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First Annual
Honors Capstone Celebration 
Sunday, May 3, 2009 at Macaulay Honors College

Macaulay Honors College is proud to announce the First Annual Honors Capstone Celebration. This day-long Celebration provides a forum for all senior University Scholars to present their capstone honors projects. Seniors in all disciplines are encouraged to participate, and faculty and other representatives of the Honors College and the City University, as well as family and friends, are also invited.

There are two main purposes of the Celebration: to highlight excellence in research by Macaulay students; and to provide a forum for honors undergraduates to communicate their research findings and creative work.

Presentations may be in any form appropriate to the work; excerpts from theses, posters, exhibitions, performances, models, works of art, etc., are all welcome. For those whose majors don’t include a separate capstone project, tutorials about a research methodology or a new technology are also welcome. Each student will have a maximum of 10 minutes to present his/her project and may use whatever format s/he deems most appropriate.

All capstone projects, of whatever form, are expected to show originality and quality of research; to show ethical and responsible research; to extend University Scholars’ involvement in research design and execution (i.e., go beyond work completed for a class paper or project).

All interested seniors – and we hope that means everybody! – should submit an abstract describing their research (maximum: 250 words); this may have already been done in response to the “Thesis Query,” in which case the same paragraph may be used again. Each submission should include the following information:

• Name, college, and email address of student
• Full title of project
• Paragraph description of project (this is the abstract proper)
• Type of presentations (e.g., powerpoint, performance, poster)
• Name, department, and email address of faculty advisor
• Name of Macaulay Advisor
• Any equipment needed

This event is free and open to the public. All Macaulay students, faculty, family, and friends are invited. 

All queries and submissions should be sent by 5 pm, Friday, April 24, 2009 to the Assistant to the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Michael Teitel: michael.teitel@mhc.cuny.edu.