The
Honors Voice
March 21, 2007
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Announcements
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Honors College Advising, Now through March 29
Honors advising is
required for all Honors students. If you haven't made
your appointment, call
now to do so. Advanced registration begins on
April 2nd.
Call the Honors office 8:30 - 4:30
at 742-1828 to make your appointment!
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President's Congressional Internship Program--Fall 2007
Receive a
$4,000 scholarship to intern in Washington, D.C. this
fall. All majors are eligible. The due
date for applications to be turned in to the President's
Office of TTU (Admin 150) is
Friday, March 29, 2006. This is a great
program that provides an exceptional learning
opportunity and provides the university with very
positive visibility in Washington, D.C. For more
information about the program and an application go to:
http://www.congresionalintern.ttu.edu.
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Seeking
Applicants for 2007-2008 Honors College Ambassadors
Who are
Ambassadors and what do they do?
Honors Ambassadors
are often the first face of the Honors College and serve
a vital role in recruiting new Honors students at Texas
Tech. Some of the things they do include
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Meeting
prospective students when they visit the Texas Tech
campus.
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Attending
recruiting events such as University Day and College
Night to talk to prospective students about the
benefits and requirements of Honors students and
what its like to be an Honors student.
Students who are
eligible to apply must be in good standing with the
Honors College and enthusiastic about the Honors College
and Texas Tech.
Potential
Ambassadors should also be available to work at least
two regularly scheduled office hours per week in
addition to helping with special recruiting events.
Applications can
be found on the Honors website at
http://www.depts.ttu.edu/honors/ambassadors.html
and are due by 5:00 P.M. on Friday, April 13, in
the Honors College, McClellan Hall, Room 103.
If you would like
additional information, please contact Laura Sparrow via
e-mail at
laura.sparrow@ttu.edu.
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Undergraduate Research Fellowship Positions
The application
for the 2007-2008 Undergraduate Research Fellowship (URF)
Program is now posted on the Honors College’s URF
website. More information about the URF program, and
the application, are available on the following webpage:
http://www.depts.ttu.edu/honors/urf/info.html
To apply for a URF
position, you and your prospective faculty mentor
jointly complete the application. The link below will
take you to a database of professors interested in an
undergraduate research fellow for the 2007-08 school
year. There are a handful of professors posted there
now; and more will add their information over the coming
weeks, so check back! If you find a particular
professor’s research interesting, contact that professor
using the contact information he/she has provided on the
database.
http://www.depts.ttu.edu/honors/urf/mentor_info_results.htm
If you would like
to post your contact information, you can do so
at this webpage:
http://www.depts.ttu.edu/honors/urf/student_info_form.htm
Professors who
contact me with interest in finding a research fellow
will be given access to this database of information.
URF positions are competitive, and
not all applicants will receive a position. Students
from any department can apply for a position, and the
research need not be in the area of your major(s).
The
deadline for applications is 5 p.m. on April 16th,
2007. Submit competed applications to Room 103 of
McClellan Hall. For questions, contact Joel Walker, URF
Coordinator, at 742-1828 or
joel.r.walker@ttu.edu.
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Congratulations to Tina Kaviani
Tina Kaviani is
the recipient of the "Student Academic Citizenship
Award" given by the Texas Tech Association of Parents.
This award honors students who have demonstrated
excellence in both academics and citizenship-community
service.
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EVENTS: |
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Tim Flannery Lecture, March 21, 7:00 pm, Lubbock Civic
Center Theatre, FREE
Tim Flannery,
world renowned climatologist, will lecture on
The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and
What It Means for Life on Earth,
tonight at 7:00 pm at the Civic Center as the main
speaker of the Haragan Lecture Series for 2007.
Tim Flannery is
on a mission. He believes that human activities is
drastically altering the world's climate, and that
before too long these changes will have a devastating
effect on life on this planet. He wants to mobilize the
social and political will to address this problem before
it's too late.
Tim Flannery is
director of the South Australian Museum and chairman of
the State Science Council and Sustainability Roundtable,
as well as the National Geographic Society's
Australiasian representative. He spent a year as
professor of Australian studies at Harvard, where he
taught in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary
Biology. In 2002, he became the first
environmentalist to deliver the Australia Day address to
the nation, and in 2005 he was honored as the Australian
Humanist of the Year.
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Invitation to Faculty
Candidate Events
Last month Dr. Sharon Vaughan visited us as a candidate
for the position left open by Dr. Megan Nelson’s
departure last year. Beginning this week, we will have
three more candidates for this position
Dr. Peter Muhlberger has a doctorate in political
science from the University of Michigan and is currently
teaching as a visiting faculty member in the Department
of Political Science here at TTU.
Dr. Isis Leslie has a doctorate in political science
from Rutgers University and is teaching part time at
Georgetown University and working for the American
Political Science Association in Washington, DC.
Dr.
Brett Heindl has a doctorate in political science from
the Maxwell School at Syracuse University and is
currently teaching as a visiting faculty member at Brown
University in Providence, Rhode Island.
Each of the candidates will offer a mock class to which
students are invited.
Dr. Muhlberger's mock class will be tomorrow, Thursday,
March 22 in ADM 241 at 9:30 a.m.
Dr.
Leslie's mock class will be on Thursday, March 29 in ADM
241 at 9:30 a.m.
Dr. Heindl's mock class will be on Thursday, April 5 in
ADM 241 at 10:00 a.m.
All students are invited, and those who attend will be
asked to evaluate the candidate or candidates.
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Current Events Discussion,
Friday, March 23, 2007, Noon, Honors Forum
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Cine-Phil.
The Honors College Foreign Film Club
invites
you to see:
Joyeux Noël
(Merry
Christmas)
(Dir. Christian Carion, France, 2005)
Friday, March 23, 6:00 p.m.
Administration Building 248
The moderator of the meeting will be Kelly O'Neill
Anyone interested in foreign films is
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Gordon Hall Invites all Honors students to see:
An Inconvenient Truth
When:
Sunday, March 25, 5:00 p.m.
Where: Lobby
of Gordon Hall
Movie, popcorn and
snacks!
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 Springtime
in Paris
Date: Saturday, March 31, 2007
Time: 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Where: Student Union Ballroom
Price: $4 per couple, $2 per person
This event is semiformal. Feel free to bring a guest!
Your guest does not have to be a member of the Honors
College.
There will be pictures, French appetizers, dancing and
more!
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