HP NEWS January 14, 2011 Contents: Honors Program dates and deadlines Other important dates Honors Contracts Advising reminder Nebraska Colloquium UCARE application process Study Abroad Fair Reminder of computer lab policies Welcome back! We hope you had a wonderful break and, after the two (!) snow days, are settling in to the routine of the semester, excited to meet classes and plunge into your studies. Dates and deadlines Spring 2011: Mon. Feb. 7: Seniors graduating in May please email your thesis title and thesis advisor’s name to Dr. Berger at pberger1@unl.edu Fri. Feb. 18: Honors contracts due Fri. Apr. 1: Thesis completion form due for May graduation Fri. Apr. 8: Statement of Academic Interest due (4th semester students) Fri. Apr. 8: Memorandum of Study due (6th semester students) Mon. Apr. 25: Completed thesis due for May graduation Mon. May 2-Fri. May 6: finals week Sat. May 7: Undergraduate commencement Other important dates: Fri. Feb. 11: UCARE application deadline Thurs. Apr. 14: Undergraduate Research Conference Honors Contracts: You may contract a class by submitting the appropriate form, the course will be considered Honors, provided you fulfill the contract. The Honors designation will not, however, be visible on MyRed or DARS. It does show on your transcript as ‘Honors Course’. Advising reminder: With MyRed, it is essential that, if you contact Dr. Berger, Dr. Lyons, Dr. Madhavan or Ann Koopmann with an advising question, you include your Student ID number. Otherwise, we may have difficulty accessing your information. Nebraska Colloquium: Professor Berger is again offering one honors academic credit (UHON 198H) for participation in the Nebraska Colloquium lecture series. There are 8 lectures scheduled this semester. Earning credit requires attending at least 5 of the lectures and submitting a 1 to 2 page reflection on each of those five lectures. The reflection should be emailed to Berger at pberger1@unl.edu within 5 days after the lecture presentation. Many students enjoyed this experience last semester and I hope that many of you will choose to join in the conversation on this year's theme: "Globalization's Promise." The full schedule of the lectures is on the Honors website. You will find a link to the schedule under the "Academic Partners" listing. The course number is UHON 198H, section 002; class number 7859. UCARE application process: UCARE applications are due Friday, February 11 Want to work one-on-one with a faculty member? Want to earn money while gaining invaluable experiences? Consider UNL’s undergraduate research program, UCARE! The Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experiences (UCARE) Program, supported by the Office of Undergraduate Studies and funded by the Pepsi Endowment and Program of Excellence funds, creates intellectual partnerships between UNL faculty and undergraduates by providing funds for research. The program supports opportunities for undergraduates to work alongside faculty members and directly participate in the campus' research or creative activities. Applications for the UCARE Program are online only and due Friday February 11. Below is a detailed synopsis of the process 1. Required fields are denoted by an asterisk (*). 2. The student completes the online application, including the faculty sponsor information. The student will receive a confirmation email. 3. Once the student submits his/her portion of the application, an email is sent to the faculty sponsor with a web link to complete the faculty portion of the application. 4. After the submission of the faculty sponsor portion, the application is sent to the online database for processing by the UCARE office. The faculty will receive a confirmation email. http://www.unl.edu/ucare/application/applyucare.shtml NOTE: Current first year UCARE students must apply for a second year in order to participate in the program. Those applications are due on Friday February 11 as well. Study Abroad Fair: The UNL Study Abroad Fair is coming soon! January is a perfect time to begin planning your study abroad program! Come to the Study Abroad Fair on Tuesday, January 25th between 11 a.m. and 2:00 pm. in the Nebraska Union to discover what more than 700 UNL students each year experience- life and learning abroad. Opportunities to study in English or in a foreign language for a summer, semester or year are all possible and affordable through UNL’s programs of Study Abroad. At the fair you can sign up for a chance at a $250 Study Abroad scholarship, learn about the programs, get information on financial aid and scholarships and see what other students have seen as you vote at the returnee Photo Contest. Begin your journey to GO abroad by coming to the Study Abroad Fair on Tuesday, September 28th and see what the world has to offer you. For more information, check us out at: www.unl.edu/iaffairs and find us on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/ Really, where are you going? Computer lab policies: -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 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.