The Honors College: Small-college feel,
large university opportunity.
The Honors College offers students the best of both worlds: the support and advantages a small private college with the diversity and resources of a large metropolitan university.
07/14/2025
Common Ground Teachers Institute is back for its 36th year!
This week, educators are diving into powerful works like The Wellspring by Sharon Olds, Howl by Allen Ginsberg, Landmarks by Robert MacFarlane, and more working in collaboration with Inprint!
07/11/2025
🎓 Join the next CHW (Community Health Worker) cohort!
🌟 Classes in English & Spanish | Online & In-Person
📢 Learn more and apply now! 👉 http://bit.ly/4nOjh6M
Community Health Worker Initiative Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine University of Houston Andy and Barbara Gessner College of Nursing UH Honors in Community Health
06/20/2025
‼️ Final Call: Preregistration Closes Friday! ‼️
Don’t miss your chance to join the Common Ground Teachers Institute this summer! 📚
It’s a FREE “book club” style professional development opportunity open to all educators, thanks to the generous support of the McGovern Foundation. 🎓
Learn more and register at: www.thehonorscollege.com/commonground
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06/17/2025
Honors College historian Dr. Irene Guenther joins Inna & Ingrid on the Rise Up & Fix It podcast to dive into the powerful connection between fashion and identity.
From history to personal stories, discover how clothing has been used as propaganda, resistance, and self-expression.
Check it out!
Deep Dive into History, Propaganda & Using Fashion as Resistance with Dr. Irene Guenther On this episode of the podcast, we are joined by historian and award-winning professor Dr. Irene Guenther.In our conversation we explore history with Dr. Ire...
06/13/2025
Congratulations to Joyce Lai, a rising junior majoring in communication sciences and disorders, who was awarded a Phi Kappa Phi Study Abroad Grant!
Joyce, one of the 75 students nationwide to receive this award, utilized the grant to study abroad in Belize: "I am blessed to have been able to attend UH's COMD study abroad to Belize and I am incredibly grateful to have received this scholarship to help fund this opportunity. In Belize, I was able to experience first-hand the importance and need for speech language services and learned hands-on how to conduct speech and language screenings and hearing screenings. My time in Belize has helped solidify my commitment to continuing down the path of a speech language pathologist and I can't wait to be able to make a difference in my own community."
Join our office in congratulating Joyce on this amazing achievement!🎉
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The Honors College at the University of Houston
06/12/2025
🎓 The Honors Scholarship Application is NOW OPEN!
Apply now for the 2025–26 academic year (Fall & Spring semesters)! Scholarships are based on financial need, academic achievement in Honors courses and active involvement in the Honors College.
➡️Apply at: www.thehonorscollege.com/honors-scholarship
âť—Deadline is July, 7 at 5 p.m.
Bauer Honors
06/09/2025
Congratulations to Brandon Than!
His passion and hard work in the community are paying off! He’s earned several prestigious honors, including the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship Houston Galveston, which supports public health projects for underserved communities.
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Sophomore Earns Research and Community Service Fellowships Brandon Than contributes to life-saving work at UH-Sequencing Core.
06/03/2025
Read about how Honors graduate Mielad Ziaee's ('25) experience navigating the American health system sparked his passion to tackle health disparities through evidence-based social policy.
The Public Health Whiz Psychology major Mielad Ziaee, one of UH’s most promising young scholars, aspires to eliminate health disparities though evidence-based social policy.
05/30/2025
Check out the Spring/Summer 2025 edition of UH Magazine featuring Dr. Jonathan Williamson’s incredible student abroad trip to the Dominican Republic. This year's new cohort will travel to the DR in June!
05/29/2025
Earlier this year, Honors Biology Professor Marc Hanke's work on Intertidal Oyster Reef Mapping and Population Analysis in West Galveston Bay, Texas was published.
Intertidal Oyster Reef Mapping and Population Analysis in West Galveston Bay, Texas Intertidal reefs comprised of the eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) are an important habitat type within the estuarine landscape and provide many unique ecosystem services. Within West Galveston Bay (WGB), Texas, this type of reef plays an important ecological role; however, the system’s inte...
05/27/2025
‼️FYI‼️**If you pre-registered on or before Friday, May 16 please do so again using the link. A catastrophic server crash means we do not currently have access to data collected and our IT are currently working on it.
Register for Common Ground Teachers Institute at https://bit.ly/4myFvcf
Fill | Common Ground Pre-registration 2025 Please fill out the form below to preregister for the Common Ground Teachers Institute 2025 to be held from July 11-18 in the Honors College at the University of Houston, funded by the John P. McGovern Foundation and brought to you in collaboration with Inprint. Please note that your seminars choice...
05/21/2025
Honors students in action!
Welcome to the Honors College—a vibrant hub of engaging coursework, rich student life, community collaboration, and co-curricular programming at the University of Houston. From study abroad to undergraduate research, from the first-year Human Situation course to the senior honors thesis, students affiliating with the Honors College enjoy the benefits of a small undergraduate college while taking advantage of all that our Tier One research university has to offer.
Almost everyone knows by now that the University of Houston is a Tier One institution, which means that our research and graduate programs have been recognized by the Carnegie Foundation to be of the highest caliber. In addition to its Tier One status, the University and the Honors College have been recognized in a book by the Princeton Review called Colleges That Launch Careers. And in 2016, the Honors College was rated one of the top ten public honors programs in the nation by Public University Press, beating many prestigious flagship universities in the area of honors education. We are proud to be a leading honors institution, and I am extremely proud to serve as dean.
We believe that a top tier education happens not only in the classroom and the library. To have a transformative college experience, students want and need opportunities beyond the classroom: service-learning opportunities; academic, sports, and social clubs; study abroad experiences; mentored research opportunities; interdisciplinary minors and programs that enhance the skills needed for any profession; and support in applying for competitive scholarships, fellowships, and graduate school. Students find all this and more in the Honors College.
As part of a liberal education, all students in the Honors College at the University of Houston take a two-semester great books course called "The Human Situation" during their freshman year. This course is interdisciplinary, team-taught, and helps students hone their critical thinking, writing, and speaking skills, which will serve them in any course of study.
| Monday | 8am - 7pm |
| Tuesday | 8am - 7pm |
| Wednesday | 8am - 7pm |
| Thursday | 8am - 7pm |
| Friday | 8am - 5pm |