HP NEWS April 2, 2010 Contents: Dates and Deadlines Graduating seniors take note Registration Registration tips Advising Study rooms Graduate School Workshop Scholarships available: English majors Osteoporosis awareness Honors Program Reminders Honors Program T-shirts Computer Lab Dates and deadlines: April 2: Thesis completion forms due for May graduation April 8: Undergraduate Research Conference April 9: Statement of Academic Interest due (4th semester students) April 9: Memorandum of Study due (6th semester students) April 18: Honors convocation (by invitation) April 26: Completed thesis due for May graduates April 26-May 1: Last week of classes (15th week policies in effect) May 3-7: Finals week May 8: Commencement Graduating seniors take note: If you have not submitted your thesis completion form, please contact Dr. Lyons immediately. You may ask the Honors office to print one or two copies of your completed thesis during regular office hours. Please do not wait till April 26, however! Registration: Priority Registration for fall semester has begun. Registration is possible ONLY through MyRed, so if you have not migrated from WAM to MyRed, you should do so immediately. Summer registration remains on WAM. If you have not contacted your advisor for planning your registration, you should do so immediately. MyRed is an adventure for all involved in the registration process. Please follow directions carefully and be patient-as with any new system we are all learning as we go. Registration tips: Your appointment time is the first time at which you can register. Once that time has come, you will continue to have access to the system. Plan ahead. Fill your 'shopping cart' before your appointment time. Have alternatives in mind. You can put them in your shopping cart. To see all sections of a course, click on 'view all' in the top bar of the window. To see the number of seats left in a course, click on the section number. Once you've registered, should you want to drop and add classes, use the 'swap' feature. It's new, and allows you to attempt to enroll in another class without losing one you already have. As we learn more, we will continue to pass along tips to smooth the registration process. Advising: Because this new system is in place for all 4 NU campuses and all 3 state college campuses, it now encompasses far more students than the UNL data base has in the past. Thus it is absolutely essential that, for all advising questions, via email or otherwise, you include your student ID number. Study rooms: The study rooms on the first floor of Heppner are for the use of members of the Honors Program and their guests/study groups only. Signs to that effect will be posted soon. Please help us to reserve these spaces for our students. Graduate School Workshop: The Office of Graduate Studies, in collaboration with the Office of Research, is sponsoring a workshop for undergraduate students who are considering graduate school. The workshop will be held on Wednesday, April 7, from 5:00-6:30 p.m. in the City Campus Union. Participants will get an overview of the graduate application process, a timeline for applying to graduate school, and tips on preparing their application materials. Sandwiches and soft drinks will be provided. Students can pre-register for this event at http://graduate.unl.edu/rsvp/planprep.php Attention English majors: The Department of English has scholarship money for undergraduate English majors. The application deadline is APRIL 15. Forms are available in the Advising Office and in the Department office. Osteoporosis awareness: Lynn Mack-Shipman, MD, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at UNMC, will speak on osteoporosis awareness on Tuesday, April 6, 2:00 pm, East Campus Union. Honors Program reminders: The Honors Student Advisory Board will again sponsor Quiz Bowl on April 25 in the new multi-cultural center. Begin to form your teams now. More information will be forthcoming. Honors Program T-shirts: Are you out of clean clothes? Well, here's your chance to put off laundry for at least another week. Honors Program T-shirt sales are going on now! For only $10 ($11.50 for XXL) you can represent the Honors Program with a sweet shirt sponsored by yours truly, the Student Advisory Board. If you are interested; shoot us an email at unlhpsab@gmail.com. (Bribe: We have candy!). Computer lab: -The computer lab will be in heavy use for the remainder of the semester. Please be considerate of your fellow students during this busy time of year. -The Honors Program computer lab is for the use of Honors Program students only. Students who are not members of the Honors Program should use other computer labs on campus, regardless of where they live. Please cooperate with this policy. -Remember the new computer lab policy: you must provide your own paper for the lab. Please be considerate of the other students working on computers hooked to the printer you're using in order to work out the printing jobs successfully. -It is wise to put contact information on flash drives; in the event you leave one in the computer lab, someone will be able to return it to you. -To open PDFs and other documents from Blackboard, you may need to use Internet Explorer, not Firefox. -Please take precautions to prevent the spread of germs: use hand sanitizer before and after using the lab computers. -If the toner is out in one of the printers or if another problem with the printers or the lab arises, please inform the main Honors office.