The Liberal Arts Honors Diversity Action Committee (LAHDAC) is looking for new members! LAHDAC aims to help increase diversity and inclusion in Liberal Arts Honors by hosting info-sessions for prospective BIPOC students, voicing any concerns from the LAH student body, and organizing events and workshops. If you are interested, everyone is welcome to join, feel free to join this group me: https://groupme.com/join_group/89174321/yHcTmFGE or email us at utlahdac@gmail.com
LAHSC is hosting a book swap event! Bring a wrapped book (new or used)—we will jot down a little bit about the books on notecards and stick it to the outside of the wrapping, then SWAP with other LAHers and take new a book home! The event will be at Lucky Lab from around 11:00am-12:00pm on Sunday, October 23rd. And if you aren’t a big reader, feel free to stop by to order a coffee and chat. Can’t wait to see you there!
Every year, Texas Global awards The First Abroad Scholarship to twenty-five eligible first-year students. Each student receives $3,000 to apply towards any credit-bearing or experiential learning opportunity abroad during the standard fours year of their undergraduate studies at UT Austin, starting in Fall 2023. Find more info in the attached and at https://global.utexas.edu/abroad/funding/scholarships/first-abroad.
The deadline to apply for the First Abroad Scholarship this year is Nov. 18, 2022.
Please join the Digital Writing and Research Lab and Bureau for Experimental Ethnography on Thursday October 13th at 3:30 PM in the Eastwoods Room (Texas Union 2.102) for a talk from Dustin Edwards, “The Land Torn Asunder: Stories from Copper Country.” Dr. Edwards’s work focuses on digital rhetoric, material infrastructures, and environmental justice; and his talk explores what archival extraction means for regimes of labor, histories of violence, and the colonial Anthropocene. A short Q&A will follow the talk. 
Build a BRIGHT Future. Be an Orientation Advisor.
If you are looking for a fun and rewarding leadership opportunity, working with a socially conscious group of campus leaders, then consider applying to become an Orientation Advisor (OA). OAs have a significant impact on incoming students—they are among the first people new students and families meet in their Longhorn journey! On-campus housing and meals, hourly wages and UT swag are simply the monetary benefits of becoming and OA. Learn more about the application process here: https://newstudentservices.utexas.edu/student-leadership-opportunities
The Harry S. Truman Scholarship provides $30,000 towards a public service-related graduate degree to students who aspire to work in a public service career. The Truman foundation broadly defines public service to include employment in government, public-interest organizations, nongovernmental research, academic institutions, and nonprofit organizations. Juniors, or seniors, graduating in 2023-24, OR, seniors graduating early (3 years or less) in 2022-23 are eligible to apply.
The campus deadline for the Truman Scholarship is October 28, 2022. For more information, students can visit the ODPS website.
The UT Student Research Committee, in collaboration with the office of the Vice President for Student Affairs and the Office of Undergraduate Research, is announcing Research Mentorship and Apprenticeship Program applications for 2023-24. Research-MAP increases access to undergrad research on campus by providing research opportunities to first-time undergraduate researchers, underrepresented students and majors, and students with financial barriers to participating in research.
This program is made up of a cohort of 10-15 students, who each participate in paid research assistantships with a faculty mentor. Students in the program will receive up to $2,000 in research assistantship funding in fall 2023 and $2,000 in spring 2024, and will take part in professional development and research presentation events. Students do not need to already have a research mentor to apply for Research-MAP; accepted students without a faculty mentor will be connected with one through the assistance of an OUR advisor.
Faculty who are interested in the program are invited to fill out this non-binding interest form. More information can be found on the OUR web site.
Please pass this along to any students you’d like to encourage to apply. The application deadline is Nov. 7, 2022.
Interested in spending next summer living in Los Angeles and working in the entertainment industry? The Semester in Los Angeles (UTLA) program will be holding a few upcoming information sessions for students interested in participating during the Summer 2023 semester and beyond.
General Information Session (In-Person)
Thursday, October 13, 5:00PM central, CMB Studio 6A
Breaking Into the Entertainment Industry: UTLA Alumni Panel (Online)
Sunday, October 16, 5:00PM central, Zoom
General Information Session (Online)
Wednesday, October 19, 5:00PM central, Zoom
Summer 2023 UTLA Application Walk-Thru (Online)
Monday, October 24, 5:00PM central, Zoom
To RSVP for any of these sessions, go here.
The deadline to APPLY for UTLA Summer 2023 is November 1, 2022.
For more information about UTLA, visit here. As a reminder, UTLA is open to ALL UT majors.
The Bech-Loughlin First Amendment Center, along with the Asia Policy Program, would like to invite you to our next event. Nury Turkel, Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, will join us on Friday, October 21st to discuss his new book No Escape: The True Story of China’s Genocide of the Uyghurs. Lunch will be offered.
No Escape: The True Story of China’s Genocide of the Uyghurs is a harrowing personal account of the biggest human rights crisis of the twenty-first century.
It describes conditions in the Uyghur homeland, referred to by the Chinese government as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. In the past few years, the entire region has been turned into an intensive surveillance state, with millions placed in modern-day “re-education” camps in what is the largest mass detention of an ethnoreligious group since the Holocaust.
For more details and to register, please visit the link below. We hope you join us!
https://nuryturkelandsheenagreitens.eventbrite.com
Date: October 21st, 2022 at LBJ Bass Lecture Hall (2315 Red River St., Austin, TX, 78712) from 12:15pm-1:30pm
Contact info for further questions: sandra.garcia@law.utexas.edu or colincraw3@gmail.com
