University Honors Program - University of Minnesota

Next Wednesday! Join us for Pie with Professors - chat with Honors faculty, enjoy some pie, and meet other Honors students.

6:30pm-7:30pm
Middlebrook Hall Terrace Room
Free to attend!

See you there 🥧

We're so excited for our Student-Alumni Networking Event on October 17, 2023!⁠
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This is a chance for current Honors students (seniors and select juniors) to make connections with UHP alumni. There will be a "speed networking" session followed by informal mingling time.⁠
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RSVP by October 11, 2023: https://honors.umn.edu/news-and-community/student-alumni-networking-event

And so the adventure begins 🎓️

After all the late nights studying, endless cups of coffee, and completing an honors thesis, it's time to celebrate your accomplishments (...and then get some rest) 🌟🥳

Congratulations and best of luck on your next journey!

🎉Congrats to UHP student Carter Yost (pictured left), one of two UMN students who are 2023 Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation Scholars! The prestigious Truman Scholarship is awarded to undergraduate students who demonstrate a commitment to leadership and public service.

Yost, a history, University of Minnesota Political Science and communications major, has served as a UMN student senator and currently serves as Government and Legislative Affairs Director for the ABTS - The Association of Big Ten Students He plans to complete a graduate degree in Public Policy and would like to serve as a presidential speech writer.

Learn more about Yost and see other Truman Scholarship winners here →

Two University of Minnesota students named 2023 Truman Scholars U of M Twin Cities juniors Joleece Pecore and Carter Yost are among the 62 Truman Scholars announced today by the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation.

UHP history student Rowan Wylie played a key role in designing and organizing the University of Minnesota Health Sciences Library Wangensteen Historical Library's April 7 pop-up exhibit, "Wangensteen in Bloom." She said it was an opportunity to bring her major to life, and what better way to do so with the wide spectrum of flora and fauna contained in the Library's archival materials? Read more about Rowan's experience here →

Celebrating spring with ’Wangensteen in bloom‘ - continuum | University of Minnesota Libraries News and Events from University of Minnesota Libraries

UHP University of Minnesota - Department of Educational Psychology student Natalie Dumas was part of the research team whose poster won the Most Accessible to a Layperson award at the College of Education and Human Development | University of Minnesota 2023 Research and Innovation Day.

Their poster, titled Siblings and Social Interaction Development of Autistic Individuals: A Systematic Review, investigated the role siblings of autistic children may play in their social interaction skill development.

Read more about their research and the other winning posters here →

Announcing Research & Innovation Day 2023 poster winners | Tuesday, March 28th, 2023

Manisha Asrani, a UHP human physiology student, got her first internship opportunity at Fraser - Minnesota a specialty healthcare and mental health services organization for people with disabilities, over spring break. The opportunity was part of the College of Liberal Arts | University of Minnesota Get Ready program, which has been in its pilot stage since 2022. Asrani, who wants to go into healthcare, said "it was cool to see what the life of behavioral therapists and their work was like."

Read the Minnesota Daily story about Get Ready here →

CLA’s Get Ready program puts UMN students to work Over spring break, several students practiced Gen Z marketing strategies with a Minnesota nonprofit.

UHP alum Ruby Oluoch (BA '17, Global Studies) and current executive director of the media arts nonprofit Pollen Midwest was featured in the most recent College of Liberal Arts | University of Minnesota Alumni Reflections. Her advice to current students: "be brave enough to see yourself first, accept who you are, and follow the path that leads you down—it might be a different path than you thought it would be."

Read more advice from Ruby and her favorite memories from the U here! →

Alumni Reflections Alumna Ruby Oluoch advises students to "be brave enough to see yourself first, accept who you are, and follow the path that leads you down."

UHP CFANS Food Science major Lizzy Van Ert has been at the forefront of the fight to keep the Cornercopia Student Organic Farm (UMN) on the St. Paul campus up and running. The SOF, which sells organic produce on and off campus and has built a dedicated base of supporters, ran into financial struggles in 2020 and has only one year of funding left. Van Ert wrote a letter to the CFANS Dean and Associate Dean asking for a guarantee of future financial security, which was signed by 52 students. She said she hopes the farm will get funding because of its ability to meet many students needs: "Whatever you actually want to do, you will be able to." Read more here →

UMN Student Organic Farm faces uncertain financial future Students are making a push to secure University funding for the farm, which has provided students with hands-on learning experience for nearly two decades.

UHP Writing Studies, University of Minnesota technical writing and communications major Parker Sinkula is interested in making "the unfamiliar understandable." If you think technical writing is confined to the page, think again! In this Q&A, Sinkula describes just how his coursework has encouraged his flexibility, curiosity and creativity. Read more here →

“I wonder how that works?” Undergraduate student Parker Sinkula found that the technical writing & communication major is perfect for people who ask “I wonder how that works.”

UHP University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management sophomore Henning Hanson, and fellow UHP sophomores Daisy Forester and Cole Pivec make up the alt-rock trio Dial Tone, which came together this past fall. They recently made it past the semifinal round for Battle of the Bands, and will be performing at Spring Jam in April for the final round. “Music has always been a chance for me to relax and have fun, so I hope to keep using it as a creative outlet in addition to whatever else I'm doing,” said Hanson. Read more here →

Business and the Beat Henning Hanson is an honors student at the Carlson School of Management, majoring in Finance and Nonprofit and Public Administration. Beyond his academics, he

UHP University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences sophomore Amital Shaver spent her summer in Bristol Bay, Alaska learning to fight wildfires on a newly launched all-female crew as part of the National Park Service and Student Conservation Association Shaver called the experience "invaluable...just to see such powerful women role models in fire who made these careers and who stood their ground and didn’t have to sacrifice being themselves.” Read more here →

Fighting wildfires on an all-female crew U of M student Amital Shaver spent the summer learning to fight wildfires with an all-female crew.

UHP University of Minnesota College of Design Apparel Design student Jaden Evenson was a part of Professor Lucy Dunne's technical design studio that collaborated with University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences to create protective bucket hats for people living with Xeroderma Pigmentosum (XP), an inherited disease that causes extreme UV sensitivity. Read more about the project here. →

Intercollegiate collaboration provides life-saving UV protective hats for children with rare cancer syndrome | College of Design February 16, 2023 For many people, appearance or comfort is the most important consideration when choosing a hat to wear. But for people living with Xeroderma Pigmentosum (XP), an inherited disease that causes an individual to be extremely sensitive to ultraviolet radiation, health and safety must t...

UHP University of Minnesota Department of Mechanical Engineering student and Seagate Scholarship recipient Lily Watkins discussed her senior design class in a new video from University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management She said of this class "it allows you to see some of the most important parts of each course that you just spent so much time studying for" and ultimately "go create something cool in industry." Watch the full video here →

UMN engineering senior design class University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering students Nate Wandmacher and Lily Watkins, a recipient of the Seagate Scholarship, discuss how the...

UHP History students Darby Ronning and Olivia Olson are featured in the Wangensteen Student Showcase, open at the University of Minnesota Health Sciences Library until May 1. Ronning's University of Minnesota Libraries internship culminated in the poster "Women at the Wangensteen," and Olson worked with a fellow student to create "Matter of Artifact: Collecting Fragments of Pharmacy's Past." Olson plans to work more with archives an material evidence in the future. Read more here →

Wangensteen Student Showcase - continuum | University of Minnesota Libraries News and Events from University of Minnesota Libraries

UHP student Alice Lesch was featured in the CFANS "Meet A Sustainable Systems Management Student" Q&A. She is the vice president of the Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota Ambassador Program and is involved with the NorthStar Building Science Club, and hopes to get involved in environmental consulting post-graduation. On why she chose SSM: "I grew up with the value of leaving places better than you found them, and SSM is my way of giving back to ensure future generations can have the same quality of life as we have." Read more here →

5 questions with Alice: Meet a sustainable systems management student | College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences Five Questions with Alice Alice Lesch, sustainable systems management major What is sustainable systems management (SSM)? SSM combines science, business, and economics to build a strong systems-thinking approach to environmental issues. This is really important because corporations and governments t...

Carel Tulus, a UHP architecture University of Minnesota College of Design student, describes the Writing Studies, University of Minnesota First-Year Writing Program as "revolutionary." He wasn't originally very inclined to write, but the required class piqued his interest in research writing and helped him learn to weave ideas into conversation. He won the "Writing with Research" category of the First-Year Writing Awards and is ready to forge new paths ahead. Read more here →

The First-Year Writing Program: Four Students Share Their Stories Four students describe how the First-Year Writing Program has improved their relationship with writing and changed their perspective of the world.

UHP student Taylor Fairbanks was a 2022 National History Day finalist, and her project on the White Earth Settlement Act of 1965 was displayed at the National Museum of American History. She's now a freshman in the Department of American Indian Studies - University of Minnesota Twin Cities and served as a mentor to middle school students in this year's Gopherbaloo at Wilson Library. Read more here →

Gopherbaloo 2023! - continuum | University of Minnesota Libraries News and Events from University of Minnesota Libraries