UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS

The University of Texas at Austin offers a wide range of awards for undergraduates: the University Co-op / George H. Mitchell Student Awards for Academic Excellence and the Roy Crane Award in the Arts. Sponsorship of these awards is part of the overall mission to encourage and promote excellence in undergraduate education.

University Co-op / George H. Mitchell Student Awards for Academic Excellence

The University of Texas at Austin, with the generous support of the University Co-op, will annually recognize up to nine UT undergraduates for superior scholarly or creative achievement. Five students will receive awards of $2,000 each, three will receive awards of $5,000 each, and one will be awarded the grand prize of $20,000. The Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost provides a concurrent award of half the value of each student's award to the academic department in which the scholarly work was supervised.

Roy Crane Award in the Arts

The Roy Crane Award in the Arts is given to a student of The University of Texas at Austin for unique, creative effort in the performing, literary and visual arts. An undergraduate or graduate student from any major area of study may compete for the award. The committee, which selects the winner, will give no weight to any entrant’s grade point average or other academic achievement.

So that an entrant’s work may be compared with similar forms of creativity, the award committee singles out only one area of the arts for each year’s competition. For 2009, the Literary Arts will be considered for the award; in 2010, the Visual Arts; and in 2011, the Performing Arts.