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Associate Dean John Kneski elected President of State Honors Council
 

MIAMI (June 13, 2007)-Honors College Associate Dean John Kneski has been elected as the President of The Florida Collegiate Honors Council (founded in 1989). The FCHC represents thousands of honors students and faculty at over 30 institutions throughout Florida, including all of the member institutions of the SUS. FIU was proud to host the FCHC annual conference at University Park in February of this year. The event was a resounding success with nearly 200 participant student researchers. The keynote speaker was Michael Spring, Director of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs.

Associate Dean Kneski was also recently elected to a councilor position on the national Council of Undergraduate Research. The Council on Undergraduate Research (founded in 1978) represents over 900 colleges and universities nation-wide. CUR and its affiliated colleges, universities, and individuals share a focus on providing undergraduate research opportunities for faculty and students at predominantly undergraduate institutions.

Professor Kneski has been affiliated with FIU since 1993 and with the Honors College since 1999. He serves as the Director of the Honors College Student Research Program (SRAI) and as the Director of the Honors College Italy Program. In his career as an architect and preservationist, Prof. Kneski has been published in various journals including Metropolis, Interior Design, Preservation Today, and Architecture. He was also the author of the Historic Survey & Contributing Structures Report that lead to the creation of Miami's fourth historic district, Spring Garden. He is currently completing a book on botanical and anthropological studies conducted in New York by Thomas Jefferson.

His undergraduate students recently completed a publication that has been accepted into the Library of Congress holdings entitled Beauty & Power in the Mediterranean ~ Artifacts from the Wolfsonian FIU Collection. That project will be presented at the National Honors Council Conference this fall in Denver.

For additional information please contact The Honors College at 305.348.4100