Events this weekend, lectures, HRC happenings, CRL events, openings, links. Enjoy.

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This weekend

Art Opening Wednesday, September 28th - 6 p.m. at The Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum; Free admission
Austin Green Art and the Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum are proud to present a new large scale installation by renowned sculptor, Mari Shields.

Join us for a spirited celebration of art, nature, and community.
Celebrate the completion of Mari’s new sculpture, meet fellow art patrons, fans, and advocates. Music by Austin rock diva Laura Scarborough. Have some refreshments. Sponsored in partnership with the Reese Foundation. Hosted by The Torchbearers, the Umlauf’s support group of young professionals. Independence Brewery, Austin’s finest brewery generously providing hand-crafted beer.
Location:
The Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum
605 Robert E. Lee Road
Austin, Texas 78704
Contact:
Raul Garza
Austin Green Art
www.austingreenart.org
512. 415. 8825


Exit Art's Traffic Biennial this Saturday, October 1 from 7p-10p.

Contact:
J Gabriel Lloyd
401-954-5650
www.jgabriel.org
www.5did.blogspot.com
He will be showing his Urban Agricultural Unit, a collaborative project he has been working on with his friends, PIPS for the past three years. A tractor trailer converted into a living sculpture, this mobile project serves both as a provocative module and an educational tool. It references projects by Vito Acconci, Andrea Zittel, Nils Norman, Atelier van Lieshout and N55, yet has a unique grassroots foundation in the Providence community. For more information, please visit PIPS website link: http://www.pipsworks.com/uau.html

Exit Art (http://www.exitart.org/) is located on the corner of 36th and 10th Ave in Manhattan.


Friday, September 30th, 2005, 3:00 pm
Location: ART 1.102 (located on the corner of 23rd & San Jacinto across from the Winship Drama Building)
Cinematic Re-articulations; Film-screening & Lecture by British artist & filmmaker, Isaac Julien

Isaac Julien was born in 1960 in London, where he currently lives and works. On graduating from St Martin’s School of Art in 1984, where he studied painting and fine art film, Isaac Julien founded Sankofa Film and Video Collective, and was a founding member of Normal Films in 1999. Julien was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2001 for his films The Long Road to Mazatlán (1999), made in collaboration with Javier de Frutos and Vagabondia (2000), choreographed by Javier de Frutos. Earlier works include Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask (1996), the Cannes prizewinning Young Soul Rebels (1991) and the acclaimed poetic documentary Looking for Langston (1989).
Isaac Julien was visiting lecturer at Harvard University’s Schools of Afro- American and Visual Environmental Studies and the Whitney Museum of American Arts’ Independent Study Programme. He is a research fellow at Goldsmith’s University of London and a Trustee of the Serpentine Gallery. In 2001 Julien was the recipient of the prestigious MIT Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts. In 2003 he won the Grand Jury Prize at the Kunstfilm Biennale in Cologne for his single screen version of Baltimore.


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Lectures, CRL Events, HRC Events

Friday, September 30th 2005
Architecture Lecture: Bryan Bell, Founder and Director of Design Corps, Raleigh, NC (GOL 3.120, 5:00pm)

Monday, October 3rd 2005
Design Lecture: Ola Rune and Erro Kiovisto (ART 1.120, 4:30pm - 6:30pm)

Wednesday, October 5th 2005
HRC Lecture: John Elder, “A certain slant of light” (Prothro Theater, 7:00pm)

Thursday, October 6th 2005
HRC Landscape Symposium w/ Rick Bass, Robin Doughty, and John Elder (Jessen Auditorium, 7:00pm)


Thursday, October 6th 2005
CRL Opening: Faculty Exhibition II (CRL, 2832 E. MLK BLVD, 6:00-9:00pm)

Friday, October 7th 2005
Architecture Lecture: Mary McLeod, Professor, Columbia University, New York, NY (GOL 3.120, 5:00pm)
Lecture Title: Le Corbusier, Domestic Reform, and the New Women
Description: This talk explores the relationship between Le Corbusier's architecture and the emergence of the New Woman in France after World War I, examining how changing gender identities and social conditions (such as women working and the so-called servant crisis) affected Le Corbusier's vision of domestic living in the 1920s. It addresses the influence of Charlotte Perriand on the atelier's designs, as well as the role of an emerging domestic reform movement in Germany and France (especially the writings of Paulette Bernège) on Le Corbusier's view of modern living. One theme that will be considered is the new importance that the kitchen gained in his work in the late 1920s. The Salon d'Automne apartment of 1929 will be discussed as a pivotal project.
Biography: Mary McLeod is a professor of architecture at Columbia University, where she teaches architecture history and theory, and occasionally studio. She has also taught at Harvard University, University of Kentucky, University of Miami, and the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies. She received her B.A., M.Arch., and Ph.D. from Princeton University. Her research and publications have focused on the history of the modern movement and on contemporary architecture theory, examining issues concerning the connections between architecture and ideology. She is co-editor of Architecture, Criticism, Ideology and Architecture Reproduction, and is the editor of and contributor to the book Charlotte Perriand: An Art of Living (Abrams, 2003). Her articles have appeared in Assemblage, Oppositions, Art Journal, AA Files, JSAH, Casabella, and Lotus as well as other journals and anthologies, such as The Sex of Architecture, Architecture in Fashion, Architecture of the Everyday, Architecture and Feminism, The Pragmatist Imagination, and The State of Architecture. She has received numerous fellowships and awards, including a Fulbright Fellowship, NEH award, and grants from New York Council of the Arts and the Graham Foundation.

Friday, October 14th 2005
Architecture Lecture: Perry Kulper, Los Angeles, CA (GOL 3.120, 5:00pm)

Monday, October 24th 2005
Architecture Lecture: Gary Hilderbrand, Watertown, MA (GOL 3.120, 5:00pm)
Wednesday, October 26th 2005
Architecture Lecture: Rodrigo Perez de Acre, Santiago, Chile (GOL 3.120, 5:00pm)

Thursday October 27th 2005
Architecture Lecture: Smiljan Radic, Santiago, Chile (GOL 3.120, 5:00pm)

Thursday October 27th 2005
HRC Reading: Simon Winchester, "A Crack in the Edge of the World" (Prothro Theater, 7:00pm)

Wednesday, November 2nd 2005
Architecture Lecture: Winka Dubbeldam, Archi-Tectonics, New York, NY (GOL 3.120, 5:00pm)

Friday, November 4th 2005
CRL Opening: Visual Art Studies Undergraduates (CRL, 2832 E. MLK BLVD, 6:00-9:00pm)

Thursday, November 10th 2005
Architecture Lecture: Rick Joy, Tucson, AZ (Charles W. Moore Memorial Lecture, ACES 2.302, 5:00pm)

Friday, November 11th 2005
Architecture Lecture: David Orr, Professor in Environmental Studies, Oberlin College (GOL 3.120, 5:00pm)

Wednesday November 16th 2005
HRC Lecture: Don Olson “The Moonrise Photographs of Ansel Adams” (Prothro Theater, 7:00pm)

Friday, November 18th 2005
Architecture Lecture: Walter Hood, Oakland, CA (GOL 3.120, 5:00pm)

Saturday, December 3rd 2005
CRL Event: HEYDAYS Creative Marathon (CRL, 2832 E. MLK BLVD, 10:00am-10:00pm)


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Links


Inclusive-designed products

Design students who create products for disabled people are hoping the Independent Living Exhibition will be an opportunity to turn ideas for more usable everyday devices into reality.
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4272516.stm

Identity Works reviews newer corporate logos.
http://www.identityworks.com

Note Amtrak http://www.identityworks.com/reviews/2000/amtrak.htm David Shields (UT Design professor worked on this, according to his website http://viewers-like-you.com/. This site also has the Acela logo

Identity Works also has a review of the new UPS logohttp://www.identityworks.com/reviews/2003/ups.htm.
Even if you don't agree with their views its a good resource to see all the logos in action and read the story behind them.

"Really bad" logos:
http://www.identityworks.com/reviews/2002/conoco_phillips.htm

"Downright baffling logos that misguide the public":
http://www.identityworks.com/reviews/1998/monsanto.htm
http://www.identityworks.com/reviews/2000/bp.htm
http://www.identityworks.com/reviews/2003/altria.htm

Paul Rand; UPS, ABC, Enron
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rand

Saul Bass; Alcoa, AT&T, Girl Scouts of America, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Bass

This is the guy who designed the original Apple logo:
http://www.newtrix.org/

Austin Robot; Quark's brand; logo making opp.; AIGA UT student group

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Austin Robot

An unmanned, Austin-built vehicle is cruisin in Cali.
http://www.austinrobot.com/


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Check out Quarks new brand identity
http://www.quark.com/


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Logo making opp.

To whom it may concern,
I'm writing to offer and opportunity to one of your students in the Fine Arts department. I'm with Train 4 The Game, Inc. and we are a performance training facility in here in Austin. We train athletes from professionals to the high school level. We are looking for someone to design a new company logo for us. I think it would be a great learning experience for some of your students and we will offer some compensation for the effort. I would greatly appreciate it if you would offer this opportunity to your students.
Thank You for your help,


Logan Schwartz, MEd., CSCS
Director of Intern Program
Train 4 The Game, Inc.
8601 FM 2222, Building III, Suite 103
Austin, TX 78730
Phone: (512) 794-2800
Fax: (512) 794-2900
Email: logan@train4thegame.com


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We are starting an AIGA UT student group.

Please contact me a.s.a.p. if you are interested in joining.
utidea@yahoo.com
You will need to register as an AIGA member at http://www.aiga.org.
For more info. about the Austin AIGA chapter check out http://aigaaustin.org/.

UT IDeA sposored events, events, jobs/internships, announcement, call for entry, links
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UT IDeA sponsored events:

Draw/Re-Draw
Part One: October 17th-November 4th, 2005

Draw/Re-Draw will be an experiment in two parts. Part one, "Draw," will consist of a series of seminars/ workshops, revolving around the activity of drawing, viewed from the perspective of varying disciplines. Each seminar/workshop will have a short discussion component followed by a "making" component, and will be lead by a differnt professot. Part two of the event, "Re-draw," will consist of small interdisciplinary teams who will use the results of part one ("Draw") as raw material for making a new work (for example, a team might take the figure drawings from a workshop to use as generative material to make an animated film). The results will then be exhibited in a gallery show which will document the workshops as well as the final artifacts.


Design Division alumni panel talk and informal portfolio review
Friday November 18th, 4:00 pm, Art Building, room # TBA

Graduates of the design division will speak in a panel setting about how their postgraduate experiences led them to the jobs they have now, and give advice on how students of the design division can better prepare themselves for the job market before graduation.

Following the panel talk will be an informal portfolio review. Students can bring their portfolio's and get critical input from the alumni regarding content relevance/breadth, clarity, professionalism, etc.


every Friday, 12:00pm-2:00pm in the Design computer lab, Art building, UT Austin

Photoshop ACE certification seminars, covering the topics required for ACE certification. This is an 11 part seminar series that is intended to fully prepare participants for the Photoshop ACE certifaction exam(which is free for UT students to take).


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Events


Math group, Dr. Jack Calcut discussing relativity
Saturday October 8th, 2005, PAI 3.02 (On the UT campus)



"Sustainability as Security" Conference, @ UT Austin, October 5-9,
2005.

This 3rd Annual Conference, which is almost entirely student-organized, will feature about a hundred speakers from across the United States and the world, to address sustainability issues along four tracks: environment, business, technology, and education. It is hosted by Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW,)a national non-profit organization with a network of more than three thousand professionals and
students working to reduce poverty and improve global sustainability.

The conference themes include: water quality & supply . green building .
sustainable materials . youth action . nanotechnology . education . digital
divide . global ethics . renewable energy . microfinance . food security .
social entrepreneurship . For more information, including the conference program, list of speakers and online registration, please visit the conference website:
www.esustainableworld.org/conference.

You can also contact Sameer Kamal at esw@engr.utexas.edu.
President, Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW)
http://www.engr.utexas.edu/esw


“I Want To Go To Graduate School, But I Don’t Know Where To Begin: An Oveview of Graduate School Resources”
Panel discussion with Lynn Chang, Career Exploration Center; Isabel Montemayor, Academic Enrichment Services; Stephanie Crouch, Natural Sciences; and Teresa York, Academic Enrichment Services
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 5:00-6:00 p.m. SSB G1.310 (Glen Maloney Room)

Attending this session will help you learn more about the numerous graduate school resources available on the UT campus, including paper and electronic resources, human resources, and programs to assist with graduate school applications and visits.

Other workshops this semester include:

“Exploring Graduate School: Is It For Me?” presented by Luis Guevara, Office of Graduate Studies
Tuesday, October 11 5:00-6:00 pm, SSB G1.310 (Glen Maloney Room)

“Putting It All Together: The Graduate School Application Process,” presented by Teresa York, Graduate Assistant
Tuesday, October 27 4:00-5:00 pm, SSB G1.310 (Glen Maloney Room)

“Graduate School Entrance Exams,” presented by Matthew Dempsey, Princeton Review
Wednesday, November 9 4:30-5:30 pm, SSB G1.310 (Glen Maloney Room)

“Writing the Personal Statement,” presented by the UT Undergraduate Writing Center
Tuesday, November 22 4:30-5:30pm, SSB G1.310 (Glen Maloney Room)

Please mark you calendars now and plan to attend these beneficial sessions! If you are interested in attending any of the above workshops, please RSVP to Teresa York by phone or email. For more information about any workshop, the ACE Program, or other services offered by AES, please contact Teresa York, at 471-1205 or tyork@mail.utexas.edu.

Teresa York, MAE
Doctoral Student
Department of Linguistics
Graduate Assistant
ACE and Mentor Program
Academic Enrichment Services
University of Texas at Austin
Office of the Dean of Students
Student Services Building 4.104
1 University Station A5800
Austin, TX 78712-0175
512-471-1205 (phone)
512-232-3963 (fax)


Austin Green Art and The Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum present renowned sculptor Mari Shields, who will design, build onsite, and install a large-scale sculpture made from fallen trees.

Shields will present her body of work, and provide a personal tour of the work-in-progress at an informal Artist Talkback. The Umlauf’s young professionals group, the Torchbearers, will host the unveiling of the artwork at a free gala event.

WHEN: Artist Talkback with Mari Shields – Wednesday, September 21st • 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. • FREE
Art Opening – Wednesday, September 28th • 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. • FREE

WHERE: The Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum
605 Robert E. Lee Road • Austin, TX 78704

BACKGROUND: Austin Green Art is a nonprofit initiative to enhance Austin culture through public art that reflects Austin’s love of the environment.
www.austingreenart.org

The Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum is a non-profit organization founded around the work of American sculptor Charles Umlauf, and dedicated to providing educational experiences that encourage the understanding and appreciation of sculpture.
www.umlaufsculpture.org

For more information, contact:
Raul Garza
512. 415. 8825
www.austingreenart.org
raul@tkoadvertising.com


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Job/internships


BODHI YOGA (close to UT) is in need of a web designer to help redesign the site www.bodhiyoga.com. The owner is looking for something that can be designed with backend administration for easy updating. It could also be done in Dreamweaver. The owner is willing to pay and will also give some trade for yoga. Great offer! Please email a resume with contact info and weblinks to portfolio or other web work to:

Malia Davis
Marketing and Events Manager
malia@blazertag.com


Innternships are available with the Texas Department of Agriculture
(TDA)

Available in Austin, Lubbock, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and San Juan; sub offices in Amarillo, El Paso, Tyler and Corpus Christi; seed laboratories in Lubbock, Stephenville and Giddings; a metrology lab in Giddings; a pesticide lab in College Station; and export facilities in Del Rio, El Paso, Laredo, Eagle Pass and
Brownsville.

To qualify for an internship, the student must have completed at least 15 hours in courses that pertain to the internship. For further information on the internship program and how to apply, please reference the http://www.agr.state.tx.us/about/intern/adm_internmain.htm>TDA home page.


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Announcements


AIGA Design Conference 2005 online archive, now available
http://www.kottke.org/order/aiga-2005


New UT Organization for Print Design students

Have you taken a print design class in the journalism school? Do you have an interest in learning more about design or improving your skills? Then come meet students just like you who enjoy designing for print publications (newspaper/magazines/etc.). Possible SND events may include one-on-ones with professional print designers and portfolio critiques, field trips, design and software workshops, etc. This is a brand new club so it is open to ideas.

If you want to learn more about the national organization, you can go to http://www.snd.org. If you'd like more information about the UT chapter, contact:
Amy Zerba, amyzerba@yahoo.com
Journalism Grad student


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Call for Entry


Microsoft Research Sponsors Female Academic Scholarships to the
Women's Game Conference
Microsoft Research is providing ten female college students an
all-expense-paid opportunity to attend the Women's Game Conference taking
place in Austin, Texas on October 26-27, 2005. Attendees will also be able
to attend the Game Writers Conference and Austin Game Conference.

Microsoft Research is sponsoring 10 female students majoring in computer
science - with a concentration in game development and research - to attend
the Women's Game Conference. The selected Scholarship winners will be
invited to convene during a luncheon to meet with an industry luminary and
discuss first-hand the issues surrounding female game developers and career
opportunities in this field. These students will also be able to attend the
Austin Game Conference and the Game Writers Conference. The Austin Game
Conference is the leading conference for developers of mobile, MMOG and next
generation console games. The Game Writers Conference is dedicated to the
art and craft of game writing.

Microsoft Research is committed to fostering the growth of women game
developers in this emerging space and developing career paths for those with
keen interests. The goal is to gain knowledge on how Microsoft Research can
attract more women into the critical fields necessary to move computer
science, and fields such as game development, forward.

Students interested in being considered for a complementary pass should
complete the following query and e-mail responses to:
Cynthia@gameconference.com by Sept. 30, 2005.

1) Full contact information:
Name, e-mail, school, major, areas of studies, address, phone number

2) Tell us about yourself (200-word maximum)

3) Brief essay about your interest in game development, research conducted
in this field, or your insights on the importance of women game developers
(350-word maximum)

Selected Scholarship winners will be announced at the beginning of October
and will be required to submit a post-event paper discussing their
experience and providing feedback on the Women's Game Conference.

For questions regarding this opportunity, send e-mail to Cynthia Freese,
cynthia@gameconference.com .


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Links


Spencer Tunick: Documenting the live nude in public. http://spencertunick.com/

For those interested in PHP security (woo ya'!): http://phpsec.org/projects/guide/

~ A Female Sensibility ~ Sept. 26-Oct. 3 issue of Newsweek
Videogame makers have ignored half their potential market. Now they're having a second look, and altering the possibilities of gaming. The video game industry's bias against women is so ingrained that the size of the current female market is largely unknown, report Paris Bureau Chief Christopher Dickey and Special Correspondent Nick Summers. However, analysts now expect that to change as companies look to grab market share by basing more user experiences around the interpersonal relationships that made games like "The Sims" such a hit with women.

A great/free resource for digital sound and video media.
__ U B U W E B __http://ubu.com

Andrea Zittel on design + art.
Because of her interest in industrial design, Ms. Zittel has been embraced
by shelter magazines as the art world's answer to Philippe Starck. But she
rejects this label and has declined requests to have her designs
mass-produced. "I am not a designer - designers have a social
responsibility to provide solutions," she said. "Art is more about asking
questions."

Art: tugboats, floating islands, and pirates!

Goings-on, internships, scholarship, and links.

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GOINGS-ON

upcoming game conferences

Game Writers Conference, Oct 26th & 27th
Women Games Conference (Austin). Oct 26th to Oct 27th
Oct 27th to Oct 28th, Austin Games Confernce

AMOA College Day and Night Thu, Sep 8

Women in games International Conference, Sept. 10, Seattle

Mathgroup: Dr. Michael Starbird discussing statistics on Sept. 17

The Association for Women in Technology-Austin
Business Negotations 101
When: Thursday, September 15th, 2005, 5:30 - 8:00 pm
Location: J.J. Pickle Research Center, 10100 Burnet Road, Austin
Cost: $20-members, $35-nonmembers, includes light dinner and cash bar

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INTERNSHIPS

Corporate Design Group at National Instruments is looking for an intern who can stay for the whole fall semester 05. They need someone who is willing to work during the day. If you're looking for a good corporate design experience, I think this would be a perfect one. The job is basically Quark re-sizing stuff, which doesn't require a whole lot of Quark experience. If you are interested, or know someone who's interested, the manager at laura.thompson@ni.com

Train 4 The Game, Inc. is a performance training facility in here in Austin. We train athletes from professionals to the high school level. They are looking for
someone to design a new company logo for them. It may be a good learning experience for a student and they will offer some compensation for the effort. His contact information is:

Logan Schwartz, MEd., CSCS
Director of Intern Program
Train 4 The Game, Inc.
8601 FM 2222, Building III, Suite 103
Austin, TX 78730
Phone: (512) 794-2800
Fax: (512) 794-2900
Email: logan@train4thegame.com

Public Relations Internship Fall 2005
Hours: 15-19 hours per week.

Job Description:
The University of Texas at Austin's McCombs School of Business is looking for a PR intern. By-line opportunities and some portfolio-quality pieces guaranteed. The regular duties of the PR Intern for Fall 2005 will include:

* Weekly Web-based search of all McCombs press mentions
* Weekly report on press mentions, with briefs, circulated to school community, on 2-3 major mentions each week
* Briefs on major news at other business schools, with select items circulated to McCombs School community
* Writing wrap-ups on speaking events (see site for examples)
* Assisting with event planning, concept design and implementation of the McCombs School's annual open house during Explore UT
* Select additional duties as able, including by-line opportunities for the school magazine, opportunities to write for outside publications, and the chance to oversee a promotions project for one or more select programs at the school each semester.

These duties will require the ability to work on Fridays. Allowances will always be made under special circumstances, but please be prepared to work at least 3 or more of your weekly hours on Fridays if you accept the internship.

Qualifications:
The McCombs School is seeking a communications student who has completed J315 or another course establishing a grounding in AP style. Strong writing skills are essential. Previous public relations internship, agency or non-profit experience is preferred.

Compensation: $10.50 per hour and the opportunity for internship credit.

To apply for this position:
1. REQUIRED OF ALL APPLICANTS: Send an email cover letter and electronic resume to the McCombs School director of communications, Pam Losefsky, by September 12, 2004.
2. Include one or more writing samples, which you may submit electronically or via campus or U.S. mail. If you submit samples via conventional mail, please include a printed version of your cover letter and resume. Mail by September 9.
3. Interviewed candidates will have to pass a writing test.

Contact:
Pam Losefsky, Director of Communications
University of Texas McCombs School of Business
1 University Station B6000
Austin, TX 78712-1178
pam.losefsky@mcccombs.utexas.edu
512.232.9167 fax
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SCHOLARSHIP

STUDENT GOVERNMENT SCHOLARSHIP (3 of $1,000)

Each year the Student Government President and Vice President are provided with a stipend of $1,500 to be put towards their tuition. This year President Omar Ochoa and Vice President Elizabeth Brummett have decided to give away their tuition grants in the form of three $1,000 scholarships to three University of Texas students. If you are a current UT student you are invited to apply for this award.

Each applicant will be required to submit a completed application form (attached), a resume and a 3-page double-spaced essay. The primary factor that will be used in determining scholarship winners is each candidate's contribution to the university. Financial need and academic performance will also be evaluated.

Applications are due by FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2005 by 5pm to the Student Government Office in the Student Services Building Suite 4.206. If necessary, applications can be emailed to bcarreon@mail.utexas.edu. Applicants will be notified by September 12th if they need to come in for an interview Sept 12-16. Scholarship winners will be notified during at the Vice President of Student Affairs Welcome in the Alumni Center on Wednesday, Sept 19 at 6pm during SG Week. Good luck! We look forward to reading you application. Please contact us with questions.

Omar Ochoa, Student Government President SGPresident@mail.utexas.edu
Elizabeth Brummett, Student Government Vice President SGVP@mail.utexas.edu

About Student Government

The University of Texas at Austin Student Government was founded in 1901 and serves as the official student voice to the UT administration, the Board of Regents, and the Texas Legislature.

Our mission is to earnestly represent the interests of students by increasing student decision-making power, improving campus life through the creation and continuation of viable and effective student services, preserving and protecting the traditions and legends of the University, supporting students and student organizations in their academic and community endeavors

To this end, new leaders are elected from and by the general student populace each spring, and weekly assembly meetings on Tuesdays at 7pm in the Glenn Maloney Room of the SSB are held to discuss issues, appropriate funds, and initiate projects. Visit our website at www.utsg.org

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LINKS

Macromedia price increases Sept. 15. might want to get it now, while it's dirt cheap.

Article about a blind pilot-to-be who works with a MarsRover imaging program.

http://www.austinrobot.com
"Lil' Austin Robot team goes on to Grand Challenge"
Robotic vehicle teams and brief article

New UT College of Fine Arts site. Slightly disgruntling to those who are bitter, like me.

UT design lab (DesL) website
information for people who are confused about blogs
accessibility how-to's and demos

Texas Association of Blind Students

>glass bottomed walkway over Grand Canyon

Award winning French commercial related to disabilities

game development women group page, if you'd like to join their listserv.

free training for UT employees

alternate place to buy textbooks