The University of Colorado聽Honors Journal is an annual interdisciplinary, student-run publication sponsored by the Honors Program under the supervision of a faculty sponsor and the Director of the Honors Program. 罢丑别听Journal聽presents a collection of works that reflect the utmost talent, diligence and creativity among undergraduate students at the University of Colorado Boulder.聽
Each year, the Honors Journal聽combines undergraduate work from all academic fields including art, architecture, creative nonfiction, fiction, engineering, humanities, multimedia, the natural sciences, poetry, the social sciences and more. 罢丑别听Honors Journal聽is distributed and available to all students and departments at the University of Colorado, as well as other honors departments at other universities across the country. In order to reach a broader audience, the聽Journal聽has recently expanded to an online version (see Archives).聽
罢丑别听Honors Journal聽was established and first published in 1992 under the supervision of faculty mentor, Professor E. Christian Kopff and with the support of Honors Program Director, Jack Kelso. The first volumes were devoted to undergraduate research, highlighting an article by an outstanding Honors Professor and abstracts from all summa cum laude 迟丑别蝉别蝉.听
From 1995 to 1998, the Journal聽went on hiatus. In 1998, Honors Program Director Dennis Van Gerven reinstated the聽Journal聽under the supervision of faculty mentor Dr. Claudia Van Gerven. In 1998, the Journal聽expanded by adding poetry, fiction, and black-and-white artwork.聽
In 2002, the University of Colorado's Department of Publications entered the聽Honors Journal聽into the Council for Advancement and Support of Education District VI Competition. The cover from this edition of the Honors Journal聽won the "Case District VI, Silver Award of Excellence in Graphic Design."聽
In 2010, the聽闯辞耻谤苍补濒'蝉听editorial board elected to expand the Journal聽from its traditional 6" x 9" format to an 8.5" x 11" format to allow for greater diversity of printable subject matter. This was the first year that architecture and engineering were included in the print edition.
The next year, 2011, marked the first journal to be published online as well as in print.聽 In 2023, the journal moved from hosting the full publication on this website to a hosted by the CU Libraries. Since 2023, all work published in the journal is assigned a DOI and is searchable on major search engines online. The print edition is still available each year as well.
In 2012, the faculty advisor role was appointed to Dr. Abby Hickcox, the Associate Director of the Honors Program. Under Dr. Hickcox鈥檚 leadership, the Journal continued to expand and so did its editorial board. The editorial board was reformatted in 2024 from a student club into a novel course program offered to honors students across the College of Arts & Sciences.