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The Honors learning community brings together a diverse group of highly talented undergraduates from across UConn’s schools and colleges, each with a record of significant academic success and engagement.

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Honors Calendar

4/25 Dinner & A Show: Henry IV
4/25 Pleasure Based Consent Workshop
4/25 HArCo Art Show
4/26 Women Empowerment Through Indian Classical Dance
4/26 Illustrated Lecture: Designing Art Furniture
4/27 Fresh Check Day
4/28 Rising Sun Powwow
4/28 Honors Olympics
4/29 "Come As You Are"- Body Image Awareness Panel
4/30 LGBTQ+ In STEM Professional Panel

Dinner & A Show: Henry IV

Thursday, April 25th, 2019

06:00 PM - 09:30 PM

Storrs Campus
Buckley Dining Hall

RSVP:

Dinner and a Show is a free evening event that begins with dinner in the Buckley Classroom and ends with a theater production at the Jorgensen Center for Performing Arts. Come and enjoy an evening with students like yourself interested in surrounding themselves with entertainment and art. This is an opportunity to discuss performing arts with your peers or to just sit back and enjoy a unique show with a friend. RSVP if you wish to attend and donât forget to mark your calendar!

This is an Honors Event. Categories: Honors Community Development #UHLevent360

RSVP at https://honors.uconn.edu/dinnerandashow/

Contact Information: christie.soltys@uconn.edu

Pleasure Based Consent Workshop

Thursday, April 25th, 2019

06:00 PM - 08:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Monteith 420

This workshop offers a unique twist on traditional consent workshops by linking intentional, consensual communication to greater sexual pleasure. Oftentimes the command âpractice consent!â can seem like a tired directive, with little attention paid to how actively practicing consent leads to better communication and therefore better sex. Yana Tallon-Hicks is a couples & relationships therapist and a consent, sex & sexuality writer and educator living in Western Massachusetts. Her work centers around the belief that pleasure-positive & consent-based sex education can positively impact our lives and the world. http://yanatallonhicks.com/uconn/

This is an Honors Event. Categories: Social Change, Service, & Sustainability

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Contact Information: Mita Kale , uconnrar@gmail.com

HArCo Art Show

Thursday, April 25th, 2019

07:00 PM - 09:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Shippee Pequot

This event is meant to showcase artistry in the Honors community and allow students a space to explore their peers' work, interact with other art and humanities majors, and make new friends within Honors.

This is an Honors Event. Categories: Honors Community Development or Academic & Interdisciplinary Engagement

Contact Information: miranda.r.garcia@uconn.edu

Women Empowerment Through Indian Classical Dance

Friday, April 26th, 2019

05:00 PM - 07:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Dodd Center

We are excited to welcome several Indian classical dance teachers to speak on this panel! The panel will be the premiere for an Indian classical dance video themed on women empowerment. We would like to promote diversity in dance and in classical dance in honor of international dance day which is April 29th, 3 days away from our event. We would like to show how dance is an empowering activity and how it can change the way people think of their day to day living. Come and learn and have some great refreshments.

This is an Honors Event. Categories: Multicultural & Global Citizenship OR Social Change, Service, & Sustainability

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Contact Information: Nitya Yelamanchili , nitya.yelamanchili@uconn.edu

Illustrated Lecture: Designing Art Furniture

Friday, April 26th, 2019

05:00 PM - 07:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Benton

John Dunnigan, Professor, RISD will talk about the History and Design of Art Furniture.

John Dunnigan is a designer, maker and educator. His studio work has been shown in more than 100 exhibitions, including 10 solo exhibitions, and is included in such private and public collections as the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC. Dunniganâs furniture has been featured in dozens of publications, such as The New York Times, Newsweek and The Boston Globe and in books and catalogues, including New American Furniture. He was a partner in DEZCO Furniture Design LLC, a company dedicated to sustainable practices in design for mass production.

Dunnigan has been a member of the faculty at RISD in the Departments of Industrial Design, Interior Architecture and Furniture Design and previously served as interim dean of the Division of Architecture + Design. He is a former Mellon Fellow in the RISD Museum and currently holds the Schiller Family Endowed Chair in Furniture Design.

5pm - Reception 5:30 - Talk

This is an Honors Event. Categories: Academic & Interdisciplinary Engagement. #UHLevent408

Contact Information: amanda.douberley@uconn.edu

Fresh Check Day

Saturday, April 27th, 2019

01:00 PM - 04:00 PM

Storrs Campus
SU Lawn

Fresh Check Day is an annual festival with free food, games, and other fun activities which help students learn about positive mental health practices and suicide prevention. Students who register will receive a stamp card, and upon completion of the stamp card can be entered to win a raffle with great prizes such as an Amazon Echo. Plus, we have baby cows!

This is an Honors Event. Category: Career, Professional, and Personal Development

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Contact Information: erin.cox@uconn.edu

Rising Sun Powwow

Sunday, April 28th, 2019

11:00 AM - 04:00 PM

Storrs Campus
SU Lawn

The Native American Cultural Program is hosting their second returning annual powwow. Individuals from all backgrounds are welcome to attend this traditional Native American social event and celebration with food, music, dancing, and vendors.

This is an Honors Event. Category: Multiculturalism and Global Citizenship
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Contact Information: kayla.wong@uconn.edu

Honors Olympics

Sunday, April 28th, 2019

01:00 PM - 03:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Great Lawn

An honors wide event involving all four honors residential communities where students will engage in competitive games and bond with each other across academic years. Along with this, the residents attending will get to know the honors and res life staff along with a plethora of other honors students that they may not have had the opportunity to engage with.

This is an Honors event. Categories: Honors Community Development. #UHLevent375

Contact Information: jeff.depinto_jr@uconn.edu

"Come As You Are"- Body Image Awareness Panel

Monday, April 29th, 2019

04:00 PM - 06:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Student Union Theater

Panelists with varied backgrounds and levels of expertise surrounding issues of body image awareness: food-related policy and its impact on eating behaviors, nutrition/diet experts, eating and exercise disorders, mental health, etc. 3-4 panelists will be featured and have the opportunity to answer questions/prompts related to body image awareness. Roughly 95 t-shirts will be given away for free at the start of the event- first come, first serve.

This is an Honors Event. Categories: Multiculturalism & Global Citizenship OR Social change, Service, & Sustainability

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Contact Information: Noor Taweh, noor.taweh@uconn.edu

LGBTQ+ In STEM Professional Panel

Tuesday, April 30th, 2019

06:30 PM - 08:00 PM

Storrs Campus
ITE 336

Come join the Rainbow Center and the Queer Collective for a panel where professionals in the STEM field will talk about the challenges of being LGBTQ+ in STEM. Allies are welcomed and encouraged to participate!

This is an Honors Event. Categories: Career, Professional, & Personal Development OR Multicultural & Global Citizenship

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Contact Information: Roselyn Terrazos-Moreno, rkt15101work@uconn.edu

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