From: Megan Hull Date: September 11, 2023 Subject: This Week in Honors: Study Abroad Week!
This Week in Honors
Bon Voyage, Honors Scholars! It's Study Abroad Week here at the Honors College, and we've packed (get it?) the week with exciting events to help you pick a program, secure funding and navigate a new country. Ready to hit the road? Check out the details below.
Join us for lunch with noted NASA physicist Amber Straughn. She is helping to guide work on NASA’s biggest and most powerful telescope yet, the James Webb Space Telescope.
Looking for opportunities to bolster your professional school application? Join Jonathan Langley to learn about how to find opportunities for shadowing, research, service, and more.
It’s no secret that studying abroad can be pricey. Join us for an info session on how to find affordable programs, how financial aid and stacking scholarships works, and what extra study abroad grants you can apply for!
Join us and learn about study abroad! We will have professors talking about studying in Japan, New Zealand, and other countries. Come for some pizza, drinks and good conversations!
Join us and learn about the Summer 2024 Honors College Internship in Dublin program! This is the inaugural year that the Honors College is sending a cohort of its best and brightest to participate in an 8-week international internship program, and we want you to be a part of it!
This 30-minute workshop with Jonathan Langley is an introduction to the tools you need to plan your academic career in honors at the U of A, whether you are planning one or multiple majors. Meets Honors Fellow planning and mapping requirement.
This workshop will cover the nuts and bolts of applying for an Honors College Study Abroad Grant AND provide valuable tips for how to be competitive for funding!
Futures Hub staff are coming to Hotz Hall! We’ll be set up across from the music room on Thursdays from 9 – 10 am. Stop by to chat, ask questions or grab coffee and a snack.
Thursday, 9.13 | Fulbright US Student Program | GEAR 243 | 12 pm
Interested in teaching English abroad after graduating? Or a fully paid study abroad in the UK for freshmen and sophomores! Join this info session to learn more!
Deadlines
Friday, 9.22 | Study Abroad Grant Deadline | 11:59 PM
Only deadline for January Intersession and Spring 2024 programs. More info here.
Sunday, 10.1 | Study Abroad Grant Deadline | 11:59 PM
First deadline for Summer 2024 programs. More info here.
Experience both the hot pink of “Hi Barbie!” and the morbid tension of the “destroyer of worlds” as we unravel Barbenheimer, the Internet phenomenon that took over movie theaters this summer. At our Honors College Pulse Panel Discussion, dissect the zeitgeist with free pizza and expert commentary from Alessandro Brogi, professor of history, Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, professor of Italian and associate director of gender studies and Lisa Corrigan, professor of communication and director of gender studies.
