Echols

• Exemption from area requirements in the College
• Priority registration times in selecting courses
• Option to declare Echols Interdisciplinary Major
• A shared first-year living experience
• A select cadre of faculty advisors
• Participation in the Echols news and information electronic network

Attention Fourth-Years:

The Virginia College Advising Corps (formerly known as the University of Virginia College Guide Program) is looking for motivated, service-oriented individuals to join the program for the 2012-13 school year. The Virginia College Advising Corps is a two-year AmeriCorps program that places recent UVa graduates into high needs high schools and community colleges across the state. Guides serve as college advisers, mentoring students as they complete the SAT and ACT, fill out college applications, and navigate the financial aid process. Although our focus is on serving low-income and first generation students, we are in these schools to help any student who asks as we work to create a college going culture in our schools and their surrounding communities.

You can also become a fan of the Virginia College Advising Corps on Facebook and check the profile regularly for recruitment updates and college access news.  

Recruitment Nights will be held on Grounds Tuesday, November 8, 2011 and Tuesday, January 31, 2012 in the Peabody Hall Auditorium from 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm.

Applications are due on February 10,2012.
www.virginia.edu/collegeguides.

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The Echols Scholars Program is very pleased to announce a new and important initiative in funding independent research carried out by Echols Scholars.   The Echols Scholars Deans and Echols Council are deeply grateful to the family of Timothy J. Ingrassia for its great generosity.

The new Ingrassia Family Echols Scholars Research Fund will support Echols Scholars preparing for fourth year capstone projects such as theses, scientific experiments, art exhibitions, musical performances, and the like.

The maximum award will be $2,000.00. Applications will be accepted immediately and decisions will be made on a “rolling” basis.  The deadlines for 2011-2012 applications are:

December 9, 2011, March 16, 2012, and July 6, 2012

Please schedule an appointment with Deans William Wilson, Beverly Adams, Shawn Lyons, or Sandra Seidel for any further questions.

InGrassia Application (.doc, 52KB)

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The OCULUS needs you!!

Researchers of all disciplines:

Want to be published? Submit your research to The Oculus, UVA’s multidisciplinary research journal!  Any research paper written by a UVA undergraduate is eligible.   Submission deadline is TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13^th by 11:59 pm.

Pleases visit www.virginia.edu/cue/urn/oculus.html for submission details or direct your questions to .

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The Wilson Journal of International Affairs is seeking Submissions and Editors!

Get Published!

The Wilson Journal of International Affairs is now seeking submissions to be published in its Spring 2012 edition. The Wilson Journal is UVA’s journal for undergraduate research related to foreign affairs, and we hope to advance the studies and careers of students who have produced exceptional papers and essays in their classes or independent studies at college.

Please submit your paper by 11:59 pm of September 30, 2011 to . The subject line should read “Wilson Journal Spring 2012 Submission” (no quotes).

*Please Note: If you graduated in 2011 you are still eligible to submit a paper you wrote as a 4th year!

Apply to be an editor for the Wilson Journal!

As an editor your responsibility will be to read a certain number of submissions and attend a meeting to decide submissions to accept to the Journal. After you will be assigned a piece and you will be responsible for editing it in collaboration with the author. Additionally there will be periodic meetings throughout the semester, which you will be expected to attend.

Please Fill out the Application Here: https://virginiairo.wufoo.com/forms/wilson-journal-editor-application/

The Application is due September 18th.

Please email if you have any further questions. Put "Wilson Journal Question" in the subject line.

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