Thanks to Georgia May and Kyla Ramsey for another great edition of the newsletter! Please enjoy the features, interviews, and information they have included!

1.The Western Regional Honors Conference is having a virtual conference in April. If you would like to present a paper, creative work, or academic poster at this event, you need to submit your proposal here https://www.suu.edu/wrhc2021/ prior to the deadline of February 16th, 2021. Once they group the presentations, you’ll upload your work and just give a short overview of it at your session. Then you, the other students presenting, and members like me in the Zoom audience will have a discussion and ask questions. Registration will open after the proposal deadline has passed. Early registration is $25 by April 1 and $40 after April 1. The conference is April 10. The Lane Honors Program will pay early registration for up to eight honors students! You do not have to present to attend; however, presenting is a good experience to get comfortable try it out!

2.The University of Oregon Undergraduate Research Symposium takes place May 27. You can be on a panel, read a paper, show an academic poster, share creative work including performances, or share a five-minute data story where you just explain a project you are working on that isn’t finished. Register by 5:00 pm April 12 here: https://undergradsymposium.uoregon.edu/symposium-abstract-submission. You just need to confirm you’ll participate, give the title of your work, and select the type of work you’ll be presenting. The event will be virtual and is free.

3.The Lane Community College Undergraduate Research Fair takes place the week of May 24. You can share an academic poster, read a paper, participate in the ePortfolio Showcase, or present a creative work. Here is the link to the Google form to register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdVAjMj9KuN7Ccmf_uVFl19MFWYp7OP6lIGIyaJ_F-mf1LqYA/viewform. The event is free and will be virtual.

Welcome to Georgia Mae, our new co-editor of the newsletter! She has been at LCC for a year and joined the Lane Honors Program at the end of her first year. When asked why she joined Honors, she said, “I joined Honors because I had a goal to open as many doors as possible. My professor, Angie, recommended me for the Honors Program and I couldn’t say no!”

Co-Editor Georgia Mae

Georgia Mae is still deciding on a major because she has so many interests including: nutrition, law, business, and design. Her career goals include becoming an interior designer, a doula, and a nutritionist. In her free time, she enjoys indoor gardening, walking her dog, yoga, baking, learning, journaling, and binge-watching TV shows from the early 2000s. We are so lucky to have another amazing editor to work with Kyla Ramsey on this newsletter!

As members of the Lane Honors Program, you are eligible to submit your work to these publications!

1. Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity

The National Collegiate Honors Council’s Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity provides students the opportunity to have their academic and creative pursuits published alongside the work of some of their brightest and most dedicated peers. We receive submissions from schools both in the United States, as well as from institutions overseas, and each of our associate editors studies at a different NCHC-affiliated university. We strive to show the power of undergraduate work by transcending the boundaries of state, region, and discipline. 

Submissions deadline: October 16, 2020

Website link: https://nchcureca.com/ 

2. The Palouse Review

We invite your students to submit their creative work to the December 1, 2020 Edition of The Palouse Review. We accept short fiction, nonfiction, scholarship, poetry, photography & visual art, music, and digital multimedia.This is an excellent opportunity for students to publish their work! 

Submissions deadline: November 1, 2020

Website: https://palousereview.wsu.edu/

3. Scribendi

We accept submissions in a variety of categories, including poetry, creative nonfiction, short fiction, foreign language, visual art, photography, and open media. As our staff begins the production process for this year’s edition, we would like to invite the students in your honors program to submit their work for the chance to be published!

To further celebrate the accomplishments of submitting students, the top submission in each category will receive a $250 award from the WRHC.  

We’re seeking innovative and imaginative works—anything and everything from choreographed dance pieces to architectural sketches, from film to music, from pottery to performance art, from fashion to graphic novels.

Submissions deadline: October 9, 2020

Website: scribendi.unm.edu

Many of you are engaged in undergraduate research in your classes, and you may be presenting some of that work at the college’s Undergraduate Research Fair and/or at the University of Oregon’s Undergraduate Research Symposium. Many of you are also wonderful fiction writers, painters, photographers, poets, song writers, and other types of writers and artists. It’s time to start publishing your work!

This publication workshop covers several aspects of the publication process:

• where to find places to submit your work,
• how to submit it,
• what to expect in response, and
• how to track submissions and publications.

Don’t forget that Lane Community College has its own journal, Denali!

When you do have work published, be sure to add that information to your CV and resume. See this Curriculum (CV) Workshop for more details.