Apply to be a Student Peer Advisor!

Student Peer Advisors (SPA) are dedicated to serving the UHP community by planning events, actively engaging with current and prospective UHP students, and representing the UHP as a whole. If you’re interested in taking control of your UHP experience and helping others succeed, consider applying to become a SPA! SPA members help fellow students with course selection, conflict resolution, time management and extracurriculars as well as provide a student perspective of the UHP to prospective students and parents.
New applicants should use this form
Returner applicants should use this form
Think you’re interested? Make sure to apply soon! The application deadline is this Friday, February 8th at 5:00pm. Applications should be submitted by email to uhpspa@gwu.edu with the subject line “SPA Application.” Please forward all questions regarding the application process to Eleanor Aldous (ealdous@gwmail.gwu.edu.). Decisions will be announced on March 4th.

Vermeer believes in you even if you don’t have a pearl earring. Apply for SPA today!

Addicted to Books? [Good Article]

Check out this post from Michael Dirda as he talks about the problems of a particular kind of addiction — books! Are you one of those notorious book hoarders too?
From the American Scholar article:

Now this is bad, very bad. These days I can hardly step away from this desk and not find myself gravitating to a used-book store and pulling out my credit card. I can almost always justify my purchases as sensible, reasonable courses of action. All addicts do this.

Incidentally, Michael Dirda will be visiting GWU soon for his UHP-sponsored talk on Sherlock Holmes.

Free Trip to the Newseum [SPA Event]

FREE TRIP TO THE NEWSEUM!

Join SPA members Breanna Browne and Jess Burnell as they adventure to the Newseum. Meet them along with Liz and Professor Ralkowski on Friday, Feburary 8th @ 1:00pm  at the Honors Townhouse to walk over to the Newseum. Tickets are normally $17.95 for students, so seize the opportunity to go for free! Click HERE to sign up.
Is that technically a pun?

Want to get more involved with the UHP?

You’re in luck – we’re looking for our next batch of Student Peer Advisors!

Student Peer Advisors (SPA) are dedicated to serving the UHP community by assisting fellow UHP students, meeting prospective students, and representing the UHP as a whole. If you’re interested in leadership opportunities, events, and more UHP quality time, consider applying to become a SPA! SPA members help fellow students with course selection, conflict resolution, time management and extracurriculars as well as provide a student perspective of the UHP to prospective students and parents.
New applicants should use this form
Returner applicants should use this form
Think you’re interested? Make sure to apply soon! The application deadline is Friday, February 8th at 5:00pm. Applications should be submitted by email to uhpspa@gwu.edu with the subject line “SPA Application.” Please forward all questions regarding the application process to Eleanor Aldous (ealdous@gwmail.gwu.edu.). Decisions will be announced on March 4th.
 

TV's Best Comedy [SPA Event]

Excited for the fourth season of Community?! Your SPA is as well! Join Penina and Kayleigh on February 7th (aka October 19th) at 8pm sharp in their room, Ivory 313, to rejoice over the return of TV’s best comedy. There will be popcorn and felt goatees! (This is the darkest blog post.)

A Great Way To Catch Up With The UHP!

Just to be clear, he’s sitting on a park bench reading the UHP blog. Park Bench. UHP Blog.

Do you have an RSS reader on your computer or smart phone? Then you can subscribe to this blog and make it a part of your daily feed. Think how wonderful it will be to see a post from the UHP appear on your reader, telling you about all of the great things happening here in the Honors Program. It gives me warm fuzzies just thinking about it… so Subscribe today!

Research Art w/ Prof. von Barghahn-Calvetti [Paid Research Assistant Opp]

As a Faculty Fellow, Prof. Barbara von Barghahn-Calvetti has a budget of up to $1,000 to pay a student research assistant for this semester!  If you’re interested in doing exciting academic work (and getting paid to do it), please contact the professor directly here: bvb@gwu.edu.
You’d be assisting with:
1) a possible exhibition on the artist Juan Bautista Martinez del Mazo, a disciple of the famous Spanish master Diego Velazquez;
2) ongoing research on the Hapsburg Archduchesses of Belgium and their acquisition of tapestries;
3) early Jesuit artists/missionaries in colonial Peru;
4) reconstruction of palace interiors (Adobe Photoshop)
Of course, you’d receive  credit/acknowledgment in any future product to which you contributed. No knowledge of art history is needed, just a love of exploration.

Taking a Contract Course? [Deadline]

If you’re taking a contract course, make sure to get your Honors Contract complete.
It may not be as exciting as signing the “Fun Contract” with the Cat in the Hat.  But it should be considerably less terrifying than having to interact with a furry Mike Myers in some kind of nightmare cat costume. So it’s a tradeoff, we guess.
How do you know if you need to complete an Honors Contract? Keep reading to find out.
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