• Trip to see "God of Carnage" at Corn Stock Theatre in Peoria, February 17, 2012. Bus leaves Burgess Parking Lot at 6:30. Reservations required (contact Dr. Barr).

• Movie night! On Tuesday, February 28, we will watch "The Philosopher Kings" in the Gammon Room at 7:00.

• HON200 informational session: Thursday, March 1 at 12:15 in the East Room of the Commons. Next year's Honors Seminar instructors will answer questions about their upcoming classes.

• Join your fellow Honors students for dinner in the East Room of the Commons, Monday, March 20 at 5:00.

• Please join us for the following honors thesis presentations:

Honors Program Banquet

November 7, 2012

Speaker

Dr. Michael Do (Ph.D., Harvard University)

"Sensing Light for Subconscious Sight"

Dr. Do studies how the environment influences behavior. He is particularly interested in cells within the eye that directly convert light into electrical signals, then send these signals throughout the brain to regulate such diverse processes as sleep, locomotor activity, and hormone levels. His laboratory is based in the F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center of Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School. A typical day in the laboratory consists of shooting beams of light at cells, measuring the electrical responses they generate, and wondering how it all works.

Fall 2011

• Join your fellow Honors students for dinner in the East Room of the Commons,
  Monday, October 10 at 5:15.

• Movie night! On Tuesday, October 18, we will watch "October Sky" in the Gammon Room at 6:30.

• This year's Honors Program Fall Banquet will be held November 7 at 5:30 in the
  Terrill Rooms. This year's speaker is Dr. Michael Do, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at Harvard University.

• Expedition to see the play "God of Carnage" at Cornstock Theatre in Peoria,
  February 2012. Details to be provided closer to the date of the event.

Honors Program Banquet

October 11, 2010

Speakers

Andrew Todd Marcus (M.Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)

Andrew Todd Marcus is an Architect working in Boston at Next Phase Studios, a firm focusing on humanistic green design, and teaching architectural design at the Wentworth Institute of Technology. He earned a BA in English Literature and Biology from Oberlin College (1997) and a Masters of Architecture from MIT (2004). Mr. Marcus was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to Barcelona where he studied traditional Catalan masonry and has served as a researcher at Gaudi’s Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Familia. He has sustained himself, to his great surprise, as a carpenter, K-12 writing and computer teacher, IT consultant, general manager of a securities trading firm, freelance photo­grapher, visual artist, and pilgrim.

Colleen Toliver (EC '11)

Colleen Toliver is a senior English (Writing) major at Eureka who has also engaged in extensive study of Ancient Greek. Her thesis, “Canon vs. Fanon: Fan Fiction and the Ownership of Story,” is an exploration of the fan fiction subculture that examines the idea of fan fiction as a modern and ever-evolving form of folklore.