2019 – Page 2 – SJFC Honors

Honors Advising for Spring 2020

This year we’re holding several advising sessions. Anyone can attend any of them.

Friday 11/1, 4pm, Basil 118 (Humanities, Social Science, and Business majors should attend this one if they can.)

Tuesday, 11/5, Free period, Pioch 121 (Sciences and Math students should attend this one if they can.)

Education attend your content area. Nursing attend any of them, or contact Dr. Dambaugh.

At these meetings you’ll learn about courses next spring, anticipated courses for next fall, travel options, and can get clarity on your requirements if you have questions.

TEDxSJFC 2020

This semester we (senior Eric Green and junior Allie Osterhoudt) are co-chairing the TEDxSJFC planning team. All Honors students are welcome to join the team, to chair a subcommittee, and/or to help out on the day of the event. Our first planning meeting will be on Tuesday, September 24th, Free period in Basil 118. Everyone is welcome, however much or little you’re able to offer. If you’re interested but unable to make that meeting, or if you have any questions, contact Eric or Allie.

There are many things to get done in preparation for the event, but they say many hands make light work, so any help is appreciated! Your non-Honors friends are also welcome to participate. The event itself will take place on Friday January 24 from 5-9pm.

We welcome people with any of these interests or skills: Social media, Theater, Design, Organization, Technology, PR, Food, Sponsorships, Community Outreach…

People who are chairing committees can do so for Honors credit, but need to contact Dr. Bissonette about it ASAP.

Honors Advisory Board Faculty

School and Divisional Advisory:

Nursing: Dr. Lori Dambaugh
Education: Dr. Lucia Guarino
Pharmacy: Dr. David McCaffrey
Natural Sciences and Math: Dr. Jonelle Mattiacio and Dr. Ryan Gantner
Social Sciences: Dr. Lauren Kocman
Humanities: Dr. Rob Ruehl
Business: to come

Program Advisory:

Dr. Kristin Picardo, Center for Student Research & Creative Work
Dr. Tom Kim, Core Director and Associate Dean, A&S
Dr. Kimberly Chichester, Director of Science Scholars
Dr. Michelle Erklenz-Watts, Director of Academic Student Support
Terri Travaglini, Assistant Dean of Students
Kourtney Blackburn, Alumna, Access Services Librarian
Stacy Lederman. Director of Freshman Admissions

Fall Welcome Event

Friday September 20, 3:30-7 at YMCA Camp Arrowhead

Archery, bounce pillow, high ropes course, climbing tower, swimming, a ton of food, a bonfire, and PRIZES!

Help us welcome our record-breaking Freshman Honors class, as well as our new additions both transfer and not transfer. You’ve got lots of experience to share — some of these folks are commuters, or athletes, or Humanities majors, or vegetarians, and Fisher Honors will seem much more homey to them if YOU come and meet them!

We’ll have a shuttle bus between the Y and Haffey stairs every half hour. The first ride to the Y will pick up at 3:15. Anyone who’s driving and has extra seats should swing by between shuttles, just to see if anyone’s waiting. Everyone is welcome for as much or as little as they can.

You do NOT need to RSVP.

Graduation Breakfast

On Friday May 10, Honors and Science Scholars will host a breakfast for all graduating seniors in the programs and their families. See the Evite here, if you never received it, or lost the email: http://evite.me/5VcsbUR9PV. Bring your graduation regalia for a group photo!

Also at the Breakfast, Honors awards its three senior prizes:

Marsherall Award for Academic Excellence, sponsored by Honors Alumna Tricia Marsherall ’11

Honors Award for Contribution to the Academic Experience

Provost’s Award for Best Paper

Research Symposium Friday 4/26

Honors students are all over this year’s Symposium in Clear Auditorium:

The 2019 Student Research and Creative Work Symposium begins at 1pm. Look for:

1 pm: Gabby Kielbasinski takes to the mike to officially launch The Review. Come by our table in Cleary between 1 and 2 to see the real thing.

1-2pm Julia Detmer “Protest, Patriotism and Civil Rights: 1968 Olympics and Colin Kaepernick”

1-2 Glenn Roschetzky “Pharmacogenomics: Is This The Future For Medicine?”

3-4 Julia Majkrzak “Essential Oils Effecting Daphnia”

3-4pm: The Science of Food class explains principles of food and cooking, with edible illustrations! (in Cleary)

If you’re presenting with one of the other classes, let me know!

Featured Class: Archives and Access

By Lindsey Garrant, ’20

One of this year’s Spring 2019 honors classes was focused on the central theme of archives, specifically the St. John Fisher College archives. Students worked with both physical and online archives, engaging in archival research in order to explore the role of archives in history.

In our early classes, we focused primarily on learning about the roles of archives and archivists in history, studying the barriers that archives can present when searching for the truth. We thought about how our lives and homes could be considered an archive. What did material objects say about your personality, your likes and dislikes, and more? Students studied the role of archives in shaping the past and narratives.

Students dove into physical archives with a sample box provided by Michelle Price, looking at various artifacts such as magazines from the 1900s, cruise ship passenger lists, books, and more. We studied the artifacts with a critical lens, asking several questions and doing external research to make sense of the artifacts that we were studying. To take this knowledge a step further, we studied boxes of postcards in the St. John Fisher College archives. We created a research proposal for hypothetical research that could be done with the postcards, which led into our final project of conducting primary research on archival materials. Through this final project, we are able to conceptualize pieces of a larger puzzle, which we can then use to learn more about St. John Fisher College’s history.

Dr. Rice said, “Students may think that knowledge is objective, and don’t realize how much of their knowledge is based on what is or isn’t in the archives. Through this course and research, students can learn the potential limitations of knowledge formation which will help them in all future research endeavors.”