Upcoming Honors Events
The
University Honors Program offers many opportunities for our community of
students to gather in and out of the classroom. Check this site regularly
for updates.
Blood Drive Volunteering (help run the drive)
Thursday, December 2, 2004
in TSU Pavilion C
HSAC Sponsored - Volunteers needed to collect sign-ups, help
set up, and check people in for the December Blood Drive. Please sign up
in the UHSC if you are interested. The Blood Drive will take place in the
TSU Pavilion C.
National Honors
Collegiate Council Conference:
Abstracts
due March 15
Calling for abstracts to be presented at next year’s National Honors
Collegiate Conference in St. Louis, Missouri in October 26 - 30, 2005.
Join honors students, faculty, and staff from around the country and
around the world.
Click here for more information.
Practice Test Day:
GMAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, DAT, OAT
Saturday, March 12 from
10-1:30 pm in McCarthy Hall 121
HSAC Sponsored - Get ready for the real exams. See how you'll score
without affecting your record. Cost is $5 (Proceeds benefit honors
students). To register come to the University Honors & Scholars Center,
Library North 120.
Honors Theatre
Outing: Nickel & Dimed
Sunday, March 20 at 6:30
pm
A play about a journalist undercover living on minimum wage doing
various low wage jobs.
Is Sustained Peace
Possible in the Democratic Republic of Congo?
Jacques Depelchin
Monday, March 21 at 3:30
pm in TSU Alvarado
Jacques Depelchin is an historian from the DRC with wide academic
experience in Africa and the United States. He served as an adviser to
one of the rebel groups in the recent civil conflict in Congo (RCD-Kissangani)
and he is now the Executive Director for the Ota Benga International
Alliance for Peace in Congo. His most recent book is Silences in African
History: Between the Syndromes of Discovery and Abolition (published in
Tanzania and available in the U.S. through Michigan State Univ. Press).
Program is part of the
University Honors & Scholars Support Services.
Blood Drive
Monday, March 21
HSAC Sponsored - Volunteers needed to collect sign-ups, help
set up, and check people in for the December Blood Drive. Please sign up
in the UHSC if you are interested. The Blood Drive will take place in the
TSU Pavilions. Contact Amanda Henrikson at
Niki1344@aol.com for more
information.
2005 Western
Regional Conference: City of Lights for Bright Ideas
April 7 - 9 in Las Vegas,
Nevada
Honors students, faculty and staff from throughout the Western Region
share ideas and present their work at this annual conference.
Click here for more
information.
Honors Program Logo
Contest
Deadline for submission
extended to April 4
Show off your creative side and submit a suggestion for the Honors
Program Logo Contest! Deadline to submit is April 4 and the contest is
open to all University Honors Program students. The student with the
winning logo will receive a $100 gift certificate to Titan Shops and
will have her/his work immortalized in the Honors Program.
Click here for more details.
Meet Author of
Nickel & Dimed: Barbara Ehrenreich
Tuesday, April 12th, 2005
in TSU Pavilions
Reception is at 5 pm and campus presentation at 7:30 pm. Listen to Ms.
Ehrenreich speak about her experience living on minimum wage and her
active role in the social change. In her book, she described herself as
a divorced homemaker and took a series of low wage jobs - waitress,
house cleaner, nursing home aide, and Wal-Mart clerk and discussed her
experience surviving with the low salary. Ehrenreich attended Reed
College and later obtained a Ph.D. in biology from Rockefeller
University in New York. Book signing to follow.
Program is part of the
University Honors & Scholars Support Services and sponsored by
University Advancement, University Honors Program, Student Affairs, Arts
Inter Club Council, Women's Resource Center, and Women's Studies.
Nominations for
2004/2005 Outstanding Honors Professor
Deadline April 29
Who will be honored? Does your professor inspire you? Do you think your
professor is the best of the best? Then nominate your professor for
OUTSTANDING HONORS PROFESSOR. Nominations should include your
professor’s name, the nominator’s name (you), course and semester taken,
and a brief statement on why s/he should be the 2005 Outstanding Honors
Professor. Each complete nomination entry earns you a point and
increases your chance in the Honors Spring GET INVOLVED Drawing!
Nominations are due by Friday, April 29 and should be submitted to UHSC,
Library North 120, or to Ryan at
ralcantara@fullerton.edu.
Student/Faculty
Mixer
Monday, May 2 from 11:30 -
1 pm in the Academic Senate Chambers (rear of the Titan Shops)
Get to know the Honors faculty and your fellow honors students. Food and
refreshments will be served.
Sophomore Honors
Retreat
Friday, May 6 from 1 -
5:00 pm at the Coyote Hills Golf Course
Each spring the sophomore honors students are invited to a half-day
retreat to discuss upper-division honors. Faculty members for the
various upper-division honors seminars for the next year will present
information on their seminars. Also on the agenda is time to discuss the
senior honors project and begin brainstorming topics with fellow
sophomores.
Senior Honors
Projects
May 9 - 20
Over 30 graduating honors seniors will be presenting their work. Topics
ranging from neurogeneration to poetry, capturing the diverse interest
of the Honors students. Presentation schedule will be available soon.
Honors Year End
Picnic
Thursday, May 19 at 2:30 -
5 pm on the Engineering/Health Center Lawn
Join the University Honors Program as we gather to celebrate the end of
another year. The afternoon includes a free BBQ, volleyball and other
games, as well as prizes. There will be a short program at 4 pm to
recognize graduates of the Honors Program, new Honors Faculty, and other
important members of the honors community.
Honors Convocation
Friday, May 27 at 7 pm in
the Titan Student Union Pavilions
A special event honoring award recipients, graduating President’s
Scholars, University Honors Program graduates, and summa cum laude
honorees. Invitations to graduates will be sent out in April. Cap and
gowns are required for participating honorees and faculty and staff.
Click here for more information.
For more
information about upcoming events, contact the University Honors &
Scholars Center at (714) 278-7440 or univhonors@fullerton.edu.
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