Each spring, a group of environmental design honors students defend their theses to their dedicated thesis committee. Afterward, the Honors Council meets and awards Latin honors at the levels of cum laude, magna cum laude or summa cum laude. 

Projects worthy of the honors designation will be works of creative expression, including design, research, and theoretical work that demonstrates a high level of intellectual and creative ability and analytical skills. Completing an honors project allows students to investigate topics of interest, provides the opportunity to work closely with a faculty thesis chair and creates a culminating intellectual experience that produces both a meaningful project and an invaluable learning experience. The Honors project represents the climax of their college careers.

Congratulations to the following students graduating with Latin honors!

Balancing Global Building Standards and Contextual Design: A Critical Regionalist Analysis of the WELL V2 Building Standards Impact on Design and Wellbeing

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Grassland Restoration: Exploring best practices and interdisciplinary collaboration in the context of grassland restoration

Reinforcing Appalachia

Briki: Re-Brick Your Dorm

The Green Paradox: Gentrification & Greenness in the Mile High City

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Each spring, a group of environmental design honors students defend their theses to their dedicated thesis committee. Afterward, the Honors Council meets and awards Latin honors at the levels of cum laude, magna cum laude or summa cum laude. 

Congratulations to the following students graduating with Latin honors.

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Students completing honors in undergraduate thesis work are required to seek out an Environmental Design faculty member to chair their thesis committee. On Monday, Oct. 4, ENVD honors students switched it up. During a chair mixer, hosted in third-floor studio space, each student rotated between other chairs from different disciplines to gain interdisciplinary perspectives on their research question and methods. 

Given constraints of five minutes using five slides, students had to convey their entire process to an outside faculty professional. Honors thesis students will integrate the feedback into their work, which they'll continue to revise until the final presentation is due in early December. In the spring, students will present their concluded research at the Honors Symposium in March. 

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Last month, the Environmental Design honors thesis students took part in the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Sidewalk Symposium. The Sidewalk Symposium encourages undergraduates to create and share their research and creative presentations with chalk on campus walkways. 

Passerbys could view the honors thesis sidewalk chalk art and graphics in the Visual Arts Plaza, an area tucked between the ENVD building and the UMC. 

"This was a great opportunity to display some of the novel undergraduate research in ENVD to the greater CU Community," ENVD Instructor Danielle Bilot said.

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