Category: Events

How to Not Write Bad – Special Author Event

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bothJoin the author of the delightfully funny and enormously useful How to Not Write Bad: The Most Common Writing Problems and the Best Ways to Avoid Them for a discussion and light reception. Copies of his book will be available for purchase. Hosted by the University Honors Program and the University Writing Program.
Wednesday, October 23rd at 3PM
Ames Hall, B101 (Mt. Vernon Campus)

Seats are limited, register now!

Ben Yagoda is a journalism professor at the University of Delaware. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of ten books, including Memoir: A History, Will Rogers: A Biography, and When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It, and has written for Slate, The New York Times Magazine, and publications that start with every letter of the alphabet except J, K, Q, X, and Z.

Freshmen: Whitewater Rafting Adventure with Prof. Ralkowski

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Just think: that could be YOU screaming on a river.
Just think: that could be YOU screaming on a river.

Are you a freshman looking for a watery adventure?  Join Prof. Mark Ralkowski for a rafting trip led by GW TRAiLS on Saturday, October 5th.  
Aday full of fun, adventure, and whitewater! They’ll be traveling to the quaint town of Ohiopyle, PA to take a trip on the roaring rapids of the Lower Yough River. There will be a half day of rafting, covering 7 miles of class 3 rapids with lunch served riverside! Plan to spend your whole day there, leaving Foggy Bottom at 10am!
Honors and CSE are covering most the bill, so students only need to pay $20 for transportation, guides, rafting gear, and lunch.
Space is limited though, so be one of the first 10 to email and Dor at dor_hbg@gwmail.gwu.edu.
This event is for freshmen only, so you sophomorse, juniors, and seniors will have to wait this one out with the rest of us landlubbers.

Food for Thought with Prof. LaTisha Hammond

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Can you make jump from Californian sea urchin genetics to east coast science teaching and learning practices in the US educational system? Find out how Prof. Hammond did just that (and we’ll provide lunch!)
Professor Hammond talks about how she made the leap from investigating larval sea urchin gene expression in response to the environment in California, to investigating science learning and teaching practices in middle, high school, and undergraduate science classes on the east coast. Are there links between the two seemingly different arenas?
We’ll provide lunch, you bring your questions! Seats are limited to 15.

Register now!

Monday, October 14th
11:30am-12:30pm
714 21st Street, UHP Club Room at the Foggy Bottom campus

Honors Programming Board

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IMAGINATION
Put your IMAGINATION to use!

Do you often find yourself flush with ideas to improve the social and intellectual life of students in the University Honors Program, but feel that you don’t have an appropriate outlet?

Curious about the Programming Board? Give us your name and email!

Fret no more, creative imagineers! The University Honors Program is piloting a Programming Board.  Ideally it will serve as an advisory council, a thinker’s think tank of fun and creative activities, and a team to organize and execute the best of the ideas.
But for right now, we’re just looking for interest.  
“Interest? I have that! I have that for this!” – If this sounds like you, then sign up on our “Official Form Declaring Interest in Further Information and Request for Invitation of Participation Regarding the University Honors Program Programming Board.”

 

3 Seats Left – Breakfast with the Director!

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Breakfast!
Breakfast!

Got questions, concerns, or great ideas for the Honors Program? Then sign up to have breakfast with Maria Frawley, Executive Director of the University Honors Program. We’ll bring the food, you bring your good ideas.

714 21st Street, NW — UHP Club Room at the Foggy Bottom Campus
Monday, September 30th at 10am
Expect bagels and pastries for breakfast.
This event is for students in the Honors Program only.

Honors Students: Sign up Here

John Cage Exhibition at Gallery 102!

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“Caged In: DC Painters Explore the Aesthetic Influences of John Cage,” curated by UHPer Roxanne Goldberg, opens with a reception this Thursday, September 19 from 6:00 – 8:00 PM at Gallery 102 in Smith Hall of Art, 801 22nd St. NW.
Stop by for some free food and a fantastic opportunity to meet the DC-based artists who created these exceptional works of art based on a recording of the John Cage 25-Year Retrospective, famously performed at the NYC Town Hall in 1958.
The exhibition is open until October 4 and features a panel discussion (in addition to Thursday’s reception) on Wednesday, October 2 at 6:30 PM. UHP student Roxanne Goldberg will be moderating this panel discussion with Executive Director of the John Cage Trust Laura Kuhn, Co-Director of the Centennial John Cage Festival Washington, DC Steve Antosca and Black Mountain College Scholar Kate Markoski.
A full color catalog has been published along with this exhibition and may be viewed in the gallery.

Four-Year Plan Freshmen Advising Workshops!

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Calling all freshmen! Join your SPA in the Club Room of the Foggy Bottom townhouse for a workshop regarding your four-year plans.
We’ll be talking about how to go about formulating a four-year plan, why four-year plans are so important, and how to use your four-year plan to help guide you through the trials and tribulations that is selecting classes for each semester.
This workshop will be offered several times throughout this week and next:

  • Thursday, September 19th from 4:00pm-5:00pm
  • Friday, September 20th from 12:00pm-1:00pm
  • Monday, September 23rd from 11:00am-12:00pm
  • Wednesday, September 25th from 5:00pm-6:00pm
  • Thursday, September 26th from 11:00am-12:00pm

Sign up for the time that works best for you here.

Whether you haven’t even thought about your four-year plan yet or your have ten different versions of it already, don’t worry! Come talk to your SPA and we’ll make sure you figure out a four-year plan that works for you!
Remember, you have to have a completed 4-year plan (and a 30-minute appointment!) done before October 25th, 2014!

Breakfast w/ the Director [Event]

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Got questions, concerns, or great ideas for the Honors Program? Then sign up to have breakfast with Maria Frawley, Executive Director of the University Honors Program. We’ll bring the food, you bring your good ideas.

714 21st Street, NW — UHP Club Room at the Foggy Bottom Campus

Monday, September 30th at 10am

Seats are limited at 15, so sign up  now! Expect bagels and pastries for breakfast.

This event is for students in the Honors Program only.

Honors Students: Sign up Here

Little Ethiopian Restaurant with the SPA [Grassroots Event]

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This post was written by Student Peer Advisors Thomas Harr and Rebekah Johnson.

Seriously, the bread this stuff sits on is pretty amazing.
Seriously, the bread this stuff sits on is pretty amazing.

Calling any and all honors folk! Do you like Ethiopian food? Do you like hanging out and seeing all the awesome people in the Honors Program? If so, then this is the SPA event for you.
We will lead a group on Thursday September 19th to eat at the Little Ethiopian Restaurant located at the intersection of 9th and U Street for some delicious Ethiopian food and typical quirky honors fun.
We will meet at the Foggy Bottom metro stop at 7:00 with the goal of being back by 10:30 at the latest. The signup sheet is here is for those who are interested in coming to give us an idea about how many will be attending, so please fill that out if you’d like to join us. To help speed things up come bill time, please bring some cash.
We hope your first few weeks back have been magical, and we hope to see you all at this SPAtastic event!
Your SPA,
Rebekah Johnson and Thomas Harr

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