North View
Happy New Year and Welcome Back! I hope you all had a restful and rejuvenating break. It’s been very quiet in the Honors Suite over the last couple of weeks, so Lisa, Heather, and I are happy to see many of you back in the lounge. We hope you’re looking forward to another great semester.
We’ve got plenty of events coming up in the next few months, with LinkedIn and Bloomberg Lab seminars, a networking event with Helena Berbano (the Honors alumna who spoke at our opening reception in the fall), and the First Lecture, which will be given by Honors student Annie McDonnell. In response to your stated interest in off-campus cultural events, we will also be sending information about a play in Boston that you may wish to attend. The Honors Program will also be hosting a Shadow Day for prospective students on February 17, and we know that many of you will be talking with these students, showing them our campus, and even taking them to class. Your participation in this event is very important, as you have the best insights on the Honors Program and on campus life. Potential students feel like they get the real story from students who are already here, so you will help us to attract the best and the brightest to our community.
Additionally, I’m sure you know that students from our Honors community presented at the National Collegiate Honors Council’s conference in Chicago last semester. We are also now new members of the Northeast Regional Honors Council, which hosts its own conference in different locations throughout the northeast each year. I’m happy to report that Erika Caires, first-year student majoring in Math/Economics, had her proposal “Migration: From Cash Only to Express Lane" accepted and will be participating at a roundtable session in Cambridge in March. We hope to get the call for papers out earlier next year so that more of you can submit proposals. This is another excellent venue for student work, and we’re happy to support Honors students who present at the conference. Congratulations to Erika for being our first Merrimack Honors student at the NRHC conference!
Feel free to come by my office in the Honors suite if you have any questions during the semester. I’m still learning names, and I can assure you that I’m happy to talk with you and get the opportunity to know you better. Here’s to the start of a happy and healthy 2016!
-Dr. Kerry Johnson