VOLUNTEER FOR THE SEARCH FOR A PRE-LAW ADVISOR

The Honors Program is looking for volunteers for the search for a pre-law advisor. Two finalists for the position have been invited to campus to meet with students, faculty, and staff and to give presentations on how to prepare a personal statement for law school applications. The Honors Program invites students to attend the presentations, participate in a discussion with the candidates, and provide feedback (via an online survey tool) to the search committee. Your opinion matters!

• Rebecca Flanagan, JD, University of North Carolina
  Monday, January 26, 2009
  1:30 p.m., CUE 134
  Discussion to follow brief presentation.
• Peter Mitchell, JD, Georgetown
  Tuesday, January 27, 2009
  1:30 p.m., CUE 134
  Discussion to follow brief presentation.

Interested students should RSVP with Meg Bishop at meg.bishop@uconn.edu as soon as possible!

ATTENTION MAY, AUGUST, AND DECEMBER 2009 GRADUATES!

Seniors, it is time to prepare for graduation! May and August 2009 candidates for the Honors Scholar designation should have already submitted the first of the Honors graduation forms, the ”Honors Final Plan of Study.” However, the Honors office will still be accepting Honors plans of study until February 16, 2009, which is also the due date for the “Honors Scholar Thesis Plan.” Both forms require the Honors advisor’s signature, but the thesis plan also requires the signature of the thesis advisor. Receipt of BOTH forms by published deadlines is required for students to be listed in the Commencement and Honors Medals Ceremony booklets. Students graduating in December 2009 must submit these forms by March 3, 2009 if they would like to participate in the May 2009 Honors Medals
Ceremony.

ALL SENIORS should review the Honors Graduation Checklist for due dates, links to forms, and other important items regarding Honors graduation.  Additional information about the Honors Medals Ceremony on Sunday, May 3, 2009is available online.  Please save the date.

If you have any questions pertaining to graduation as an Honors Scholar or if your graduation date or status has changed, please contact the Honors office in CUE 420 or at 486-4223.

 

REMINDER! HONORS HOUSING APPLICATIONS

Reminder for students applying for Honors housing for the 2009-2010 academic year! Students must submit both the housing application through Residential Life AND a supplemental application through Honors. The Reslife housing application process began in December and ends on Friday, January 23, 2009. The Honors supplemental application is available online or in the Honors office in CUE 420 and is due on Friday, February 13, 2009. For more information, visit the following helpful links!

• The NEW Honors Housing Process
• Honors Housing FAQ's
• Honors Housing Supplemental Application
• For any general questions concerning Honors, visit the Honors current students page!
  

ACADEMIC ADVISING HOURS IN THE HONORS OFFICE

Got questions? If you have general academic questions, don’t hesitate to stop by CUE 416 to talk to Dr. Jessamy Hoffmann during her open office hours, Tuesdays between 9:30 and 11:30 am and Wednesdays between 2:00 and 4:00 pm! (For other times, please call 486-4223 to set up an appointment.)Other Honors staff members, including Mrs. Patricia Szarek and Dr. Jennifer Lease Butts, will also meet with students by appointment or when available on a drop-in basis. Bear in mind that your official academic advisor should be your primary contact for academic advising.

 

HONORS CORE COURSE IN THE SCIENCES

MCB, CSE and BME majors and Honors Students-- Interested in a hands-on research experience? Want to get to know two faculty members up close and personal? Consider enrolling in BME/CSE/MCB 1401 (120): Computation Molecular Biology for spring 2009.  This class is an Honors course, but you do not need to be a member of the Honors Program to take it. You will receive honors credit that will be reflected on your transcript if you earn a B- or above. This counts as an Honors Core Course. For more information, visit the course description HERE or contact the instructors, Ion Mandoiu at ion@engr.uconn.edu or Craig Nelson at craig.nelson@uconn.edu.

 

GET READY FOR A NEW SEMESTER... SEMINAR IN TIME MANAGEMENT

Ever wonder where your time has gone? Feeling completely overwhelmed with your responsibilities? Trying to create a few more hours in the day? Come meet with Kevin Sullivan, Director of Academic Support for First Year Programs, and see how you can make the most of your time! THIS COUNTS AS AN HONORS EVENT! This event will take place on Thursday, January 22, 2009 at 6:00 p.m. in CUE 134.

 

CAMPUS ANNOUNCEMENTS AND SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

THE OFFICE OF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH

Office of Undergraduate Research offers two opportunities to outstanding students –the Summer Undergraduate Research Fund (SURF) and Frontiers in Undergraduate Research.

SURF provides up to $3500 in funding for students to participate in research, scholarship, or creative projects over the summer. To be eligible, undergraduate students must be planning to graduate no earlier than May 2010. Applications and instructions for applying (including dates of informational workshops for student applicants) are available on-line at www.our.uconn.edu under the SURF tab. The deadline to apply for SURF is Friday, February 6, 2009. Interested students should attend the next informational session on SURF on January 23, at 4:00 p.m. in CUE 134.

Frontiers in Undergraduate Research is the annual poster exhibition of student research, scholarship, and creative projects. Frontiers will be held on Friday, April 17, 2009, and Saturday, April 18, 2009. Any undergraduate student may apply to showcase his or her work. Applications and instructions for applying are available on-line at www.our.uconn.edu under the Frontiers tab. The deadline to apply for Frontiers is Friday, February 20, 2009.
INTERESTED STUDENTS SHOULD ATTEND THE INFORMATIONAL WORKSHOP FOR FRONTIERS: 
THURSDAY, JANUARY 29TH AT 2 P.M., CUE 134

If you have questions about either opportunity, please do not hesitate to contact us at our@uconn.edu

 

SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM FOR PRE-LAW STUDENTS

Trials (Training and Recruiting Initiative for Admission to Leading Law Schools) is a unique collaboration of New York University Law School, Harvard Law School, and the Advantage Testing Foundation, a public service organization dedicated to expanding opportunities for higher education. It is a residential scholarship program that helps talented and motivated undergraduates of modest means whose backgrounds are currently underrepresented at law schools earn acceptance to the nation's leading institutions. For five weeks in July and August students reside at Harvard or NYU to receive extensive LSAT instruction and a lecture series featuring prominent scholars and lawyers. Students have no expenses associated with the program, and will receive a $3,000 stipend! Applications for the first ever Trials session are due March 1, 2009. To learn more about this program or apply online, visit http://trials.atfoundation.org.

ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM HONORS COUNCIL!

A DIFFERENT KIND OF SPRING BREAK
Wanna earn three credits and SAVE THE WORLD while you're at it?  Spots are STILL OPEN for the Honors Alternative Spring Break to New Orleans!  Includes a 3-credit sociology class.  This trip is open to ALL UConn students!  Sign up NOW at http://www.hc.uconn.edu.

THE HONORABLE MENTION
Call for submissions:  The Honorable Mention is now accepting submissions for the February 2009 issue.  We accept a wide variety of submissions:  new briefs, articles, commentaries, poetry, non-fiction, puzzles/comics, and questions for our advice columnist.  Submit to UConnHC@gmail.com by Friday, February 6.


MATCHMAKING SURVEYS
Can't find your other half?  Allow us to be of service.  Fill out your iFluRtz Matchmaking Survey and return it to the CA desk in Shippee by January 25.  If you are a freshman in the Honors Program, your survey will be available under your door in Shippee or Buckley on Monday, January 19.  There is NO COST to take the survey; $3 for results--coming before Valentine's Day!


FRIENDLY'S FUNDRAISER
Bring all of your friends to Friendly's (on Rt.195 across from EO Smith)! If we get 100 people or more to come on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 between 5:00 and 8:00 p.m., Honors Alternative Spring Break will earn 10% of the bill, and that money will go towards putting on more events!  So, have a nice dinner with your friends, get some ice cream, and raise money for New Orleans!

 

NEW STUDY ABROAD OPPORTUNITY IN THE SCIENCES

A new summer program is being offered by the University of Connecticut and the Institute for Neuroscience of Castilla y Leon at the University of Salamanca. The program is designed for Undergraduate Neuroscience, Pre-Medical science majors, Biomedical Engineers, Audiology and Communication Science, and Graduate students in Neuroscience and Hearing Research. The Curriculum for 2009 includes: Neurobiology of Hearing (honors undergraduate/graduate course) taught in English and Introduction to Spanish for Pre-Med Students and Scientists. For details on the study abroad experience, check out the program description! For more information, visit the program websites at http://neuroabroad.uchc.edu/ and http://studyabroad.uconn.edu. APPLICATIONS ARE DUE FEBRUARY 17, 2009.

INTERESTED IN MEDICINE OR DENTISTRY?

PNB 3279 (section 001) Mini-Medical/Dental School: Insights into Dental Science and Clinical Medicine is being offered to students who want to learn more about careers in medicine and dentistry. For the spring 2009 semester this course will be offered as a satisfactory/unsatisfactory course, which will be honors sponsored. It will not be available for honors credit as it will not be possible to earn a letter grade in the course. The Mini-Medical/Dental School is an informative course to take and will cover topics such as orthopedic surgery with Dr. Laurencin, Dean of the School of Medicine, and pathology with Dr. Eisenberg, Professor of Oral Pathology.