Frederik Meijer Honors College News
2011 Honors Aisthesis Journal
We recently received this e-mail from Laura Messner, Editor-in-Chief of the Honors Aisthesis Journal:
"I hope that everyone is having a wonderful start to the semester! Since it is the beginning of fall, it is also time to start considering submitting your academic works to the Honors Aisthesis Journal.
Aisthesis is a cross-disciplinary journal of works from Honors students from universities all around the country. The journal accepts research projects, essays, poetry, fictional stories, photographs, graphic art, etc. from every major and discipline of Honors students like you, who are either current Honors students or students enrolling in Honors classes. Aisthesis offers an excellent opportunity for undergraduate students to be published in a respectable student journal, which looks great on a resume as well as a mark of personal achievement and pride.
Submissions for the journal are accepted year-round, but the deadline for the next issue is Friday, November 18th, 2011. Send your submission electronically to hons@d.umn.edu, along with your name and your affiliated university. Submitted written work should not exceed 5,000 words, and text files in Word or plain-text format are preferred. As for visual submissions, black and white is preferred. After the deadline, a student and faculty editorial committee will blindly review all of the submissions. Questions or concerns about submission requirements and the publication process, or any other aspects of the journal, should be directed to myself at mess0132@d.umn.edu. Thank you for your consideration, and have a fantastic day!"
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Students Present at Honors Research Conference
On April 9th, a group of Honors students traveled to Aquinas College for the 2011 Honors Student Research Conference. Students presented their work to Honors students and faculty from Calvin College and Aquinas College.
See pictures from the event here.
Faculty Convocation Awards
Congratulations to all of our faculty who were honored this year! Mary deYoung, Ph.D. celebrated 25 years and both Christine Rydel and Sheldon Kopperl just hit 40 years of teaching at Grand Valley. Jennifer Gross was awarded the Pew Teaching with Technology Award for her "virtual laboratory" that assists students in gaining a better understanding of research methodology in psychology. Professor Norman Kravitz was also recognized with the Pew Teaching Excellence Award for Part-Time Faculty for his work with his Response to Genocide course - a course that has engender extraordinary passion amont the students he works with.
Learn, Lead, Act Sponsors "Soccer For Sudan"
This video, put together by film student Ruben Juarez, illustrates one of the many service projects put on by the Honors College Class Learn, Lead, Act. The purpose of this event was to raise awareness and money for refugees in West Michigan. Teams signed up to play soccer from all over the community, even- Ferris, Davenport, and Forest Hills High School. This event raised over $1,700. All of the proceeds went to the Michigan Darfur Coalition and the African Community Center.
Honors Students See True Success With Mentoring
TrueSuccess, a youth/ character development program, is being implemented during the LOOP after-school program at Dickinson Elementary School with mentors, mostly GVSU students. The program currently includes 3rd through 5th graders and includes some parent involvement activities. The Dickinson kids are enjoying their GVSU mentors and the PlayBook for TrueSuccess activities, and they are being positively impacted by the instruction. The program is planned to continue after the holiday break and finish out the school year.
See more pictures from the True Success program here.
Honors Students Step Up For The Environment
Honors students in HNR 380 (3-5) Learn, Lead, & ACT, not wanting to stand by while an environmental injustice is developing in the sand dunes near Saugatuck, Michigan, spent the better part of two days doing back breaking labor cutting down invasive birch tree species that had come into the area and were smothering out the indigenous grasses there. Unless these foreign trees were eliminated, a discreet small indigenous frog species who depend upon these grasses for food would die out, with their predators, also losing their food supply, dying out shortly thereafter. While it may be a small step in the grand scheme of things, this class realized that sometimes complex issues are resolved by a series of small steps and it did not want to be daunted by the enormity of the problem.
Click Here For More Photos From The Trip
You can help! If you're interested in helping with the Saugatuck Harbor Natural Area, there is still more to do! Fundraising and volunteers are both still needed.
They can be contacted at 616-451-9476 or on their website.
Indian Culture Night a Huge Success!
On November 3rd, an event titled "Indian Culture Night" was held in the Niemeyer Learning and Living Center. During the event, members of the Desi Student Union performed traditional Indian dances, the Padnos International Center presented on study abroad opportunities in India, and Chef Joe Torres from Campus Dining prepared a variety of authentic Indian dishes for students to try.
Civilization Sequence Paper Competition
Congratulations to all whose papers were nominated for the Civilization Sequence paper competition! This in itself was a mark of distinction. We will have an informal awards ceremony in the next couple of weeks, and all whose papers were nominated will receive a certificate of achievement.
The winners of the Civilization Sequence Paper contest are:
1st Prize: Emily Teall, "Legendary Dynasty: Why the People of Erlitou are Siam Quian's Xia Dynasty"
2nd Prize: Heather Thompson, "Courtly Love: From Feudal Warrior to Chivalrous Knight"
3rd Prize: Sarah Persenaire, "Child Labor in Victorian England"
Congratulations to all!
Phone 616-331-3219 • honors@gvsu.edu
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