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UI Honors Program to hold open house at new location
Posted March 26, 2004
IOWA CITY -- The University of Iowa Honors Program will hold an open house on two consecutive days next week to celebrate its move to the new Blank Honors Center, from 3 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 30, and from 3 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 31. The event will take place on the third floor of the center, which is located on the T. Anne Cleary Walkway, next to Daum Residence Hall. Honors Program Director Alice Fulton will speak briefly at 4:15 p.m. during Tuesday's open house, and refreshments will be provided both days. The event is open to all honors students, faculty and administrators involved with the honors program in some way. The Honors Center, which opened earlier this year, houses the Connie Belin & Jacqueline N. Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development, as well as the UI Honors Program, making the UI the first school in the nation to offer under a single roof programs, services and support for academically gifted and talented students all the way from kindergarten through college. The center is named after Des Moines couple Myron and the late Jacqueline Blank, who donated $5 million toward the $14 million project. (Read the original press release.) The Blank gift is part of the UI's $850 million comprehensive campaign, which will run through 2005 and is being conducted under the guidance of the UI Foundation. Named Good. Better. Best. Iowa: The Campaign to Advance Our Great University, the seven-year effort is raising private funds to help launch a variety of initiatives across the university, substantially increase the number of UI scholarships and endowed faculty positions, support new educational and research facilities, build the UI's endowment and fund outreach and service programs to benefit Iowans. The UI Foundation is acknowledged by the UI as a preferred channel for private contributions that benefit all areas of the university. For more information about the Good. Better. Best. Iowa campaign, visit its web site at www.GoodBetterBestIowa.org. Contact Information
Rich Wretman Additional information about supporting the University of Iowa Honors Program also is available on this site. |