Honors Wednesday Memo
Opportunities and Information for Honors Students
edited by Brad Rentz
Volume 3, Issue 23
February 26, 2020
Message from Dean Jeff Vahlbusch
Dear Honors College students,
Short and very sweet today: here are three great ways to serve the Honors College, your fellow Honors students, and Appalachian:
1) Apply to become editor of the Honors Wednesday Memo, life-blood of Honors education at Appalachian. The deadline is Monday, March 2, at midnight.
2) Apply to become a member of the Honors College Vanguard Ambassadors, the group that recruits for and represents the Honors College, and helps advise the dean (currently me!). The deadline is midnight this Friday, February 28th.
3) Declare your interest in joining a task force to create a new Honors College Student Steering Committee, enabling students to help run the College and help determine its great future. Drop me a line at vahlbuschjb to sign on. The deadline is Wednesday, March 4, at midnight.
Looking forward to working together to better ourselves and our College!
Yours,
Jeff
The photo above shows Honors Maddy Babb in the Honors’ Bailey on Thursday, February 20, 2020. Photo submitted.
Upcoming Opportunities:
Hiring Open: Honors Wednesday Memo Editor beginning Fall 2020 semester
Would you like to become the new Honors Wednesday Memo Editor? The application is now open and will close at 5 pm on March 2nd. To apply, submit a cover letter, resume, and a completed Honors College Student Employment Form. For more information and to find the application, visit our website
WYN Mentoring Program
WYN’s mentoring program helps youth between the ages of 6 and 17 in Avery and Watauga Counties who need a little extra support and guidance. WYN does this by connecting them with a mentor who can be their role models and cheerleaders. If you are interested in getting involved, click here to learn how to apply.
International Student Travel Grant
The deadline to apply for the Spring travel grant is March 4, 2020. All currently enrolled Appalachian undergraduate and graduate students in good academic standing are eligible to apply to defray the cost of travel to present results of their research or creative performance at an international professional conference/meeting/exhibition (travel must be outside of the United States). Visit our website to learn more and to apply.
Become a Mental Health Ambassador
Applications are now open for undergraduate and graduate students to join the Counseling Center's Mental Health Ambassadors (MHA) program! The deadline to apply is Friday, March 6, 2020. MHAs are a group of peer educators who promote awareness of mental health through educational presentations and student interaction. To learn more, click here.
Studio Museum Summer Internship
Internships with Studio Museum offer a diverse range of specialties from accounting and finance, development, communications, and public programming. The deadline to apply is March 9th, 2020.
The internship runs from Monday, June 1, 2020 – Friday, August 7, 2020, and pays $3,000 for a 20hr/week commitment. For more information, visit our website.
AHA Upcoming:
Study Break Trivia & Pizza Night
March 5 at 7 pm in the Honors College Library, stay tuned for more information from AHA!
Honors Spring Formal
Save the date! The Honors Spring Formal will be on April 4, 2020, in the Solarium. Stay tuned for more information.
Stay in the Know…
Honors Cielo Gomez to perform in Five Mile Lake
Honors sophomore and Chancellor's Scholar Cielo Gomez will be performing in ASU's Department of Theatre and Dance production of the play Five Mile Lake. Show dates are February 26-29 at 7 PM and March 1 at 2 PM. For more information, visit our website.
Multiple Sclerosis Support Group
The North Carolina High Country Multiple Sclerosis Support Group is designed to bring people together who have been impacted by MS. Meeting dates are the first Monday of each month, beginning on March 2, 2020, at 6:30 pm in room 112 of LLHS. To learn more, click here.
Community Partner Tours
Come join the ACT Office in several community partner events where you can learn more about the wonderful community partners that the ACT Office works with. The next meeting will take place on March 19 from 2 to 4 pm, the topic will be children and families. For more information, visit our website.
19th Amendment Celebrations
During the month of March, there will be several events honoring the 19th amendment’s centennial. Appalachian is hosting a lecture series with the first events occurring on March 17th at 11 am in 417 Beacon Heights (Student Union) and at 6:30 pm in Room 114 Belk Library. For the full list of events, click here.
Local Issues Coffee Hour
The second Local Issues Coffee Hour will be held on Tuesday, March 24 from 9 to 10 am in the ACT outreach center in the Student Union (room 138). The discussion topic for this session is “Environmental Conversations.” For more information about this coffee hour, click here.
In the Honors Spotlight
Honors Senior Katie Feeny leads MLK Challenge
The photo above shows student volunteers in Appalachian State University’s 21st annual MLK Challenge, held January 20, 2020.Photo by Chase Reynolds
Honors senior Katie Feeny, a psychology major and pre-OT student from Apex, served as chair of the January 20, 2020 MLK Day Challenge, sponsored by the Appalachian and Community Together office, a Division of Student Affairs. Honors students are typically some of the most involved in this annual service day event.
To read the full story, click here.
Honors Supports App Builds a Home in the Home Stretch
The photo above shows Appalachian students working at the home site. Photo from App Builds a Home.
Led by driven students, the Honors College is supporting App Builds a Home (ABAH), a partnership project between Appalachian State University and Watauga County Habitat for Humanity to build a home from the ground up. In her first Fall 2019 semester in Honors at Appalachian, Mackenzie Millett, an exercise science major from Amelia Island, Florida, began volunteering with ABAH. Click here to read the latest "On the Home Stretch," a story that includes Millett by Jan Todd in AppalachianToday.
To read more on this story, visit our website.
To Stay in the Know and Learn About All Opportunities in Honors, please visit https://honors.appstate.edu/announcements
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