We 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!
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Food for Thought: Solar Decathlon [Free Lunch]
Don’t miss out on the last Food for Thought of the semester! Seats are still available, and the lunch is still free. The topic is still GW’s entry in the Solar Decathlon, and you still can make it!
Thursday, April 25th from 1-2pm in the UHP Club Room in Foggy Bottom (714 21st Street)
Register Here
Live Life on the (L)edge!
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!
Summer Course w/ Prof. Ralkowski
If you’re around this summer and looking for a philosophy course – you might want to check out this offering. While not an Honors class, it is taught by an Honors professor. Honors students are very welcome, and they can expect a class that will be in ways similar Origins, but with a greater focus on Philosophy.
PHIL 2111 meets MTWR, 5/20-6/29, 12:30-2:00pm.
This is the course description:
This course is an overview of ancient Greek philosophy. We will begin with the fragmentary writings of the Presocratics, which date back to the 6th century BCE. And we will finish with the meditations of Marcus Aurelius and the handbook of Epictetus, two of the most famous stoics from the first and second centuries CE. Along the way, we will spend most of our time studying the thought of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Our discussions will cover issues in ethics, politics, psychology, aesthetics, religion, metaphysics, and epistemology. As we will see, in the ancient world these concepts were often treated together and studied as a way of life.
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Capitol Hill and Organic Trade (Paid Opportunity)
If you’re interested in lobbying and/or organic food policy, take a break from your finals to participate in the Organic Trade Association’s Policy Conference and Hill Visit Days. The conference takes place from May 9-15.
Interns will be paid $12/hour, and support registration, scheduling, events, and communications.
See the attached application for more information if you are interested, and direct any questions you may have to cstrong@ota.com.
Celebrate Shakespeare's 449th Birthday! [Recommended Event]
Join the GW Dean’s Scholars in Shakespeare on Monday April 22 at 7:30 pm for “For a Muse of Fire,” a 449th Shakespeare’s Birthday Celebration featuring Helen Hayes Award recipients and actors Rick Foucheux and Naomi Jacobson. The fun, performance demo event will be in Post Hall on the Mount Vernon campus. The event is hosted by Professor Alan Wade.
UHPers in Holocaust Memory Course [GWHatchet]
Take a look at this article over at the GW Hatchet about Honors students in Prof. Walter Reich’s “Holocaust Memory” course, and the body of work they have produced which is on display now.
From the article:
Undergraduates in the honors international affairs class Holocaust and Memory pieced together letters, timelines, telegrams and dreary, black-and-white photographs to dive inside the life of a Holocaust survivor. The exhibit opened last week.
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“It is personalizing an event which is almost incomprehensible – which is really incomprehensible – the Holocaust,” Reich, a former director of the Holocaust Museum, said. “One of the things that can be learned is think of all the people who didn’t survive and what they could have contributed to the world.”
Read the whole article here.
Food for Thought: Solar Decathlon [Free Lunch]
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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Alex Zafran Picked for Commencement Speaker
Congratulations to Honors student Alex Zafran on being picked as the student speaker for 2013 commencement!
The UHP is proud and very excited to hear him speak!
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Congrats Alex! If you see him on the street, we hear he is accepting high fives and fist bumps as congratulatory gestures.
