Honors Core: Beyond the Classroom
Honors
190 & 191 students continue to lead by example, showing support for their
Flagstaff community by adopting a one-mile stretch of Lonetree Road for
clean-up. Faculty and students gather one Saturday each month and bag
trash in the area. Fall 2003 dates are:
Saturday,
September 20th
Saturday,
October 18th
Saturday,
November 15th
Meet
at 10am at the park across from the Dome.
Bring gloves and a water bottle!
Contact
Ellen Riek at Ellen.Riek@nau.edu
if you want to volunteer, or sign-up on the Honors 190/191 board outside Cowden
office 136.
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When
a representative from the Student Conservation Association (SCA) brought his
mandolin to an Honors 191 class in the Spring, he literally sang the praises of
working with this environmental organization.
He also brought several opportunities for summer internships.
Tim
Melnick received an internship for Summer 2003 at Denali National Park in
Alaska. SCA covered all travel and
lodging expenses and gave Tim a stipend, too.
Tim explains,
and
Preserve. As both an environmental sciences major and a student in the
honors program, this internship was right up my alley. Actually being
in Alaska and seeing first hand what I
would like to do for the rest of my life was fantastic. The majority of
my time on the job was spent backpacking through the trailess wilderness in
Denali and studying the backcountry management plan that exists in the park
itself. This
internship
has open many doors both academically and professionally for me. I can
definetly see myself back in Alaska for many more summers to come.
Stephanie Tebo also received an SCA summer internship, all expenses paid. Stephanie says of her experience:
I was an intern
at the Merck Forest and Farmland Center in Rupert, VT.
Merck is a working farm whose
mission is aimed at the demonstration of sustainability. Along with
nearly 3,000 acres of forest, there is a sugarhouse, extensive organic farming,
and farm animals. My internship included various duties which from
feeding and caring for the animals, canning maple syrup, weeding, direct
seeding, selling vegetables at farmer's markets, and maintaining the
greenhouse. I decided to do this internship as a way for me to learn more
about farming. It has proved to be a true learning experience in areas
such as organic food production, agriculture, and farm operations. I am
extremely glad that I took the chance to complete this internship. I feel
that, while my major does not connect to these topics, what I have learned will
stay with me, and that it has broadened my perspective of not only farming but
sustainability and conservation.
For
more information about SCA and other internships:
NAU
career services internship links: http://www4.nau.edu/career/student1/favorite_links.htm
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