The Cohen Honors College is proud to honor our Fall 2018 graduates. These ambitious students rose to the challenge of completing “more meaningful work”.

W. Frank Barton School of Business

Kara Hehemann, Management, Emory Lindquist Honors Scholar Track

Brooke Pedersen, Exercise Science, Emory Lindquist Honors Scholar Track

Hayden Schrag, Sport Management, University Honors Minor (Emory Lindquist Honors Scholar & Honors Leadership Tracks)

Louis Gomez, Electrical Engineering, Emory Lindquist Honors Scholar Track

Vy Lam, Biomedical Engineering, Emory Lindquist Honors Scholar Track

Baylee Brown, Communication Sciences and Disorders, Emory Lindquist Honors Scholar & Communication Sciences & Disorders Departmental Honors Tracks

Kylie Darland. Communication Sciences and Disorders, Communication Sciences & Disorders Departmental Honors Track

Lauren Stallard, Communication Sciences and Disorders, Emory Lindquist Honors Scholar & Communication Sciences & Disorders Departmental Honors Tracks

Colleen Binder-Runyan, English Language and Literature, Emory Lindquist Honors Scholar Track

Konemany Mienphilom, Biological Sciences BS, Emory Lindquist Honors Scholar Track

Emily Posson, Field Major English, Honors Interdisciplinary Track with a focus in Linguistics

Sara Shaban, Biological Sciences BS, Emory Lindquist Honors Scholar Track

The Kansas Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol event is an annual opportunity for students to present their research experiences with state lawmakers in Topeka. The event showcases the work of up to 40 Kansas undergraduate student projects representing each of the state’s eight public 4-year institutions.

To submit an application to present your research, click Day at the Capitol. Applications are due by January 18, 2019.

The Fairmount Chapter of Mortar Board is looking for motivated Juniors and Seniors (above 60 credit hours in the Fall of 2019) to join our membership for the 2019-2020 school year. Mortar Board is a nationally acclaimed senior honor society with ideals of Scholarship, Leadership and Service. The Fairmount chapter at Wichita State was established in1954 and has been providing opportunities to students to cultivate their skills as they relate to Scholarship, Leadership and Service ever since. Here on campus we place a high priority on service events through our national philanthropy "reading is leading" as well as provide students networking opportunities.

Mortar Board offers the opportunity to earn regalia to wear upon graduation (cords, medals and stoles) to show that you were a part of an honor society during your time at Wichita State.

If this opportunity interests you, find our application at our website: wichita.edu/mortarboard and apply TODAY! Our application closes January 17th, but the earlier the better!

Have you ever wanted to photograph stars, galaxies, and the Moon through a large telescope? Now’s your chance. This 1-week pre-semester course offers you hands-on experience of how to take astronomical photographs through a telescope.

You will have the unique opportunity to use a 14” telescope at my own observatory, take amazing photographs, and process them using easy-to-learn image processing software, just like Hubble Telescope scientists. You’ll spend one evening at the telescope with your fellow students, and work as a team to get the best shots you can.

In addition to the exciting experience of photographing celestial objects, which is easier than you think, this short course will introduce you to the basics of scientific imaging using CCD cameras. Scientific imaging is used in many walks of life, such as medicine, engineering, meteorology, Earth Resources/land management, and astronomy. Any student with any background will develop an understanding how an image is created electronically (even on your cell phone), and how images can be processed, and how these techniques can be applied to many different situations.

During this course, you will understand how CCD devices work, how to process images in black and white and color, and discover what scientific information can be acquired. You will use a comprehensive image processing software package for astronomical imaging (AIP4WIN) that has applications to many other subjects.

Honors Professor, Martin Ratcliffe.

HNRS 310G Digital Imaging

CRN# 26542

Class Meeting Time: Tuesday-Thurs 9:00 – 12:00 p.m., Jan 2, 3, 4 One Evening at my observatory between Jan 3-4 6:30-9:30 Final class 9:00 am -12:00 Monday Jan 15 Location: Shocker Hall A Building A132

Congratulations for work well done this fall semester! Honors students are examining and changing our world - from collaborative research projects on positive mathematics and predicting adult depression in HNRS 486 to a joint-authored publication on asteroid mining drawn from work in the summer HNRS 305R and political advocacy undertaken in Honors first-year seminars. Students studying abroad will return soon from Finland and England and bring their new experiences to our campus in spring. In winter, we lie dormant only briefly.

Come see the north wind’s masonry.

Out of an unseen quarry evermore

Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer

Curves his white bastions with projected roof

Round every windward stake, or tree, or door.

So Ralph Waldo Emerson invites readers of “The Snow Storm” to imagine the winter wind as a stone mason. Materials drawn from an unseen source reshape buildings and transform the world around us.

If you attended our November General Assembly, you saw sketches of a proposed Shocker Hall Honors expansion, and you gave feedback about a proposal to institute a program fee to match university funds dedicated to this project. The Honors College Student Council conducted twitter polls and surveys of student groups to gather more information, and in November, the Council voted unanimously to endorse the proposal to institute a $50 per semester fee for all Honors College students effective fall 2019.

As a result, I can now invite you to imagine a new Cohen Honors College with an open door facing the academic buildings on campus, open spaces for collaboration, a seminar room, and quiet corners for studying. Also, thanks to supportive alumni, you’ll have more than one new computer in the new space! I am grateful for your patience with the old computer that gave up before the end of this semester and even more grateful for your willingness to be active campus citizens. You are contributing to building our community and making meaningful work more accessible and visible on campus.

Emerson refers to “the mad wind’s night-work,/The frolic architecture of the snow.” Our construction will take more than a night. Our new front door is planned to open at the beginning of the fall semester.

The Cohen Honors College will be housed on the first floor of Hubbard Hall for the spring and summer. Beginning January 9^th, you can find our main office in Hubbard 112.

With warm wishes for your holiday season,

Kimberly Engber, Dean

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