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OU Honors College Tools Project: Final project could change the lives of many

Daniela Cesario, Features Reporter November 20, 2024

Within Oakland University’s Honors College, the final project for each group was to develop a creative idea that could significantly benefit the lives of others. Students were tasked with conceptualizing...

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OU Honors College makes blankets for children in hospitals

Daniela Cesario, Features Reporter October 30, 2024

In a heartfelt effort to comfort children in hospitals, Oakland University’s Honors College recently teamed up with the nonprofit organization Fleece & Thank You to create handmade blankets that...

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OU Honors College welcomes a variety of guest speakers

Daniela Cesario, Features Reporter October 16, 2024

Oakland University’s Honors College is not just a place for rigorous academics, but also a hub for fostering intellectual curiosity through guest speakers. This semester, students have been exposed to...

Future Leader Dogs at OU hosts blindness awareness event

Future Leader Dogs at OU hosts blindness awareness event

Matilde Rabajoli, Campus Reporter October 16, 2024

On Oct. 9, the Oakview Hall walkway hosted a beautiful meeting before sundown. The Future Leader Dogs club at OU was represented by the organization’s president, Mackenzie Nichols, and Henry, a cute...

Golden Grizzlies on the hunt with OU’s Honors College

Daniela Cesario, Features Reporter October 9, 2024

Oakland University’s Honors College class, Making Discoveries, added an unexpected twist to its curriculum last week. Students participated in a campus-wide trivia scavenger hunt, designed to challenge...

Echo Cognito hosts open mic night

Echo Cognito hosts open mic night

Moe Del Rosario, Arts Reporter October 2, 2024

“Dancer, Lover, Musician, Swiftie, Poet, Queer, Daughter, Intelligent, Woman, College Educated, Neurodivergent, Disabled, Chef” and other identities greeted guests who attended Oakland University’s...

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Roberta Michel: Sports through a different lens

Daniela Cesario, Features Reporter September 25, 2024

Professor Dr. Roberta Michel has been teaching since 2013 in both the Honors College here at Oakland University, and the business school. Her honors college course, Social Movements in Sports, explores...

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Wrongful incarcerations and restorative justice: Stories from former convicts

Adrian Jimenez Morales, Campus Editor April 17, 2024

The Wrongly Incarcerated panel discussion, hosted by the Michigan Coalition for Human Rights (MCHR) at OU, brought five diverse speakers together to discuss the impact, testimonies and action plans to...

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Honors College hosts I.C.E. Festival to showcase theses

Payton Bucki, Content Editor March 29, 2023

From March 21-23, Oakland University's Honors College (HC)  hosted its Innovation, Creation and Exploration (I.C.E.) Festival in the Oak View Hall main lobby to give Spring 2023 HC graduates the opportunity...

Course Highlight: HC 2080 – Science and the Late Cold War

Rachel Yim, Science & Technology Reporter June 15, 2022

From science courses to art and global perspective courses, the Honors College provides its students with a variety of classes to choose from. This fall, the Honors College will present a course named...

Oak View Hall is home to OU's Honors College.

Honors College offers its students Study Abroad Scholarships

Rachel Yim, Science & Technology Reporter February 2, 2022

The Donna and Walt Young Study Abroad Endowed Scholarship was established in 2004, and since its formation, it has become one of the most valuable financial support for undergraduate Honors College students...

Songwriter, skater, actress and future linguist, Bella Javier.

People of OU: Songwriter, skater, actress and future linguist, Bella Javier

Rachel Yim, Science & Technology Reporter October 20, 2021

One shocking data point tells us that one language dies out every 14 days, making as many as half of the world’s 7,000 languages expected to be extinct by the end of this century. Every language deserves...

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