Seattle – home of notable Starbucks, Nordstrom, and the awe-inspiring Costco – is also the home of my research début at the 2013 SRCD Biennial Meeting. The UHP/SURE award partially funded my travel expenses for this three-day conference with professionals in the field of child development research. With the help of two of my professors in the Speech and Hearing Science Department, Dr. Francys Subiaul and Dr. Cynthia Core, I submitted my Independent Study research as a poster presentation for the conference and was fortunate enough to be selected. Continue reading “Coo-KIES, Conferences, and the SURE Award [SURE Stories]”
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Writing Hollywood [SURE Stories]
The following post is written by UHP student Jacob Garber, who received a UHP SURE award for research in Spring 2013. —
Hollywood TV is created behind the closed doors of the writers’ room. The writing staff brings life to comedies and dramas alike, yet the operation of these writers is largely unexplored. I am assisting Professor Phalen conduct an in-depth study of Hollywood writers, venturing into the writers’ room, exploring the relationship between the writer and the program, and tracing the history of TV writing from its roots in radio and stage performances. We hope to provide a holistic view of TV writers, from professional microculture to their larger role in the Hollywood system. Continue reading “Writing Hollywood [SURE Stories]”
Capital Climate Initiative Open House [Event]
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
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”
Baby William's Book Tasting: Curious George and the Puppies
As a member of the UHP’s intellectual community, junior program officer William Chandler offers book recommendations beyond your syllabi.
Fans and followers of my book reviews can breathe a sigh of relief – Curious George gets better! I recently stomped and chewed on “Curious George and the Puppies Lap Edition” and enjoyed it thoroughly for its storytelling and its structural integrity.
Continue reading “Baby William's Book Tasting: Curious George and the Puppies”
UHP, Phil Students Public Defense
The following post is written by Honors Professor Mark Ralkowski. —
Two UHP seniors who are majors in the philosophy department, Iaan Reynolds and Katie Hurrelbrink, are publicly defending their theses Friday, May 3 in Phillips 411, from 2:00 until 4:00. They will each present their work for twenty minutes, and then answer tough questions from faculty for ten minutes. The Philosophy Dept. is also holding a reception for them afterward. This is very exciting for everyone in the department because Katie and Iaan both received fellowships to write their theses.
Along the same lines, Iaan has had some success with his research. He recently published part of his thesis in an international undergraduate journal called Paideia. His article is called “Motivating and Imagining an Ethics of Adjacency.” This is his abstract:
Heidegger gives us a compelling reason to reject metaphysics entirely. Upon a close examination of metaphysical inquiry, Heidegger arrives at a troubling conception of ontology. To Heidegger, ontological inquiries can only take place under certain ‘ontotheologies’, which are shared understandings of what and how beings are. While most of Heidegger’s project can be read as an attempt to do ontology despite this major obstacle, he remains strangely silent on the question of ethics. Here I formulate the first piece of a Heideggerian ethics, based on the ‘fundamental ontology’ he writes in Being and Time and elsewhere.
Honor Cords, Grad Reception, and the Senior Survey
Howdy, Seniors.
If you’re graduating, have we got the survey for you! When you complete it, you can pick up your gold honor cord to wear at graduation. You can also pick up your 4 tickets for the graduation reception. Continue reading “Honor Cords, Grad Reception, and the Senior Survey”
Students: We need your feedback!
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!
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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