UMHC Tentative Schedule

Time	Room	Name/Last	Title of Presentation
April 24 at  3:00 PM			Registration
April 24 at  5:30 PM			Opening Remarks & Greetings
April 24 at  6:00 PM			Banquet
April 24 at  7:00 PM			Speaker
April 24 at  8:00 PM			Student Fun
April 24 at  8:00 PM			Faculty Reception
April 25 at 8:00 AM			Opening Remarks
April 25 at 8:15 AM			State Caucuses
April 25 at 9:15 AM	1	Hana Spangler	Spectators, Satyrs, and Frogs: The Role of the Chorus in Ancient Greek Drama
	2	Collin Heer	Cu/Zn Superoxide Dismutase: Form and Function
	3	Morgan Marushin	The Seeds of Our Future
	4	Srijita Kar	Psychological Manipulation
	5	Megan Hondl	The Honors College Student Council
	6	Tim Nichols	What About Love? A mult-disiplinary examination of one of the most powerful forces in human life
April 25 at 9:45 AM	1	Josh Sylvester	Nuclear Weapons Testing Program on the Marshall Islands
	2	Melinda Svejda	Himalayan Newts: Exploration and Rescue
	3	Joe Christensen	Faith in a Seed
	4	Katherine LaFleur	Start to Finish:  How the Eugenics Movement Led to the Nazi final Solution
	6	Josh Laskowski	Honors Living and Learning Community Service Contract
April 25 at 10:15 AM	2	Nicole Wennen	The Seeds of Change: Going Green
	3	Travis VanOverbeke	Random Number Generation: Seeded or Seedless
	4	Michael Rohm	Community Mobilization in Rwanda
	5	Tim Nichols	A Home of Our Own: Bringing Honors Hall at SDSU to Life
April 25 at 10:45 AM	1	Deborah Admire	Separation of the Sophists
	2	Noah Holzman	Engineering Chemistry: Fabricating a Photochemical Reactor
	3	Nick Arens	Not Every Function has an Elementary Antiderivative
	4	Katie Sam	Explaining the Difference in Financial Literacy Among College Students: Gender Effect or Family Background?
	5	Tim Nichols	Making Meaning in Honors
	6	Toril Sanford	Designing an Honors Teaching Manual
April 25 at 11:15 AM	1	Francisco Martinez	Cinema's Buried Thoughts
	2	Kuo-Liang Chang	Factors affected Household's Fruit and Vegetable Consumption: A Survey Study in Northern Great Plain Region
	4	Antoinette Lyte-Evans	The Little Things that Matter
	6	Tim Nichols	Factors Influencing Honors Student Recruitment and Retention at SDSU
April 25 at 11:45 AM	1	Megan Feuchtenberger	How Aristotle’s Beliefs Influenced His Scientific Endeavors
	2	John Craig	Humans vs. Nature: Who is the Enemy?
	3	Jordan Ulmer	A Brief Survey of Mathematical Paradoxes
	4	Jennifer O'Konek	The Seeds of Success
	5	Barbara Kleinjan	The Connections and Disconnections of Social Media: How the Virtual World Impacts Relationship Development among Honors Students
	6	Bill Knox	After Honors: Staying in the Game
April 25 at 12:30 PM			Lunch
April 25 at 1:30 PM	1	Andrew Tubbs	The tonal asociations and their functions with in Franz Schubert's Die Schöner Müllerin
	2	Jessica Hulzebos	Turning America's Failing Crop Around
	3	Joellyn Sheehy	Self-Interest and Human Trafficking
	4	Madeline Hentges	Replanting the Seeds of Blame
	5	Hanna Larsen	Becoming an Honors Servant Leader
	6	Casey Goodmund	Reaping the harvest of Honors Contracts: the Learning Portfolio and Option B
April 25 at 2:00 PM	1	Jessie Eckroad	Truffula Trees and Camas Seeds: An Analysis of Two Nature Narratives
	2	Eric Revis
	3	Allison Rucinski	Coming Out: Is it Still Relevant?
	4	Lindsey Simmons	Adventures in Evolutionary Psychology
April 25 at 2:30 PM	1	Ellen Ahlness	Janteloven and Social Conformity in Thorbørn Egner’s Literature
	2	Katelyn Kippes	Down syndrome: The Effects of Knowing on Prenatal Testing and Abortion Decisions
	5	Suzanne Carter	Nurturing the Growth of Honors: Iowa Honors Outreach
	6	Chris Chambers	The Human SupraOrganism
April 25 at 3:00 PM			Poster Session
April 25 at 4:30 PM			UMHC Executive Meeting
April 25 at 5:00 PM			Pizza Dinner
April 25 at 5:00 PM			Faculty Dinner
April 25 at 7:00 PM			Ph.D. The Movie
April 25 at 8:30 PM			Ph.D. Panel Disucssion
April 26 at 9:00 AM	1	Megan Verhagen	Representation of Feminism in Antigone and The Mahabharata
	2	Aditi Patel	Precision Biopsy Leads to More Accurate Detection of Prostate Cancer in Comparison to Conventional Biopsy
	3	Rachel Trueblood	Sowing Seeds of Gender in Children's Minds
	4	Kelsey Stern	The Seeds of Aggression
	5	Ginny Walters	Fellowship Advising within Honors
	6	Kate Lysinger	The Female Condition: A Millennial Girl's Guide to Navigating a Patriarchal Society
April 26 at 9:30 AM	1	Barbara Kleinjan	SDSU Honors Speech Readers' Theatre: From Creation to Live Performance
	2	Brittney Anderson	Seeds of Change: Re-conceptualizing Obesity as a Disease
	3	Angela Wieland	A Worm in Disney's Apple
	4	Kyla Larsen	Social Success!
	6	Caleb Miller	The Psychology of Disagreement
April 26 at 10:00 AM	2	Riley Taubert	Statistical Analysis of the Effect of Antiviral Treatments on HIV Patient RNA and CD4 T Cell Levels
	3	Owen Shay	An Inter-State Vision: the People Who Built America’s Super Highways
	5	Tim Nichols	Honors-Led Common Read Engages Students, Builds Community
	6	Ben Stout	Using "A Sand County Almanac" to Develop Ecological Understanding and Land Value
April 26 at 10:30 AM			UMHC Annual Business Meeting
April 26 at 10:30 AM			Closing Remarks

Call for Proposals

Wartburg College is hosting the Upper Midwest Regional Honors Conference this April 24-26, 2014.  This is your chance to talk about anything from a research project to a service learning experience.  Check out our web site and sign up to give a talk or a poster.  You can use the same poster that you print out for RICE Day.

2014 Conference Planning - Post 1

As you may know, we are hosting the Upper Midwest Honors Council Conference in April 2014.  Since we don't want to re-invent the wheel, here are conference programs from the last few years:

• 2013 - College of St. Scholastica - Duluth, MN - 2013 Conference Program
• 2012 - Clark University - Dubuque, IA - 2012 Conference Program
• 2011 - University of North Dakota - Grand Forks, ND - 2011 Conference Program
• 2010 - South Dakota State University - Brookings, SD - 2010 Conference Program
• 2009 - Southwest Minnesota State University - Marshall, MN - 2009 Basic Information - 2009 Conference Program
• 2008 - University of Wisconsin-Stout - Menomonie, WI
• 2007 - Dickinson State University - Dickinson, ND

Awaken the Dreamer Retreat

At the Upper Midwest Honors Council conference a week ago, we heard a talk by some students from Mt. Mercy College in Cedar Rapids.  They have incorporated Awaken the Dreamer/Changing the Dream into their curriculum at the college.  They have offered to come to Wartburg and have a retreat for the Scholars Program in the Fall.  This is an introductory video.

Please let us know if you are interested by filling out the questionnaire.

Back from UMHC

We had a great, educational time at the UMHC Conference in Duluth.  Travel was a bit exciting,  but it was worth the long drive and led to discussion of Boreal Forest on the way home.

Three Scholars and two Birgens

Three Scholars and two Birgens

The view outside my hotel window Friday AM.

The view outside my window 24 hours later.

Part of a presentation by students from Mt. Mercy on their Awakening the Dreamer experience.

Conference Theme Voting

Help us decide on a theme for the 2014 UMHC Conference to be held at Wartburg College.

Can someone explain ...

I am offering a trip after final exams are over to an amazing location (okay, in Minnesota), to an amazing conference where the only expense to the student would be food and have only had one taker out of 85 students.  Especially when going on this trip puts you first in line for an all but food expenses paid trip to New Orleans in November to the national conference. I know that returning to campus Saturday evening may mean the students on tour may not be able to come.  Why is no one interested?

Upper Midwest Honors Conference

Greetings!  The Honors Program of The College of St. Scholastica cordially invites the honors students, administrators, and faculty from your institution to participate in the 2013 Upper Midwest Regional Honors Conference in Duluth, Minnesota. The conference will be held from April 18-20. 

The theme for the conference this year is “Steering for Deep Waters.” The conference title is adapted from a poem by Walt Whitman, and was chosen to (1)  highlight our location on the beautiful shores of Lake Superior with its shipping industry and (2) express figuratively the intellectual and moral curiosity, courage, and creativity required to explore the world through honors with its attendant risks and satisfactions. 

The website for the conference is currently under construction; the address is www.css.edu/HonorsConf.  The website will allow you to register for the conference; submit abstracts for presentations and posters; view drafts of the program; and obtain information about hotel options, costs, and contacts. Make sure to mention the Upper Midwest Honors Council Conference for discounted rates at the hotels.  

Here are some dates and details that you might find useful now:

February 1, 2013:  Website ready to accept registrations (credit card or check) and abstracts.

March 1, 2013:  Abstracts and early registrations due at $60 per student, $70 per faculty member (same cost as last year).  Registrations after March 1 will be assessed a $10 late fee per student and faculty member.

April 3, 2013:  Registration closes.