Last Friday, April 8th, was Honors Day here at the University. It’s a day when classes are dismissed so that departments can recognize and celebrate their students. In typical fashion, REL hosted an Honors Day banquet, back here on the balconies of Manly for the first time in a couple years. Profs, parents, and students gathered together to celebrate the student’s achievements while chowing down on some delicious catfish of course. […]
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5 Reasons Why You Should Come to REL Honors Day on Friday
This Friday is Honors Day across the University. We’ll be having our own Honors Day event on the balcony at Manly Hall at around noon. Here’s why you should come: 1. You are a REL major. 2. Our friendly faculty will be there. 3. There will be free food. 4. You enjoy good conversation about big ideas. 5. Some of our majors will be receiving awards for their great work. So don’t miss it! This Friday at noon on our lovely […]
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Honors Day 2015
Last Friday, 3 April 2015, the Department hosted our annual Honors Day ceremony, now in its fourteenth year. The event was again held in Alumni Hall, so a big thanks to the Alumni Association for letting us use their space. As usual, our event immediately followed the Arts & Sciences Honors Day Convocation in Moody Music Hall, but with time for families and faculty to mix and mingle before the awards presentations. […]
See you this Friday around noon
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Honors Day is Coming Soon
Yes, it’s time to put the banners up! And that can only mean one thing: Honors Day is right around the corner. So we hope you’ll join us — all REL majors, minors and Judaic Studies minors are invited to the Department’s Honors Day reception, along with their guests. As always, it takes place immediately after the A&S Convocation, on Friday, April 3. The College’s annual event goes from 10 am until about 11:30 so we’ll see you for the […]
Honors Day 2014
This past Friday, 4 April 2014, the Department of Religious Studies hosted its thirteenth Honors Day ceremony. Due to the weather, we had to move the ceremony from its usual venue on the 2nd floor balcony of Manly Hall to Alumni Hall–special thanks to them! Our event began after the Arts & Sciences Honors Day Convocation in Moody Music Hall where Prof. Russell McCutcheon (Chair of REL) recognized Outstanding Student Jared Powell and Silverstein Scholar Maggie Paul (pictured above, left […]
Honors Day 2014
Yes, campers, it’s that time of year again — time to wash behind your ears and dust off the good shoes: Honors Day is coming! […]
Looks Like We Need a White Banner This Year
The recipients for the Department’s Silverstein Scholarship have been announced — letters were sent and, so far as we know, they’ve all been received by now. So we’d like to announced that this year the awards go to: […]