From the monthly archives: October 2015

An Evening at the Opera

By On October 26, 2015 · Leave a Comment · In Events, Pictures

As part of our extracurricular cultural activities, the Honors Program had the pleasure of going to the opera!  On October 14th, the Honors Program accompanied the students in Dr. Will Lee’s Honors INTC course “Shakespeare and the Arts,” going to the Metropolitan Opera to see director Bartlett Sher’s season-opening new production of Verdi’s masterful Otello, an […]

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A Luncheon with Dr. Neil Rogachevsky

By On October 20, 2015 · Leave a Comment · In Events, Luncheons, Pictures

On Wednesday, October 14th, Dr. Neil Rogachevsky, a postdoctoral research Associate at the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, came to the Honors Lounge for our weekly luncheon to give a talk on “Alexis de Tocqueville on decentralization and `local government,’ revisited.”

The French political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) was famous for celebrating […]

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Recap of our events from before the holidays

By On October 7, 2015 · Leave a Comment · In Uncategorized

On Sunday, September 2nd, the Honors Program had our first cultural event of the semester, a trip to see an off-Broadway production of Informed Consent, a play written by Deborah Zoe Laufer based on a true story, which deals with the ethical issues and dilemmas faced by researchers while pursuing their work and ambition, and […]

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