Honors Program
The honors program is for students who have enjoyed their experience in research with a guide teacher and are looking for a highlight experience during their final year. The program has specific requirements for our majors described below.
Application
Students participate in the honors program during their final year. Students who expect to have a 3. 5 accumulative GPA by the fall of senior year should have identified a guide teacher and applied for NBB honors by May 1st of their third year. Applications are brief and include basic information such as guide teacher name, project title, and current GPA.
Coursework
During senior year, honors students take two research-experience courses. Participation in these courses includes at least 12 hours of work on the research project each week as well as weekly meetings with other researchers to develop professional skills.
Essay
The majority of our major work with guide teachers in research experiences, and many students co-author manuscripts (手稿) published in leading journals. However, only honors students are guided and helped through the process of writing an essay. All students' essays are published online through the university library and, after the data being forbidden to be included in other articles, the essays are available to search.
George Nakashima always insisted that he was a simple woodworker, not an artist. Even though major museums exhibited his works and the director of the American Craft Museum called him a national treasure, Mr. Nakashima rejected the label of artist. For almost fifty years he simply went on shaping wood into beautiful chairs, tables, and cabinets.
Nakashima had a clear goal. He intended to make each piece of furniture as perfect as possible. Even making a box was an act of creation, because it produced an object that had never existed before. Initially Nakashima used local wood, sometimes from his own property. Later, he traveled to seek out English oak, Persian walnut, African zebrawood and Indian teak. He especially liked to find giant roots that had been dug out of the ground after a tree was cut down. Nakashima felt that making this wood into furniture was a way of allowing the tree to live again.
Most furniture makers prefer perfect boards, but Nakashima took pleasure in using wood with interesting knots (结疤) and cracks. These irregularities gave the wood personality and showed that the tree had lived a colourful life.
He never failed to create an object that was both useful and beautiful. One early piece Nakashima designed was a threelegged chair for his small daughter, Mira, to use when she sat at the table for meals. The Mira chair became so popular that Nakashima later made both low and high versions. Another famous piece, the conoid chair, has two legs supported by bladelike feet. Always, Nakashima's designs were precise and graceful, marked by the simplicity that revealed his love for the wood.
As the years passed, Nakashima's reputation grew and he received many awards. His children Mira and Kevin, now adults, joined the team of craftspeople in their father's studio. Nakashima's dream of integrating work and family had come true.
One of the greatest challenges in caring for such intelligent animals as chimpanzees (猩猩) is providing them with enriching experiences. Every day, the chimpanzees at Project Chimps receive morning and evening food-based enrichment devices, but caregivers are always looking for more ways to keep the chimps mentally engaged. With 79 chimpanzees, each with their distinctive personality, care staff often find that different chimps react differently to new enrichment.
Last year, we began inviting musicians to perform for chimps to see how they may respond. A violin performance received quite the response. Additional musicians were lined up to visit but the corona-virus has stopped the activities, which we hope to resume in the near future.
This past week, we brought an electric piano for the chimps to investigate. Some chimps, like twins Buttercup and Clarisse, were immediately interested and could not wait to tap out a few notes. Others, like Emma, were more interested in trying to take it apart.
29-year-old Precious has very little tolerance for the piano. She sat off to the side for a few minutes, but eventually she decided that was enough. She called an end to the enrichment session by throwing a handful of waste at the piano. Receiving her message loud and clear, we removed the piano.
We could never have guessed how 33-year-old Luke would react to it. As with many retired lab chimpanzees, Luke has some anxiety issues. He seems particularly distrustful of anything new, including people, food, and enrichment. But when we presented the chimps with the piano, Luke was the first to investigate. We could not believe our eyes—this usually anxious chimpanzee bravely chose to explore something new!
To us at Project Chimps, this is what it is all about: giving chimpanzees the freedom to choose. We are honored to be part of their journey.
The icy beauty of the Arctic attracts thousands of visitors every year to see its wonderful wildlife, landscape and local cultures. Visitors can take ships on a voyage along the Arctic Ocean or take flights to cities along the Arctic edge. No matter how one gets there, they should wear warm clothes and get ready to take in the attractions.
"Traveling to the Arctic leaves an unforgettable impression on the visitor. Its vast expanse and the fragility of its environment are two things that really blow __ away people," said Cheryl Rosa, the director of the US Arctic Research Commission.
Visitors to the Arctic Circle will have a lot of activities to choose from if they want to see all that the region has to offer. Hiking with snowshoes，dog sledding and kayaking are common activities. Visitors with sharp eyes are likely to spot polar bears. To get even closer to the animals of the sea, visitors can go polar snorkeling with seals. Of course, Arctic adventures aren't complete without viewing the wonders of the Arctic Circle's large glaciers and icebergs as well.
One of the most impressive attractions and maybe the most difficult to see is the Northern Lights, one of the seven natural wonders of the world. They are natural lights that glow a brilliant green and light up the horizon. Sometimes they appear as waves that dance across the sky in different colors.
The best places to view the Northern Lights are in Northern Norway, Sweden's Abisko National Park, Iceland, America's Alaska or Canada's Yukon, according to Space. com. Charles Deehr, an expert at the University of Alaska Fairbanks' Geophysical Institute, recommended planning a trip between winter and spring, especially when there is a new moon.
Even though the Arctic is a popular tourist destination, don't forget that people live here too. "It is recommended that visitors go with tour groups that are respectful of Arctic residents (居民) and their culture," said Rosa. "Too many people can disturb the small villages. Finding tour groups that work with local communities is important. "
Many campers love to plan their trips during autumn season. Whether you be camping alone, with family or your friends, autumn season offers lots of activities that make your outdoor adventure more fun! Here are some fall camping tips to make your trip more memorable.
Schedule for the cool weather. Even though summer just ended, you should be prepared for cool weather. It could be hot and sunny during the day, but very cold once the sun goes down. You wouldn't want your trip to be ruined because you keep waking up in the early morning because of cold weather.
Schedule your cooking times, An important to keep in mind is that the days are shorter during cool seasons. More importantly, food takes longer to cook when the weather is cold. So schedule your cooking times to make sure that you enjoy your meal times.
Be careful with bears. Any camper knows that it is quite important to protect themselves from bears and other wildlife. Wildlife become more active around this time looking for food as winter nears.
There are lots of apple trees in the country where you camp. If you're lucky enough to have one near your chosen campsite, consider apple picking during the day. To get even more fun out of autumn, you can also choose to go pumpkin picking. You can also bring your own pumpkins to carve around the campfire! The kids will love it.
A. Go apple or pumpkin picking.
B. Collect colourful leaves from trees.
C. Autumn weather is very unpredictable.
D But we must be extra careful during fall season.
E. Be sure you cook dinner and clean up before the sun goes down.
F. All the animals wake up and are very hungry at this time of the year
G. There are plenty of fun activities you can enjoy during your camping trip.
How people stay connected before the invention of text messaging? That makes it easy to send a note to a friend. And before there were telephones in every home that could1you immediately with a loved one, there were letters. Sure, you might 2to wait a few days or weeks for the postman to 3 it, but the special feeling it contained made it worth the 4. Although a letter offers no 5 joy, handwritten correspondence (通信) was always highly 6 and favored. A letter could be read 7 so that one could enjoy that special moment over and over again.
In the face of worry over the coronavirus pandemic and all the 8 it has placed on New Yorkers, a Brooklyn — based performance artist and English professor Brandon Woolf came up with the idea of reviving (复兴) the letter writing9 as a means to reach out and 10 one another.
Knowing that people have lost loved ones, jobs and businesses, and 11 simple pleasures like hugs from a friend, Woolf began to think about how to help people make 12 connections.
His 13 was to take a page from history. "When interpersonal connection is 14during the hard times, what are other ways where we can be 15?" Woolf wondered. "What is a better experience than 16 a piece of mail in your mailbox from somebody you didn't expect to hear from？"
Using a portable 17 and seated on a folding chair alongside a mailbox, he put a sign says, "Free Letters for Friends Feeling Blue." Woolf spent several hours, a few days a week for four weeks, typing letters for his Park Slope, Brooklyn 18.
The 37-year-old New York University teacher called his street 19 "The Console"—short for consolation(慰问). He 20 the neighbors and those hearing from them could feel the warmth.
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（^），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；分10分)
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Last month our school held a reading Week, which aim was to encourage the students to read wide. During the week, book lovers recommended a plenty of good books suitable for high school students. In addition, two famous writers are invited to give lectures on how to understand and appreciate literary work. The poetry reading contest was another amazed activity for the students to bring his talent into full play. All the contestants took turns read their favorite poems to the audience. We all find the Reading.
Week very benefit. It has not only enriched our school life, and helped us form the habit of reading.
