Highlights '08-'09

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May 3, 2009
Graduation

April 17, 2009
Honors Thesis Symposium

April 14, 2009
Riverdance Outing

April 2, 2009

On April 2 many Honors Program researchers and faculty participated in the University-wide Research Celebration hosted in the Howard Performing Arts Center.

<< Go Honors!

March 30, 2009

We would like to extend a special congratulations to Libby Megna, one of the recipients of the 2009 Berry M. Goldwater Scholarship. This scholarship is awarded to the top 278 science students in the nation, and she is one of twelve recipients in the state of Michigan.
The press release can be viewed at http://www.act.org/goldwater/yyshrel.html

and the list of awardees at http://www.act.org/goldwater/pdfdoc/2009scholars.pdf

March 29, 2009
Phi Kappa Phi Induction Ceremony

Brian Strayer, PhD and Linda Mack, MMus, MLS presented "Paper Trail: Discovering the Life of Someone We Thought We Knew, Blythe Owen, 1898-2000."

March 13, 2009

Hurrah!

Our Honors Poster Session was featured in the Andrews Agenda!!
Here is what they said:

Jeff Habenicht explains his honors project during the annual poster presentation which took place on Friday afternoon, March 6, 2009, in the lobby of Chan Shun Hall. More than 40 honors students displayed their projects to a large crowd of interested students, faculty and staff. (Photo by Brad Austin, IMC student photographer)

March 6, 2009
Honors Poster Session

March 4-10, 2009
Student Movement Feature:

"Honors Students Lead in Service" written by Stephanie Smart

The Honors program at Andrews University provides students with an environment to grow in academia, but also goes beyond that and provides an opportunity to serve. Program director L. Monique Pittman, English professor, says, "The Honors Program has long had a tradition of cultivating service to others as well as academic excellence." Each year, the honors program provides the Andrews community the chance to participate in service-oriented activities. Part of these activities involves planning a service project to benefit efforts of the Seventh-day Adventist church in the area as well as other non-profit organizations that seek to serve the needs in the local community. Pittman explains the reason behind this tradition: "The Honors Program wishes to demonstrate to the community that Andrews supports not only its own church out-reach but also those efforts by other organizations to address the suffering of others"

Honors' first project for this school year took place during the months of November and December. They collected toys for the children who participate in the Benton Harbor children's ministries, sponsored by the Andrews Outreach programs.

More recently, during the month of February, the honors officers organized a drive to benefit the Center for the Homeless in South Bend, Ind. This center serves the area by providing hot meals, job training, personal development training, transitional housing and help in home ownership. In its history of about twenty years, the center has served thousands of people in the community. The drive was held to collect items the center neeed, such as cannded food items, cleaning supplies, toiletries, and office supplies.

Andrews students, faculty, and staff donated items that were then delivered to the center. In adddition to the items collected, the on-campus organization ACTION donated five large bags of clothing that they had previously collected through their own project.

25 February 2009
Shakespeare's Macbeth at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater

Hurrah!
Our Honors Agape Feast made it into the"Week in Photos" online!
Here is what they said:

Members of the J.N. Andrews Honors Society happily put aside the weekly academic grind to enjoy some time together at the Honors Agape Feast, held in the Chan Shun Hall Lobby. Ante Jeroncic gave a short talk after the meal. (Friday, Feb. 20)