Monday Message

HCSA Events This Week THURSDAY! HCSA Trivia Night with HC Faculty & StaffJoin us for a friendly trivia competition against fellow Honors College faculty and students on Thursday, January 28 from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. Challenging questions, brilliant competitors, and fabulous prizes – you won’t want to miss it! Register here. Grand Challenges Scholars Program – Honors College Info […]

Second-year honors English student Sukhjot Sal has only experienced Oregon State University in-person for two terms due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, but despite the obstacles of remote learning, she has made the most of her time at college so far. “For that time, it was just amazing — it was everything I thought that […]

HCSA Events This Week NEW! Cash Chat with U.S. Bank & HCSAInterested in learning more about budgeting, handling money as a college student and what credit is? Join us as we hear from the financial gurus of the U.S. Bank on campus on Thursday, January 21 at 7:00 p.m. during our HCSA meeting via Zoom! […]

HCSA Events This Week NEW! Postcard Project with HCSAJoin us as we partner with the Valley Library in creating postcards to campus that will be displayed in the library’s rotunda! We will be meeting via Zoom on Wednesday, January 13 at 4:00 p.m. to hang out and personalize digital or paper postcards together with art, writings, or other […]

HC Announcements and Events HC Conversation Clusters Shuffled & Dinner up for GrabsHC Conversation Clusters have been shuffled for winter term. This means that many of you will see a new cluster assignment or several new members. Those who completed our feedback survey in late fall were placed in conversation clusters matching those requests. Many asked to […]

HC Announcements and Events NEW! Celebrating our Concentration Winners & Looking ahead to Conversation Clusters 2.0 in Winter 2021The Concentration Challenge proved to be a tough one – just 2 clusters were able to answer all 12 puzzles correctly. Winners of the Amazon gift cards included The Bumblebees & The 132 Crew. Congratulations to our winners and good […]

Dr. SreyRam Kuy, the 2020 Honors College Alumni Fellow, can pinpoint the exact moment she knew her calling was to be a doctor. Her mother was hurt, with massive abdominal injuries, and Kuy, just 2 years old, had sustained head trauma, her left ear partially torn off. Only weeks before, the family — Kuy, her […]

A defining feature of the Honors College is its academic diversity. Students in any undergraduate major at Oregon State University can pursue an honors degree, and the course requirements are intentionally broad to allow for tailoring a curricular experience to individual ambitions. All honors students, though, are required to complete a thesis. The thesis is […]

BI 213H is the third course in the three-part Principles of Biology lecture and laboratory series. The Honors College proposed an honors section of the Principles of Biology laboratory to the Department of Integrative Biology in the late 2000s; in 2012, an honors section of the lecture was created to form the complete honors Principles […]

HCSA Events This Week LAST CHANCE! Volunteer Opportunity: Knit for Those in NeedWant to get crafty while also engaging in service? Participate in the Fall Knitting Project! We meet once a month to socialize and work on a knitting project to donate to someone in need. Attend our LAST fall term meeting this Thursday, Dec. 3 […]