Category: Events

Spring Hike 2022

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Want to get out of the city with your fellow UHPers, and explore some place new? On Saturday, March 26th, Professor Mark Ralkowski will be partnering with GW Trails to take a group of UHPers (students, faculty, and staff alike!) to Shenandoah National Park.

We will be meeting at 9AM at the Honors townhouse and breakfast will provided before we get on the bus.  Please bring your own water.  After completing the hike, we will drive back to campus arriving approximately at 6:00PM.

To sign up, please drop off $5 cash at the UHP Townhouse and sign up here.

Food for Thought with Professor Christov

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The first Food for Thought of the semester will be Friday, March 4th from 12-1PM. Join Professor Christov in the UHP Townhouse Club Room to discuss “Self-Determination” over a UHP-provided lunch. To reserve your spot (and your lunch!) RSVP here 

Title:  Who is the ‘Self’ in Self-Determination?

Synopsis:
How did the self-determination of a people and nation building come to be seen as virtually synonymous? The talk shows how the very concept of self-determination, on which anticolonial nationalism and declarations of independence are based, underwent an extraordinary transformation from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century. Untangling the diverse, and contradictory, meanings of self-determination reveals the troubled—and lost—history of the most basic principle of our own political existence. It puts into question our common celebration of human rights and asks anew who “the people” is and by what criteria they should be constituted.

Annual Student Faculty Dinner

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The UHP extends an invitation to join us for our annual Student Faculty Dinner taking place Friday, December 10, 2021 from 5-7pm at Magic Gourd restaurant. Come for the Chinese food buffet, stay for the engaging conversation with your peers and UHP faculty. Do you have a faculty member that has made your semester better this year? Invite them to join! Students are welcome to invite other faculty to the dinner even if they are not in the honors program. Keep an eye out for the NewsFlash and blog for when sign-ups begin November 30.

WRGW Fall Gig

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Join WRGW District Radio & Tiny Dorm Concerts this Friday, September 24th, 2021, for our annual Fall Gig in Square 80 from 7-9pm! Bring your friends & come support GW student musicians with a fun night of music and entertainment!

Artist Line-Up:

  • Alphabet Soup
  • Adam Pastel
  • Jin Haugland
  • Misaal Irfan
  • Brooke Cody
  • Med School

If you are interested in displaying your art work at the event, feel free to fill out this interest form.

Make sure to follow WRGW (@wrgwlive) and Tiny Dorm Concerts (@tinydormconcertsgw) on Instagram for up to date information!

Breakfast with the Director – 9/24/21

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Do you want to meet with Professor Kung, the Director of the UHP? Do you have questions or suggestions about where we’re going as a program? Do you just want free food? Come eat breakfast with Professor Kung on Friday, September 24th, at 10:30am in the Townhouse Club Room. Professor Kung would especially like students to join in if they are interested in discussing a possible expansion of the UHP’s senior thesis requirement to include alternative options such as service projects.

Seats are limited, so don’t hesitate to RSVP below!

Food for Thought with Professor Aviv and Talbot De St. Aubin

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Our first Food for Thought of the semester will be Friday, 9/24 from 12-1PM in the Club Room. Professor Aviv, one of our valued honors faculty, will be giving a talk, with one of your fellow UHPers, Talbot De St. Aubin, over catered lunch. Make sure to RSVP to reserve your seat and your sandwich! This event will be vegetarian in order to help reduce the UHP’s carbon footprint. Also, please bring your own water bottle and/or mug to help us avoid single-use waste!

Title: Removing the Barriers: Transformation of Zoos, Animals in Ethics, and Publishing in your First Year?

Description: Humans have always been fascinated by animals, but their actions have continuously hurt them. The modern zoo, although much better than previous models, is no exception. Join us to hear how Talbot de St. Aubin, a UHP sophomore, envisions the future of zoos and the process by which she worked with Dr. Eyal Aviv towards publishing a paper about the topic in an academic journal.

Honors Hike to Harpers Ferry – 9/18

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Eager to explore beyond E and K streets? Love the smell of the Shenandoah river in the morning? Hike with the Honors Program!

Sign up here (AND PAY $5 AT THE UHP OFFICE) by Monday, September 13 to reserve your spot!

On Saturday, September 18th, the Honors Program is hosting a $5 hike with Prof. Ralkowski along with UHP faculty, students, staff, and certified TRAiLS guides. We’re going to Harpers Ferry, a historic town in West Virginia, complete with actors in historic garb and a big ol’ mountain to climb!

a group of students sit and laugh together as they take in the view from atop Harper's Ferry
The view from the top, from when we last went in 2019!

We’ll meet at the Foggy Bottom townhouse in the morning (more specifics to come) and the hike should last most of the day, returning to campus in the early evening. Whether you are a professional hiker or have never even scaled an escalator, come out, enjoy the fall sunshine, and get to know UHPers outside the classroom. We’ll provide lunch and guides, and you’ll provide insightful questions and witty banter. See you there!

Coffee and Breakfast– in Amsterdam!

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UHPers, we are so delighted to have you back on campus. And we’re eager to get to know all of you newer students in person, as well as reunite with returning UHP community members!

Because of that, on Friday, September 10th, we’re hosting a coffee and breakfast event with Dr. Kung and Brianna. They’re looking forward to welcoming back returning students, hearing about how the semester is going so far, and answering any of your questions. Please stop by if you want to say hello, catch up with other UHPers, ask particular queries, or grab a bagel. The event will be on the 5th floor elevator lobby of Amsterdam Hall from 10:00am to 11:30am.

We hope to see you there!

Note– this event is primarily geared towards our UHP LLC members on the 5th floor of Amsterdam, but all UHPers are welcome!

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