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Capital Climate Initiative Open House [Event]

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The George Washington University Honors Program would like to cordially invite you to the open house of the Capital Climate Initiative. On May 3rd, from 10:30 am to noon, the students will be presenting their special topic final presentations on different aspects of Climate Change at the Honors Club Room. The purpose of our endeavor is to raise awareness and educate the local community on climate change and an individual’s impact on the global community. Topics will range from Climate Science to Sustainable Technology and Behavior, and you will have the opportunity to view, first-hand, what we have accomplished this year: our website (http://wiki.chem.gwu.edu/CapitalClimateInitiative/), and two versions of our CO2 sensors. (A standalone sensor that communicates with our website and a second, held within a miniature Washington Monument, that also indicates to local users the concentration visually.)

We welcome questions regarding the technology used, the measurements themselves, and the climate science context of the results.

Study Hours in the UHP

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Here's one of the more horrifying conceptions of "brain food" that we could find.
Here’s one of the more horrifying conceptions of “brain food” that we could find.

Avoid the crowded rooms in Gelman, the noise of your roommates, and the distractions of the bustling world during finals season.  Starting Thursday, Honors students can study in the UHP town house in Foggy Bottom!
Students use the upstairs Club Room optionally as a group study, while the basement is always quiet study.  And don’t forget — studying makes you hungry, so we’ll provide plenty of brain food (snacks and coffee) to help you power through!
Most weekdays it’s 9am-10pm, weekends 12pm-10pm with only the following exceptions:  Continue reading “Study Hours in the UHP”

Students: We need your feedback!

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You’ll receive notice of  online feedback forms soon for your courses, from April 22 – May 5. Results will be released to faculty May 22.  Most Honors students take the time to give serious feedback on these online forms. 
Why?  Because student feedback is a vital part of the evaluation process for courses and for faculty.  It’s true!  While your responses are anonymous, and results aren’t even seen by faculty until after graduation, your feedback is extremely important in making sure that all students get the best experience possible.
The feedback surveys only take a few minutes of your time — and doing them online let’s us save a lot of paper!  And pencils.  Nobody ever worries about saving pencils but they matter too.  Help us save paper and pencils by completing yours online as soon as you get it!

Softball with the SPA UPDATED LINK [SPA Event]

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Bluth SoftballWe goofed with the link before – now you can use the link below to sign up online!
Join SPA member Jess Burnell and her fellow SPA this Saturday, April 27th for a game of softball (actually wiffleball/nerf softball) down by the Lincoln Memorial! Meet them in front of the townhouse at 2pm to walk down together. You can sign up with your name and email (so we can send you a release form) here by Friday at 5pm. All sports equipment will be provided, as will drinks and popsicles! This is the last SPA event of the year, so come down and have some fun with your SPA to de-stress before finals!

Live Life on the (L)edge!

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rockclimbing

Professor Kung is taking a lucky group of UHP-ers ROCK-CLIMBING at Earth Treks in Rockville, Maryland on Saturday, May 4!

Don’t worry, you’ll still have time to study. Kerry Lanzo will be leading a group from the Townhouse in Foggy Bottom at 10am, to return by 1:30pm, and you can leave early if you need (it’s right up the red line). The cost is $22 for entry for the day, and $11 for the materials. It’ll be well worth it to get some exercise, de-stress, and hang out with one of UHP’s coolest faculty members.

To RSVP, please send an e-mail to the uhp@gwu.edu account. The group will most likely cap at 5 or 6 to keep it small, but we’re flexible!

Food for Thought: Solar Decathlon [Free Lunch]

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Food for Thought: Harvest Home, GW’s entry in Solar Decathlon 2013

Lunch and lecture with Prof. Kim Roddis, UHP Faculty Fellow 2012-2013

714 21st Street, UHP Club Room at the Foggy Bottom campus

The Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon challenges collegiate teams to design, build, and operate solar-powered houses that are cost-effective, energy-efficient, and attractive. GW is a member of Team Capitol DC, a partnership that also includes the Catholic University of America and American University. Come learn about Harvest Home. A model of the house and its landscape will be on display.

We’ll provide lunch, you bring your questions! Seats are limited to 15, so sign up now.

Register Here

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A Lucky Child [Recommended Event]

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The following exhibition was created by students in Professor Walter Reich’s course on “Holocaust Memory” (listed as HONR 5701 and IAFF 0702).  All members of the Honors Program community–including all students, faculty, administration and advisory board members–are invited.

A LUCKY CHILD

Invitation to the Opening of an Exhibition at The George Washington University on Professor Thomas Buergenthal, Lobingier Professor of Comparative Law and Jurisprudence at G.W. and the author of A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy

Date of Exhibition Opening: Tuesday, April 9, 2013.
Time: 5:00-7:00 PM
Place: The Dr. Yehuda Nir and Dr. Bonnie Maslin Special Collection Exhibit Hall at the Estelle and Melvin Gelman Library, 7th Floor. Continue reading “A Lucky Child [Recommended Event]”

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