Experiences at UT

Alternative Breaks (AB) is a program within the Center for Community Engagement that sends small groups of UT students to outside communities around the United States to help individuals grow as leaders and learn about social justice issues through immersive service experience. Alternative Breaks is great for students who are passionate about social justice looking to spend their holiday break on a productive and interactive service-learning experience.

The program begins at Casa Herrera, UT Austin's educational and research facility in the UNESCO World Heritage city of Antigua, where students will be matched with local family stays, and ends in the Caribbean coast of Belize. Coursework relies on research projects based on direct observation of archaeological sites, museums, villages, cooperative businesses, natural reserves and protected ecosystems, experienced through the extensive travel components of the program.

The Plan II Honors Program and The Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life have partnered to offer one or more undergraduate internships for Plan II Honors students. The Annette Strauss Institute, a part of the Communication at The University of Texas at Austin, works to educate, inspire, and connect the next generation of civic leaders. The intern will help to support the Institute’s outreach programming for K-12 students or our collegiate programming.

The Center for Health IPE hosts an Interprofessional Health Showcase every year in late April or early May. Students (undergraduate and graduate) and residents are invited to share their projects in one of three categories (community engagement, quality improvement, and research). Projects pertain to advancing population health and creating healthier communities. Awards are given for best poster among all categories.

Affiliated with the Institute for Mental Health Research and the Psychology Department, the Anxiety & Health Behaviors Lab (AHBL) conducts state-of-the-art research aimed at improving the treatment of anxiety disorders and related problems. The AHBL’s in-house clinic, the Anxiety & Stress Clinic is dedicated to providing evidence-based therapeutic services to the Austin community.

The program provides a comprehensive course of study for graduate students to strengthen their statistical modeling skills and prepare for future careers. It serves as a platform for students from different UT departments to collaborate and exchange ideas on applying statistical modeling methods. Additionally, it leverages the expertise of faculty members across UT who specialize in statistics at both foundational and applied levels.

The Arabic Flagship Program (AFP) is a merit-based undergraduate course of study designed for learners of Arabic who seek to achieve professional working proficiency while pursuing the majors of their choice. Flagship students study Arabic throughout their domestic studies at UT Austin before pursuing the AFP "Capstone Year" in Morocco with the goal of reaching "Superior" proficiency.

As a program, we recruit and retain quality Cadets who would best serve the Nation. We educate and train Cadets in Army officership, Army Values, physical and moral standards, and tactical craft. Cadets are coached and mentored to be leaders who are able to think critically, adapt and overcome in adverse situations, and apply good moral judgment. Our result is quality Commissioned Army Officers of character, armed with the tools to succeed and ready to lead our Nation’s Soldiers.

AWARE brings together women at different career levels (including UG and graduate students, postdocs, faculty, research scientists, research staff, lecturers, education/outreach staff), as well as men who are supportive of the above goals, to provide a supportive environment and a vertical mentorship system. It organizes both internal events for AWARE members and externally directed events for the whole department or CNS/UT communities.

People in the Texas astronomy program broadly engage in public outreach. In particular, the McDonald Observatory’s Education and Outreach Office is one of the country’s leaders in astronomy outreach and education. The office manages programs ranging from professional development for teachers, to star parties and facility tours for the 60,000 annual visitors to the observatory in West Texas, to creation and distribution of educational radio programs heard by millions of people each week, and web sites accessed by nearly a million unique visitors each month. StarDate radio, the oldest and most popular radio program of its kind in the country, brings information about the cosmos to an estimated 5 million listeners throughout North America and Europe each week. These diverse programs within the observatory, together with community events supported by astronomy on and off campus, offer students, scientists and faculty a wide variety of opportunities in outreach and education.