Announcements

Honors College/HCSA Events

Each semester the Honors College holds social and academic events, as well as volunteer activities designed for you! Participating is a great opportunity to make the most of your college years, and get to know your fellow Honors College students. Mark your calendars for these great events sponsored by the Honors College and the Honors College Student Association! You'll receive detailed information about these events throughout the semester via email.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008, 3:30pm
Conserving the Bonobo: A Struggle Between Two Worlds
Curtin Hall 175 at 3:30 p.m.

Dr. Gay Edwards Reinartz, director of The Bonobo and Congo Biodiversity Initiative-Zoological Society of Milwaukee, will be offering an illustrated talk on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 in Curtin Hall 175 at 3:30 p.m. Dr. Reinartz is a professional zoologist with over 22 years of practical experience developing and directing conservation and research programs for the bonobo and a variety of other programs in conservation biology. Throughout her professional career, she has held leading positions in both field-based conservation and captive management of the bonobo, which has enabled her to exercise a multi-disciplinary approach to conservation.

This event is free and open to the public.

The Honors College Adds an Additional Lecturer
The Honors College is happy to announce that Alan Singer, former visiting assistant professor of History, has been added to the Honors College staff as a full-time lecturer.

Professor Singer, a suburban Chicago native, earned his B.A. and M.A. from Northern Illinois University and his Ph.D. in British history from the University of Missouri-Columbia. His research focuses mainly on how British national identity was influenced by the development of political and economic liberalism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Publication by an Honors College Graduate
Congratulations to Drew Morton, Honors College graduate of 2006, on the recent publication of his senior Honors thesis. Drew's essay, "The False Opposition between Hollywood and Independent Examined in the Films of Steven Soderbergh," appears in translation in the Portuguese volume Cinema no mundo: Estados Unidos ("World Cinema: United States"). Drew is currently a graduate student in Film Studies at UCLA.