News & Events
Winter 2010:
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HNRC 400 Perspectives of Global Citizens is a new Honors seminar which will be offered in Spring. This is a joint project between IEP and Honors. During the seminar students will identify challenges that people face in communication with others over cultural, geographical and language barriers in an effort to develop effective methods to overcome these barriers. The students will also work closely with the international students studying here at Cal Poly.
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Honors Research Day will be held on Wednesday, June 3. More details to follow in spring quarter.
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We have a very active Honors student board this year. They have been working on a variety of issues, including curriculum, community service, event planning, and fundraising. They plan to have a booth at Open House so drop by and say hello!
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We are sponsoring a research contest this spring to recognize the compassionate work students and faculty are doing across campus. A list of projects are available online at HUSEL
Fall 2009:
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HNRC 400 Perspectives of Global Citizens is a new Honors seminar which will be offered in Spring. This is a joint project between IEP and Honors. During the seminar students will identify challenges that people face in communication with others over cultural, geographical and language barriers in an effort to develop effective methods to overcome these barriers. The students will also work closely with the international students studying here at Cal Poly.
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Honors Research Day will be held on Wednesday, June 3. More details to follow in spring quarter.
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We have a very active Honors student board this year. They have been working on a variety of issues, including curriculum, community service, event planning, and fundraising. They plan to have a booth at Open House so drop by and say hello!
Honors Student Board Newsletter -
We are sponsoring a research contest this spring to recognize the compassionate work students and faculty are doing across campus. A list of projects are available online at HUSEL
Spring 2009:
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HNRC 400 Perspectives of Global Citizens is a new Honors seminar which will be offered in Spring. This is a joint project between IEP and Honors. During the seminar students will identify challenges that people face in communication with others over cultural, geographical and language barriers in an effort to develop effective methods to overcome these barriers. The students will also work closely with the international students studying here at Cal Poly.
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Honors Research Day will be held on Wednesday, June 3. More details to follow in spring quarter.
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We have a very active Honors student board this year. They have been working on a variety of issues, including curriculum, community service, event planning, and fundraising. They plan to have a booth at Open House so drop by and say hello!
Honors Student Board Newsletter -
We are sponsoring a research contest this spring to recognize the compassionate work students and faculty are doing across campus. A list of projects are available online at HUSEL
Winter 2009:
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Five Honors students presented their Honors undergraduate research projects on February 28, 2009 at the annual CSU Honors Research Conference at CSU Sacramento campus. All of the students who attended were enrolled in "UNIV/HNRS 321: Research Methods and Practice" course this past quarter and were also NSF S-STEM scholarships recipients. Three of the students were Freshmen. All of the students are engaged in very interesting research projects funded by CENG, COSAM, and Dean Opava's C3RP grant.
Summer 2008:
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Service Learning Trip to Malawi
This past summer a team of two Cal Poly faculty members and five Cal Poly students traveled to Malawi to evaluate the implementation of their class project on sustainable irrigation practices. Team members included Diane Long, retired Political Science faculty member and team leader, Rod Hoadley, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering faculty member, Social Sciences graduate Kaitlin Chandler, Earth Science graduate Bridget Hill, Animal Science senior Grace Wetmore, and Blayne Morgan, an Environmental Engineering senior.
The idea was developed as the result of a new course series, UNIV/HNRS 491 & 492: Appropriate Technology for Impoverished Communities, which was offered for the first time last Winter and Spring. The course series brought together students and faculty members from various disciplines who shared a desire to help communities around the world. The students studied impoverished communities, world hunger and the causes of poverty, and developed technologies to be implemented in such communities.
This particular team's focus was on Malawi, Africa. After discovering that certain villages in Malawi did not have irrigation and could not grow enough food, the group designed a prototype for a bicycle-powered water pump. The trip was a great success and demonstrates service learning at its best. For more details, please see http://www.sustainableuniverse.org/ or an article in the Mustang Daily
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Ambassador of Zambia visits the Honors Commons!
Dr. Inonge Mbikusita-Lewanika, Ambassador of the Republic of Zambia, took some time on Tuesday, November 14th, to chat with Honors Students. Topics ranged from the current state of affairs in Zambia to a brief history of her education, travels, and experiences. Dr. Mbikusita-Lewanika, a Cal Poly alumna, has visited. the Honors Program for the past four years to help promote a sense of global awareness in Cal Poly's Honors Students. The Honors Program is considering coordinating a summer program in Zambia where Honors Students will have the unique opportunity to teach the subject of their choice to local school children. If you have any interest in participating in such a program, email us for details.
Dr. Inonge Mbikusita-Lewanika (5th from right) with Honors Students and Faculty