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The Letters & Science Honors Program is seeking Honors students to serve as moderators for the Senior Honors Thesis Symposium on Saturday, April 22, 2017 at Union South. Serving as a moderator is a great opportunity to support your friends, celebrate graduating seniors, and see for yourself what kinds of topics your peers have explored. Here are some details: You don't have to come for the entire symposium (but you are welcome to). You would likely moderate one or two panels. Moderating is pretty simple. You will arrive in the room 15-20 minutes before each panel to greet the speakers and help with logistics. (You will receive training on how to do this.) You will then introduce each speaker and keep them on track for their allotted time. You can help call on audience members during the Q&A. We welcome moderators of all majors, all Honors tracks, and all years in school. Your main qualification is an interest in serving as a moderator! If

Learn about potential job and internship opportunities, and hear from recent Nelson Institute alumni about their experiences after graduation. Free pizza lunch each day! April 3rd-April 7th Noon Science Hall Room 15 To RSVP for the event, please click HERE .   Schedule of Events: Monday, April 3: Peace Corps Tuesday, April 4: Department of Natural Resources Wednesday, April 5: Alumni Panel George Reistad, ES '11, Food Policy Coordinator, City of Madison Hayley Parsons, ES '15, Wildlife Technician and Natural Resources Educator, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Jade Kochanski, ES '16, Research Assistant, Entomology, UW-Madison Thursday, April 6: Sierra Club and The Nature Conservancy Friday, April 7: Midwest Environmental Advocates and Clean Lakes Alliance

What was your best honors class experience? Did you have an honors professor who inspired you or changed the way you view the world? Want to thank an honors faculty member for his/her dedication to teaching honors students?  Nominate a faculty member for the 201 7 Distinguished Honors Faculty Award. The award is given to a faculty member who had done outstanding work to teach and work with honors students.  If you had classmates who were also impacted positively by working with this faculty member, consider encouraging them to submit a nomination as well. If the faculty member you nominate is selected for the award, you will both be invited to attend an awards ceremony on May 8 , 201 7 at 4:30 p.m. at Washburn Observatory . Awardees will be notified by April 2 4 .  Nominate today! The nomination form will be open through Wednesday April 1 2 , 201 7 at 11:59 p.m .  (We are looking for nominees who haven 't previously rec eived th e award. Check this list o

The annual Iwanter Prize provides an unrestricted $2,000 award to one graduating senior who, through a senior thesis and general academic distinction, demonstrates outstanding humanities-based scholarship of a broad and interdisciplinary nature. Applications for the Iwanter Prize may come directly from students, but must be accompanied by a letter of recommendation from the thesis advisor. Eligibility is restricted to seniors graduating from the College of Letters & Science who are receiving a degree with a major in a humanities discipline.  The Iwanter Prize is made possible by a gift to the UW Foundation by Sidney E. Iwanter, an alumnus of the College of Letters & Science (BA History, 1971).  Full application information available  here . Deadline: May 2, 2017, 5:00 p.m. For additional information call (608) 263-3412, or email  info@humanities.wisc.edu .

Coffee + Attending Margaret Atwood's talk, Hag-Seed & Technology: Revisiting The Tempest in the 21st Century When: Monday, April 3rd @ 7 pm Where: Prairie Fire, then Varsity Hall of Union South Join us for coffee at Prairie Fire, followed by Margaret Atwood's "Humanities without Borders" talk on her upcoming novel. Please email me ( ajhare@wisc.edu ) if you plan on joining! Friends from outside of the Honors Program are more than welcome to join. See here for more info. Wednesday at Washburn with Dr. David Wassarman   When: Wednes day, April 5th @ 6 pm Where: Washbur n Observatory Dr. David Wassarman from UW's Department of Genetics will be speaking about his research on traumatic brain injuries in Drosophila flies, and dinner will be served as usual. The Magic Flute presented by Madison Opera When: Sunday, April 23rd @ 2:30 pm Where:  The Overture Center for the Arts HSO's annual opera show attendance will be to Mozart's The