Awarded to sophomores with a record of financial need and a demonstrated commitment to pursing careers of public service.  Voyager Scholars receive up to $50,000 toward the educational expenses of their junior and senior years, and they will receive a $10,000 stipend to support a work-travel experience during the summer in between.  Applicants must be US citizens, permanent residents, or recipients of DACA status.  100 Scholars are selected annually.

Join UHSA for game night on November 29th from 6:00–9:00pm in Folwell 108. There will be pizza, board games, and a Super Smash Bros tournament on Nintendo Switch. All supplies will be provided, just bring yourself and your friends! Please RSVP here so we can get enough pizza for you all :) 

The Honors Multicultural Network (HMN) will be hosting a "Decolonize Thanksgiving" event on November 29th from 5:00–7:30 pm in Peik 335. Join HMN in honoring Native American culture and discussing indigenous histories, and enjoy delicious food from local Indigenous-owned cafe, Pow Wow Grounds! Questions? Email Mildred or Athira.

How did we get to where we are as a society and where are we headed? How is our world tied to extraction, and what does this mean for the future? Where does our money come from, and how does debt fuel the global financial system? How close are we to the limits to growth and energy? 
 

This past spring, we asked UHP students to submit questions for an interview with Honors alumna Amber Z. Jones (summa cum laude, African American and African Studies, 2015). UHP Director Matt Bribitzer-Stull had a wonderful and wide-ranging conversation with Amber, and we're happy to share the full video with you all today (scroll to the bottom of this page to view). We had some unfortunate technical issues with our camera lens that day, but Amber's advice and wisdom are simply too good not to share. Thanks for watching!

Researchers at the Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain, Professors Saonli Basu and Mark Fiecas, will speak in layman’s terms about the role of big data in brain research and how it informs our understanding of the human experience as we age from childhood through adolescence to adulthood.

Spotlight Series events may be attended in Northrop's Best Buy Theater or online via Zoom. Events are free and open to the public (registration requested), and Q&A sessions will follow each event.

Current Students

Nursing often conjures up mental images of a caring relationship with a patient, but nursing practice is also grounded in enormous amounts of empirical evidence. In this discussion, University of Minnesota School of Nursing faculty will share how collecting patient data can help change the way we deliver health care.

Spotlight Series events may be attended in Northrop's Best Buy Theater or online via Zoom. Events are free and open to the public (registration requested), and Q&A sessions will follow each event.

In one of the most unexpected partnerships, Carl Flink of Black Label Movement and David Ode’s biomedical engineering lab created the technique of Bodystorming, which uses dance to bring patience, caregivers, clinicians, humanity, and deep collaboration into cancer research. Join for an opportunity to try Bodystorming for yourself, and learn about the decades-old collaboration.

Spotlight Series events may be attended in Northrop's Best Buy Theater or online via Zoom. Events are free and open to the public (registration requested), and Q&A sessions will follow each event.

Public art and monuments are extremely visible components of our civic life, but do these symbols truly represent our history and values? This panel of scholars and public art practitioners will discuss Monument Lab’s National Monument Audit as well as regional perspectives on our substantial, but incomplete, collection of murals and monuments.

Spotlight Series events may be attended in Northrop’s Best Buy Theater or online via Zoom. Events are free and open to the public (registration requested), and Q&A sessions will follow each event.