The UHP is now accepting your entries for the 2013 Strasser Writing Prize!
The Strasser prize awards a grand prize of $100 and two runner-ups of $50 to the best papers written in any Honors course over the past year. You can only enter one paper, so make sure it’s your best!
Submit your entry online after reading the full rules (which have changed from last year). This year’s deadline for entries is Friday, March 1st, 2013.
You’ve already written the paper, now submit!
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Graduating? Let us know!
Seniors, this is our last call: if you’re graduating this spring you must complete this form. You have until 5pm on February 1st to fill it out.
Seniors: You Need a Signature [Deadlines]
If you’re pursuing Special Honors in your degree in lieu of an Honors Senior Thesis, make sure to fill out the Special Honors Verification Form by February 15th, 2013. You need a signature on that form from your advisor, and that can take some time — so you’d better start now!
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Lunch w/ the Director of the UHP is Full!
Our Lunch with the Director Friday, February 1st, 2013 at 12pm in the UHP Club Room at 714 21st St. is completely booked! There’ll be another later this semester (and you can always join us at our brown-bag lunches for a casual bring-your-own-lunch event with faculty and staff).
In the meantime, you can check for open spots if anyone has cancelled!
What is Going on Here?
It’s a busy semester, and you’ve got a lot to do! Forms, events, food, contests, deadlines, food, paperwork, food, food, and other stuff.
How to keep it all organized? Use our calendar! It’s online, but thanks to the magic of the Interwebz, you can just add our calendars right into yours!
It’s really easy to do. Just make sure you’re logged into your GWmail account, and then just click this link to add our calendars to yours.
Are you excited about this? We’re excited about this.
Rising Sophomores: Live in Amsterdam (Hall)!
Rising sophomores, have you applied for Honors Housing in Amsterdam Hall yet? Just to be clear, we mean the dorm on campus, not the worldly city. Well, you could live in Amsterdam (city), but commuting to campus would be terrible, especially on a bike. Sign up for housing in Amsterdam Hall and you won’t have to worry! This is the last week to sign up.
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Brag a Little, You're Graduating!
So you’re graduating this spring. Give yourself some credit and start letting people know! Especially us in the UHP.
For realzies, we really need to know. We won’t know unless you tell us. And if we don’t know, then you won’t know about things like our super exclusive reception (Finger foods! Beverages! Awkward family photo opportunities in front of gorgeous skyline views!)
Fortunately, you own’t miss out on a thing if you fill out this super quick Intent to Graduate form. You have until 5pm on February 1st to fill it out.
Freshmen Workshops: Just a Few Seats Left!
Freshmen! The first workshops start tomorrow! You need to attend just one session, so pick the one you’d like and sign up before it fills up. Click here for a consolidated view if you know what topic you want to attend, or keep reading for all the details.
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Last Chance for $500 [Spring 2013 SURE Award]
It’s your last chance! The deadline for the SURE Award application is next Friday!
If you’ve got an excellent research proposal, we’ve got up to $500 to help you do it. Your research can be independent, or it can be part of a course or senior project as well!
The possibilities are endless, but the deadline to apply for the spring 2013 semester is February 1, 2013.
Keep reading for more info, or read about the award here.
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.
