Weekly Email: 27-29 August 2009
Classes Begin!!!!
Classes begin on Thursday August 27th.
Free Breakfast Snacks Available in Student
Forum Aug 27th and 28th!!!
The Honors College will be supplying
breakfast snacks to all Honors students, faculty, and staff on Aug. 27th
and 28th, so feel free to drop by the Student Forum, Room 101
of McClellan Hall (15th & Akron). You can enter the
Forum by swiping your TTU ID. If it won’t work for you, drop by
the front desk in Room 103. Breakfast snacks will be offered to
all Honors College students, faculty, and staff every Friday for the
remainder of the semester.
Job Opportunity
The Honors College needs a student who can be
available in the student Forum on Monday and Wednesday evenings from
5pm-10pm. Interested students should complete the application
which has been posted on the Honors College website here:
http://www.depts.ttu.edu/honors/news.php.
Join the Honors College Facebook Group!
For all of those students new the College,
you might be interested in joining the HC Facebook group to stay up to
date with what’s going on in the College. Simply click on
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=68603736376
to request to join the group!
Want to be more involved? Join SAB!
The Honors College Student Activities Board
is now accepting applications for the 2009-2010 school year. The
Student Activities Board is a group of dedicated students which strives
to bring the Honors community together through events oriented towards
Honors, community service, and of course events simply for the sake of
having a good time. Incoming freshmen are not eligible to join in the
fall semester, but you are more than welcome to apply in the spring. If
you are a sociable and outgoing person who would like to join SAB please
email Lindzi Shanks at
lindzi.shanks@ttu.edu for an application.
URF Applications
2009-2010 Undergraduate Research Fellowship
applications are being accepted through Thursday, September 10th.
Read about the URF program and download an application here:
http://www.depts.ttu.edu/honors/urf.
If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Richard Verrone,
Undergraduate Research Coordinator, at
richard.verrone@ttu.edu.
Contracting
Honors Contract applications will be accepted
through Friday, September 11th. Please email Dr.
Richard Verrone (richard.verrone@ttu.edu)
to obtain Contracting information and an application.
Need an Honors Course?
The Honors College has added another seminar
(HONS 3303-H03 Learning skills for building highly effective
professional patient/client relationships and interdisciplinary teams)
to the course listing for Fall 2009. A full description of this
course and other newly opened courses can be found on the Honors College
website:
http://www.depts.ttu.edu/honors/CourseBooklets/2009_Sum_Fall.php
Don’t Miss Out On NHH 3300!
NHH 3300-H01, Writing in the Natural World,
taught by Professor Kurt Caswell, is a non-traditional workshop-style
seminar which will be helpful to anyone who needs Honors Seminar credit,
expects to use writing and publication skills in a future career, or
simply enjoys writing in and about the natural world. Find out
more about NHH 3300 by viewing the course description at
http://www.depts.ttu.edu/honors/CourseBooklets/2009_Sum_Fall.php
or by emailing Professor Caswell at
Kurt.Caswell@ttu.edu.
Join the Honors Book Club!
The Honors Book Club was formed last spring
for students in any major who enjoy reading and group discussion outside
of the classroom. We’d love to have you join us in the Fall!
Our first meeting will be on Tuesday, September 15th from
4:00-5:00pm and we will meet every other Tuesday at the same time
through the end of November, reading one book each month. (The
Honors College will pay for your books!) Participating students
will have the opportunity to earn a scholarship by writing a reflection
essay in November. Contact the Lead Advisor at
sarah.timmons@ttu.edu
to join and for further details.
Good Read…
Honors professor Kurt Caswell's second book
IN THE SUN'S HOUSE: MY YEAR TEACHING ON THE NAVAJO RESERVATION is now
available. Get your copy directly from Trinity University Press, or at
Amazon and many other online bookstores. You can learn more at
www.kurtcaswell.com.
Call for Papers/Panels
The Women's Studies Program and the
Conference Program Committee at Texas Tech University proudly announces
a public colloquium, "Intersecting Variance: Reading Gender & Gender
Identity Politics", which will take place on the campus of Texas Tech
University, Friday, October 2nd, 2009. Registration information
will soon be available online at
www.depts.ttu.edu/wstudies/call_for_papers_gender_2009.php
Please contact
patricia.a.earl@ttu.edu with any questions that you may
have.
Lunch Discussion
This semester’s first Lunch Discussion will
be held on Friday, September 5th. Lunch Discussion will still meet
from 12:00-1:00pm on Fridays in the Knapp Hall lobby lounge. All
Honors students are welcome! A full description of the upcoming
September 5th Lunch Discussion will be in next’s weekly
email. All questions about Lunch Discussion should be directed to
Dr. Richard Verrone (richard.verrone@ttu.edu).
Congratulations to…
Joe Horkey III for being named a Phi Kappa
Phi Emerging Scholar this year