Syracuse University Honors Program
Dear Honors Community,
We write a simple message today for Honors Alumnus, Stephen Barton ’12, who was was wounded by a shotgun blast at the premiere of the Batman movie in Colorado.
We at Honors send our positive thoughts to Stephen and his family and wish him a speedy recovery. We are proud to have Stephen as a member of our community and we know you will all join us as we send him our warm wishes of healing.
Hello Honors Students, Karen, your civic engagement guru here
We received information about a great volunteer opportunity that would add to your civic engagement hours. The Q Center in Syracuse is looking for a programming intern–all the necessary information and forms are available here.
The Q Center is a safe place for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth and their allies to gather, share, hang out, have fun, and build healthy relationships with supportive adults and peers. It is a great place to make new friends.
You would be working with Tyler Sliker, a host of very active volunteers, and a center full of cool kids. I have volunteered with the Q Center on a number of occasions and really enjoyed it. I met Tyler when I was the program coordinator for SAGE Upstate (an LGBT organization serving folks at the opposite end of the life cycle) and he is enjoyable to work with.
If you can’t make the kind of commitment this internship might require, consider volunteering at the Q Center in a way that fits your schedule and interests. The center is on a bus line, so transportation is doable as well.
Hello Honors Community,
We write to you today to share some amazing work by an Honors Alumnus and an important fundraising campaign to help support his work! Jordan Rosin, Class of 2011, is the Creator and Producer of Butoh Electra, a physical theatre performance event that follows the story of Electra, from Greek mythology, whose inner life stood at odds with the world of the walking dead in which she lived.
Last year he and his team put on the show at FringeNYC and the show sold out every performance; being named a highlight of the entire Festival by a range of news outlets including The Village Voice! Now, this August, they have been invited to present Butoh Electra again! This time it will have a two-week run as part of the kick-off to the 2012-2013 season at the historic Irondale Center, an enormous and well-regarded multi-arts venue in the heart of the BAM Cultural District in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, NY. As the host, the Irondale Center is generously providing the production with:
However, that means the show’s creators are responsible for all of the other major costs associated with producing the show, including, but not limited to:
The cost of putting on the show will run just about $4,000 in all and this is where we are calling on the Honors Community to support your fellow student and Alum in his amazing, creative venture! With everyone’s help, they can make this production even bigger and better than the last and continue to build towards a more sustainable model of making theatre. So, would you like to support Jordan and the production? Perhaps you still have some questions? Jordan’s team has setup a Kickstarter.com page to make that easy! Just visit -> Kickstarter.com <- and you can choose to “BACK THIS PROJECT”, “Like” the project on Facebook, “Tweet” about it on Twitter, or otherwise share the word with your friends. If you are a local to New York City, you’ll want to donate soon since the first 20 people to pledge $15 or more get a special code for discount tickets to the show!
We congratulate Jordan Rosin and his team for all of their hard work, hope you share in our excitement for them, and encourage you to show your support!
Hello Honors students! An exciting opportunity has presented itself and we wanted to pass the word onto all of you! Anna Ebers, a Ph.D. candidate at SUNY ESF and Fulbright Fellow, is looking for an E-Commerce and Marketing Intern, a Marketing Intern, and a Grant-Writing Intern to work on a really great project. If there are students who may currently be in the Syracuse area, she is hoping you decide to read a bit more and look into volunteering some of your time! (Additionally, she would love to have the same interns working on the project throughout the school year so there’s a longer possibility as well.) As this is an unpaid internship it would be a great way to earn civic engagement hours for your Honors requirements and a great resume booster!
Anna explains, “Solar Solutions for Mexico project brings affordable solar technology to villages in rural Jalisco, Mexico, one village at a time. We electrify homes with stand-alone solar systems that come with 2 LED lights and a UV filter to purify water. These systems are produced in Mexico, and a partner NGO takes care of their installation and maintenance. Children can finally study in the evenings, not impaired by smoke from burning candles and kerosene lamps. Schools, medical centers and community spaces also benefit from our initiative. To meet their needs, larger more powerful solar panels are donated from Germany, where we formed a strategic partnership with another NGO. Solar electricity brings clean light to schools and connects both teachers and students to the outside world via solar PCs. With solar electricity, hospitals can store life-saving medicines in solar fridges. Light in community centers allows grown-ups to use their evenings productively: charge their radios and cell phones or take evening literacy classes. Access to clean light empowers the community, especially women, who can work on their handicrafts in the evening as a source of income. To help families pay for solar products, we purchase handicrafts fair trade from local women and merchandize them through our NGO in the US. We cut out the middle man and all proceeds go back to benefit the community in Mexico. We bring economic, social, and environmental benefits to the community through solar technology”.
So, if you’re interested, click on the images below and read up on what she is looking for in an intern!
For more information do not hesitate to reach out to Anna Ebers, the project director, at aebers@syr.edu or Rev. Gail Riina, director of the Step Center, at lutheran@syr.edu.
We’ve sorted through all our photos from Honors convocation! At the Flickr link below, you will find individual pictures of students receiving their medals from the Dean of their college. Once you find the image you want: click on it to open the larger version. Then, right click on it to bring up a menu that will bring you to the download page for the full size photo.
Go to Flickr Now!Or view and download general images from the entire event here:
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Lastly, the Team ranked in a number of categories this year:
We at the Honors Program are proud of the work of the Debate team and all of the Honors students who have contributed to its success!