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University Honors Program

 

 

Are you an incoming student? Watch our special welcome to the Honors Program, explore our Fall 2013 courses, and learn how to register for Honors courses at Orientation!

 

 

 

Congratulations to Dr. Cheryl Foster on being one of seven teachers in the country to receive the Sondheim Inspirational Teacher award! We always knew you were the best - now everybody else does too! Click here to read more.

 

 

The University Honors Program:

  • offers learning enrichment opportunities that will broaden and enhance your undergraduate educational experience
  • features small classes with outstanding faculty and ample opportunities for research and in-depth study and with faculty mentors
  • organizes a nationally renowned honors colloquium
  • advises and supports students in national scholarship competitions
  • advises students interested in graduate study in the health professions
  • offers apartment-style housing
  • provides a warm and welcoming environment to all its members.


URI Honors Students Advisory Board


 

Honors Student Advisory Board Winter Newsletter

 


NEWS

 

 

CONGRATULATIONS to the following students:

Juniors Christopher Bobba (Chemical Engineering/Biological Sciences) and Russell Dauksis (Marine Biology) who have been named as Goldwater Scholars, and to Farid Topchiev (Chemical Engineering and German) who has received a Goldwater Honorable Mention! See their URI Press release to learn more.

Brian Stack (senior History/Philosophy) who has received a prestigious Humanity in Action Fellowship!

URI Honors Student Megan O'Brien has been awarded a 2012-2013 Fulbright Scholarship to Iceland. Read more about Meghan's story here, and follow her blog!

Brittany O'Brien has been awarded a 2012 National Security Education Program (NSEP) Boren Scholarship to study Swahili in Kenya for the fall semester. Brittany has also been granted an NSEP African Languages Initiative Summer Supplement to study Swahili at the University of Florida prior to her departure.

These six URI sophomores who won Hollings Scholarships from NOAA this year: Michael Canton, Eilea Knotts, Sarah Merolla, Benjamin Sevey, Callie Veelenturf and Brenton Wallin. Read more in their URI Press Release.

Farid Topchiev, who has been awarded two prestigious scholarships to study in Germany - the DAAD Undergraduate Scholarship and the Whitaker Undergraduate Scholarship!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONTACT US

Honors Director:
Ric McIntyre, 874-4126

Associate Director:
Cheryl Foster, 874-4022

Associate Director:
Carolyn Hames, 874-2813

Assistant Director:
Kathleen Maher, 874-5875

Program Coordinator:
Deborah Gardiner, 874-2303

General inquiries:
honors.uri@gmail.com