The Dorothy and Bill Cohen Honors Weekly Update

The weekly update for September 1, 2023


Student Spotlight


Jaci Charbonneau

Hometown: Smith Center, KS
Major/Minor: Finance with an emphasis in Real Estate and minoring in Honors with Leadership Focus
Honors Distinction: Honors with Leadership Focus. 
Favorite Honors Benefit: Smaller class sizes
Favorite Honors classs: Survey of Leadership. 
Survey of Leadership teaches different leadership styles, examples in the real world, and it also had a small classs with a great professor. 
Involvement on CampusHonors Ambassador, Director of Recruitment for the Honors College, and President of the Barton Business Ambassadors 
Fun Fact: I went on vacation to the Dominican Republic this summer with all my immediate family which included 20 people!


Events & Deadlines


NSF/Goldwater Workshop | Sept 15

Interested in funding your undergraduate or graduate studies in a STEM field? The WSU Graduate School and McNair Scholars program are offering a workshop to give you insight into the application processes and timelines for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and the Goldwater Fellowship for undergraduates. Come prepared to ask questions! Friday, September 15 at 11am in RSC 142.
 RSVP by calling 316-978-3139 or email mcnairscholars@wichita.edu


Honors and CID Faculty & Staff Townhall Meeting | Sept 18

Please join the Cohen Honors College and College of Innovation and Design, for the joint townhall meeting with the President and Provost.
Monday, September 18: 1:00-2:00PM

Honors Induction | Sept 23 

Honors Induction for new honors students will take place Saturday, September 23rd in Wilner Auditorium at 12:30pm with an open house reception in the Cohen Honors College Shocker Hall Building A at 1:30pm during Family Weekend. No RSVP required.


FYRE | Oct 10

The First Year Research Experience ((FYRE) is open to new WSU students from all majors. Through a competitive application process students are matched with ongoing research projects led by WSU professors in numerous STEM disciplines. Selected students will participate in active laboratory research for 8-10 hours per week, culminating in a poster presentation about their work.
The FYRE applications are due October 10th with interviews and selection occurring in November. Students earn 3 hours of Honors credit and a letter grade for successful completion of FYRE in the Spring 2024 semester. 
More information here:  
Questions?  Moriah.beck@wichita.edu 


Information 


Attention First-Year Students - Honors Colloquium Reminder! 

First-Year Honors College students please be sure you are checking your Shocker email account. This week you were sent important emails from Blackboard and PebblePad about setting up your PebblePad account and preparing for our first Honors Colloquium classs session. We will continue to send you information for Honors Colloquium throughout the semester. Check those emails often as this is the official method of communication for all things Honors Colloquium! Questions? please email honors@wichita.edu

Honors Colloquium is on Wednesday, September 13, 2023 from 3:30pm to 5:30pm


Volunteer and Earn Money for a Student Organization: Prairie Fire Marathon

The Prairie Fire Marathon planning committee is looking for civic organizations/groups to volunteer for various assignments like water stations on the route. The cool thing about this opportunity is they pay the organizations $10 a volunteer for helping. Are you a member of a student group looking for extra funds for conferences or food for meetings? Email your name and the organization name to Dr. Engber Kimberly.engber@wichita.edu, and she鈥檒l connect you to this opportunity that was sent to us by an Honors alum!


Honors Option Agreement

You can turn almost any course into an Honors course. The Honors Option Agreement form is a way for students to continue fulfilling designated Honors requirements. There is still time to have a conversation with a faculty member in a course you would like to use in your Honors coursework. Please click on the link below to learn more. For further questions, please schedule an Honors advising appointment. Honors Option Agreement forms are due September 8th.
Honors College Forms Directory


Honors Advising (in-person or virtual) 

For an appointment, schedule with Andrew Myers through the  or email him at andrew.myers@wichita.edu
Have a question outside of drop-in hours? Check our FAQs page at .


24/7 Honors Student Space in Shocker Hall

Cohen Honors students have 24/7 access to the Honors student lounge and kitchen in Shocker Hall Building A!

  • Staff are available during office hours Monday-Friday from 8:00am-5:00pm.
  • Use your Shocker ID card to get into the lounge anytime outside of office hours. Scan your ID at the box with the red light. When the light turns green, the door is unlocked. 
  • Free printing is now available to you! To access your free printing, you will need to login to one of the computers in the student lounge. Your login is your WSU ID and password.
  • Lockers are currently not working properly. You can still use them to store your belongings, but you will not be able to lock it. It is your responsibility to make sure nothing is left behind.

If you have issues with door access or printing, please submit a form 


Poem of the Week 

From

As Summer into Autumn slips

And yet we sooner say

The Summer than the Autumn - lest

We turn the Sun away

 

And count it almost an Affront

The Presence to concede

Of one however lovely - not

The one that we have loved

 

So we evade the Charge of Years

On one attempting shy

The Circumvention of the shaft

Of Life鈥檚 Declivity -

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