Honors Monthly Memo
Opportunities and Information for Honors Students
edited by Brad Rentz
Volume 2, Issue 35
July 17, 2019
Message from Dean Jeff Vahlbusch
Dear Honors students and faculty across the university,
May I give you a gift?
Click here to learn about the pilot subscription the Honors College has purchased for each of you to the Student Opportunity Center (SOC).
Honors education is about connecting to opportunities, in and out of the classroom. The SOC is the largest and best-organized national database of high-impact opportunities:
● Conferences, seminars, workshops
● Publication opportunities: journals, competitions
● Summer research opportunities
● Internships
● Grants, scholarships, fellowships
Students: when you return to campus in August, please expect an email showing you how to register with the SOC and set up the automatic key-word searches that will deliver opportunities to your inbox. Faculty: you’ll also have the power to add and advertise your own high-impact opportunities to local or national audiences through the SOC.
We are very excited about our partnership with SOC, and look forward to increasing the power of opportunities to transform our lives, our learning, and our futures. See you in a few weeks!
Jeff
Do you have a photo submission for the top of the Memo? Send it to Honors@appstate.edu!
Upcoming Opportunities:
Dr. Vahlbusch will be delighted to assist with applications!
Work in the Honors College
Are you eligible for work-study jobs? Would you like to work for the Honors College? You will need to act quickly! The deadline to apply is Friday, July 19. There are 2 to 3 positions available for 6 to 9 hours a week. For more information on this opportunity, click here.
UReCA Call for Submissions
The NCHC journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity (UReCA), is seeking submissions from all currently enrolled undergraduate students. Submitted work may be from a class project or something produced outside of class. The deadline to submit is August 10. For more information and how to submit your work, click here.
Celebration of Student Research and Creative Endeavors
This year’s Annual Research Day event was held on April 18 and was a major success. Next, the 23rd annual Celebration of Student Research and Creative Endeavors meeting will be held on Thursday, April 16, 2020. Students interesting are encouraged to begin the application process and review some of the research projects that appeared in this year’s showing. For more information, click here.
Stay in the Know…
ASU Summer Symposium
The 18th Annual Martin and Doris Rosen Summer Symposium on Remembering the Holocaust will be held July 20-25, 2019, in the Student Union. This year's symposium explores the multi-fold connections between the Holocaust and education. The event is organized by Appalachian's Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies and named for symposium benefactors, the late Doris and Martin Rosen. The week-long symposium will bring internationally and nationally acclaimed scholars, authors, and educators to Boone. For a preview of the week’s events, click here.
NEH Grant Workshop
A National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Grant Application Writing Workshop will be hosted on Friday, September 27 from 9 am to 4 pm at UNC-Asheville. This workshop is free and will be led by Dr. Geoff Burrows, the Senior Program Officer in the Division of Research Programs at NEH. For more information, visit our website.
Library News
The library has updated and improved the interlibrary loan Illiad service login. You will now login to your account using your current appstate username and password. You will no longer need a unique Illiad username/password to access the system. For more information, click here.
In the Honors Spotlight
Tierney Daw Awarded Garrett Memorial Scholarship
Photo above shows Honors’ Tierney Daw. Photo Submitted.
Honors senior Tierney Daw has been awarded the 2018-19 George Williams Garrett Memorial Scholarship. Daw is a biology major and chemistry minor working in the lab of Dr. Mary Kinkel, assistant professor of biology.
For more on Daw and the Garrett Scholarship, click here.
Bryson Honeycutt and Carly Maas Winners of Student Poster Competition
Pictured, from left to right, are senior chemistry major John Stevens IV; Dr. William “Bill” Anderson, professor in and chair of the Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences; junior geology major Carly Maas; Dr. Cole Edwards, assistant professor in the Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences. Photo submitted
Honors Bryson Honeycutt, and Carly Maas, who is pursuing departmental honors in her major, have been selected as two of the top three undergraduate winners of the Student Poster Competition at Appalachian State University's 22nd Annual Celebration of Student Research and Creative Endeavors. Honeycutt is sophomore a geology major from Alexander, and Maas is a junior geology major from Greensboro.
To learn more, click here to read the full story by Jessica Stump in AppalachianToday.
To Stay in the Know and to Learn About All Opportunities in Honors, please visit https://honors.appstate.edu/announcements
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