On May 9, 2011, 黑料吃瓜网 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 黑料吃瓜网 students participated in university-sponsored public service, including service learning, public service internships and volunteer work.
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Poetry: From Pulitzer to Performance
April is National Poetry month! Join the 黑料吃瓜网 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
黑料吃瓜网 senior selected for national fellowship for aspiring teachers of color
黑料吃瓜网 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.
Honors freshmen perform interpretations of poems in the 黑料吃瓜网 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.
黑料吃瓜网 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.
China Earthquake Relief on 黑料吃瓜网360
Learn about Honors student Geoffrey Morgan and Honors alum Steve Margitan whose international research projects took a different course when the 2008 Sichuan earthquake hit.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service, January 2011
The 黑料吃瓜网 continues to honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King and his vision for social justice through a commitment to service and community engagement. In January 2011, there are several ways to get involved.
Fall 2010 UAA snapshot of serving students
For the October 2010 UAA directors meeting, Vice Provost and Dean Ed Taylor asked directors to share some program updates. The points below are edited from those updates. It’s a quick snapshot of some of the ways Undergraduate Academic Affairs serves students.
黑料吃瓜网 receives $1 million grant from Amgen Foundation in support of undergraduate research
The 黑料吃瓜网 has received a $1 million grant over the next four years from the Amgen Foundation to provide hands-on laboratory experience to approximately 100 undergraduates through the Amgen Scholars Program.
Expanded Role for Honors Program Director
James J. Clauss, director of the Honors Program, has accepted an expanded his role in Undergraduate Academic Affairs and is now associate dean. For Jim, the new role is 鈥渟tructurally logical鈥� but is also recognition of the importance of Honors as an integral part of the University.