Community Service Opportunity – Mexic-Arte Museum

Mexic-Arte Museum is looking for volunteers from student organizations and the Austin community for our 36th annual Viva La Vida Festival and Parade on October 26, 2019!

The signup link can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/yx9mcg7n

The festival is a huge undertaking for Mexic-Arte and will allow volunteers a chance to network and get a hands-on experience with large-event related tasks and activities. All hours are eligible for volunteer service hours. Additionally, volunteers who donate four or more hours of their time are eligible for a Mexic-Arte Membership, which is good for a whole year and comes with all benefits of an Individual Membership. More information about our memberships can be found on our website, Mexic-ArteMuseum.org. Any help is greatly appreciated, even if it is for a short period of time!

The Festival will be held from 12pm-6pm, while the parade will run from 12pm-1pm with set-up happening from 9am-12pm. We will need volunteers from 6am-10pm, depending on volunteer position and shift time preferences.

We are looking for the following:

·  EDUCATION VOLUNTEERS will help teach both children and adults an array of art activities during the festival; these activities will run from 11am-8pm.

·  PARADE PROCESSION VOLUNTEERS will help with setting up and carrying forth the parade. The procession will march down historic 6th Street and end at 4th Street and Congress Avenue, marking the transition from the afternoon to the exciting evening portion of the street festival. The set-up time for the parade will be from 9am-12pm, with the parade running from 12pm-1pm. Parade volunteers will meet at the parade staging area at 9:00am.

·  INFORMATION VOLUNTEERS will help with the information booth during the festival hours from 12pm-8pm.

·  GENERAL FESTIVAL VOLUNTEERS will help with the general festival duties including setting up and loading down equipment and props, hanging up decorations, and any other help needed throughout the day. This is the area that requires the most early morning and late night assistance. Volunteers will be needed all throughout the day, from 6am-12am midnight.

 

Capital of Texas Undergraduate Research Conference: Registration Extended

The Capital of Texas Undergraduate Research Conference (CTURC) is a student-organized and run event hosted at The University of Texas at Austin on Saturday, November 16th. CTURC is open to any undergraduate student, from all majors and universities in Texas, who wants to present a poster presentation, google slides presentation or creative works presentation (Analysis, Artifact, and Reflection). Visit our website at www.cturc.org and register before October 11th.

 

University Writing Center Open House

The University Writing Center is hosting our annual open house on October 3, 4-6pm, in PCL 2.330 (the UWC). We hold this event so students who are interested in working at the Writing Center can:

  • learn about RHE368C: Writing Center Internship (the consultant training course)
  • meet current consultants and find out what it’s like to work here
  • enjoy lots of pizza!

Feel free to drop in if you’d like to say “Hi” and learn what’s happening at the UWC.

Women’s and Gender Studies five-year BA/MA program

WOMEN’S AND GENDER STUDIES is offering a new combined five-year Bachelor’s and Master’s program.  (Integrated BA/MA WGS Degree Program)
This means that in five years at UT Austin, Students could earn a Bachelor’s degree and Master’s degree in WOMEN’S AND GENDER STUDIES.
 How does this work?
Students who major in WOMEN’S AND GENDER STUDIES within the College of Liberal Arts and excel in academics, can begin taking graduate courses during their Junior year.
The key is to get in touch with the WOMEN’S AND GENDER STUDIES academic advising office early during a student’s academic career and get started!
Students will need to make progress on undergraduate degree requirements (both the WGS major and your COLA/UT Core requirements) before getting permission to take graduate courses.  Ideally, students should to begin this process during the spring semester of your sophomore year.  It’s never too early to start thinking about Graduate Study possibilities!

Freshmen and Sophomores who might be interested should attend an information session on the NEW COMBINED FIVE-YEAR BACHELORS AND MASTERS PROGRAM in WOMEN’S & GENDER STUDIES.

All information sessions will take place in BUR 556.

·      Friday, October 4th at 9am-10am

·      Monday, October 7th at 10am-11am

·      Thursday, October 10th at 10-11am

·      Thursday, October 10th at 5-6pm

·      Friday, October 11th at 4-5pm

Please RSVP to ajsalcedo@austin.utexas.edu and specify which info session you can attend.

If you cannot attend an information session, you may schedule an appointment using https://calendly.com/ajsalcedo to find a day and time that work for you.  (Please sign up to meet before October 15th.)

AURA-Texas Applications

The Office of Undergraduate Research invites all undergraduate researchers across campus to apply for opportunities to gain presentation skills and experiences, and share their work and research experiences with others students. Undergraduates of all majors are encouraged to apply. You can find the application here.

The Academy of Undergraduate Researchers Across Texas is a collaboration between UT’s Office of Undergraduate Research and the LAUNCH office at Texas A&M University. AURA-Texas gives exceptional student researchers the chance to network with counterparts at another institution, attend professional development workshops, and showcase the ways in which their research serves the state of Texas. AURA-Texas students help represent the strength of Texas undergraduate research and its impact on communities of all sizes across the world.

Students are chosen for the AURA-Texas program based on the impact of their research as well as their ability to communicate their work to a general audience. In communicating their projects to new audiences (at internal research events at both A&M and UT, and at external outreach events), students are pushed to consider their work from new points of view as they advocate for the role of students in the research mission of the university.

Each year the Office of Undergraduate Research seeks passionate undergraduates to serve as Student Research Ambassadors — the public face of student research at events for internal and external audiences, where they share their stories of becoming researchers whose experiences combine the teaching and research missions of the university. Students in this program develop their ability to share their research narrative with a general audience.

Ambassadors will be expected to attend a workshop on research narratives in the fall, and to represent student research at the following events:

  • Family Weekend
  • Explore UT
  • One workshop or event related to the Texas Student Research Showdown
  • At least one Research Week activity
  • At least six OUR info sessions or workshops for current students

Other outreach and profiling opportunities include:

  • Tabling
  • FIG visits
  • Social media takeovers
  • A profile of you and your research

In the application, we encourage everyone to choose as many opportunities as they would like and/or have the time to participate in with OUR. While some require more time commitment than others, all are wonderful opportunities to share your research with other undergraduates and gain valuable communication skills and connections with other researchers.

Theriault – Pope Francis’s Maymester

This year Plan II Honors is sponsoring a Maymester program that will be taught by Government faculty member Sean Theriault.  This will be the third time the Maymester titled Pope Francis’s Catholic Church: The Making of the Modern Papacy – Rome, Italy has been offered for which students can earn four credit hours for LAH 350 and LA 119, plus they can earn two core Flags (Independent Inquiry and Writing).  The program aims to take a deep dive into the Papacy and the Catholic Church as a political, historical and of course religious organization (detailed description below).  The LAH 350 course is cross-listed with a Plan II Jr. Seminar (TC 358) and a GOV Seminar (GOV 379S) so students can use the program for credit for multiple academic pursuits (if applicable). The program runs June 1-29, 2020, additional details on budget, funding, course requirements, etc…are on the websites below.

We have four information sessions coming up and will be at tomorrow’s Study Abroad Fair (10am-3pm Gregory Gym Courtyard).
– Mon. Sept. 16 1-2pm, RLP 1.302E
– Wed. Sept. 25 4-5pm, RLP 1.302E
– Mon. Oct. 14 1-2pm, RLP 1.302E
– Th. Oct. 31 12-1pm, RLP 1.302 E

Here are two useful links:

The deadline to apply for 2020 Maymesters is slightly later this year, November 15; application information can be found here:  https://global.utexas.edu/abroad/apply/how/faculty-led

Program Description: This program offers the unique opportunity to explore first-hand the history and politics of papal succession and church policy in Rome, Italy. Specifically, we will concentrate on Pope Francis, the Holy See, the Vatican, and the world that it serves. The course will introduce, describe, and analyze how the Church makes its decisions and why. In addition to a regular classroom schedule, we will visit the great churches of Rome, meet with the Princes of the Church, and observe the church’s far-reaching influence. By the end of the course, students will have developed an understanding of the Church as a historical, religious, and political organization. Local program staff in Rome will organize orientation and housing and support students throughout the program’s duration.

Perspectives Essay Competition

Every month, the Diversity Committee of the Liberal Arts Council and the Liberator Magazine host the Perspectives Essay Competition focused on the diverse perspectives of UT students.UT students can submit a piece of writing that fits the theme of the month, and the winning piece will get a $20.00 visa gift card and will also be published on the Liberator website.

For this month, our topic is “My Environment: An Exploration of Your Relation to the Environment, Both Physical and Cultural.” The competition ends on September 24th at 11:59pm. Here is the link to the Facebook event: https://bit.ly/2lQbASS.

Additionally, here is the link to the information on the Liberator website: https://theliberatormagazine.com/perspectives-essay-competition/.

Liz Carpenter Lectureship with Samantha Power

The 2019 Liz Carpenter Lectureship featuring former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power is on Tuesday, October 1st at 7 pm in the Lady Bird Johnson Auditorium (doors open 6:30 pm).

This event is free & open to the public, but tickets are REQUIRED.  Please visit our Eventbrite page to register.

Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power is a leading voice internationally for principled American engagement in the world. One of TIME’s “100 Most Influential People,” she is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, war correspondent, and the Anna Lindh Professor of Practice at Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Law School. Her upcoming book, The Education of an Idealist, will chronicle her years in public service and reflect on the role of human rights and humanitarian ideals in contemporary geopolitics. The first 100 ticketed guests to arrive will receive a free copy of her book.

Full event details and tickets at https://2019lizcarpenterlecture.eventbrite.com

 

 

Undergraduate Research Fellowship – Applications now Open

The Undergraduate Research Fellowship (URF) provides up to $1,000 in support for specific scholarly research projects conducted by full-time UT undergraduate students enrolled in any department. Sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research with support from the academic colleges, these fellowships are intended to cover costs associated with academic research projects proposed and written by student applicants and undertaken with the supervision of a university tenured or tenure-track faculty member, lecturer, senior lecturer or full-time research scientist/engineer. Some restrictions apply.

Find out more and submit your application by Sept. 30, 11:59 p.m.

OUR Fall Info Sessions Sept. 6 – Dec. 3

Mondays from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. in FAC 332
Exceptions Sept. 9, Nov. 18 in FAC 330

Tuesdays from 1 to 2 p.m. in FAC 330
Exceptions Sept. 17, Oct. 22 in FAC 332

Would you like to have your research profiled on our social media accounts?

Students who participate in undergraduate research represent the diversity of research happening across campus at UT Austin. We want to help the university showcase that vast diversity by sharing your stories. If you’d like to be profiled, submit your application here. Undergrad researchers of all majors are encouraged to submit an application.

You can follow our social media for updates on deadlines, info sessions, meetups, and workshops, as well as behind the scenes looks at undergrads doing research from our OUR undergrad ambassadors!

IG: OUR_UTAustin, Twitter: OUR_UTAusint, FB: OURUTAustin