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Down around the corner at the (Club room) bakery shop…

January 18, 2013General News

Beat the January Bluster with the Baking, Brilliant, Balmy SPA!

Join Kerry Lanzo, Kate Kozak, and Avani Singh as they banish the bad bacterial bite of the first few weeks back at school. Frost, sprinkle, and bejewel some bonkers baked goods to beat the winter blues!

Bond over FREE bodacious cupcake and cookie bling, FREE coffee and hot chocolate (as always), and FREE bezerk SPA buddies there to brew a blast! Whether you attend the workshop or not, come by the UHP Club Room on Friday, January 25 from 2-3pm, right after Liz’s “Time Management” Workshop!

Bizarrely yours!
SPA

Online Course Evaluations = Save the Planet

December 4, 2012General News

If you don’t complete your online course evaluations for your Honors courses, we’ll have to switch back to paper evals. Paper comes from trees. Don’t make us waste all that paper and kill the planet, please. We never get to have nice things and we really want to have a nice planet, just this once.

You have until Wednesday, December 12th to complete your online course evaluations. You can do them here: http://my.gwu.edu/mod/evaluations
If you loved your class, or hated it, or don’t have strong feelings either way, we need to know! Your anonymous response helps us make sure the UHP is on track and it’s an important part of professor evaluation for faculty contract renewals.
THE FATES OF THE PLANET, THE UHP, AND OUR FACULTY ARE IN YOUR HANDS. NO PRESSURE, GUYS. NO PRESSURE.
For real, it takes five to fifteen minutes: http://my.gwu.edu/mod/evaluations

Last Wednesday Walk-ins of the Semester

December 3, 2012General News

It’s the last Wednesday Walk-ins of the semester this Wednesday from 5-7 pm in the Foggy Bottom Townhouse.
You can always make an appointment if you need an advisor, but from now on Liz needs to spend her full concentration on preparing for solstice celebrations.
Once she’s completed her 14 hour ceremonial solstice dance, she’ll need some time to rest up. She’ll be back with more evening walk-in hours next semester.

National Defense University seeks Interns

November 15, 2012General News, Job/Internship Opportunity

The National Defense University is a program committed to providing research and training simulations to government officials which prepare those officials for problems they face in every day activities. The National Defense University is seeking an intern to research under Dr. Stephen Bowles starting in January 2013. The intern will work with Dr. Bowles researching couples’ resilience, leadership, deployment psychology, and mind-body research.
Requirements

College junior, senior, or graduate student
Maintained a 3.5 GPA
Can work 16 hours a week during the school year and 40 hours a week during the summer
Strong writing and oral communication skills
Can commit to a 6 month internship (1 year is preferred)

Duties

Writing literature reviews, articles, etc.
Preparing journal publication submissions
Coordinating articles with co-authors
Organizing paperwork and files
Data analysis
Responsible for internet operations, recruiting and scheduling participants, providing consent forms, administering psychological tests, operating interview audio recording equipment.

Freshmen – Do you remember your strengths?

November 9, 2012General News

Hey there, UHP Freshmen! Remember taking StrengthsFinder in September? Remember your top five talent themes? Remember how most were scarily accurate… and how we’re really strong in executing and strategic thinking? It’s time to use those strengths, remember what you do best, and take this survey:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SQHonors2
Taking this survey will help us improve our programming for the future – and is a great way to procrastinate from doing other work.
If you have any questions email Liz!

Prof. Miller and Rio Hart Present UHP Course at Conference

November 9, 2012General News

Most students spend their time taking classes, having fun and participating in extracurriculars. It takes a certain type of young adult to spend their free time researching algae as a source of biofuel. But that’s just what junior Rio Hart did during his freshman year–and beyond.
When the University Honors Program freshmen entered Professor Houston Miller’s science classroom on the first day, they were in for a surprise. Rather than the usual introduction or high school review, students were thrown into a business scenario. They pitched their idea to an investor (in this case, Professor Miller) and then began troubleshooting their plans. Continue reading “Prof. Miller and Rio Hart Present UHP Course at Conference”

What did that course count for?

November 8, 2012General News

image1full — Honors course archives ARE the national treasure.

While you finalize your schedules for next semester, you might want a refresher on what some previous Honors courses were about, or what they fulfilled in your major/school.
Previous semesters’ course offerings are available for review online at our Course Offerings page (just scroll to the bottom.) Or, you can click here and go right to them.

Wiley Walk-In Workshop!

November 6, 2012General News

It’s Tuesday! That means tonight is a research workshop at the Townhouse. Hurricane Sandy washed us out last week, but we’re totally back on track. Even though you can no longer just walk in to see Liz or Catherine (except on Wednesday nights!), you can still saunter up for research help!
UHP STUDENT USING ARTICLESPLUS…
WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
UHP STUDENT USING ARTICLESPLUS…
STAHP!
With a little more clicking than the library homepage, the Gelman’s research tools can lead you to a magical land of first-rate research resources.
They have shared this knowledge with me, and now I can share it with you!
Do you know how to expertly research?

Organic Internship with UHP Alum [Internship]

November 1, 2012General News

UHP Alum Marni Karlin passed on this great opportunity with her organization, the Organic Trade Association:

Gentle Class, Enjoy a Podcast [Cool Class]

November 1, 2012General News1 Comment

Prof. Grier (who also happens to be a former director of the UHP) is teaching a course for the UHP this semester and he’s doing something particularly cool: using podcasts to supplement dialogue.
What’s cooler? He posts them on a public site, so you can check them out. I know what you’re thinking, “Why in the world would I listen to a podcast for another class?” Well, here’s why:

You can learn cool things like the basic rules of effective rhetoric, Lincoln, Science, and more;
Explore fantastic ways of interconnected thinking, captured well in this podcast where Prof. Grier says,
“This is going to be a quick podacst to help you think about what you’ll be discussing this week: the 1775 Revolutionary Letters (the mediocre ones), and King George’s response. This will have to do directly with neither. This has to deal with scientific language.”
You don’t need to be in the class to enjoy exciting ideas.
The podcasts are generally quite short, so they’re easy to listen to while you take your afternoon tea;
Prof. Grier has awesome podcast skills, and a radio voice of NPR quality.

Of course, it’s also a great way to check out Prof. Grier’s course if you’re thinking to register for one of his courses in the future. Check out all the podcasts here: http://dando.dagrier.net