On April 11, 2025, the Honors Program hosted the 2025 Senior Honors Thesis Symposium—a hallmark event recognizing the culmination of years of research by undergraduate Honors scholars at UW–Madison. Held at Union South, the day-long …
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Honors Dinner Kicks Off First-Year Experience
On October 8, 2024, the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s College of Letters & Science Honors Program hosted its annual First-Year Dinner at the Alumni Lounge in the Pyle Center. The event attracted over 100 first-year …
L&S Honors welcomes Daniel Kapust as the new Program Director
Dan Kapust (Photo by Isabelle Delfosse) The L&S Honors staff is excited to welcome our new faculty director, Dr. Daniel Kapust, Judith Hicks Stiehm Chair in Political Theory. He assumes the role previously held by …
L&S Honors and Chadbourne Residential College Panel Explores the “Loneliness Epidemic”
Panelists Dr. Kate Phelps, Dr. Christine Whelan, Dr. Marcy Carlson, Brennan Porter, and Dr. Chris Cascio discuss the implications of loneliness for college students. As the noon hour began on Wednesday, April 10, a host …
Associate Director of Advising and Curriculum Dr. Christine Evans Honored by College of Letters & Science
Every year, the College of Letters & Science Dean recognizes staff excellence with several categories of Staff Awards. The recipients support outstanding teaching, research, and service across the college. The categories for the awards include …
Wednesday @ Washburn with Dr. Thomas Friedrich and Dr. David O’Connor Proves Enlightening
On Wednesday, April 10, the Honors Student Organization officially kicked off its first event of the Spring, the result of a months-long process of logistics, planning, and coordination to formulate its revival, beginning with the …
The Bromley Travel Grant recipients reflect on their experiences
Bromley Conference Travel Grants are awarded based on a competitive application process to eligible L&S Honors students for presentation and/or attendance at regional, national, or international professional conferences. So far this academic year, four students …
Dean Eric Wilcots shares a bit of history
Professor Jim Lattis and Dean Wilcots stood at the front of the Washburn Observatory library to address a crowd of more than thirty L&S Honors students. On the evening of Wednesday, October 17, 2023, the …
The annual Honors First-Year Dinner fosters early connections
Over 120 first-year Honors Program students converged on the Alumni Lounge in the Pyle Center to share a meal and converse with 25 faculty and staff members during the Honors First-Year Dinner on October 4. …
The Wednesday @ Washburn series begins with Dr. Jenny Saffran
First-year students (and beyond) can often find that interacting with the faculty at UW-Madison can be a daunting task. In an effort to make those interactions more approachable, Dr. Jenny Saffran, current Director of the …