Graduation is right around the corner and Liberal Arts Career Services is holding Job Search Boot Camp to help students prepare for life after college. The boot camp, scheduled for May 14 at 12 p.m., is a 2 ½ hour intensive job search training workshop to help liberal arts majors identify and understand the unique […]
Spring/Summer 2014 Student Awards
July Elizabeth Smith, a psychology graduate student at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded a Summer Student Fellowship from the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation (PDF) to study medical interventions for Parkinson’s disease. Her project, titled “Methylene Blue as a Treatment for Motor & Cognitive Deficits in a Rodent Model of Parkinson’s,” was selected […]
UT Undergrads Give $100,000 to Charity through Philanthropy Course
Imagine walking into class on the first day knowing you will be responsible for giving away $100,000 at the end of the semester. Forty students enrolled in the undergraduate studies course Philanthropy: The Power of Giving don’t have to imagine the feeling – they’ve done it. The class, taught by sociology and government professor Pamela […]
Millennial Nation
A Generational Look at Education, Money and Work Empathetic. Impatient. Innovative. Unfocused. Rational. Naive. Excited. These are the words millennials in the College of Liberal Arts use when they’re asked to describe themselves. However, it’s a question they’re not often asked. Plenty of people, from journalists to researchers to employers, are looking to define who […]
AADS Launches UT’s First Department-Specific App
The African & African Diaspora Studies Department has created a smartphone app that is now available to students across the UT Austin campus. The app was created to make it easier for undergraduate students to take control of their academic futures. It’s also an essential tool for the department to get information out about AFR […]
Q&A: Undergraduate Research Week
April 14-18 is Undergraduate Research Week at UT, hosted by the Senate of College Councils and the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Studies. Colleges and organizations across campus, including the College of Liberal Arts, coordinate events throughout the week to showcase the work of undergraduate researchers. On April 15, a group of 11 outstanding […]
Liberal Arts Student Selected for Elite Fellowship
A UT economics student will be spending part of his summer studying abroad in Paris, thanks to a fellowship devoted to international education. Ben Adams, a junior from Austin, Texas, is one of only 40 undergraduate students in the nation selected to receive a 2014 Humanity in Action Fellowship. The fellowship brings together international groups […]
Liberal Arts Events
A look at some of the most notable happenings across the college beauty Agatha Oliverira and Natasha Mevs-Korff participate in beauty, a public endurance piece performed Nov. 13 on the West Mall. The piece explored women’s relationships to each other and to their hair. Originally performed in Lagos, Nigeria, as part of artist Wura-Natasha Ogunji’s […]
Plan II Graduate Awarded 2014 British Marshall Scholarship
John Russell Beaumont, a Plan II and architecture graduate, has been awarded a Marshall Scholarship, one of the most coveted study abroad scholarships available. Beaumont’s scholarship, one of 34 awarded this year, will fund his graduate education and help him pursue his chosen path as an architect or planner specializing in disaster relief. He will […]
Spring 2014 Career and Internship Fair
Graduation and summer are upon us, and many students are starting to feel the pressure to find the perfect job or internship. A career fair is the perfect place to explore a variety of employment options and get noticed by recruiters. The 2014 Spring Career and Internship Fair will be held on April 9 from […]
What to Know: Deadline Day 2014
The spring 2014 semester’s deadline day is March 31, and the College of Liberal Arts advising team wants to make sure the process goes as smoothly and efficiently as possible for everyone involved. Deadline day is the last day in the semester where students can q-drop a course, pass/fail a course, withdraw from the semester, […]
Liberal Arts Students’ Perspectives on SXSW
South By Southwest is over for another year and two liberal arts students had festival experiences that were not only entertaining, but also helped them establish themselves in their fields. Lily Parish, a rhetoric and writing senior, got the opportunity to experience SXSW Interactive through the rhetoric and writing department’s professional development scholarship, which is […]
Q&A: Andrew Wilson, Liberal Arts Council President
Andrew Wilson, a Plan II Honors and history senior from Canton, Texas, has spent his final year at UT serving as president of Liberal Arts Council. He took the time to answer some questions about the LAC, why it’s important for liberal arts students to get involved and how the organization has changed during his […]
COLA Students Get a Shot at Local Startups and New Ventures
The third annual UT Entrepreneurship Week begins Feb. 28 and continues through March 6. UTEWeek brings together every entrepreneurship organization on campus, regardless of major. The event strives to be relevant to anyone interested in being an entrepreneur, regardless of his or her areas of interest. This is especially relevant to students studying liberal arts, […]
Fellowship Program Opens Washington’s Doors to UT Students
Now in its 13th year, the Archer Fellowship Program is established as a leading Washington, D.C. internship program for students in the UT System. The Archer Center is now seeking applicants for the 2014-2015 academic year. The application deadline is Feb. 19. UT students selected for the Archer Fellowship Program earn 15 hours of in-residence […]
PLAN II ABROAD: Varun Bhatnagar
Varun Bhatnagar, a Plan II honors, business honors and finance sophomore, made his time away from classes count this summer by taking an internship abroad in Shanghai. Read about his job at one of China’s top marketing firms, his take on Chinese culture and his biggest challenges in his own words in this Q&A. Where […]
Government Major Rerouted by UTurn Program
Academic probation is a scary phrase, but the College of Liberal Arts has a program to show students that with the right focus and attitude there can be momentous payoffs. Sherwin Calderon is a government sophomore from Houston who turned his academic career around with the help of the College of Liberal Arts’ UTurn program. […]
Psychology Student Finds Inspiration in Her Past While Looking to the Future
One UT Austin student found her way to psychology through familial influence, overlapping interests and an acute sense of empathy. For Patty Sanchez, a senior from Brownsville, Texas, the road to psychology began at a young age. In sixth grade, she was selected to be a peer mediator for her fellow classmates, someone who administrators […]
Economics Mentoring Program Helps Student Give Back, Hone Skills
Steven Macapagal, a math and economics senior from Houston, has given back to the Economics Peer Mentor Program as much, if not more, than he’s received from it. Economics wasn’t always the career path that Steven thought he would take. Upon entering UT, he was rejected from his first choice of major – biomedical engineering. […]
Plan II Graduate Awarded 2014 British Marshall Scholarship
John Russell Beaumont, a Plan II and architecture graduate, has been awarded a Marshall Scholarship, one of the most coveted study abroad scholarships available. Russell’s scholarship, one of 34 awarded this year, will fund his graduate education and help him pursue his chosen path as an architect or planner specializing in disaster relief. He will […]
Revolution of a New Media Culture
With the advent of new media technologies, people around the world have instant access to uncensored news and images of revolutions through Twitter, blogs, Facebook, YouTube and an array of other social networking platforms. Since the Arab Spring began in 2010, conversations about the “digital war” have centered on the power of social media. Did […]
A SURE Impact
Psychology alum credits program for interest in research, pursuing doctorate. The Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) is a summer internship program for undergraduate students interested in research in psychology. The program, which particularly encourages students from traditionally underrepresented groups to apply, provides hands-on training that will make students more competitive for top doctoral training programs. […]
What I Did During My Summer Vacation…
Globe-trotting liberal arts students share their summer experiences Classes are officially back in session and another summer has come to an end. Liberal arts students made their time away from Austin count by taking on amazing adventures that enriched their academic, personal and professional lives. From an anthropological dig in Belize to a prestigious public […]
When Will My Computer Understand Me?
For more than 50 years, linguists and computer scientists have tried to get computers to understand human language by programming semantics as software. Driven by efforts to translate Russian texts during the Cold War (and more recently by the value of information retrieval and data analysis tools), these efforts have met with mixed success. IBM’s […]