Health Professions Lecture Series
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Archive for February, 2012
Entrepreneurship Week, March 5-9
Entrepreneurship organizations, departments and institutions are joining forces March 5-9 to bring a series of on-campus events to The University of Texas at Austin. The goal of the week-long event is to inspire, empower and promote student entrepreneurs. Students who attend UT Entrepreneurship Week events will have the opportunity to meet Austin area entrepreneurs, UT student entrepreneurs, and UT entrepreneurship faculty.
Attendees will also be exposed to new and exciting university resources meant to enable the average UT student to start something of their own. These resources include the new 30,000 square foot Longhorn Startup Camp, Bob Metcalfe’s 1 Semester Startup Class, and uThinkTank, a student startup that helps other students start companies, organizations, and events by leveraging university connections and resources.
Organizations Involved:
uThinkTank
Technology Entrepreneurship Society
CNS Entrepreneurship Society
University Entrepreneurship Society
Student Government
Dell Social Innovation Challenge
Austin Technology Incubator
Texas Venture Labs
RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service
Austin Startup Week
RISE
The NextFest
SXSW Startup Crawl
1 Semester Startup
Longhorn Startup Camp
Whether you’re into technology, biomedical, social change, business–we encourage students from all backgrounds and colleges to attend because UT Entrepreneurship has something for everybody.
Find descriptions of the events and more at UTeweek.com.
For free registration for the event visit uteweek.eventbrite.com, or to register for individual events go to UTeweek.com and click on the individual event titles.
Follow updates on Twitter: @TheUThinkTank, @nick_spiller
Add comment February 29th, 2012
The Health Promotion Resource Center needs UT students willing to share their feedback!
What? Student feedback will be used for the Know Your Line Project, a campus wide campaign to promote responsible alcohol use.
Where? Online! Students will be invited to participate in the focus group through Blackboard.
When? March 5 to 11. Over a week, students selected to participate will have an opportunity to respond to a series of questions and provide feedback about the campaign.
Next steps? Email your first and last name, UTEID, classification (i.e., sophomore), gender, and age to: ut-socialnorms@utlists.utexas.edu.
More Info? Student feedback is key to the success of the campaign. We are interested in your ideas and what you have to say! Your input is confidential and will be used to design t-shirts, posters, and Facebook ads distributed throughout campus in spring 2012. Interested students will receive further directions on how to participate in the online focus group.
Add comment February 28th, 2012
Apply: Junior Fellows Program
The Junior Fellows Program was begun in 1959 by Harry Ransom as a means of encouraging academic excellence in the College of Arts and Sciences. At that time it was essentially an honor society to which students were elected at the end of their freshman year. Over the years, the Junior Fellows has evolved into a society of juniors and seniors from the University at large who are engaged in independent research projects under the direction of members of the faculty.
Fellows are required to attend meetings of the group, held every other week in both the fall and spring semesters. Besides project presentations, meetings feature discussions led by eminent scholars from on and off campus. Fellows have the opportunity to participate in field trips, seminars, and other academic activities. It is possible to earn academic credit for work done as a Junior Fellow, by enrolling in the appropriate conference course with the supervising professor. For example, Humanities and Plan II majors usually use their senior theses as their Junior Fellows projects. Students pursuing Special Honors in their major use the honors thesis number. Other non-honors courses are also available, for example ARH 376, E 367C, CH 475K, RTF 336. Fellows should register for the course that is approved by their advisers, fits into their degree plans, and has the right format for the chosen topic. Funds are available to assist Fellows with expenses involved in their research. There is also some money available for Fellows who can demonstrate financial need.
Applications are due Friday, March 23, 2012 for the 2012-2013 academic year.
Application Procedure
Application is open to any qualified student from any program on campus who will have completed 60 hours prior to the Fall semester. Junior Fellows normally have a GPA of at least 3.75, but outstanding students whose abilities are manifested in other waysshould not hesitate to apply. Although administered by the College of Liberal Arts, the program is open to all qualified students on campus. Many students from outside Liberal Arts are presently members.
For more informationcontact Dr. Larry Carver (carver@austin.utexas.edu) in the Plan I Honors Office by email or phone at 471-3458.
Download Application Form
Applications are due Friday, March 23, 2012 for the 2012-2013 academic year.
Membership in Junior Fellows begins the fall semester following the spring recruitment period.
Add comment February 27th, 2012
Reminder: Lozano Long study abroad travel grant competition
For summer 2012, we have at least four study abroad travel grants in the amount of $2,500. Should you receive a grant, you must attend a degree-granting institution in Latin America and bring back at least six hours of college credit.
For next academic year, 2012-2013 (which starts late next August 2012), we are offering six study abroad travel grants in the amount of $5,000. You must attend a degree-granting institution in Latin America and bring back at least 12 hours of college credit.
Applications are due by 5:00 on Thursday, March 1. IMPORTANT: Please let the person writing your recommendation know that their letter must be uploaded to the system no later than 5:00, Thursday, March 1.
All funds must be used for the purpose for which they are intended and awarded. Also, please be aware that scholarship money can affect your financial aid. If you win an award, it is your responsibility to speak with the Office of Student Financial Services and find out how your financial aid package may be impacted and instruct me on any modifications you may want regarding the timing of receiving your scholarship. Otherwise, all monies for academic year 2012-2013 will be distributed at the start of the fall semester. Information will follow on the timing of the summer award distributions.
Applications are online and can be accessed here: http://bit.ly/biBzfI You must log into the system in order to reach the correct page.
Good luck!
Cynthia Gladstone, Ph.D.
Senior Academic Advisor
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Elements of Computing Certificate
We are offering Information Sessions for our Elements of Computing Certificate on the dates below. This certificate is for Non-Computer Science majors.
Students can get additional information about the Elements of Computing Certificate on our website: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/undergraduate-program/non-cs-majors/elements-computing-program
Upcoming Elements Information Sessions:
March 6th, 2012, 11 to noon, JGB 2.202
March 7th, 2012, 3:30 to 4:30pm, MEZ B0.306
Please RSVP to under-info@cs.utexas.edu for one of these sessions.
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Geography Society meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 29
2004 UT Geography alumna, Joy Casnovsky, who is now Director of the Sustainable Food Center will be presenting. She will discuss her experiences pre and post-graduation and how she made her path to where she is now! Anyone is welcome to attend. We will have free pizza and an update on T-shirts too.
UT Geography Society Meeting
Wednesday, Feb. 29
@ 4:00 in GRG 312
Add comment February 24th, 2012
Programs from Office of Student Financial Services
· Bevonomics. Bevonomics teaches students how to better manage their money, credit, and debt. Perhaps you had an opportunity to read the article in Friday’s Daily Texan, “Workshop Educates Students on Facts about Leasing.” This is one of several Bevonomics workshops we are offering the campus community this spring. A full schedule of these workshops can be found on our Bevonomics website.
· Continuing and Transfer Scholarship Application. Now is also the time for students to go to the Spotlights section of OSFS’s website to apply through for 2012-13 Continuing and Transfer Scholarships. The deadline for this application is April 1, although students who wish to apply for Unrestricted Endowed Presidential Scholarships must complete this by February 24 and students seeking Texas Exes scholarships must finish it by March 1.
· FAFSA Completion Assistance. This year’s March 15 FAFSA priority deadline fast approaching, so we are offering students opportunities to learn how to complete the FAFSA – without which we cannot consider them for need-based grants, loans, and work-study in 2012-13. These include an on-line tutorial, “7 Easy Steps to the FAFSA,” and several in-person FAFSA completion sessions during which our counselors will be available on a walk-in basis to help students fill out the FAFSA.
· TexasScholarships.org. OSFS also has an on-line service called TexasScholarships.org on which we post information about private scholarship opportunities. TexasScholarships.org also has links to reputable scholarship search engines. It is available 24/7 to all students admitted to or enrolled in the University.
· UT4Less. Budget and regulatory limitations make it impossible for every student to receive a grant or a scholarship, but our newest publication, UT4Less, continues to be available on-line to help all undergraduates learn how to make the world-class education UT offers as affordable as possible, and to limit their borrowing to only what they absolutely need.
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