Education

$500 Prize for Your Graduate Essay in Latin@ Studies

November 1, 2011

The CMAS program I’m in sent this call for papers to me today from the Wayne State University Center for Latino and Latin American Studies: Graduate Paper Competition in Latin@ Studies The Wayne State University Center for Latino and Latin American Studies (formerly known as the Center for Chicano-Boricua Studies) and the Association for Critical [...]

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21 Texas Schools Get HSI STEM and Articulation Programs Grants

September 27, 2011

The U.S. Department of Education has awarded 21 Texas colleges and universities with HSI STEM and Articulation Programs Grants worth up to $1.2 million. The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities describes what the grants should be used for. The awards were announced on Sept. 26 by the U.S. Department of Education. About $100 million [...]

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[Call For Papers] H-NET Borderlands Announcements

January 21, 2011

######################################## Call for Papers ######################################## **CFP – 2012 AHA Meeting, Identities and Frontiers I am a PhD student at the University of Otago in New Zealand interested in assembling a panel for the 2012 AHA conference in Chicago. I am seeking participants to discuss the formation and transformation of identities in frontier societies between 1600 [...]

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Google Books & Citation Management Goodness

November 20, 2010

I’m probably several months late to the party on this, but I just noticed that Google Book search results provide buttons to export the record to BibTex, EndNote, and RefMan. That’s pretty cool. Even though I know Google is a corporation just like any other, I still think what they do with their actual technology [...]

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Grad School Funnies

October 26, 2010

So a professor friend posted this video to face book and I couldn’t help but share it. You gotta love the jaded world view of academia… I know I do. Technorati Tags: English Lit, Grad School, PhD

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Houston’s @Wholefish Talks the Mighty Red Snapper

October 16, 2010

Houston native and fellow STH Eagle, Bryan Caswell, writes in his latest blog about the importance of the American Red Snapper to the Gulf Coast Region. From the sport fisher, the commercial fisher, and even the diner sitting at a table, Chef Caswell filets right through the half-truths of one of the most important salt [...]

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Save KTRU Rice Radio

August 17, 2010

Let Rice Know You’re Unhappy. A website was just put up to help gin up support for KTRU. Students, alumni, and invested interests are trying to keep Rice University from selling the 91.7 FM frequency and tower. There’s also a petition you can sign, if you’re so inclined. I say do what it takes to [...]

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History Repeats Itself

August 8, 2010

I wrote an essay for a class I took at UHD, The History of the New South, that focused on the creation of a distinct Mexican American identity in Houston before WWII. While rereading it, and preparing it for submission as a writing sample for my grad school apps, I couldn’t help but post a [...]

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