Syracuse University Honors Program

With “Capstone Turn-in” one week away, I want to remind you that we’ll need two hard copies and one e-copy on CD or flash drive, in WORD.  (Creative projects like magazines, screenplays, and architectural drawings can be in specialized software.)  You’ll get your flash drive right back.  Turn-In Day is also when you’ll receive your timeslot for Presentation Day; we’ll accommodate any academic conflicts you have on Presentation Day.  The turn-in process takes about 15 minutes per student, although you may have to wait your turn.  Come early if you can!

 

Please pay special attention to the signed Title Page!  Nothing — well, almost nothing — is more frustrating than coming in to turn in and finding you haven’t followed the proper format and you have to reprint the page and get those signatures again.

 

If, heaven forefend, you are running late and need an extension, you still must come in ON TURN-IN Day – before noon — to request one!  (Remember, only projects turned in on time qualify for prizes.)  We grant reasonable requests, but we still need to do some business with you on that day, so you need to come in person – with your title and abstract on a CD or flash drive.  We’ll take care of you.  Please come as early as possible, but no later than noon for extensions.  The earlier you come, the less of a wait you’ll have.  If you have classes all morning, let me know, and we’ll work that out.

 

In the meantime, keep working!

 

Check out the Capstone Interactive Orange   for the details about what you need to hand in, and use our Template so you have the right format (it’s on the Capstone page).  Let us know if you have questions.  See you next week!

SU Showcase is looking for volunteers next Tuesday and Wednesday, April 17-18.
Help make this all-campus sustainability event a big success and keep in mind it’s a civic engagement opportunity!
You can read more about it at http://sushowcase.syr.edu/. If you can help during any of the below time slots, please send your availability in an email to: sumay@syr.edu .

 Tuesday, April 17

• For tabling in Schine (1-2 people for each slot)

                    11am – 12pm
                    12pm – 1pm
                    1pm – 2pm
                    2pm – 3pm
                    9:30 pm to pick up speaker at airport (1)

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 Wednesday, April 18

• For set-up (10 people plus):

                    8am – 9:30am

• For runners, Tweeters, general help:

                    9:30am – 10:45am
                    10:45am – 12pm
                    12pm – 1:15pm
                    1:15pm – 2:30pm
                    2:30pm – 3:30pm
                    3:30pm – 4:45pm
                    6:30pm – 7:15pm
                    8-9 pm for take-down/cleanup (as many as possible!)

Here’s how Turn In Day works:

 

ALL SENIORS come here, Wednesday April 25th, 2012.  Even if you’re running behind schedule:  Turn-in Day is when you must appear in person to request an extension.

The Turn in process takes about 20 minutes as we “log you in” and take care of various matters.  It’s actually fun, because everyone’s so excited about finishing.  Here’s what you need to provide:

1. The written portion of your Capstone Project:

• TWO printed, unbound copies of the written portion of the Capstone Project in its final form.
• Title page signed by your Advisor and Honors Reader.
• An electronic version of your written Capstone text in Microsoft Word (not PDF!) on a flash drive. We will need to upload it to our server for review by the writing evaluation team.

We’ve created a “template” for you that contains the various sections (Title page, Abstract, Table of Contents, etc.), with the correct margins, and will allow you to “paste” in your project.  Head to the “Capstone” main page to access it.

2. Additional Materials & Media:

Required formats for media (questions on media formats can be directed to Blythe Scherrer):

• Magazine or book layouts: in addition to the physical magazine or book itself, please provide electronic copies of layouts of magazines etc…in an accessible PDF format. Accessibility is really important.  In your profession, you will need to know how to deliver your work in formats that can be rendered by assistive technology for the disabled. Why not start now?   Here is a link to Adobe’s accessibility tutorial center.
• Photos and Graphics: please provide your original high resolution images in any of the following formats: jpg, gif, png or any format that is accessible to Adobe CS5.
• Videos: submit a DVD copy. Your DVD must be viewable on commonly used software such as VLC, MediaPlayer, or Quicktime. Please test your media on a Windows 7 PC to be sure this is the case before you turn it in. Again, in your professional field it will be your responsibility to make sure your presentations work, so start now by ensuring your videos and media can be played on more than just your personal device.
• Audio: please submit a CD (MP3 files preferred).

In those instances in which a Project cannot be physically submitted (e.g. an art exhibit or website link), you should submit the text portion of your Capstone and indicate where it can be viewed.

Q&A about Poetry with Marvin Bell
and Stephen Kuusisto 

Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 12:00 pm
Hinds Hall, Rm 347, Katzler Room
Bring your Bag Lunch, Drinks Provided
Free and Open to the Public

Steve Kuusisto writes: “No one knows where the crazy apple comes from. My friend Marvin Bell once wrote a poem called “Crazy Apple”. Meanwhile the fruit, the literal, non-Miltonic, Luther Burbank fruit ticks and ticks in the orchard like thought itself. The world “worlds” as Heidegger would say–or he did say it, past tense, the world in the act of becoming but always yesterday. But the crazy apple is turning toward the future, sun baked in the pure silence of its growing. Look at it: imperfect and dark as an ancestor’s shoe.”

 

Celebrated poet Marvin Bell will read from his latest work, Vertigo: The Living Dead Man Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2011) at 7 p.m. Monday, April 2 in Syracuse University’s Hall of Languages, Room 107.

The event is free and open to the public. Parking is available in SU’s paid lots. The events are presented by the Renée Crown University Honors Program, which is administered by SU’s College of Arts and Sciences.

Vertigo is Bell’s 23rd book of poetry and his fourth collection of “dead man poems,” a form he invented and about which author and critic Judith Kitchen has written: “Bell has redefined poetry as it is being practiced today.”