Honors Wednesday Memo
Opportunities and Information for Honors Students
edited by Brad Rentz
Volume 3, Issue 7
October 2, 2019
Message from Dean Jeff Vahlbusch
I'm writing with a terrific opportunity for Honors students:
Please attend our Spring 2020 Honors College course preview this coming Tuesday, October 8th, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. in the Parkway Ballroom, PSU 420.
First, it's dinner: we'll be serving appetizers, salad, and beverages! And, second: you'll get to meet our Spring 2020 Honors College faculty and hear them talk—for three minutes each—about their upcoming HON seminars!
We'll make time between 6:30 and 7:00 p.m. for us to mingle and ask questions. Please come to learn, to revel in the richness of Honors College course offerings, and to show Honors faculty members how much you appreciate their work and commitment!
An RSVP is not required, but it would help. Please get the word out to your Honors student friends and colleagues.
Yours,
Jeff
The photo above was taken this past Friday, September 27 at an Honors social marking the beginning of Family Weekend at Appalachian. Photo Submitted.
Upcoming Opportunities:
Call for Submissions: German-Jewish Conference at ASU
After a successful, co-organized conference in Israel this past March, Appalachian’s Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies is now organizing an academic conference at ASU in March 2020. Unlike the international conference in Akko, this event in Boone is also open to Ph.D. students and advanced undergraduates. if you work in Jewish, Holocaust or German Studies (and your work touches on any one of these themes, consider submitting a proposal by October 15. For more information, visit our website.
Turchin Center’s Fall Exhibition Celebration
On Friday, October 4 from 6 to 10 pm the Turchin Center is celebrating its fall exhibition during the Downtown Boone Art Crawl event. This is free and open to the public, you can meet the artists, listen to live music, and see fantastic art. For more information, click here.
Cider, Chickens, and More!
Honors students are invited to come out to the Appalachian State Sustainable Development Farm’s open house this Saturday, October 5 between 11 am and 3 pm. There will be self-guided tours, plant medicine making demonstration, open fire cooking and cider pressing from apples grown on the farm. For more information and driving direction, visit our website.
Call for Mail Art!
The Flood Gallery in Black Mountain is calling for art for its uncensored free-style mail art show using the postal system as a medium. All submissions received by mail will be exhibited. Anyone can enter! All submissions must have a postmark by October 7, 2019, to be included in the exhibition on Saturday, October 12 from 6 to 9 pm. For more information, click here.
Call on the Student Leadership Consultants
Student Leadership Consultants (SLCs) are student peer leaders trained through Leadership Education and Development to present on topics designed to develop leadership skills and community. You can request to have an SLC come to your organization or club to host workshops on any leadership topic you might need! To learn more, visit our website.
AHA Upcoming:
Movie Night: This Friday at 7 pm in App. Hall room 085, AHA will show Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Mandatory LipSync Rehearsal: Tomorow (Thursday) (waiting for time and location)
AHA Spooktacular: Save the date! October 26 from 8 to 10 p.m. - stay tuned for more updates!
Homecoming Banner: Please submit and banner ideas to ricoma@appstate.edu
Kazoo Band Interest: If you are interested in joining the AHA kazoo band for Homecoming, email ricoma@appstate.edu.
Upcoming Thesis Defenses:
Jeff says, “Support your fellow Honors College students and faculty by attending Honors thesis defenses! You'll marvel, learn, and grow. And each defense you attend, you'll make your own easier”
Allison Farrell: October 22, 10:00 am, Holmes Convocation Center room 13B, an exercise science major, will present Parental Impact on Child Physical Activity and Sedentary Time.
Stay in the Know…
Graduate School Fair
The Graduate School Fair will be held in the Student Union’s Grandfather Mountain Ballroom this Thursday, October 3 from 10 am to 2 pm. There will be graduate school representatives from over 35 colleges, universities, and professional schools across the southeast. For more information, click here.
Anthropology Brown Bag Series
The Anthropology Department’s Brown Bag Series is continuing this fall semester with several guest speakers throughout the semester. All guest speakers will be in Belk Hall 342 at 12 p.m. Next week, on October 9, Lauren Waterworth will visit to present Regulating the Regulators: Public Participation in Environmental Regulation. For more information about the Brown Bag Series, visit our website.
GWS Lecture Series: Carrie Hart
Appalachian’s Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies program is hosting a lecture series on campus this fall. Next week, Carrie Hart will present “What Do You Make of That?: Feminist Pedagogy and the Possibilities of Project-Based Learning” on Thursday, October 10, 2019. All lectures in this series are in 114 Belk Library from 6 to 7 p.m. For more information, visit our website.
Campus Talk: Safiya Noble
On Monday, October 7 in the Blue Ridge Ballroom of the Student Union, from 7 to 8:15 p.m. Dr. Safiya Noble will come to Appalachian to present research related to her book “Algorithms of Oppression, How Search Engines Reinforce Racism.” Noble is an Associate Professor at UCLA in the Departments of Information Studies and African American Studies, and a visiting faculty member at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication. For more information, click here.
Fall Sustainability Film Series
The theme for this year’s fall sustainability film series is “Health, Wellness, and Sustainability.” All films in this series will be held in IG Greer Hall at 7:00 pm. The next film will be “Urban Roots” with a special Guest speaker on October 9. For more information, and for the complete list of films in this semester’s series, visit our website.
In the Honors Spotlight
Emma Lassiter Reaches 2018-19 Teacher of the Year Finalist
The photo above features Appalachian alumna Emma Lassiter ’19, of Apex, North Carolina. Photo submitted
Honors’ Emma Lassiter ’19 was named one of seven finalists for Appalachian’s 2018 – 19 Student-Teacher of the Year award. When reflecting on her time at Appalachian, she said “The combination of the large university with the smaller communities of the Honors College and (Hayes) School of Music were a perfect fit,” she shared. This fall, Lassiter began her first year of teaching vocal music at the middle school level.
Text and Story from AppalachianToday. For more on the Teacher of the Year Finalists and Emma Lassiter, click here.
Honors Dr. Chris Osmond Partners to Help Future Educators
The photo above shows students from Appalachian State University and Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) spending a day at the Appalachian State University Academy Middle Fork in Forsyth County as part of the social justice in education program created through the universities’ partnership. Dr. Chris Osmond is featured in the front left.
Dr. Chris Osmond, Honors faculty member, associate professor in Appalachian’s Department of Leadership and Educational Studies, and associate director of the Reich College of Education’s doctoral program in educational leadership is working with Winston-Salem State University in providing a social justice program for future teachers.
For more on Dr. Osmond and this collaborative program helping future educators, click here.
To Stay in the Know and Learn About All Opportunities in Honors, please visit https://honors.appstate.edu/announcements
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