Events

Professor Haugaard will talk about strategies to get off to a good start with your academic work, including the use of calendars.  He will also talk about a variety of issues related to living in honors housing.  All first-year students on the first floors of Steinmetz and Melville should attend.  Students on these floors who cannot attend should attend the program on Tuesday or Thursday.  Commuting honors students and those living on campus but not in honors housing are free to attend whichever of these three evenings are best for them.

Professor Haugaard will talk about strategies to get off to a good start with your academic work, including the use of calendars.  He will also talk about a variety of issues related to living in honors housing.  All first-year students on the second floors of Steinmetz and Melville should attend.  Students on the second floors who cannot attend should attend the program on Monday or Thursday.  Commuting honors students and those living on campus but not in honors housing are free to attend whichever of these three evenings are best for them.

Janet Riker, the Director of the University Museum, will give a special tour of the Summer Exhibit to students in The Honors College.  For more information, see: http://www.albany.edu/museum/20120630_mohawk_hudson.shtml

Professor Haugaard will talk about strategies to get off to a good start with your academic work, including the use of calendars.  He will also talk about a variety of issues related to living in honors housing.  All first-year students on the third floors of Steinmetz and Melville should attend.  Students on the third floor who cannot attend should attend the program on Monday or Tuesday.  Commuting honors students and those living on campus but not in honors housing are free to attend whichever of these three evenings are best for them.

Honors students from various musical groups on campus (choral, symphonic, jazz) will describe their groups and encourage others to join them.  New honors students and other honors students who have been thinking about joining one or musical groups on campus are encouraged to attend.

Using databases and other tools, find valuable research materials and quality scholarly sources for your assignments.  Introduction to specific databases:  ScienceDirect (sciences), JSTOR (multiple disciplines), and Scopus (sciences and social sciences).  In this hands-on session, discover the best ways to search and to choose subject-specific databases.

Using databases and other tools, find valuable research materials and quality scholarly sources for your assignments.  Introduction to specific databases:  EBSCO databases (multiple disciplines) and Literature Resource Center (biographical, bibliographical, and critical analysis resources).  In this hands-on session, discover the best ways to search and to choose subject-specific databases. 

Professor Bruce McEwan will lead a yoga session for students in The Honors College.  This is a low-impact form of yoga that is appropriate for novices as well as those with yoga experience.  This particular session is for novices (those who have never been to a yoga session).  The regular, weekly classes will begin on 9/24.  Come a few minutes before 9:10 to get a spot on the floor.  The session will last until 10:30.  This is a great opportunity to learn a skill that can last a lifetime.

Use the University Libraries and other library catalogs to find materials.  Learn about the Capital Region library resources.

As part of his ongoing series of lectures on personality theories, Professor Haugaard will talk about the work of Ivan Pavlov and B.F. Skinner, two important theoriest in the behaviorist tradition. 

Using databases and other tools, find valuable research materials and quality scholarly sources for your assignments.  Introduction to specific databases:  ScienceDirect (sciences), JSTOR (multiple disciplines), and Scopus (sciences and social sciences).  In this hands-on session, discover the best ways to search and to choose subject-specific databases.

Honors students from many campus clubs, teams, and groups will describe their organization and encourage others to join.  This is a great opportunity to learn about many campus organizations and talk with some of their leaders.  All honors students are encouraged to attend.

Tour of the library for Honors College students.  Navigate the University Library, hear about library resources, and learn how library services can help you do research more efficiently. 

The Director of UAlbany's Study Abroad Program will talk about how the program operates and describe the wide range of places in which students can study abroad.  One or two honors students who have studies abroad will describe their experiences.  Professor Haugaard will desribe briefly how to fit a semester of studying abroad into your honors curriculum.  All this is taking place the night before the Study Abroad Fair in the Lecture Center, where representatives of many SUNY campuses that have study-abroad programs will be on hand to answer questions about their programs.

Tour of the library for Honors College students.  Navigate the University Library, hear about library resources, and learn how library services can help you do research more efficiently.

Professor Bruce McEwan will lead a yoga session for students in The Honors College.  This is a low-impact form of yoga that is appropriate for novices as well as those with yoga experience.  This is the first of our regular, weekly classes.  Regular attendance is not expected - come each week if possible or whenever you can.  Come a few minutes before 9:10 to get a spot on the floor.  The session will last until 10:30. 

This presentation will introduce students to the wide array of pre-writing strategies recommended and used by professionals in higher academics such as cubing, free writing, brainstorming, concept mapping, etc.  Ultimately, it will provide students with tools and concepts that facilitate the development of their individual writing process and better prepare them for the expectations and conventions of writing at the college level.

see 9/24 for details

Professors who will be teaching honors courses in the spring semester will describe their courses.  (Professors Lifshin, Delano, Rodgers, Briere, and Smith will present tonight.  Honors students who attend both previews will get credit for attending two honors events.)

Professors who will be teaching honors courses in the spring semester will describe their courses.  (Professors Rich, Robinson, Elam, Fuller, Berman, and Rozett will present tonight.  Honors students who attend both previews will get credit for attending two honors events.)

see 9/24 for details

Janet Riker, Director of the University Art Museum, will give a special tour of the fall exhibits for students in The Honors College.  For more information, see:  http://www.albany.edu/museum/20121009_dh.shtml   and   http://www.albany.edu/museum/20121009_rf.shtml

The dynamic duo of violinist Mao Omura and pianist Erika Tazawa perform music of Mozart, Franck, Ravel, Takemitsu and Mitsuru Hayashi. A top-flight concert by these two young, prize-winning performers.  Sign up for a free ticket on the list in the Steinmetz basement.  Meet in Steinmetz at 7:10 and we'll walk over or meet us at the PAC at 7:15.

Have a talent? Can you sing? Dance? Slam a poem? Want to show your stuff? Then come on down to Florescent Expressions! We'll provide the lighting, and you'll provide the act. It's completely voluntary, but who else can play the guitar like you do? If you want to sign up, or even just have an idea for an act, email me at amondello2@albany.edu. You can even sign up there, if you'd like, but I'd rather have an idea of how many people are performing beforehand.

see 9/24 for details

Professor Zitomer (Department of Biological Sciences), who is teaching an honors course this semester on genomics and biotechnology, will present a lecture: Your Bacteria and Your Health.

Mezzo-soprano Anna Tonna and pianist Max Lifchitz join forces for a recital featuring vocal music by three generations of Puerto Rican composers including Héctor Campos-Parsi, Jack Délano, William Ortiz and Luis Prado.  Sign up for a free ticket on the list in the Steinmetz basement.  Meet in Steinmetz at 7:40 and we'll walk over together, or meet at the PAC at 7:45.

see 9/24 for details

 The astronomer and curator of meteorites at the Vatican Observatory, Dr. Guy Consolmagno (BS and MS in Earth and Planetary Sciences at MIT; PhD in Planetary Science from University of Arizona), will present a lecture at 7:30 PM in the Life Sciences Research Building on the uptown campus entitled “Astronomy, God, and the Search for Elegance”. Dr. Consolmagno is a Jesuit brother and the author of 5 astronomy books. He has served on the governing boards of the Meteoritical Society, the International Astronomical Union’s Division III, Planetary Systems Science, and the American Astronomical Society.  In 2000, he was honored by the International Astronomical Union for his contributions to the study of meteorites and asteroids with the naming of asteroid 4597 Consolmagno.

The Life Sciences Rearch Building (you all were outside of it during the scavenger hunt during freshman orientation) can be tricky to access.  The easiest way is to go to the Podium, get into the tunnell, go to the biology buiding, and then go into the biology buiding (stay at that level) and through the biology building to a hallway that leads to the Life Sciences Research Building.  Leave yourself a little time for getting lost.  It may be that the front doors (where the POETs were) will be open because of the talk.  We'll have to see. 

Professor Gauss (Department of History), whose research focuses on the history of food, will talk about some of her current research on Mexian beer (sorry, samples will not be available).

 Professor Commuri (School of Business, Department of Marketing) will discuss some of his current research.

This recent graduate of The Eastman School of Music and member of The Yellow Jackets comes to UAlbany direct from his recent appearance with that group on Sing Off! and the Sing Off! tour. The baritone, accompanied by Starr Norman, will perform a program of art song, opera and popular song.  Sign up for a free ticket on the list in the Steinmetz basement. Meet in Steinmetz at 7:10 and we'll walk over or meet us at the PAC at 7:15.

see 9/24 for description

Professor Asal (Department of Political Science), who is teaching an honors course this semester on political violence, will lead some of his famous simulations in which honors students have the opportunity to attack other honors students.

Professor Biswas will present some of her current research:  "My colleagues and I are investigating why the Canadian banks were more resilient than the US banks during the financial crisis of 2008-09. The study is currently in progress and is looking at the possible factors at various levels – at the macro level, we are looking at the regulatory differences, at the industry level, we are looking at differences in the structure of the industry and at the micro level, we are looking at differences in the composition of the balance sheets."

 Professor Caban (Department of Latin American, Caribbean and U.S. Latino Studies) will talk about the development of the American university.  He notes: "I have been doing research recently on the role of the university from the founding of the nation to the contemporary period. My research has looked at the gradual transformation of the university as an institution that created and disseminated a narrative that promoted democratic values and practices, to its more contemporary manifestation as an economically and politically besieged institution that increasingly embraces instrumentalist and profit driven objectives. I am interested in exploring how the university, which is undergoing an inexorable corporatization, will respond to a rapidly changing student body comprised increasingly of Latinos and other racialized communities."

see 9/24 for description

Professor Justeson (Department of Anthropology), who is teaching an honors course this semester, Lost Languages and Ancient Scripts, will discuss some of his research about the Mayan culture.

 The Office of Undergraduate Admissions and The Honors College are starting a new collaborative program: the Honors Ambassadors.  Honors Ambassadors will visit their high schools during times when UAlbany is on a break and their high schools are in session, meet with students (and possibly teachers and counselors) and describe their experiences as an honors student at UAlbany.  Ambassadors will receive training and the Office of Undergraduate Admissions will arrange the times for the presentations at the ambassadors' high schools.  Approximately 20 students will be selected each year as ambassadors, mostly from the second-year class.  Ms. Jaclyn Napoleon, the director of this program, will meet with students who might be interested in being an Honors Ambassador, describe the program, and answer any questions that students might have. (This does not count toward the seven required honors events.)

Professor Ramos (School of Social Welfare) will discuss some of her current research in her lecture: Stress and emotional well-being: A cross-cultural perspective.

see 9/24 for description

The mid-sized ensemble presents concerts of popular jazz standards.  Sign up for a free ticket on the list in the Steinmetz basement. Meet in Steinmetz at 6:40 and we'll walk over or meet us at the PAC at 6:45.

see 9/24 for description

Professor Barney (Department of English) will describe some of his current research related to the films of David Lynch.  "I will focus particularly on a technique in his work I sometimes call the "volitional camera."  This term characterizes Lynch's unique use of the camera in gripping scenes where it does not follow the typical pattern of following a character's point of view, but instead seems to gain a kind of sentience of its own—all as part of Lynch's general investigation of the limits of human perception or identity.  I plan to show clips from Eraser Head, Elephant Man, and Mulholland Drive."

  Professor Barney (Department of English) will describe some of his current research related to the films of David Lynch.  "I will focus particularly on a technique in his work I sometimes call the "volitional camera."  This term characterizes Lynch's unique use of the camera in gripping scenes where it does not follow the typical pattern of following a character's point of view, but instead seems to gain a kind of sentience of its own—all as part of Lynch's general investigation of the limits of human perception or identity.  I plan to show clips from Eraser Head, Elephant Man, and Mulholland Drive."

Professor Burrell (Department of Anthropology) will discuss some of her current research.

see 9/24 for description

Join our host, Anna Mondello, for our second Florescent Expression evening of the semester.  Poetry, music, prose, singing - come and express your talents under our florescent lights and/or support your fellow talented honors students.

The University Music Department ensembles (Chorale, Chamber Singers, Concert Band, Jazz Ensemble and Symphony Orchestra) are joined by student groups (Serendipity and Earth) Tones for a concert celebrating the season.  Sign up for a free ticket on the list in the Steinmetz basement. Meet in Steinmetz at 3:40 and we'll walk over or meet us at the PAC at 3:45.