If you are planning to submit a petition, the deadline to do so is next Friday, May 21st. Prior to that deadline, you need to have met with an Honors Advisor to go over your petition draft. Please remember that petitions are NOT guaranteed, and should only be submitted in the event of unexpected or unusual academic planning problems.
CHSC Elections – Absentee Voting
At the CHSC general meeting yesterday, the candidates for next year’s council gave their campaign speeches, and those in attendance voted for their preferred candidates. If you were not present at the meeting, you may cast an absentee ballot by coming to the Honors Office today or tomorrow only. After that, the ballots will be tallied and the new council will be announced next week.
ATS Awards Ceremony – Volunteers Needed!
On May 15th (this Saturday) the Academic Talent Search needs our help at their Awards Ceremony. The event is on campus from 9AM-Noon. This is a great way to pick up points for the incentive points program! Just
email Jaime Allen (jnallen@uci.edu) if you can help. We need at least 5 volunteers for that day and help this week for set up. And don’t forget, there will be a drawing among those few volunteers to win a pair of Angels tickets, so volunteer now!
Faculty Coffee Hour Tomorrow
Don’t forget, tomorrow is Faculty Coffee Hour from 9-11am in the Locus. Please remember that this is a dress-up event, so look sharp! Chancellor Drake will be stopping by, as will many other professors over the course of the two hours, including: Civelli | Burley | Cooper | Lynch | Allison | Raffatellu | Carpenter | Barrett | Longhurst | Russell | Tang | Tobias | Topik | Tucker | Johnson | Bowler | King | Botvinick | Guerra | Kirkby | Davis | Rychnovsky | Shea | Lupton | Schonfeld. So come out and mingle with your favorite professors, and meet some new ones as well!
UROP Symposium on Saturday
On behalf of the UROP Team, I cordially invite you to join us at the Seventeenth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium to be held on Saturday, May 15, 2010, in the Humanities Buildings. A record number of 505 projects will be showcased at this year’s event in 262 oral presentations and 274 poster presentations (31 projects will be presented in both formats). These projects involve 683 unique undergraduate students, who were mentored by 364 unique faculty members.
This year’s theme, “Undergraduate Research: Launching the Future,” reminds us of the impact that today’s young researchers will have on our world. We are honored to announce that this year’s keynote speaker will be Dr. Marc Madou (http://mmadou.eng.uci.edu/), Chancellor’s Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Chemical Engineering & Materials Science.
I hope you and your loved ones will join us for all or part of the day’s schedule:
7:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Registration
7:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. Oral Presentations – Session I
10:30 a.m. – 11:50 a.m. Keynote Address and Awards Ceremony
12:00 p.m. – 1:20 p.m. Lunch/Dance Performance
1:30 p.m. – 2:50 p.m. Poster Session
3:00 p.m. – 4:50 p.m. Oral Presentations – Session II
To plan your day, feel free to browse through the Symposium Program, or a list of presentations by school, available on the UROP Web site: http://www.urop.uci.edu/symposium.html .
In order for us to make the proper arrangements and include you as UROP Guests, please R.S.V.P. by Friday, May 14, by clicking on this link:
http://www.urop.uci.edu/srsvp.html .
We look forward to seeing you at the Symposium!