News & Events

November 14 - 15, 2008

USFSP Honors Program Retreat

Historic Chinsegut Hill Conference and Retreat Center

in Brooksville, FL

All Honors students are encourged to join us for an overnight visit to the Chinsegut Hill nature sanctury and 1840's plantation house. The retreat will feature a tour of the historic house, a book discussion led by Dr. Smith, and a canoeing trip on the picturesque Withlacoochee River. Stay tuned for details.

Saturday, October 4, 2008 @ 9:30 am

Honors Snorkle Trip

Clearwater Marine Aquarium

Join us for a snorkling expedition! All Honors students are welcome however, there only 25 spots aviable. If you are interrested, email Dr. Smith. First come, first served.

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Previous Events

2008 Guest Lecture - Dr. George Warheit, sociologist, minister and professor emeritus at the University of Miami, will discuss, "Secularization and Its Impact on Religious Fundamentalism in the United States."

2008 Guest Lecture - Derek H. Alderman: "Civil Rights Memorials: Naming Streets for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr." A cultural and historical geographer from East Carolina University, Dr. Alderman specializes in the politics of public commemoration and symbolic landscapes in the American South. For the past several years he has studied naming streets after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., establishing himself as a national authority on the issue.

2007 Guest Lecture - Gordon Patterson, Ph.D., director of the Center for Florida Studies at The Florida Institute of Technology will present "Sometimes a Great Notion: The Origins of the American Mosquito Crusade." It's presented by the Harry J. Schaleman Jr. University Honors Program Colloquium.

2007 Wednesday Writers Series - Presented by the Tampa Bay Writers Network, sponsored in part by the Honors Program. All students are encouraged to attend.

2007 Tomorrow's Leaders Symposium- Sponsored by the Honors Program, the Psychology Department, and the Office of Research and Graduate Studies in Academic Affairs. The event showcases the innovative research, scholarship, and creative work that USFSP undergraduate students have produced during the past academic year under the tutelage and with the support of the university's faculty. Honors Thesis students are required to present their research. Other Honors students are encouraged to present and to attend.

"Engaging Syria: The Quest for Peace in the Middle East"- Guest lecture by Dr. Joshua Landis, on Thursday, March 22, 2007 at 3:30 PM in Davis Hall 130. The event is free and open to the public. Presented by the Harry J. Schaleman Jr. University Honors Program Colloquium. See flyer (.pdf) for more detailed information.

2006-2007 Roundtable on Social Justice - Presented by Studio@620, sponsored in part by the Honors Program. Honors students are encouraged to participate.

Darwin Day - Panel discussion and Flock of Dodos film screening on February 13, 2007 at 7:00 PM in the CAC, presented by S.E.A.S. and the Environmental Science & Policy department. Sponsored in part by the Honors Program. All students are encouraged to attend.

Guest Lecture - Nan Colton, Performing Artist-In-Residence at the Museum of Fine Arts will be speaking to Professor LaPointe's Honors Seminar class on Tuesday, February 6, 2007 at 2 PM in Davis 265. The title of the lecture is "Finding My Place." All Honors students are invited to attend.