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 …
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Comprehensive Honors candidate awarded national scholarship to continue inventive historical research
The L&S Honors Program would like to congratulate Axell Boomer on receiving the nationally competitive Beinecke Scholarship, which provides $35,000 for graduate study in the arts, humanities or social sciences. We encourage you to read …
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 …
Students Share an Appetite for Demystifying Grad School
The third annual Demystifying Graduate School Dinner welcomed 69 undergraduate students, including over 40 L&S Honors students, to the Pyle Center on Tuesday, March 5. This event, which is designed for first- and second-year L&S …
Honors student Ellie Thoma shares her research at Research in the Rotunda
On March 6, 2024, some of the most outstanding undergraduate students conducting research at the Universities of Wisconsin gathered at the 20th anniversary of Research in the Rotunda. This event, held in Wisconsin’s Capitol Rotunda, …
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. …