Last February, the Robinson Center for Young Scholars hosted an open house for Robinson Center students, parents, alumni, and parents of alumni. Conversation was bright, friendships were formed and renewed, and chocolate flowed freely from the chocolate fountain. Enjoy a few alumni, parent, and student reminiscences on their favorite memories of the Robinson Center.
Author: Undergraduate Academic Affairs
SHARED NETID
Reviewed 9/22
Message from Vice Provost and Dean Ed Taylor, Spring 2011
In his greeting to UAA alumni, Vice Provost and Dean Ed Taylor highlights some UAA accomplishments and University challenges.
Student discovery on display at Undergraduate Research Symposium
On May 20, 2011, nearly 900 of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s most talented and accomplished undergraduates will showcase their contributions to innovative and groundbreaking research at the Fourteenth Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, the largest in University history.
Civic leadership an integral component to ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø undergraduate education
On May 9, 2011, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø undergraduates will showcase their civic engagement projects that enrich their undergraduate education and benefit the local nonprofit organizations, schools, and campus programs with which they volunteer. In the 2009-10 school year alone, nearly 5,000 ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø students participated in university-sponsored public service, including service learning, public service internships and volunteer work.
Poetry: From Pulitzer to Performance
April is National Poetry month! Join the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Common Book and celebrate imagination, voice, and writing.
Philip Levine, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award among other honors, and Ken Arkind, a nationally-recognized slam poet share their work and answer questions at this one-of-a-kind event with two very different artists.
WHEN: Tuesday, April 19, 2011, 7 p.m.
WHERE: Kane Hall
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø senior selected for national fellowship for aspiring teachers of color
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø senior and Issaquah, WA, native Emily Lee was recently named one of 25 fellows selected through a competitive process for the Woodrow Wilson-Rockefeller Brothers Fund Fellowships for Aspiring Teachers of Color.
UAA’s Namura Nkeze named one of first recipients of new ProStaff Award
Congratulations to Namura Nkeze, transfer and commuter student programs coordinator in First Year Programs, who recently received one of the new ProStaff Awards given by the Professional Staff Association.
Honors freshmen perform interpretations of poems in the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Common Book
At the end of autumn quarter, students from the Honors Program Peer Instructor Seminars gathered together to perform poems from the Common Book. Each group of students choose a poem from the Common Book and performed their interpretation of it. These ranged from creative readings and photographs to skits and musical pieces.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø student poets selected for national competition
Manic Mouth Congress, the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s student poetry collective, recently selected the team of poets who will compete at the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational–a national competition. Congratulations to these student poets, many of whom are Honors students and Mary Gates Scholars!
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Dream Project to expand and deepen programming
The Dream Project is taking bold steps to expand, deepen and evaluate its work thanks to a recent grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the first major grant awarded to the Dream Project, has made this expanded work feasible.