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Mar. 7 Deadline for Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship

Pictured here with the ULDM executive board is former U of L basketball head coach, Denny Crum, and Meghan Steinberg, leukemia survivor and founder of Meghan's Mountain. HONORS CALENDAR Mar. 7 Deadline for Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship Materials and Student Ambassador Positions for Visitor Information Centers. Mar. 9 Deadline for Honors Scholars notification for Spring Graduation CANCELED HSC lecture: Dr. Mahendra Sunkara , Etscorn Honors Center, rm 132, 4-5:15 p.m. CANCELED Mar. 11 Daylight Savings Time Begins Mar. 12-18 Spring Break Mar. 20 Deadline for REACH student Ambassador applications and World Scholars Applications Mar. 22 Honors Student Council meeting, Honors House, 12:15 p.m. Cara Uccellini paper presentation, Humanities 300, 1-2:30 p.m. Mar. 29 Louise Glück reading, Chao Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. Mar. 30 Deadline for Peer Advisor Applications for Summer 2007, 4 p.m. Don't forget to tell Honors you intend to graduate as an Honors Scholar! If you are planning on graduating in the spring of 2007 and are finishing (or have already finished) the requirements to graduate as a University Honors Scholars (UHS) and receive this designation on your diploma, be sure to stop by the Etscorn Honors Center to fill out a brief form. This form ensures that you are listed correctly as having completed this designation for commencement. Please make sure that the form is completed no later than March 9, 2007. New Feature: Green University The U of L Honors Program, in cooperation with The Partnership for a Green City , will soon be offering courses with “Green”, or environmental subjects at their core. To jumpstart this new alliance Honors Students are invited to participate in the following Green activities. Take the time to make a difference in your community right now. Tom Wessels, Professor of Ecology at Antioch New England Graduate School and Author of Reading the Forested Landscape and The Myth of Progress: Toward a Sustainable Future, will be speaking on Wed., March 21 at 5:45 p.m. at The University Club. There will be a wine and cheese reception prior to the presentation at 5:00 p.m. This event is sponsored by The 21 st Century Parks and The Partnership for a Green City. “As a terrestrial ecologist, I see myself as a generalist with interests in forest, desert, and alpine ecosystems. Although I am a scientist by training, my avocation is to teach and help people see the marvelous, large-scale patterns and processes that exist in the world around us. ” -- *Tom Wessels* WORKSHOP: The Ohio River: A New Century. The workshop focuses on the changes to the river that have occurred over the past century: history, the river as a natural resource, uses of the river, ecology, and river stewardship. Attendees will learn how the river has changed over time and how these changes have impacted plant, animal, and human lives that it supports. The workshop will be held on the river, on a barge moored at the Louisville Rowing Club (east of the Tumbleweed restaurant on the Waterfront). Workshops are scheduled for March 9, 16, and 17 and last all day. To register for a workshop go to this website and sign up. In the Comments section at the bottom of the registration form, type: "U of L Honors Program." CLEANUP THE OHIO RIVER: Honors program students are also invited to participate in cleanup activities on the Ohio River with Living Lands and Water. Living Lands and Water is a nonprofit group from East Moline, Illinois, that has worked to cleanup the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. Working from their own tow and barges, they picked up over 40 tons of debris in Louisville last year. Cleanups are scheduled all through the month of March (see attached information). Students will be working with Living Lands and Water from flat bottom boats to cleanup the Ohio River and some of its major tributaries (Harrods Creek, Beargrass Creek and Salt River). To register for cleanup go to www.livinglandsandwaters.org and click on the box Ohio River Cleanup 2007. There you will have access to the cleanup schedule. On that page choose to Register On-Line, then fill out and submit the form electronically. Volunteers are needed to assist Kristen Ellis, the Riverbottom Restoration Coordinator for Living Lands and Water by helping pile felled honeysuckle that will later be chipped. Please read the following attachment for more information on volunteer opportunities to remove invasive plant species, specifically Honeysuckle and Euonymus. REMINDER Check out Honors on FACEBOOK! The following groups are affiliated with the University of Louisville Honors program: The Current Honors Program Announcements HSC Social Projects	If there are corrections or omissions, e-mail honors@louisville.edu to update information. Honors Advising and Course Listing The fall 2007 Honors course listing featuring Honors seminars and general education offerings is online. The listing with the other U of L course offerings will follow in early to mid-March. Before that time, consult the fall 2006 schedule as a reference since the schedule does not change radically from year to year. Spring appointments are 30 minutes each. Sign-up sheets for advising appointments are in the Etscorn Honors Center beginning Friday, Feb. 23 with advising beginning Feb. 26. Please stop by to make an appointment. Priority registration begins April 12. Registration in each Honors course requires prior approval from the Honors director or an Honors academic counselor. If you are an Honors student who is enrolled in a college other than Arts & Sciences (Business, Music, Speed, Education, Nursing), you will need to see your advisor in that college as well. Remember it is important to come in early because classes are filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Make the most of your time with your advisor -- read through the course listing and arrive with a tentative schedule. Congrats to our Award-winning Honors Staff and Students! Melissa Stordeur, Academic Counselor in the University Honors Program, has been awarded the 2006-2007 Provost Award for Exemplary Advising in the category of professional administrative advisor. Missy (as many of you know her) has been a member of the Honors staff since December 2002. We are very proud of her! Be sure to let her know how proud of her you are, too. Cara Uccellini was recently awarded the Carolyn Krause Maddox Prize in Women’s and Gender Studies for her paper, Hijab and Islam: Understanding the Veil, that she wrote for Dr. Stenger’s Fall 2006 Fundamentalisms Seminar. She will be presenting this paper on March 22 in Humanities, rm. 300 from 1:00-2:30 p.m. Please come and support your fellow honors student. The Winners of the Honors Scavenger Hunt are as follows: first place: Allison Martin, second place: Josh Yuen, third place: Koree Fugate, fourth place: Cole Eidson and fifth place: Scott Howard. To see pictures of these Honors Scavengers on their journey through U of L's history, stop by the Honors house. Honors Student Council News and Notes The next general HSC meeting will be held March 22 at 7 p.m. in the Honors House. Free food! Please send agenda items to secretary Laura Bishop at lbbish01@louisville.edu. The Honors Student Council is pleased to present THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. Dr. Mahendra Sunkara: Advanced Materials for Solar Energy Conversion." March 9, 4-5:15pm. Dr. Sunkara, Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering Department, developed a simple kinetic Monte-Carlo scheme for simulating the morphology of vapor grown diamond crystals and was able to contribute significantly to put forward theories on nucleation and growth mechanisms involved with low-pressure synthesis of diamond using chemical vapor deposition methods. This location of this lecture is currently room 132 of the Etscorn Honors Center. THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. TALK BACK TO HONORS In the lobby of Etscorn there are anonymous surveys you can fill out and let the Honors Student Council know what you'd like to see us doing! Just fill it out and turn it in at the front desk. The surveys will be given to HSC and we will use them to offer more and better social events, food, meetings and other activities for you. Hungry? Thirsty? Looking for a quick snack? There are snacks and drinks at the Honors House available to any Honors student. Payment works on the honor system and all the prices are marked. There are chips, crackers, Pop tarts, fruit snacks, and many different carbonated beverages plus bottled water. These inexpensive snacking options are brought to you by the Honors Student Council. The service is provided and run solely by students. Calling all Honors Students! Calling all Honors Students! The Current is now taking art and writing submissions. Art submissions can be in any medium, but a picture will need to be taken in order to include the work in The Current. All submissions must be original and are subject to content review by the Honors staff. Share your talent, share your passion, and share your hobby! Please contact Nichole Burruss with questions and submissions. Keep Our Classrooms Clean! Please also note that in addition to food and drink being prohibited in the Honors House computer lab, we also kindly request you refrain from eating and drinking in the Etscorn Honors Center classroom, rm. 132. Exceptions to this rule will be made for meetings, study sessions and other events, but only as approved by Dr. Richardson. The Anne and William Axton Reading Series, Spring 2007 Mark your calendar! The 2003 US Poet Laureate, Louise Glück’s most recent works include Averno (2006), a National Book Award finalist, "October", a six-part poem chapbook, The Seven Ages, and Vita Nova. Other poetry collections include Meadowlands, Pulitzer Prize winner The Wild Iris, Ararat, and The Triumph of Achilles. A reading will be held at Ekstrom Library's Chao Auditorium on March 29, 2007 at 7:30 p.m. Locations and dates subject to change. Please call the English Department at U of L to confirm at (502) 852-6801. Allie Martin proudly shows off the clue that led back to the Honors Center. She was one of several students who participated in the Black History Month Scavenger Hunt held in February.	ULDM dancers pose with student athletes during Athletic hour. ULDM raised $30,000 during the dance marathon that lasted from Feb. 24-25. Upcoming Deadlines SCHOLARSHIPS and FELLOWSHIPS Watch this spot for campus and national deadlines Truman Scholarship Hearty congratulations go out to Savannah Barrett, who learned recently she has been selected to interview for the Truman Scholarship in Cincinnati, Ohio. This prestigious scholarship offers selected students financial support for graduate study in a field related to public service. Good luck, Savannah! World Scholar The World Scholars Program, funded by the College of Arts and Sciences, provides select undergraduate students with up to $5,000 of funding to support participation in a semester or year of study abroad in a country or region of the world whose principal language is not English. Students must be near-fluent (or actively committed to achieving fluency) in the language of that country or region. Please study the requirements carefully and contact Dr. Gregory S. Hutcheson with any questions. Deadline for submission of application and supporting materials is Tues., March 20. Full details and the application are available exclusively online. Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship You may be a prime candidate for the Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship if you... ...have been accepted already to a prestigious graduate or professional school. ...have been offered insufficient funding to meet the full expense. ...and your parents can demonstrate financial need via tax return evidence ...have a compelling story to tell. ...will attend graduate school full-time, for the first time. If one to five are true, then the Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Scholarship Program could pay you up to $50,000 per year to attend the university of your choice in the U.S. or abroad. If you plan to apply, contact Dr. Condon immediately. All the materials you will need and further details are available online. Only two students may be nominated by each university. This selection is always highly competitive at U of L. Nationally, 30 scholars will be selected. Our campus nomination process will be finalized and all materials submitted by March 7. The national Jack Kent Cooke deadline is March 15; we are on spring break at that time. Critical Languages Summer Immersion Scholarship Please remember that the Critical Languages Summer Immersion Scholarship deadline is March 15, 2007. Information about the scholarship and the application process can be located online. Students engage in this process on their own, and do not need to seek institutional advisement to in order to proceed with the application process. FACE TIME (Facilitating the growth of a cohesive Honors community.) Emily Robinson Emily Robinson joined the University Honors Program in the fall of 2005. Miss Robinson is a double major in French and Humanities. She is a native of Richmond, Ky. and a graduate of Madison Central High School. Her free time, albeit limited, is spent reading, baking (experimental dorm room cooking) and jogging. Her campus activities include: Linguistics Reading group, French Club, French conversation hour, Honors Scholars Program, Honors Overseers Mentoring Program, Honors Student Council and Honors Freshman Guides. In addition, Emily serves as an RA in Threlkeld Hall. Emily is a self-described eclectic who loves to make collages, spend time with her fiancé and discover the excitement that this world has to offer -- which may or may not include Swedish techno music. Her advice to other students is, “Hang out in the Honors House and chat with your professors.” Talk to Emily about linguistics, folklore and recycling, or sit down and have coffee or chai with her, just be sure to spend some face time with her. JOB OPPORTUNITIES Student Ambassador Positions for Visitor Information Centers Looking for Students to serve as Student Ambassadors in the various Visitor Information Centers around Campus. Students will provide front-end customer service to the university community and visitors. Ambassadors will conduct campus tours for prospective students. Flexible hours. Applications accepted at the North Information Center; deadline is Feb. 28, 2007. For more information, contact Chris Cherry Davis at ccd@louisville.edu or via phone at (502) 852-6565. REACH Student Ambassador Positions The REACH Ambassador Program is now accepting applications for 2007-2008 REACH Ambassadors. Ambassadors are second year students who help first year and transfer students at UofL. Their job is to help students negotiate the transition to the UofL community by providing support, friendship, advice and helping new students connect to university faculty, staff and services. Students can earn up to $500 per semester. The application deadline is March 23, 2007. Application materials and details regarding the program and the application process can be found at www.reach.louisville.edu. Students who will be sophomores (between 24-59 credit hours), with a 2.5 GPA, at the start of fall 2007 are eligible to apply. If you have any questions, please contact Leighann Valdez, Coordinator for the REACH Ambassadors at lrjagg01@louisville.edu. Peer Advisors Needed for Summer Orientation Peer Advisors are needed for the 2007 summer orientation session. The Honors Program will be hiring Peer Advisors to help incoming freshmen plan and schedule their courses during the 2007 Freshman Orientation Program. This is an outstanding opportunity for Honors students to learn more about the university, discuss their experiences in the Honors Program with interested new students and parents, and earn some money along the way. The pay rate will be $9 per hour for approximately 20-25 hours each week from May to the Fourth of July. In order to apply you must have completed at least 30 hours and have a 3.35 or higher cumulative GPA. Applications are due March 30 by 4:00 p.m. Please download this application. Once you have completed it, please return it to the front desk at Etscorn Honors Center. IMPORTANT NOTE: Both the Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP) and Summer Term II classes will conflict with the required work schedule for a Peer Advisor. Please take this into consideration when applying for the Peer Advisor position.