The Honors College

The Honors College is a community of developing scholars that includes some of the best teaching professors and some of the brightest and most serious students at UAlbany. The students are earlier in their development as scholars, and the faculty are further along, but all are refining and enhancing their abilities to create knowledge.

Are you a student applying to UAlbany, one of our current first-year students, or a UAlbany professor interested in a challenging and intense classroom experience, a collaborative research experience, and a residence experience focused on fun and hard work? Come join us!

News

Yoga and The Honors College

New in The Honors College this semester is a weekly yoga course taught by Professor Bruce McEwan.  Come join us Mondays to improve your physical and emotional health.

4.0 Dinners

Each semester, Professor Haugaard holds a series of dinners in his faculty apartment for the honors students who achieved a 4.0 the previous semester.  This semester, 97 of the 400 honors college students received a 4.0.  That is amazing!

Undergraduate Research Conference

Honors students are encouraged to participate in this year's UAlbany Undergraduate Research Conference, held on April 27 and 28.  Honors theses, class projects, reports from work with a professor, and reports from internships or study-abroad experiences can all be presented.  More information about the conference and the application form to participate are on the Undergraduate Research Conference website.

Cook Dinner for Professor Haugaard

Honors students who miss cooking are encouraged to get together and cook a meal in Professor Haugaard's Steinmetz Hall apartment - for sharing with each other and Professor Haugaard. 
 

Honors Students Help Flood Victims

Early in October, one of the honors graduates, Amy Gernon, presented a program
on the flooding in Schoharie County during an honors event and encouraged honors students to join her in helping people

 reclaim their homes. That weekend, Amy went with four honors students, Paul Karasaridis, Kyle Pallozzi, Jarrell Roberts,

and Kelly Ryan, to spend a day helping in one of the towns devastated by the flooding from Hurricane Irene. Thanks to these

honors students for their caring and community spirit.

Honors Events

Upcoming honors events are listed here. You can also see a fuller description of this semester's events and also a list of all the events we've had this year.  Plus, remember that we have yoga every Monday night at 9:15 in Steinmetz Hall.

  • The Honors College
    University at Albany       State University of New York

  • Lecture Center 31
    1400 Washington Avenue
    Albany, NY 12222
    PHONE (518) 442-9067

  • Monday - Friday
    9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

  • honors@albany.edu