John Martinson Honors Program

March 17, 2025

Newsletter link: https://mailchi.mp/siue/this-week-in-honors-march-17-2025

We hope you’ve had a wonderful spring break! You’ve earned it.

Fall 2025 Course Navigator is now available! Check out the honors courses being offered this fall. We've updated the Navigator to give you even more information: descriptions, keywords, and now highlights of the readings and projects you'll do in the course. Tailor your fall honors course to your interests. Blind luck is not your friend when it comes to classes.

Something to note: we’ve got a Fly High workshop TOMORROW, this time on Public Speaking, and it’s well worth your time to attend. Not only will you spend a fair amount of time in your life speaking in front of groups of other people, but we’re also providing lunch from Quiznos!

• From the Director
• This Week in Honors
• Advising Updates
• Service Updates
• Honors Student Association
• Outside of Honors

From the Director

The special message this week is simple: check out the Course Navigator for fall course descriptions. Don't choose a class just based on time of day. Try to choose where you have interests!

This Week in Honors

Tomorrow!  Public Speaking workshop over lunch hour with Quiznos provided.  Public speaking skills will help you not only for, well, speaking to the public, but also for class and job presentations, interview skills, and communicating effectively even in small groups.

•  Save the Date: Fly High workshops will prepare you for  life-skills, not just classroom skills.  Employers want people who can get the most out of what they are taught and can communicate effectively what they know to other people.  It doesn't hurt to be ready for your classes, either. :D

Advising Updates

• Ian wouldn't sit still long enough for us to take an advising picture in his office.  He has now been promoted to Honors Cryptid.  Send your wild Ian sightings to vhovers@siue.edu and be entered for a silly prize.  Use your imagination and creativity! Drawing in 1 month.
• Course Navigator is now available.  Check out course descriptions before you register.  Follow your interests!
• Freshmen and Sophomores, you need to have scheduled your Honors advising appointment before you can register.  
• Juniors and Seniors, you need to complete your hold release before you can register.
• Changes in Regisgration Day(s)! It's coming close. Read about the changes to Registration Day(s) here! This does impact everyone in honors, so be sure to read the details!
• Drop-In Advising for quick questions and support with your advisor can be done in-person or virtually.
  • Ian In-Person Wednesdays 9:30-11:30
  • Carol & Meagan Digital Drop-In Wednesdays 1:30-4:30
  • Everyone In-Person Fridays 2:30-4:30

Service Updates

• March 28th: SIUE Serves: Soup N Share & Gateway Pet Guardians
• March 31st: Transgender Day of Visibility & SIUE Serves Project
• April 4th: SIUE Serves: Gateway 180
• April 26th: An opportunity through an Honors alumnus!  We're happy to share a service opportunity with Waigand Wheels, a community service organization in Kirkwood, MO. They are hosting an event called the Speedway Spectacular on Saturday, April 26th, and are asking for JMHP volunteers! Volunteer work they are asking for ranges from setting up and breaking down the event, helping guests park at the venue, helping operate various raffles, tending bar, and helping with the derby races. This is a great chance to get service hours for a great cause! If you are interested, please send an email to Hannah Sheahan at hannah667@gmail.com.

Honors Student Association

• Interested in running for an executive position? Elections are coming up, fast! Mark your calendars for an information session at our upcoming community meeting, March 24th, and get ready to vote at our election, April 25th! Location and time TBD.
• Have questions about upcoming events, HSA, or college life in general? Come talk with an HSA Representative at our Kimmel desk! Dates/times here.

Outside of Honors

• LGBTea Empowerment Group, Meeting March 18 and April 15 in LL 3021 from 2:30pm - 4:00pm.  Connect with fellow LGBTQ+ students in a judgment-free space.  Come as you are!  Contact Lisa Lilek or Sara Beiermann for more information. Flyer here.

• Free test prep for graduate professional school, usually hundreds of dollars, now free through the University.  This is kind of a big deal.  Check your siue email for more details, or as always, contact V at vhovers@siue.edu. 
  • What test prep courses are included?
    • The course options available will vary depending on their degree level. See the full list of courses offered at go.kaplan.com/illinois
  • How much does it cost students to participate? 
    • Nothing— the courses are free, with no charge to students
  • When does the free access start?
    • The portal to enroll and begin courses  is available now. Students can enroll whenever they are ready by visiting go.kaplan.com/illinois
  • Where should I direct students to learn more information?
    • Learn more at go.kaplan.com/illinois where students will be directed with further instructions to sign up through our school portal
    • Students must sign up using their school email address to get free resources

• The Fuller Dome, Center for Spirituality and Sustainability, has been busy creating a schedule of special programs in collaboration with the Buckminster Fuller Institute and the Estate of Buckminster Fuller. This five-day series of events begins on Thursday, 3/27/25 and culminates on the 90th Day of the year, 3/31/25. Along with his architectural partner Shoji Sadao, Buckminster Fuller designed the miniature-earth-Geoscope dome on the SIUE campus to straddle our planet’s 90th longitudinal meridian. Join us as we celebrate Fuller’s legacy on the 90th meridian on the 90th day. We'll be presenting;

  • Architectural Tour of Bucky’s Domes in the region 
  • Katherine Dunham Style Dance Performance 
  • Opening Reception Gallery Exhibition on Fuller 
  • Bucky's World Resource Simulation Center
  • Poetry Performance & Bucky Readings 
  • World Peace Game 
  • Geometric Model Building focus on children & families
  • Concert performance by Farshid Etniko
  • Prayer for the Planet with gospel choir
  • Sound Bath (exploration of dome acoustics)
    • Symposium on Fuller
  • Special 25th Anniversary Bucky Play Performance

  You can use the link provided here below to register and check out the full itinerary of programs. Attendees can register for the entire five days with an “All Access Pass” for admittance into every single program or you can register for individual programs by clicking on the individual programs listed in the link below. All of the programs require registration, even the free ones. Please bring your friends to this historic event. We look forward to seeing you in the dome. 

  https://www.fullerdome.org/blog/2025/2/3/qg0dxdbq56r4kwywkmq07guo4ztoo3

  We have attached a flyer and press release on this to this email for you to share or learn more about this rich series of programs.

   SIUE Fuller Dome