Special Opportunities

Other Institute Activities

Brown Honors Coffee Hours - These events are scheduled in late afternoon, in the Werner Library on the first floor of the Observatory. The Coffees serve several functions. First, they are a social gathering in which you can interact informally with your fellow students and with your Honors instructors. Second, during many of these Hours, faculty members or outside visitors are invited to chat informally about their research interests and how these interests developed. These sessions are designed to get you to think about your own research interests and what a career as a scholar might look like. Finally, Coffee Hours provide a space for informal fun where, for example, you can challenge the Honors instructors to a game of Trivial Pursuit.

The Midnight Dessert  - This traditional Honors event is held at the end of each semester on the Thursday evening after the last day of classes. It offers Brown Honors students an opportunity to defuse some of the stress surrounding final examinations by taking a study break with other students, feasting on elegant desserts and playing games or watching some lighthearted videos.

Welcome Back Banquet/Dance  - Early in the spring semester a banquet is held at Bellemont Manor where our newly-admitted Honors students are introduced and students returning from their off-campus experiences have a chance to share their adventures with other Honors students.

Field Trips -  Each semester, all Honors students are invited to participate in an Honors field trip. These trips are usually sponsored by one of the HSP Fine Arts seminars and take students on exciting off-campus cultural outings. In recent semesters, Honors students and instructors have enjoyed field trips to see Kiss Me Kate, and to Chicago to visit museums and art galleries.

Lectures  - From time to time in cooperation with other campus groups, the Institute brings to Albion important outside speakers. In addition to attending the evening lectures given by these speakers, you will often have access to these distinguished visitors in your HSP seminar, during special receptions or over lunch or dinner. This fall, Honors will co-host appearance of the actor James Earl Jones and Honors and theater students will have a special questions and answers session with him the morning after his Convocation address.