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Honors Awards Deadlines and Events

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Fall 2012 Deadlines

September 21 FINAL DEADLINE for you to add H196A or H196B to your class schedule on Tele-BEARS, so be sure all your paperwork has been filled out and you've come into the UAO before 3 pm to get your course control number!
November 8 Workshop: "Writing your Honors Thesis." 5-6pm in 3053 VLSB.
November 9 Abstract deadline for poster session presenters. Due to the UAO by 3pm.
November 16 3-5 pm, Honors Poster Session - presenters must arrive by 2:30 pm. Location VLSB, Onderdonk Lobby (by Micro Yalis).
December 14 Honors Thesis Approval Form due to Anwar Thomas, 3060 VLSB.

Spring 2013 Deadlines

Canceled Spring Honors Dinner
February 22 FINAL DEADLINE for you to add H196B to your class schedule on Tele-BEARS, so be sure all your paperwork has been filled out and you've come into the UAO before 3 pm to get your course control number!
March 4

Registration opened for honors symposia and poster session sign up.

Go to the following link to complete the online form: https://mcb.berkeley.edu/internal/uao/presentation.php

March 13 

Workshop: How to present your research

5-6pm, 3059 VLSB, Professor Robert Zucker

March 18 Application deadline for symposium and poster session. Due to UAO by noon. Applications must be submitted online. 
March 21

WORKSHOP: How to Write Your Honors Thesis

5-6pm, 125 Li Ka Shing, Professor Robert Beatty

April 1 The UAO will inform all of you who considered for the symposia the results. Those of you who are not selected for the symposium will present at the Honors Poster Session, April 19.
April 19 3-5 pm, Honors Poster Session - those of you presenting must arrive at the Alumni House by 2:30 pm
April 19 Immunology & Pathogenesis and Cell & Developmental Biology Symposium presenters must have submitted & tested presentation in the UAO. Bring it to the office on a memory stick (PowerPoint or Keynote only) by noon (we'll be closed all afternoon for the Poster Session).
April 22 BMB only - If you are presenting at the BMB symposium, you must turn in a draft of your thesis by 12 pm.
April 22 Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Genetics, Genomics, & Development; and Neurobiology. Presenters must submit & test presentation in the UAO by 4pm. Bring the presentation on a memory stick in Powerpoint or KeyNote format only.
April 23 4 pm, Immunology Symposium, 101 LSA
April 24 12:30 pm, Cell & Developmental Biology Symposium, 101 LSA
April 24 4 pm, Genetics, Genomics & Development Symposium, 101 LSA
April 25 4 pm, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Symposium, 100 GPB
April 26 3 pm, Neurobiology Symposium, 125 LKS
April 26

Letters of recommendation for awards due:

Mail: in a sealed, signed envelope, sent to Anwar Thomas, MCB-UAO, 3060 Valley Life Sciences Building, Berkeley, CA 94720-3140

In Person: deliver, in a sealed, signed envelope, to the Undergraduate Affairs Office, 3063 VLSB

Via Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

May 10 Final deadline to turn in your completed thesis to your PI and your MCB faculty sponsor. Note that you do not need to turn in a copy to the UAO.
May 17 Honors Thesis Approval Form due to Anwar Thomas, 3060 VLSB.
May 22 Announcement of award recipients at the Undergraduate Commencement