 60 hour pre-requisite so if you have sophomore or even freshman standing, and are interested go ahead and register. This is a new LAH class and we really want it to make!

LAH 350  #30273 Face of Justice  TH 3:00-6:00(cross-listed with GOV 357M and WGS 345) has availability. Remember if you are a Government or WGS major or minor, it could count towards you major or minor and apply towards College Honors (aka Liberal Arts Honors).

Plan II also has a course they will allow LAHers to register for:

Plan II has seats available for junior or senior-level LAH students interested in taking a seminar course with Dr. David Oshinsky, an award-winning professor in the History Department. Course details follow. If you are interested in taking the course, please contact Mary Dillman in the Plan II Honors office: mdillman@austin.utexas.edu

T C 357 • History Of American Medicine
43455 • Oshinsky, David M.
Meets M 1200pm-300pm CRD 007A

Description:
The course will focus on the theory and practice of medicine in the United States from the 17th century to the present.  Topics include our changing biological environment, the history of public health campaigns, the development of medical research, the role of the physician, and the impact of disease on American history.

Texts/Readings:
Laurie Garrett, The Coming Plague
Judith Leavitt, Typhoid Mary
David Oshinsky, Polio: An American Story
Charles Rosenberg, The Cholera Years
Paul Starr, The Transformation of American Medicine.

Assignments:
Students will be required to lead one class discussion, write one book review, and write a term paper, approximately thirty pages in length, based largely on primary sources.

About the Professor:
Professor Oshinsky specializes in 20th Century U.S. political and cultural history. He was the Pulitzer Prize winner in 2006 in the History category for his recently published book, Polio: An American Story.

Ransom Reading Group Times

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We are still waiting for two of the RRG professors to finalize their times, but here are the times we know right now.  All the sessions will take place in the LAH Commons Room.

1/18: 5-6pm, The Finkler Question (Dr. Carver)

1/19: 5-6pm, Freedom (Dr. Sullivan)

1/24: 4-5pm, Mountains Beyond Mountains (Dr. Ekland-Olson)

1/25: 6-7pm, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Dr. Casey)

1/26: 5-6pm, Parable of the Sower (Dr. Jensen)

1/27: 4-5pm, Tracks (Dr. Cox)