Information Session Rome Institute of Liberal Arts Summer courses June 18-July 13, 2012 Rome, Italy The Thomas Jefferson Center is pleased to announce two summer courses offered in Rome by our affiliated program, the Rome Institute of Liberal Arts. Spend mornings studying great books, and explore the museums and other cultural riches of Rome and [...]

The College of Liberal Arts Journal is currently recruiting Peer Reviewers, Layout Editors, and Copy Editors. By being part of thisundergraduate liberal arts research journal, you can help your peersget published and gain valuable research experience. APPLY NOW at www.launchut.org or contact applications@launchut.org. Join now!

Get Published! COLAJ (The College of Liberal Arts Journal) is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes the best liberal arts research on campus. Email your questions and finished paper to applications@launchut.org by February 24th. For further details, please visit launchut.org.

This is just another reminder that the Echo Literary Magazine is accepting submissions of poetry, prose, and photography. We publish Echo this semester, so time is running out to your writing. If you submit you will have a good chance of being published in this year’s magazine! For more information check out http://www.utexas.edu/cola/progs/lahonors/student-organizations/echo.php or just submit [...]

The European Studies undergraduate FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) is a Fellowship awarded to undergraduate students who are pursuing 1) European Studies coursework and 2) an approved modern foreign language at UT at the intermediate or advanced level. Approved languages are: Czech, Danish, Dutch, Modern Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Serbian/Croatian or Swedish. (English, [...]

Applications are now being accepted for merit-based, research and study abroad scholarships for spring 2012. See if you are eligible on the Liberal Arts scholarship website: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/student-affairs/Programs/Scholarships.php Deadline for most scholarships is February 15, 2012

Thank you to everyone who submitted an essay for the Pinto Carver Essay contest.  We received many well written essays and after careful consideration selected the following winners: First Prize: Ayesha Akbar  “A Reminder” Second Prize: Andrew McMahon “Writing (is an Attempt to always be a Child)” Third Prize: Kalyan Venkatraj “(Re) Inventing the Wheel”

The Liberal Arts Honors Service Organization (LAHSO) is having a meeting on Monday night (the 23rd) to welcome folks who may have missed the fall introduction and to discuss the upcoming semester and its projects.  We’ll be in Mezes 1.202 at 8:00 p.m., and pizza and drinks will be served.

I’m pleased to announce that Headliners Foundation of Texas applications for the 2012-2013 school year have been posted. http://headlinersfoundation.org/scholarships Students with an interest in journalism, communications, or media are encouraged to apply. Deadline is February 24th. For those familiar with our scholarship program, you will notice that we have doubled our scholarship awards from $3,000 to $6,000 [...]

With two hours to go before the close of the fourth class day, you may have just felt the earth move under your feet and the sky tumble down (it IS the year 2012 after all!): A few seats for non-art majors have been opened up in ALL sections of the following restricted studio art courses: [...]

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