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apologies for the duplicate newsletter. In the previous version, we misidentified a winner of the water balloon toss. Please see the revised version below.
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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
- Henry Ford
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Fall is Upon Us!
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Crisp autumn nights. Clear, skies filled with glimmering stars. A cup of warm apple cider in your hand. Some of the many delights this change of season brings to us. In between your studies and classes, take a moment to breathe the air in around you, and look at the changing trees. Before you know it, spring will be here!
Zen moment over!
We have many exciting events planned for the month of October! A pumpkin painting night, free hot tickets to a show at Staller, as well as another Faculty Roundtable. Check your emails, watch Blackboard and follow our Facebook page for the most up to date information!
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Upcoming Events - Save the Date!
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Halloween Arts and Crafts Night!
Stop by the Honors College lounge on Thursday, October 24th, at 7:30 PM for caramel apples, candy, and arts and crafts!
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Faculty Roundtable Series Returns
Robert Kaplan
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 Robert Kaplan will be joining us on October 30th to discuss health professions and their relationship with humanities. Professor Kaplan is a full-time lecturer from the Program in Writing & Rhetoric department. RSVP is required! This is the second Faculty Roundtable Series of the semester. There will be one more in November.
Freshmen are required to attend ONE Faculty Roundtable per semester.
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Catherine Malabou
From Sorrow to Indifference Catherine Malabou is a professor at the Centre for Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, London. A former student of Jacques Derrida, she is the author of The Future of Hegel (1996), The Heidegger Change (2004),What Should We Do With Our Brain? (2004), and The New Wounded (2007).
Tuesday, October 22, 4:00 PM, Humanities 1008
Paul O'Higgins
2013 Rohlf Medal Recipient
The Measure of Things: Pattern, Process and Morphometry
Paul O'Higgins is Chair of Anatomy at the University of York, UK, and Head of the Centre for Anatomical and Human Sciences, Hull York Medical School. Professor O'Higgins' principal interests concern the links between skeletal morphological variation, phylogeny, function and ontogeny. His earliest work concerned the post natal growth of the skull and spine in mice and apes and contributed to the development of an important new class of statistical and graphical methods for the analysis of form differences in biology, Geometric Morphometrics. A key feature of his research has been the statistical analysis of structure in addressing the biological significance of skeletal variation. An important contribution has been the publication of widely used software for the full three-dimensional modeling and analysis of shape variations using these techniques. His studies of craniofacial evolution have shown how growth variations contribute to craniofacial variations among adult primates. These have related remodeling, ontogenetic shape changes and phylogeny to each other and have provided important new insights into the ontogeny of differences among sexes, subspecies and species.
October 24, 4:00 PM, Wang Center Lecture Hall 2
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General Job & Internship Fair
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Friday, October 11th, 2013
12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
SAC Ballrooms A & B
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Like us on Facebook for the most up to date information, and pictures from our latest events!
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Advising Hours Fall 2013
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Questions about the upcoming semester? Concerns about a recent exam you took? Thinking about grad school? Stop in and see one of your Honors College advisors!
Mondays: 1:30 - 4:00 PM Thursdays: 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM or by appointment
Tuesdays: 12:00 - 2:00 PM Fridays: 2:00 - 4:00 PM or by appointment
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Fall 2013 Academic Dates & Deadlines
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Oct. 11- Last day to process a drop-down or move-up for selected PHY courses. Students must have signed form with instructor approval. All changes must be processed by the close of business day (4 PM).
Oct. 25- Last day for all students to process a Section Change or Credit Change for an enrolled course. Section change/credit change form with appropriate signatures required. Last day to change a class to or from the Grade/Pass/No Credit (G/P/NC) option. Last day to drop a course. ("W" will be recorded). All changes must be processed by close of business day (4 PM).
Nov. 4 - Advanced registration for Winter and Spring 2014 semesters begins.
Thanksgiving Break! - Nov. 27 - 29.
For a complete listing of academic dates and deadlines, please visit the Registrar's website.
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Event Recaps
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Thank you to those that came out to support our recent events.
On Friday, September 27th, members of the Honors College gathered in the lounge to enjoy pizza and games.
 
12 boxes of pizza have never gone so quickly!
For more pictures, please visit HERE!
And on Friday, October 4th, we had our 2nd Annual Homecoming BBQ! Trays of pulled chicken and beef, baked mac and cheese, apple crisps and onion rings! And let's not forget the cheer stick giveaway! Congrats to the water balloon toss winners Karlie Kobylarz and Chris Fenton from the first round and Page Keating and Dylan Schrieber from the second round. For more pictures, please visit HERE!
Page & Dylan Chris & Karlie
A huge thank you to your Student Advisory Board for their hard work in putting on these events! As always, we welcome your comments and suggestions for future events. |
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Want Free Tickets to See David Sedaris????
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Sunday, October 20th, 7:00 PM
Staller Center
With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, David Sedaris has become one of America's pre-eminent humor writers. He will read from his work in an evening that promises to be both hilarious and original. In his new book of essays, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, the humorist turns a wry eye on his adopted home in rural England, his childhood, and the annoying people he comes across in airport lounges. "It's a bizarre and stimulating world tour," notes a reviewer. "All the wit, charm, and poignancy his readers have come to expect," writes another.
Sedaris is the author of many best-selling books including Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, When You Are Engulfed in Flames and Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk. He has been nominated for three Grammy Awards for Best Spoken Word and Best Comedy Album.
Sedaris broke through in 1992 when NPR's This American Life aired his side-splitting essay SantaLand Diaries, a recounting of his stint as a Macy's department store Christmas elf. With readings made up of well-worn material, works-in-progress, and even diary entries, every public reading by Mr. Sedaris is an event.
"I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out." David Sedaris
WE HAVE YOUR FREE TICKETS!
Enjoy a Sunday night out on the Honors College. Stop by the office during business hours and see Allison for them...but you must tell her the secret word found on our Facebook page! First come, first serve. Limited quantity available.
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Campus Happenings
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Each year, a text is selected for the entire incoming class to read as part of the First Year Readin | | Anne Fadiman |
g Program. This year's text is The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman, award-winning writer, essayist, and editor. The book chronicles the trials of an epileptic Hmong child and her family living in M erced, California. Fadiman's sensitive, incisive treatment of the unbreachable gulf between the Hmong and American medical systems won her a National Book Critics' Circle Award. The Washington Post called the book "an intriguing, spirit-lifting, extraordinary exploration."
The Emerson String Quartet stands apart in the history of string quartets with an unparalleled list of achievements over three decades: more than thirty acclaimed recordings, nine Grammys (including two for Best Classical Album), three Gramophone Awards, the Avery Fisher Prize, Musical America's "Ensemble of the Year," and collaborations with many of the greatest artists of our time.
The program will include:
Haydn Quartet Op. 20, No. 3
Benjamin Britten Quartet No. 2
Beethoven Quartet Op. 59, No. 1
Students will have the opportunity to network with potential start-up companies and investors. Panelists will share first-hand advice considering employment with a start-up company and, for those thinking of starting their own companies, strategies for raising capital. Fri Oct. 26 - Seawolves Football vs New Hampshire, 4 PM, LaValle Stadium
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