HONORS COLLEGE COMMUNIQUE: February 2023 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 highlighted benefit of being an Honors College member 3. A student highlight from your advising areas Contacts within Honors for more information Honors News: Spring 23 Honors College Experiential Learning Fair (ELF) - we invite the advising community to be judges for our spring ELF. What is the ELF? Each semester, community members and UTSA staff, faculty and graduate students serve as judges for our Experiential Learning Fair<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2... (ELF). In the "ELF," UTSA Honors College students present significant accomplishments outside of the classroom in Service, Professional Development, Intellectual Achievement & Research, Cultural Exploration, Engaged Living, and Skill Development. The ELF is an opportunity for them to share their experiences and learn to speak about them in meaningful ways. We intentionally invite community members and UTSA partners to judge to make explicit our belief that education is a civic good. Student efforts in our curriculum should benefit our communities. Judging Process. The judging process will be relatively simple: * The judging is Wednesday, April 5th. * The student presentation times are 11:30-12:30 and 2:30-3:30. * There are two judging sessions: 11:00-12:30 and 2:00-3:30, both in the HEB SU Ballroom. * The judge training and poster previewing in the first 30 minutes of the sessions. * We will provide the rubrics and training. Interested and available? Thank you! Please be on the lookout for the call out we will send to the community. A sign-up link will be provided. Please share this invitation with other UTSA faculty and staff that might be interested. We invite anyone who works at UTSA to be a judge, aside from undergraduates who would be peers. Honors Opportunities for All UTSA Students: Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship for Graduate Study - Apply by March 15 Do you know of a student planning to attend graduate school next year? The Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society provides scholarships from $8,500-$35,000. Note that students do not need to be a Phi Kappa Phi member to apply for UTSA nomination. UTSA awardees in the past five years have attended master's programs in Public Health, M.D. programs, and Ph.D. programs in Chemistry and Physics. MA programs abroad are also eligible. Students of any discipline are able to apply! More info here<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2...;. Note that you must apply through UTSA Please contact Andrew.Chapman2@utsa.edu<mailto:Andrew.Chapman2@utsa.edu> for more details. Highlighted Benefit for Honors College Members: Priority registration - Honors students (freshmen-senior) have priority registration, which means they are one of the first groups to register for classes. While we encourage our students to meet with their Honors Counselor<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A... to review their Honors progress, we also encourage them to meet with their Academic Advisors early to discuss the major/degree classes they need for the upcoming semester. If you, or Honors students, have questions about Honors courses or the curriculum, please don't hesitate to reach out to us. You can email their Honors Counselor or the Honors Advising email (honors.advising@utsa.edu<mailto:honors.advising@utsa.edu>). Student Highlight: Jenelle Millison, Senior, major in Computer Science with a Concentration in Data Science in the College of Science with a minor in Mathematics [cid:image001.jpg@01D942EC.5A6A20C0] * Undergraduate Research in 3D Hand Pose Estimation with UTSA's Vision and Immersive Realities Lab * Organizer of the first, and soon second, Rowdy Datathon<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%... in partnership with UTSA and the NSA * Current member and previous President of the Association for Computing Machinery at UTSA * Teaching Assistant for UTSA's Data Literacy and Exploration course * 1st place<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%... in UTSA's CodeQuantum <https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cqh... hackathon * 2nd place<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%... in the EOG Resources Challenge at HackUTD<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2...;, the 3rd largest hackathon in the U.S. * Resident Assistant for the Honors and Engineering Interest Groups * Hobbies: swing dancing, country line dancing, volleyball, skiing * Future Plans: Employment at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in the Artificial Intelligence group, and eventually a Master's or PhD in Artificial Intelligence Best Regards, Alegra Lozano, Director of Counseling, Honors College, alegra.lozano@utsa.edu<mailto:alegra.lozano@utsa.edu> Jill Fleuriet, Honors College Acting Dean, jill.fleuriet@utsa.edu<mailto:jill.fleuriet@utsa.edu>