Northern Minnesota - home to a diverse community and environment that includes Indigenous Nations, a thriving tourist industry, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, and a wealth of critical metals needed to shift to more sustainable energy sources - is the focus of this NEXUS Experience. Currently, there is intense debate around the establishment of mines in northern Minnesota that can provide metals necessary for the manufacturing of technology, specifically the metals needed to sustain green energy initiatives.

When was the last time you went to the movies? What did you watch and how did it feel to sit, in the dark, with a group of people? Is group viewing a recipe for distraction or are you more tuned in to the film playing in front of you? 

Higher education is constantly evolving. Should college build students' souls or their skills? Are certain areas of development more important than others? Professor Michael J. Stebleton posed these questiosn to 18 Honors students in the Honors Seminar What is College For? Examining the Purpose and Value of American Higher Education. These students discussed critical issues facing higher education over the course of the 15 week semester. 

Boarding the plane to Sweden was 410 days in the making. Riley Stern had her first appointment with the Learning Abroad Center on November 29, 2022. Now she’s studying with the DIS program in Stockholm.

“Going into college, I always said I wanted to study abroad,” Riley said. “When I was looking into colleges I looked at their study abroad programs.”

The deadline to apply to the Honors Research in London program is Friday, March 15.

See details on the Learning Abroad Website.

We're hosting a PhD Panel for Honors Students! 

The experts on the panel will be a mix of current faculty, directors of graduate studies, and current PhD students. If you're interested in academia and/or graduate school, join us to learn more more about why and how to pursue a PhD program.

The Fulbright Canada-Mitacs Globalink Research Internship is intended for U.S. Students interested in coming to Canada to undertake advanced research projects for 10 to 12 weeks (between May and August) in their area of interest. Projects will be drawn from a broad cross-section of research topics covering all academic disciplines, and students will be placed with a university research project and undertake research projects under the supervision of a professor.

SULI is a paid internship opportunity sponsored and managed by the DOE Office of Science’s Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists (WDTS) in collaboration with DOE laboratories/facilities. Students can participate in SULI either in a 10-week summer internship (May–August) or in a semester-long experience (August–December or January–May) at one of 17 national laboratories.

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