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.
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What It's Like To Live In West Hall [Honors Housing]
The following post is written by UHP freshman, SPA member, and West Hall resident Dan Grover. —-
One of the biggest challenges about the college process isn’t the applications, it isn’t the essays, or even getting in. It’s figuring out where to go. Hopefully, by reading this, you’ve already settled on GW, (but just in case you haven’t, totally come to GW). Once I’d finally made that choice and let some relief settle in, I was confronted by an even tougher decision: do I choose to live in Honors Housing?
I’m sure I had some of the same fears that you prospective students are having now; will all of my friends be only Honors kids, will I make no friends outside of West Hall, will I be sad all the time on the Vern and so on. After much agonizing, I bit the bullet and went through with Honors Housing.
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UHP Peer Advising Is Awesome [GW Hatchet]
If you’re a UHPer, you probably already know that UHP students have a great resource: the Student Peer Advisors (SPA). Thanks to an article in today’s Hatchet, everybody else knows too! Sunik Kim extols the virtues of a close-knit community and peer advising — just like what we have in the UHP with SPA.
Pretty awesome. SPAwesome.
From the Hatchet article:
Peer advising would not only help students from an academic standpoint, but new students could also benefit socially from older students who know more about campus life. As mentors to underclassmen, the older students in the honors program advising system hold get-togethers two to three times each month, where students can socialize.
Read the whole article here.
Attention ESIA Rising Juniors and Seniors!
Have you considered applying for the Elliott School Undergraduate Scholars Program?
This year, Preston Whitt and Carly Nuttal (two UHP seniors, see this blog post) participated and highly recommend the experience. They honed their research skills and received a $500 stipend to investigate questions of pressing interest to themselves and to their fields, and the Elliott School will publish their final products as an academic journal. In addition, they presented their findings to local academic conference, satisfied their UHP Special Honors requirements, and made lasting professional and mentor relationships with their faculty advisors.
If you are thinking about applying, stop by the UHP Townhouse this Thursday (4/4/13) evening from 7:00-9:00 pm. Preston will be on hand to answer any questions about the program or look over your proposal to offer advice.
RSVP not required, but definitely appreciated!
Coffee and Doughnuts for Privileged Students
On Wednesday, April 3rd privileged registration will open to Honors students. The wonderful house proctors of West Hall, Meagan and Val will be distributing coffee and breakfast for you sleepy-eyed students starting at 6:30 AM. The fact that they are getting up before 7 AM proves that they care. You can find them outside the elevators on the first floor of West Hall that morning.
Food for Thought: Social Media and Police [Lunch]
Have you signed up yet?
Join us for this lunchtime event on Thursday, April 11th at 1pm in the UHP Clubroom in Foggy Bottom. Prof. Lori Brainard presents on police department use of social media, with the help of her research assistant, UHPer Andrew Beauregard.
Lunch is free, but seats are limited. So sign up now!
New UHP Course Offerings Available
Just in time for registration, we’d like to announce the addition of four new courses for next semester. Keep reading to find out more!
Apply for 2013 Research Assistant Opportunity
The deadline to apply for next semester’s research assistant opportunities is coming up fast.
The deadline to apply is Friday, March 29th, 2013!
Why would you want to be a research assistant? You get an opportunity to do advanced scholarly work, partnering with a research faculty member here at GWU. Pick a topic that’s interesting to you (or go out on a limb and try exploring something completely new!) Some of these can even be complete for credit.
Check out the opportunities for fall 2013, and apply now!
Help A UHPer: Watch TV, Get Pizza
Help a UHPer with her senior thesis and you could win a Kindle Fire HD 16GB tablet!
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Commencement Fair – This Week!
Graduates, visit the Commencement Fair (March 26-30) and take care of all of your Commencement needs. Save $25 in online shipping charges by pre-ordering your cap and gown at the GW bookstore; take your Cherry Tree Yearbook photo (undergraduates only); learn more about the Career Services programs; GW Alumni Association; Grad Week;Green Graduation Pledge/Green Move-out; and give to your Senior Class Gift Campaign. For more information, visitwww.commencement.gwu.edu.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
