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Monday, February 6, 2017
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Message from Dean Appel
Honors News, Events & Activities
Student of the Week
Life in Honors
Opportunities
Kudos & Poem of the Week
MESSAGE FROM DEAN APPEL:
It's Black History Month! UT this past weekend hosted the 11th annual
kickoff luncheon, this year featuring speaker Angela Davis introduced by
our own Coach Malaika Bell! You can watch a recording of the event here.
There are many other events happening over the next few weeks, and you
can see a list of them here. This includes a special collaboration of the
Black Student Union and Muslim Students Association to present Seven
Stories, which is described below in this newsletter.
HONORS NEWS, EVENTS, AND ACTIVITIES:
KICK-OFF FOR KEHINDE
WILEY EXHIBIT
THURSDAY, 2/9 | 6 P.M.
The Toledo Museum of Art is hosting a FREE lecture and opening event for the
Kehinde Wiley Exhibit. The artist will speak about his work, and a reception immediately
follows. Students can use this link to sign up, but notify Dr. A
([email protected]) that you plan on attending. Carpooling can be
determined after.
Sign-up here.
CHEMISTRY TUTORS NEEDED
Interested in tutoring chemistry? If so, UTStACS wants you! If you are proficient in Elementary Chemistry,
General Chemistry, or Organic Chemistry, you can individually tutor in these subjects to fellow college or
K-12 students (as needed). If you have any questions, please contact
[email protected].
APPLY TO BE A UT
ORIENTATION LEADER
Do you have leadership potential? Do you have UT spirit? If so, consider applying to be an O-Team leader
for the Office of New Student Orientation Programs! If you have any questions, call 419.530.1267 or email [email protected]. You can find the application, due March 1st, here.
SEVEN STORIES
WEDNESDAY, 2/15 | 7 P.M. | SU AUDITORIUM
Through stories, strangers touch and connect. Through stories, we humanize one another. This campuswide event is all about stories. It will provide a platform to hear our community's short (2-4 minute) stories;
they can be funny, sad, epic, or small; we welcome everyone's voice. This event will begin with stories
from students affected by the US immigration ban and will continue with open-mic storytelling from
students, faculty, and community members. Sign up here to tell a story: https://goo.gl/yDRQlF
ENGINEERING BRIGADES
MON./WED., 2/13 & 2/15 |
5:30 P.M. | MACKINNON 1370
Consider joining the largest movement for global health and holistic development - Engineering Brigades!
If interested, attend either of the informational sessions (dates, times, and location above) to learn about
the organization, trip dates, and how YOU can contribute to designing a water system for a rural
community in need. Contact [email protected] for more information or visit globalbrigades.org.
TOLEDO OPERA PRESENTS
"THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO"
WEDNESDAY, 2/8 | 8 P.M.
LaLa Land? Who needs it! Come see what romance, music, and comedy are all about in The Marriage of
Figaro. A comic opera that shows how the working class can be avenged - at least in the world of love and
infidelity, The Marriage of Figaro is sure to delight. Tickets are $10 or free for the HLC. Contact Dr. A for
more info.
ALEX SHEEN LECTURE BECAUSE I SAID I WOULD
THURSDAY, 2/16 | 7 P.M. | Doermann Theater
Learn more here. | Reserve your Tickets
"Because I Said I Would" is a social movement and nonprofit dedicated to bettering humanity. Our mission
is to strengthen humanity’s will. It encourages and supports making and keeping
promises to end suffering, establish peace, and build happiness. We created
the Promise Card to help hold people accountable to their commitments, but the
movement has grown into something far greater than just its origin. Our programs help
the world get better one person at a time.
A TIME FOR TELLING
THURSDAY, 2/9 | 4 P.M. |
SU TRIMBLE LOUNGE
Everybody has a story, and we want to hear yours. Come to a free, interactive workshop from 4 pm - 5:30
pm and learn how to discover, shape, and tell your story with power. This campus-wide event hosted by
the Honors College is facilitated by Matthew Russel and includes pizza and drinks. The event is free and
open to the public.
STUDENT OF THE WEEK:
Christina Pinciotti “I’ve truly had a wonderful time working alongside the Honors professors and being enrolled in
their classes. They have taught me so much and have given me opportunities that I wouldn’t have
had anywhere else.”
Christina Pinciotti, a senior in the Honors Theatre program, has been the face of major roles in UT
Theatre productions since her freshman year. A member of Alpha Psi
Omega, Phi Kappa Phi, and a performer in a show every semester,
Pinciotti has been able to excel in many areas around UT. In the
summer of 2014, Christina participated in a TolInterns Program where
she worked closely with Dr. Larry Connin of the Honors College and was
able to present at the Summer Research Symposium. “It was a great
experience and, without Dr. Connin, I would have never known about it,”
Pinciotti said.
Pinciotti said that in choosing her collegiate path, she was looking for a
place to be challenged academically and to further the advanced work
she had done in high school. “Being an Honors student majoring in
Theatre is a somewhat unique case, but no matter what your major is,
you can always make it work with Honors,” Pinciotti explained. “The
Honors College has allowed me to expand my educational horizons.”
LIFE IN HONORS:
SYMPHONY
A group of students in the Honors Learning Community attended the Toledo Symphony on Friday to hear
works from Gershwin, Stravinsky, and selections from West Side Story.
STUDY ABROAD
Madalyn Espen, a freshman studying pre-nursing in the Honors College, traveled to Nicaragua over
Winter break to study abroad.
OPPORTUNITIES:
PRESIDENTS CLUB SCHOLARSHIPS
The Presidents Club awards three $4,000 scholarships each year to full-time undergraduate students who show
academic merit and financial need. Applicants must be seniors during the 2017-2018 academic year with a valid
FAFSA processed and on file along with a cumulative GPA of at least a 3.5. Preference will be given to those who
have demonstrated campus/community involvement and who have attended UT for their entire college career. The
deadline is March 15. For more information about the scholarship and how to apply, please visit here.
PKP GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP
The UT Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi is seeking applicants for the National Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Fellowship Award
($5,000 - $15,000). Graduating seniors with outstanding academic records who are planning to attend graduate
school are encouraged to apply. The competition is based on the applicant’s promise of success in
graduate/professional study, including academic achievement, service and leadership experience, et cetera. To be
nominated, students must be active members of PKP, or have accepted its membership by June 30, 2016. The
deadline for applications is March 15. For more information about the scholarship and how to apply, visit here.
PKP AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
UT PKP is also accepting applications for its Awards of Excellence scholarships for students who will be returning to
UT in the fall semester of 2017. Four awards of $500 will be awarded. Recipients must have a GPA of 3.6 or
higher. Applicants must submit a resume, a 500-word essay, and two letters of recommendation. The deadline is
March 15, 2017. For more information about the scholarship and how to apply, visit here.
KUDOS:
Kudos to Honors College
faculty member Dr. Barbara
Mann, who authored two
chapters in the new book
Race in America. Her
chapters are titled "Race,
Ethnicity and Culture" as
well as "Socially
Misconstrued Usage of the
Racial Concept in
Contemporary America."
Please contact her if you’d
like to read them ([email protected])!
POEM OF THE WEEK:
“Frederick Douglass” By Robert Hayden
When it is finally ours, this freedom, this liberty, this
beautiful
and terrible thing, needful to man as air,
usable as earth; when it belongs at last to all,
when it is truly instinct, brain matter, diastole, systole,
reflex action; when it is finally won; when it is more
than the gaudy mumbo jumbo of politicians:
this man, this Douglass, this former slave, this Negro
beaten to his knees, exiled, visioning a world
where none is lonely, none hunted, alien,
this man, superb in love and logic, this man
shall be remembered. Oh, not with statues’ rhetoric,
not with legends and poems and wreaths of bronze
alone,
but with the lives grown out of his life, the lives
fleshing his dream of the beautiful, needful thing.
(Source: The Poetry Foundation Web site)
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