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HONORS COLLEGE COMMUNIQUE: January 2021
Hello from the Honors College! In partnership with Academic Advising, we are sending a
monthly Honors College Communique on the Advising listserv, in which we will send short
updates about:
1. Honors opportunities open to all students
2. A student highlight from your advising areas
3. Additional opportunities for students you may want to pass along
4. Contacts within Honors for more information
Honors Opportunities for All Students: Citymester - Summer 2021
UTSA's Citymester program is an exciting 9 SCH combination of internship, service
learning, and coursework on San Antonio's civic landscape. In Summer 2021, up to 30
students will be virtually immersed in our vibrant city with scholarships up to $3,000.
Details are attached and you can read a 2019 Sombrilla story on Citymester
here<https://www.utsa.edu/sombrilla/fall2019/story/feature-citymester....;.
Note, while the Honors College manages the Citymester program, students do not need to be
Honors students to participate. Students only need to be current degree-seeking UTSA
undergraduates with a GPA of 3.25 or higher.
The most common question is, will the Citymester courses count toward my degree? It
depends on the degree, but often, the internship course can all under the major's
internship course (if present) and the service learning course and San Antonio seminar can
count toward free electives in certain majors. The Citymester program manager, Ms. Elisa
Perkins Cuellar (citymester@utsa.edu<mailto:citymester@utsa.edu>) works with each
student and their advisor to determine the best path. Please share widely with students.
Questions? Contact citymester@utsa.edu<mailto:citymester@utsa.edu>.
Current students can also join the Honors College!
Do you know a current UTSA student with a 3.5 GPA or above (under 45 cumulative hours)
that might be interested in joining the Honors College? Benefits of joining the Honors
College<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2...
include small interdisciplinary courses and a tight-knit community across all UTSA
colleges, Honors-specific scholarships, access funds to pursue experiential learning
opportunities, and professional coaching. Students eligible to join the Honors College
(3.5 higher GPA and less than 45 cumulative hours) will be notified in May once grades are
posted.
Student Highlight: Meet Samuel Mosquera Florez, College of Engineering
Samuel is a Biology major in the NIH/Federally-funded UTSA ESTEEMED (Enhancing Science,
Technology, Engineering, and Math Educational Diversity) Program. He does research
involving dental stem cells for regenerative Endodontics, and in the future his goal is to
obtain a Ph.D. in Biochemistry. Samuel is one of 16 UTSA students who were named United
Nations Association Millennium Fellows in Spring of 2020 (more details on this opportunity
below). Samuel proposed a service project called the East Flower Garden Coral Foundation,
which is dedicated to preserving endemic coral species of Texas either in their natural
habitat, marine exhibits, or in the commercial setting. His goal is to partner with local
reef stores, universities, and aquariums to develop at least 15 land-based nurseries to
care for coral until it is safe to return them to their natural habitats. While in-person
work has been impacted by the pandemic, Samuel is partnering with a non-profit, Hydrous,
to introduce virtual reality reef dives and 3D models of coral to K-12 classrooms in San
Antonio to promote conservation.
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Additional Opportunities for All Students: Millennium Fellowship
The Millennium Fellowship is a semester-long leadership development program, in which
students develop service projects that address United Nations sustainability goals.
Students from all UTSA colleges, from freshman to junior year, can apply each spring for
the fellowship. While there is no monetary award from the fellowship, students engage in a
curriculum that helps them develop their projects as well as gain the exposure of a
robust, worldwide networked community of fellows. You can read more about the fellowship
and UTSA's class of 2020
here<https://www.utsa.edu/today/2020/10/story/millennium-fellows-named...;. For
application support, students can contact
Andrew.chapman2@utsa.edu<mailto:Andrew.chapman2@utsa.edu>.
Our best regards,
Drew Chapman, Director of Nationally Competitive Awards,
andrew.chapman2@utsa.edu<mailto:andrew.chapman2@utsa.edu>
Jill Fleuriet, Honors College Acting Dean,
jill.fleuriet@utsa.edu<mailto:jill.fleuriet@utsa.edu>
Andrew Chapman, Ph.D.
Director, Office of NationallyCompetitive Awards<https://honors.utsa.edu/onca/>
The University of Texas at San Antonio
Honors College
andrew.chapman2@utsa.edu<mailto:andrew.chapman2@utsa.edu>
