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Honors COVID-19 Symposium
Transformative Resiliency Building: Multi-Disciplinary Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic On February 26, the Honors Program hosted its first symposium in the spring semester, in collaboration with the Office of Diversity and Inclusion. The Transformative resiliency building: Multi-disciplinary responses to the Covid-19 pandemic symposium, which was part of the Race and Equity Symposium, brought together Syracuse…
Read MoreHonors Welcomes New Students
Honors Welcomes New Students On Sunday February 7, the Honors program hosted a virtual welcome event for 54 new honors students. Many are first year students in their second semester at Syracuse University, while a few are sophomores. Collectively, this group of new Honors student is quite accomplished. They are involved in research projects that…
Read MoreMaster Class: Just Write & Production
Cedric T. Bolton, M.S.Ed. February 17, 2021 6:00PM-8:00PM Learn the mindset of how creatives include equity through spoken word poetry and music production. Creatives utilize soundtracks, writer’s prompts, and music production to reach a global audience. Students will gain access to lyrics, album reviews, producing tracks, and the uploads to sites to support creative independent…
Read MoreEmbodying the Orange Spirit – Renée Crown ’50, H’84
Renée Schine Crown ’50, H’84 is a longtime advocate for ensuring that every Syracuse University student has the opportunity for an exceptional experience that defines what it means to be Orange. That vision has guided her work on the Board of Trustees, its Executive Committee and University Relations Committee, and on the College of Arts…
Read MoreNew Anthology Showcases Creative Work by the Honors Community
Students in Professor Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers Honors class created the Tell Your Story Walking anthology throughout the fall semester, and it’s now published on their website. The anthology’s first edition holds a collection of stories, poetry, visual art, and multimedia submitted by current and former honors students at Syracuse University. The new publication is dedicated…
Read MoreHonors Welcomes Class of 2024!
Honors Welcomes Class of 2024! The Honors Program hosted a virtual event on Sunday 8/23 to officially welcome the Class of 2024 as they embark on their first semester in college. The event was also attended by the HNR 100 instructors and teaching assistants, as well as the Honors Core Faculty members. Among the event…
Read MoreWriting Scripture Law class visits the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC
The HNR 340 class, Writing Scripture Law, visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on September 28th. The class had studied the invention of writing in ancient Sumer and Egypt with Prof. Jim Watts from the Religion Department and were therefore very interested in seeing the hieroglyphic and cuneiform inscriptions in the…
Read MoreInstructor and Mentor, Prof. Bill Peace
We are sad to share with our community that our friend and teacher, Prof. Bill Peace died Tuesday, July 2nd. He was with his partner and son. Prof. Peace taught two popular and influential classes in Honors, “Body Art and Modification” and “From Prenatal Testing to Alzheimer’s: Issues in Bioethics and Disability”. In the description…
Read MoreHonors National Conference: NCHC 2018
Honors staff members Kate Hanson and Karen Hall have just returned from the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) annual conference, held in Boston this year. Both served as facilitators for workshops, Karen on “Mental Health, Honors and the Three R’s: Resources, Responses and Responsibilities” and Kate on “Experience as Classroom: The Power of Immersive, Contextualized…
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