Events Calendar

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Honors College Events and Deadlines

August

Saturday, August 25, 2012
Freshman Convocation

2:30 – 3:30     UA Scholars
3:30 – 4:30     Convocation
4:30 – 5:30     Student Reception and Parent Reception
5:00 – 7:00     Campus Kick-off

 

September

Friday, September 7, 2012
University Honors College Welcome Luncheon

            11:30 – 1:00pm  Library 307

 

September 27, 2012
Wilson Fellow Lecturer, David Shipler, "Understanding Poverty by Connecting the Dots"

7:00pm  ARTS 150

 

December

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Honors Holiday Party

2:30 - 5:00pm    RH 112

 

April

April 15 - 19, 2013
University Honors College Office of Undergraduate Research & Scholarship's ninth annual Undergraduate Research & Discovery Symposium

April 16, 2013, Undergraduate Research and Discovery Symposium Keynote
John. P. Grotzinger, Chief Scientist, NASA Curiosity Mars Program

7:30pm in the Wendy Williamson Auditorium 

 

May

Saturday, May 4, 2013
University Honors College Graduation

 

Sunday, May 5, 2013
UAA Commencement

 

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Polaris Lecture Series

The UAA Honors College in collaboration with the Cook Inlet Historical Society presents the following lectures, held at the Anchorage Museum of History and Art from 7:30 – 9:00 p.m..

           

Thursday, October 18, 2012, Alaska Day Polaris Lecture  Bill McKay, former Alaska Senior Vice President, Susan Bramstedt, former Alaska Director of Public Affairs, and Marilyn Romano, current Alaska Director of Public Affairs for Alaska Airlines will speak on "Celebrating 80 Years of Alaska Airlines".

7:30 - 9:00pm    Anchorage Museum of History and Art

 

Thursday, January 24, 2013, Talis Colberg, Director, Matanuska-Susitna College will speak on "Frontier Exceptionalism".

7:30 - 9:00pm    Library 307

 

Thursday, February 21, 2013, Terrence Cole, Professor of History, University of Alaska Fairbanks will speak on "Air Age Cartography: How Aviation and the Second World War Put Alaska at the Center of the World".

7:30 - 9:00    Anchorage Museum of History and Art

 

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Cook Inlet Historical Society Lecture Series

Cook Inlet Historical Society Lecture Series (Co-sponsored by the UAA Honors College) presents the following lectures, held at the Anchorage Museum of History and Art from 7:30 - 9:00pm.

 
Thursday, September 20, 2012, Douglas Beckstead, historian, 673rd Air Base Wing History Office, U.S. Air Force Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson will speak on "The History of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson".

 

Thursday, October 18, 2012, (Alaska Day Polaris Lecture) Bill McKay, former Alaska Senior Vice President, Susan Bramstedt, former Alaska Director of Public Affairs, and Marilyn Romano, current Alaska Director of Public Affairs for Alaska Airlines will speak on "Celebrating 80 Years of Alaska Airlines".

 

Thursday, November 15, 2012, Leslie Fried, Curator, Alaska Jewish Museum will speak on "On the Wings of Eagles: The Airlift of Yemenite Jews to Israel by Alaska Airlines Pilots".

 

Saturday, February 9, 2013 at 2:00pm Jeremy Kinney, Curator, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum will speak on "Opening of the Arctic Flight Exhibition".   

 

Friday, March 1, 2013, David Courtwright

 

Thursday, March 21, 2013,  Norman Lagasse, Director, Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum, Anchorage will speak on "Anchorage Aviation History".

 

Thursday, April 18, 2013, Kate Ringsmuth, National Park Service Historian, Anchorage, will speak on "Wrangell Mountain Skyboys: How Buffalo Bill, Buck Taylor, and Bob Reeve Created Alaska's Skyboy Narrative".

 

Thursday, May 16, 2013, Felix Maguire, Aviation Historian, Alaska Airmen's Association, will speak on "The VFR route to Russia".

 

Friday, June 21, 2013, 19th Annual John Bagoy Memorial Cemetery Tour.

7:00pm

 

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Undergraduate Research Proposal Deadlines

For more information about these great research opportunities click here.

Fall 2012 Deadlines

October 4, 2012 at 5:00pm
Undergraduate Research Grants - Round 1

Undergraduate Research in the Community Award - Round 1

Fran Ulmer Transformative Research Award

Alaska Heart Institute Biomedical Research Fellowships

 

October 18, 2012 at 5:00pm
Dr. Alex Hills Engineering Research/Service Project in the Community Award

ISER Policy Research Award

 

December 14, 2012 at 5:00pm
Undergraduate Research Grants - Round 2

Undergraduate Research in the Community Award - Round 2

Spring 2012 Deadlines

February 8, 2013 at 5:00pm
Research Internship in Ecology andPhysiological Ecology Award

 

February 28, 2013
Fran Ulmer Transformative Research Award

Undergraduate Research Grants

Undergraduate Research in the Community Grants

Alaska Heart Institute Biolmedical Research Fellowships

 

March 19, 2013
UAA Consortium Library Prize

Brian and Amy Meissner Creativity Award in the Visual Arts

ISER Policy Resarch Award

Student Conference on International Affairs (SCUSA)

 

April 23, 2013
Undergraduate Resarch Grants

Undergraduate Research in the Community Grants

 

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Major Scholarship Deadlines

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September 10, 2012
Marshall UAA Campus Deadline

Rhodes UAA Campus Deadline

 

September 24, 2012
Fulbright UAA Campus Deadline

 

January 18. 2012
David L. Boren Undergraduate Scholarships and Graduate Fellowships UAA Campus Deadline

 

February 1, 2013
Morris Udall UAA Campus Deadline

 

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