Peace Corps Application Workshop

For Peace Corps, now is the time for interested seniors to be applying!  There are still seats available for the Application Workshop on Tuesday September 17 from 12:30 – 2 pm at Texas Global at 2400 Nueces St.  Students are asked to register in advance on the Events Page since food will be provided.

Peace Corps are currently recruiting for departures ranging from April to September 2020 with 130 open positions up on our website right now!  This is the perfect time for seniors to get those applications submitted!  Attached a quick overview of the program in addition to a flyer for the workshop.

As a quick reminder, Peace Corps is open to all US Citizens 18 years of age and older.  They cover all cost associated with serving from housing to medical to living allowance while providing an opportunity for students to give back on a global scale.  They also have tons of other benefits including grad school fellowships!

About PeaceCorps 

 

Writing Center Internship

The University Writing Center (UWC) if looking for new interns!  Undergraduates must first take RHE368C: Writing Center Internship where they will be trained to work as writing consultants. Students who successfully complete the internship course will interview for positions that begin in Fall 2020, pay $12.40/hour, and can be renewed every semester the student is enrolled.

 This internship has two components: coursework and consulting.

During the first part of the term, you will learn the goals and practices of writing centers, research issues in writing center studies and composition studies, analyze papers and assignments from various academic disciplines, observe writing consultations at the UWC, role-play responses to different consulting scenarios, and review key elements of grammar, mechanics, and usage.

During the last 4 weeks of the term, you will work under supervision for 6 hours per week as a consultant in the UWC. The class meets occasionally during this internship period to critically reflect upon your consulting experiences, support each other’s continued learning, and present your final projects for class.  

TO LEARN MORE:

If you wish to learn more about the internship course and working at the UWC, please attend the annual Open House:

What: UWC Open House

Where: University Writing Center, PCL 2.330

When: Thursday, October 3, 4-6PM

You’ll have a chance to talk to the professor who teaches RHE368C, meet the staff, and hear from consultants about what it’s like to take the course and work at the UWC. Pizza will be provided.

TO APPLY:

If you wish to apply for RHE368C, please submit:

  1. A cover letter that explains why you want to take the course and work at the UWC and includes a list of academic genres you have written during college (literary analysis, lab reports, etc.
  2. A resume
  3. A writing sample (5-10 pages) that you have written during your college career. If you wish to show examples of your work in more than one genre, you may include excerpts from different papers, but please don’t exceed 10 pages total.

 Interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis throughout October/early November and will continue until the course is full. Early application is encouraged. All interviews will be held in the UWC.

Modernist Networks: The Annette Campbell-White Collection

The Harry Ransom Center is presenting a new exhibit titled Modernist Networks: The Annette Campbell-White Collection! This is a rare opportunity to see letters, books, artifacts, and manuscripts by Modernist writers who defined a literary revolution – Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, and others – from the private collection of Annette Campbell-White, a pioneering venture capitalist and rare book collector. 

The collection will be on view from now until January 5, 2020 and free docent tours will be offered every day at noon. For more information, visit hrc.utexas.edu

Title: Modernist Networks: The Annette Campbell-White Collection

Dates: On view through January 5, 2020

Time: Gallery hours:

10 a.m.–5 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday
10 a.m.–7 p.m. Thursday
Noon–5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday

Venue: Harry Ransom Center

300 West 21st Street
Austin, Texas 78712

LAH Fall Student Ambassadors Needed Beginning Monday, September 9th

LAH Fall Student Ambassadors and Reacting to the Past class Escort needed Mondays and Fridays beginning September 9th

Do you  love LAH?  Want to be a LAH  Student Ambassador? Stacey needs a few LAH Student Ambassadors to meet and greet prospective students and their families at the LAH Information Sessions this fall semester beginning Monday, September 9th  Your responsibilities would be to speak with guests about your experiences in LAH, UT, dorm life etc..

First Year LAHers  taking Reacting to the Past MWF 10:00-11:00 could serve as an Ambassador and escort the visitors to class.

The sessions are every Monday and Friday, from 9:00-11:00 (first hour is with students and parents, second hour just with parents)  in the LAH  Commons Room and run  until November, 25th.  If you are able to make it for both days (Mondays and Fridays) within the scheduled session time great! If not, let Stacey know what days and hours you are available.

If interested, please email Stacey by Wednesday, September 4th samorous@austin.utexas.edu  with your availability and if you are also able to serve as an escort to Reacting to the Past in SZB 380 at 10:00.

*LAH Scholars can apply these hours towards a Community Service Enrichment Experience credential.

Texas Undergraduate Law Review

The Texas Undergraduate Law Review is Accepting Submissions and Applications for the Fall 2019 Issue

If you are interested in legal studies, please consider writing and submitting a legal analysis or law-related article to the Texas Undergraduate Law Review. TULR seeks articles on any legal topics ranging in length from approximately 10 to 25 pages. Each submission will be vetted, edited and published by a collection of editors over the course of the semester. 

Before submitting the article, please make sure it adheres to the guidelines outlined on our website here. The submission deadline for the Fall 2019 Issue is Friday, Oct. 4 at 11:59 p.m.

If you would like to become a permanent member of the organization, either as an editor or contributing writer, please consider applying to our organization as well. We are a community of similarly minded pre-law students who learn about legal writing through collaboration with each other, and it is a very friendly, educational environment.

Please find the application and its guidelines on our website here. The submission deadline for the Fall 2019 Issue is Friday, Sept. 20 at 11:59 p.m.

Mental Health First Aid training

Integral Care has now approved a Mental Health First Aid training to take place on UT campus on Saturday, 10/19 from 8am-5pm. You can sign up here (password is mhfa10/19). The specific building location is TBD, and Integral Care will reach out to those who have signed up once that is confirmed. There are only 30 spots, so sign up fast, but please only take up a spot if you’re committed to attending on this date.

A short refresher on what MHFA is: MHFA is an 8-hour evidence-based training that gives individuals the tools they need to help someone who may be experiencing a mental health or substance use crisis. Mental Health First Aid can help save a person’s life, just like CPR and First Aid can save someone who is having a heart attack. It’s a nationally recognized certification, so in addition to learning valuable skills, it’s a way to show future employers that mental health is a priority for you.

Please reach out to graceschrobilgen@gmail.com with any questions.

Archer Fellowship Program Fall Info Sessions

Dear Longhorn:

The Archer Fellowship Program provides selected students from across the University of Texas System campuses the opportunity to live, learn and intern in Washington, D.C. We are looking for students with a passion for public policy and/or public service, but you don’t have to be a government or political communication major to apply! Are you a pre-med student interested in health policy? A business student interested in trade regulation? A liberal arts or social work student interested in criminal justice reform? Are you interested in how policy will impact your future profession?

 

If the answer is yes, the Archer Fellowship Program may be for you! Come learn about this unparalleled educational and professional opportunity by attending an information session. We welcome applications from students representing all majors and disciplines on campus. In fact, each year we select Archer Fellows from across campus who then pursue their professional and academic interests in Washington, D.C.

 

Applications for the 2020-2021 academic year will be due on Friday, February 15th, 2020.

 

Fall 2019 Information Sessions

 

Monday, September 9

5-6 p.m.

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RSVP

 

Tuesday, September 24

1-2 p.m.

GDC 1.406

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Thursday, October 3

3-4 p.m.

FAC 328

RSVP

 

Thursday, October 17

5-6 p.m.

RLP 0.102

RSVP

 

Wednesday, October 30

2-3 p.m.

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RSVP

 

Monday, November 4

5-6 p.m.

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Innovations for Peace and Development (IPD) Research Opportunities

Innovations for Peace and Development (IPD) is a student-led think tank that provides a space for interdisciplinary, policy-relevant research on global conflict, foreign aid, and poverty alleviation. IPD students immerse themselves in important research and manage their own projects. Teams gain valuable skills in geocoding, data visualizations, GIS mapping software, data cleaning, statistical analysis, and research methods.  In the past, our student researchers have participated in internships with prominent agencies such as USAID and AidData in Washington, DC, Williamsburg, VA, Ethiopia, Uganda, Senegal, Haiti, Mexico, Tanzania, Nepal, and Timor-Leste. Our work has also been featured by many noteworthy institutions including the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and the United Nations. 

Interested students should fill out an application here and visit our website at www.ipdutexas.org. Our first meeting is Sep 6th from 1:00 to 2:00 in UTC 1.104 

LAH Summer 2019 Orientation Peer Advisers Needed-Informational Meeting Monday, May 13th

Will you be here all or part of the summer? Are you interested in volunteering at this summer’s LAH orientations? If the answer is yes, sign up to attend a LAH Summer Orientation Peer Adviser meeting on Monday, May 13th from 3:30-5pm in the LAH Commons Room. Food will be provided!  Sign up here: https://forms.gle/WXLbNdaKx61u5vWC8

If you can’t make the meeting but are still interested in volunteering this summer, please email Stacey-samorous@austin.utexas.edu

Volunteering entails helping advise incoming LAH freshman with their fall schedules on one day, and then helping them register the next day. You don’t have to be available for both days or even the entire summer.
We are flexible! You can just sign up for the days and times that work in your schedule.

We would like to have at least 4-5 peer advisers throughout the entire day of pre-advising.

For Orientation Registration, we need about 4 volunteers in the afternoon (approx 12:30-2:00) to help our new LAHers register and become acquainted with the Web Resources available to them. I have reserved a computer lab CLA 1.402 in our building for our new students to register for classes.

Orientation dates volunteers are needed:

June 11 (pre-advising) June 12 (Registration) 12:30-2:00 June 18 (pre-advising) June 19 (Registration) 12:30-2:00
June 25 (pre-advising) June 26 (Registration) 12:30-2:00 July 2 (pre-advising) July 3 (Registration) 12:30-2:00 July 9 (pre-advising) July 10 (Registration) 12:30-2:00 July 16 (pre-advising) July 17 (Registration) 12:30-2:00 July 23 (pre-advising) July 24 (Registration) 12:30-2:00

August 21-23 (Times TBA)