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Posted on February 13, 2012 - by nshaw

Conference Opportunity – Pittsburgh, PA

Robert Morris University’s honors program (Pittsburgh, PA) is co-sponsoring their 6th annual undergraduate conference, “Intersections,” with California University of Pennsylvania’s honors program, to be held on April 20, 2012 at Robert Morris University.

Presenters will have two options for sharing their research papers: in person at the conference or by video-conferencing.

The call for papers can be found here, and the call for presentations via video-conferencing can be found here.

Research presented can be previously-presented work as long as it was not presented at this particular conference last year, so, it is a prime opportunity for NRHC students presenting work at the April 12-15 conference to share their ideas with a wider audience. It is also a good chance for students whose work may not have been accepted into this year’s NRHC conference to receive a second look from a review committee to get their research to a new audience.

Best of luck to all applicants!

Posted on December 13, 2011 - by nshaw

Congratulations!

The Northeast Regional Honors Council would like to send our sincerest congratulations to current student representative Jeremiah Sammons of Gallaudet University on his election to a two-year student representative slot on the national board.

Keep up the great work, Jeremiah!

Posted on November 9, 2011 - by nshaw

New Website for Baltimore 2012 Conference

The conference website is officially up and running! You can submit proposals (due November 15), find out more information on the minority fellowship, look up the program of events and explore your travel options.

Click here to go to the website (http://www.nrhc2012.org/).

Posted on September 23, 2011 - by nshaw

Partners in the Park Student Reflections Posted

Four student essays have been posted in the “Student Reflections” tab found at the top of the page.

Julieann Hartley, Anna Maria College, and Lori Linsenbigler, Community College of Allegheny County, went to the Great Smoky Mountains while Angel Ng, Galludet University, and Madeline McKain, Point Park University, explored Great Basin National Park.

Posted on July 19, 2011 - by nshaw

NRHC Portland Conference Presidential Address

During the Portland Conference this Spring, NRHC President Julia Fennell’s offered students a creative connection between poetry and the daily life of an honors student in her presidential address. Her speech, “The Poetry of Honors” connected the conference to National Poetry Month, as the conference took place mostly in April.

She suggested that being an honors student and reading a poem have much in common, specifically how one approaches both tasks. “Honors education and reading a poem require similar mindsets,” she said, “Both interactions require that we do the following: Inhabit the Room, Play in the Dark, and Conspire and Collaborate.”

The full text of her speech – in which she expands upon these three ideas – can be found here.