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Honors College Newsletter week of February 27th 2023
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BIPOC Affinity Space hosted by HCOL Student Equity Action Committee Members 2/28
HCOL Peer Mentor Application Info Session 3/1
Chemist-Tea hosted by the Peer Mentors 3/2/23
First Friday Coffee with your Peer Mentors 3/3/23
Public Talk by Amitav Ghosh 3/8
Save the Date: Upcoming Events
Grossman Group Advising 2/28
Tuesday February 28th 4-5 pm MSTeams
All Grossman School of Business/HCOL students are invited to join Professor Glenn Walberg in this information session on successfully completing a thesis. First years and sophomores, this is your chance to ask questions about course requirements and the thesis process. Any seniors doing theses are also welcome to join this session and offer their perspectives on developing and completing a thesis. Watch out for an email with the TEAMS link to the meeting, if you do not receive the email, email Mareesa.Miles@uvm.edu.
BIPOC Affinity Space hosted by HCOL Student Equity Action Committee Members 2/28
Tuesday February 28 at 7:30 pm in the UHN Kitchen
This is an affinity space for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) students in the Honors College. We’re proud of and grateful for the leadership of members of the HCOL Student Equity Action Committee (SEAC) who will be facilitating this event. BIPOC students: Join your peers of color for light food and community. Make new friends through 36-questions speed friending. This space This event is for students of color only.
Harvard’s Chan School of Public Health describes affinity groups in the following way:
“Race-based affinity groups, or race caucuses, provide an opportunity for people to explore, unpack, and engage in conversation on the various interpersonal dynamics, beliefs, and thoughts that shape our racialized experiences as members of a community. Because of who we are, our racial identities and lived experiences will inform the conversations and work that we do in affinity groups. These can be spaces for processing, healing, or deep interrogation of our own beliefs.”
HCOL Peer Mentor Application Info Session 3/1
Wednesday, March 1st from 8-9 pm MSTEAMS
Become an HCOL Peer Mentor! Join us for this information session. We will explain the application process and the role of peer mentors in our HCOL community. Learn more about being a Peer Mentor and the application process here: https://www.uvm.edu/honorscollege/honors-college-peer-mentor-application
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Meeting ID: 240 133 995 787
Passcode: 9qwCJE
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Journaling with Martha 3/2
Every Thursday 9:30 am – 10 am in the HCOL Advising Wing
We’ll have pens and washi tape. We’ll sip coffee and tea and occasionally munch on fresh treats. Bring your journal and stop by to enjoy some “me time.”
CALS Group Advising 3/2/23
Thursday March 2nd 5-6 PM MSTeams
All CALS/HCOL students are invited to join Professor Janet Murray in this information session on successfully completing a thesis. First years and sophomores, this is your chance to ask questions about course requirements and the thesis process. Any seniors doing theses are also welcome to join this session and offer their perspectives on developing and completing a thesis. Watch out for an email with the TEAMS link to the meeting, if you do not receive the email, email Mareesa.Miles@uvm.edu.
Chemist-Tea hosted by the Peer Mentors 3/2/23
Thursday March 2nd at 7 pm in the UHN Multipurpose Room
The Honors College Peer Mentors will be hosting ChemisTEA – exam review and Q&A for HCOL students in CHEM032 at 7 PM in the UHN multipurpose room. Your peer mentors will help you prepare for the first exam and help to answer questions about course content. Tea and cookies will also be provided for students who attend! This is a great opportunity to ready yourself for the first CHEM 032 exam if you are looking for some additional review.
First Friday Coffee with your Peer Mentors 3/3/23
Friday, March 3rd from 8:30 am to 10:30 am in the UHN Lobby
Join your Peer Mentors and advising team for morning coffee, tea, and donuts in the UHN Lobby.
Health Coaching Group Sessions for HCOL Students
Starting Friday, March 3rd from 1 pm to 2 pm
In collaboration with UVM’s Osher Center, HCOL Wellness and Wellbeing is piloting group health coaching for students this spring. Join health coaches, Martha Lance, Keelan Boisvert and Corinne Hawkins for 8 coaching sessions on Fridays from 1 – 2, starting March 3, 2023. The HCOL health coaches help you set realistic goals and action plans to support positive lifestyles and habits around sleep, nutrition, work-life balance, stress reduction and behavior modification to help you be your best you. You have the power to live powerfully!
During our first session on Friday, March 3rd, we will introduce you to UVM’s Integrative Health and Wellness Wheel of Health and from there in future sessions, we will envision your ideal wellness and create smart goals and an action plan to achieve your optimal health. Health coaches are trained in motivational interviewing and non-judgmental behavior change and serve as accountability partners as you pursue a life filled with less stress, more sleep, and healthy habits.
In collaboration with the UVM Osher Center for Integrative Health and
board-certified health coach, Martha Lance, and coaches-in-training,
Keelan Boisvert and Corinne Hawkins.
Ready to make a lasting change to improve your wellbeing? Join us on Fridays and connect with our HCOL community dedicated to wellbeing.
What: 8-week Health and Wellness Coaching
Who: Any HCOL student
When: Fridays from 1- 2 pm, starting March 3
Where: UHN MPR
Contact: Martha.Lance@uvm.edu
Save the Date: Upcoming Events
Public Talk by Amitav Ghosh 3/8
Wednesday, March 8 at 5 pm in the Ira Allen Chapel
The Energy Action Seminar Series and the Zeltzerman Lecture Series are pleased to welcome author and climate activist Amitav Ghosh for a public lecture on his latest book of non-fiction, The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis. Ghosh will be speaking on Wednesday, March 8 at 5pm in the Ira Allen Chapel. Q&A and book-signing to follow, with support from Phoenix Books. Funding provided by the Sustainable Campus Fund, the Honors College, the Humanities Center, and the Department of English.
Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta and grew up in India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. He studied in Delhi, Oxford, and Alexandria and is the author of The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In An Antique Land, Dancing in Cambodia, The Calcutta Chromosome, The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide, and The Ibis Trilogy, consisting of Sea of Poppies, River of Smoke and Flood of Fire. The Great Derangement; Climate Change and the Unthinkable, a work of non-fiction, appeared in 2016. Gun Island, was released in September 2019. Ghosh’s first-ever book in verse, Jungle Nama: A Story of the Sundarban, was published February 2021. His latest book, The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis, was released in October 2021. Learn more about the author on his website: https://authorsunbound.com/amitav-ghosh/
Study Abroad Presentation 3/22
Wednesday, March 22nd from 5:05 to 6:20 in the Multipurpose Room
Are you thinking about studying abroad, but want more information? Did you know HCOL has several programs in house? Come learn more about the benefits of study abroad in general and our internal programs. There will also be time to ask those burning questions we know you have.
CAS Group Advising 3/28
Tuesday March 28th 3:30-4:30PM MSTeams
All CAS/HCOL students are invited to join Amelia Wilcox and Professor Peter VonDoepp in this information session on successfully completing a thesis. First years and sophomores, this is your chance to ask questions about course requirements and the thesis process. Any seniors doing theses are also welcome to join this session and offer their perspectives on developing and completing a thesis. Watch out for an email with the TEAMS link to the meeting, if you do not receive the email, email Mareesa.Miles@uvm.edu.