Freshmen! We’re pleased to present to you a smorgasbord of delightful workshop offerings! You need to attend just one session, so pick the one you’d like and sign up before it fills up! Each workshop topic will have a session on both Foggy Bottom (in the club room at 714 21st St. NW) and one on the Mt. Vernon Campus (in Ames 101Q). Click the date and time you’d like, and sign up!
Hurry though! There are only 20 seats in each section — so get the workshop you’d like at the time you’d like by signing up right now. Keep reading to find the workshop of your dreams, or click here for a consolidated view. Continue reading “Freshmen Workshops: Sign Up Now!”
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Do I need an Honors Contract?
If you’re taking a contract course, make sure to get your Honors Contract complete.
Don’t worry, the Honors Contract doesn’t have any crazy “no brown M&M” clauses like Van Halen’s famously did.
How do you know if you need to complete an Honors Contract? Keep reading to find out.
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Sophomore Honors Housing in Amsterdam Hall
Living in the UHP community as a sophomore is a great way to lock down your space and roommates. Plus this year’s dorm is going to be awesome!
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Graduating? Let us know!
Look, Catherine and Liz aren’t psychic, yet. So they need you to tell them if you’re graduating this spring.
It’s easy to do: just fill out this super quick form. You have until 5pm on February 1st to fill it out.
What do we do with the info? We use it to make sure you get important graduation related information — like how to get your tickets to the special Honors reception and how to pick up your gold cords, among other things.
Baby William's Book Tasting: Curious Baby
As a member of the UHP’s intellectual community, junior program officer William Chandler offers book recommendations beyond your syllabi.
I may be a baby, but I aspire to great things: rolling over, flying like Superman, and using complete sentences. And so I must take issue with the very sincere but ultimately unfulfilling “Curious Baby My First Words at the Farm“, based on the classic character by Margaret and H.A. Rey. (HOLY COW DID YOU KNOW THUMBS COULD DO THIS???) Continue reading “Baby William's Book Tasting: Curious Baby”
A Symposium You'd Actually Like [Event]
GW Digital Humanities Symposium
Thursday January 24 – Saturday January 26, 2013
There are no absolute demarcations between bodily existence and computer simulation.
–N. Katherine Hayles
Free Registration!
If you’ve got some free time on the weekend of the 25th, make sure to check out this symposium! Full details about the event below — keep reading! Continue reading “A Symposium You'd Actually Like [Event]”
New Year's Resolution: Get $500 [Spring 2013 SURE Award]
Use your winter break down time productively. Did you come up with intriguing questions that just need to be researched over break? Questions like:
- What really is the most economically efficient form of gift giving?
- Could we genetically alter trees to glow, so we wouldn’t need to buy lights?
- What cultural and social paradigms converge at holiday dinner to create such terrible, awkward, uncomfortable conversation?
Well, maybe you have better research ideas than that. Either way, you’ve got just the rest of this month to complete and submit your SURE Award application!
That’s right, if you’ve got an excellent research proposal, we’ve got $500 to help you do it.
The possibilities are endless, but the deadline to apply for the spring 2013 semester is January 25, 2013 February 1st, 2013.
Keep reading for more info, or read about the award here.
Online Course Evaluations = Save the Planet
If you don’t complete your online course evaluations for your Honors courses, we’ll have to switch back to paper evals. Paper comes from trees. Don’t make us waste all that paper and kill the planet, please. We never get to have nice things and we really want to have a nice planet, just this once.
You have until Wednesday, December 12th to complete your online course evaluations. You can do them here: http://my.gwu.edu/mod/evaluations
If you loved your class, or hated it, or don’t have strong feelings either way, we need to know! Your anonymous response helps us make sure the UHP is on track and it’s an important part of professor evaluation for faculty contract renewals.
THE FATES OF THE PLANET, THE UHP, AND OUR FACULTY ARE IN YOUR HANDS. NO PRESSURE, GUYS. NO PRESSURE.
For real, it takes five to fifteen minutes: http://my.gwu.edu/mod/evaluations
National Christmas Tree w/ Prof. Mark Ralkowski
UHPers living in West Hall, join Prof. Mark Ralkowski for a small dinner and a trip to the national Christmas tree (and oversized menorah, and little train village) this Friday!
The plan is to meet at the UHP townhouse at 5:30, eat a meal that Prof. Ralkowski will provide, and then walk to the tree.
Just email Prof. Ralkowski at mralkow@gwu.edu no later than Friday morning so that there’ll be sure to be enough food for you.
In anticipation, you might want to watch this video on repeat. Seeing a tree is pretty exciting. (Watch out for one and a half swear words.)
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(Freshmen) Apply to the UHP!
The UHP is now accepting applications from freshmen to join the UHP!
If you’ll be a second-semester freshman next semester (and you’re not already in the UHP) you can apply to join the UHP! Download the (.doc) application directly from this link.
Current UHPers: do you have friends that have what it takes? Share this post with them and encourage them to apply!
