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Fall 2022 Glassman Lecture
David Mconville
Spring 2022 Honors Faculty Showcase
Faculty Showcase 2019 Panel

Spring 2023

What's Happening, Spring 2023 - check here for events, civic engagement, and social opportunities to meet  Honors students and mentors. 

SIU honors students will participate in USDA-funded initiative on food and sustainability aimed at developing innovative teaching and holistic approaches relating to food, climate justice and sustainable agriculture. Read more

 

The Charles D. Tenney Distinguished Speakers Spring 2023:

Elisabetta Matsumoto - Tenney Speaker Spring 2023 We are proud to welcome Elisabetta Matsumoto as our distinguished speaker for the  Charles D. Tenney Distinguished Speaker Spring 2023 in collaboration with the Yellow Moon Gyroid Installation.

Friday, March 3, 2023
Gallery talk: 10 AM - 12 PM, Quigley Hall, Gallery 119
Presentation: 3 PM - 4:30 PM, Guyon Auditorium, Morris Library

Elisabetta Matsumoto is an associate professor in the School of Physics at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her physics research centers around the relationship between geometry and material properties in soft systems, including liquid crystals, 3D printing and textiles. Her lab studies knitted textiles from the point of view of knot theory and as an additive manufacturing technique. She is also interested in using sewing, 3D printing and virtual reality in mathematical art and education.  Read more. 

Recording of her talk and related events available here.

The lecture will also be live on zoom.  To register: Click Here

Sujan Shrestha - Tenney Speaker Spring 2023 We are proud to welcome Sujan Shrestha as the Charles D. Tenney Distinguished Speaker Spring 2023.

Sujan Shrestha is an associate professor at the University of Baltimore in the Division of Science, Information Arts and Technologies. His research focuses on teaching and learning through games and digital interactive technology. With a background in experimental art and new media he creates solutions for the restoration and preservation of history by means of storytelling, games and emerging technology. He established University of Maryland’s GameLab, and is an active board member for the Bridges Organization, which focuses on mathematical connections in art, music, architecture, education, and culture. Read More

 

 

 Fall 23 Honors Faculty Roundtable: Faculty teaching Honors Seminars in Fall23 share their plans for and ideas animating their choice of topic. 

Monday March 20, 4:00-5:30 PM.

Honors Faculty Showcase: Each year, the University Honors Program takes up a theme that we explore explore through our seminars and related events.  Our theme for Fall 22-Spring 23 was Migrations and Borders.

Please join us to hear about the work done in our cluster of seminars.

  • Wednesday, April 19, 3 - 5 PM.
  • University Honors Program Lounge, Morris Library 180. 

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Fall 2022

What's Happening, Fall  2022-check here for events, civic engagement, and social opportunities to meet  Honors students and mentors.

Glassman-lecture.png We are proud to welcome Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba as our distinguished speaker for the Fall 22 Glassman Lecture. The lecture will also be live on zoom.  To register: rb.gy/5yw9qa  Read more

A recording of the lecture is available here

Spring 23 Honors Faculty Roundtable: Faculty teaching Honors Seminars in Spring 23 share their plans for and ideas animating their choice of topic.  Monday October 24, 4:00-5:30 PM.

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Spring 2022

What's Happening, Spring  2022-check here for events, civic engagement, and social opportunities to meet  Honors students and mentors.

The Honors Assembly will host the Honors Research Symposium on Thursday, April 14th, 1-3 PM, Cambria, Morris Library.  

Faculty Showcase Fall 2022 flyerHonors Faculty showcase

Each year, the University Honors Program takes up a theme that we explore explore through our seminars and related events.  Our theme for Fall 21-Spring 22 was The State of Climate Emergency - The Earth and Us.

Please join us to hear about the work done in our cluster of seminars.

  • Wednesday, April 13, 3 - 5 PM.
  • University Honors Program Lounge, Morris Library 180.

 

Fall 2021

What's Happening, Fall 2021-check here for events, civic engagement, and social opportunities to meet  Honors students and mentors.

The Honors Assembly welcomes Fall 21 with two events:

Kate Klise FlyerThe Tenney Distinguished lecture will be delivered by award-winning children's book author, Kate Klise.  She will also be workshopping writing for children in Professor Jane Dougherty's UHON seminar, Exploring Children's Literature this Fall.  Read more

Reading and Reception: Thursday, October 21, 4:30-6:30 PM, Guyon Auditorium       

 

 

 

Previous Events

Honors Lecture Series

Each year, the UHP brings distinguished speakers to our campus.  These presentations offer an opportunity to bring together various disciplines to consider significant questions related to the human condition. In addition to the public lecture, we host workshops, and critiques, and explore other forms of intellectual exchange and collaboration.  There are two major lecture series:

MICHAEL & NANCY GLASSMAN LECTURER SERIES was established by Michael and Nancy Glassman.  Nancy and Michael met when they were students at SIUC and have continued to support SIUC by establishing the Lecture series. The list of our distinguished speakers is here.

The CHARLES D. TENNEY DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SERIES is named after Charles D. Tenney, who joined the English Department in 1931 and played a significant role as the Provost in transforming SIU from a teacher’s college into a research university.  The series is animated by the ambition to bring the university together in reflecting on big problems, concerns, and themes that confront us. The list of our distinguished speakers is here.