Iowa State University Honors Program

Welcome to Iowa State University's Honors Program! The University Honors Program at Iowa State promotes an enriched academic environment for students of high ability, regardless of major, who are interested in taking advantage of educational and intellectual opportunities and challenges. These include the pursuit of a broad liberal education, the ability to individualize the student's program of study, access to graduate-level courses, and the opportunity to be involved in research projects.


Latest Student Blog Posts



Honors Abroad: Check Out Katie’s Blog!
Posted on Monday May 20, 2013
Honors student Katie Carver is spending the summer in Hyderabad, India interning with the Plant Sciences Institute Borlaug Summer Internship Program working on international plant research and development.  Specifically, she’s working with pigeon pea research (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_pea) and adjusting to daily 110 degree temperatures.  Click over to her blog at http://katiecarver.wordpress.com/ to follow her adventures!  


Finally Summertime! or, “Morgan The Globetrotter”
Posted on Wednesday May 15, 2013
The last week of school, we don’t have any regular classes at Iowa State. Club and organization meetings are over, and the whole week is dedicated to taking our final tests. The university puts out a schedule for when each class will have its two-hour final test time, so some luck students are done early […]


Jake’s Iowa State
Posted on Friday May 10, 2013
Hey again! It’s Jake here reporting for a final time before summer. I know my blog post is late in the week, but you know . . . just had a few finals to be taking. There are just a couple things I wanted to mention to you guys before leaving for the summer. Even […]