Honors Faculty and Students will present at the 48th Annual National Collegiate Honors Council Meetings in New Orleans, November 6-10.  Dr. Kristina Davis and Dr. Vic McCracken, Honors Faculty, and Leslie Hayes, Honors Admissions Coordinator, with Honors students Sam Snyder and Samantha Stien will present on “Pre-College Programs: The Power of Recruiting through Summer Academic Camps.”  Honors Student Parker Gordon will present a student poster on “Appreciating Film through Classical Music” and Laura Baxter will present a poster on “Speech-Language Students’ Perceptions of the Field of...

Congratulations to David Gasvoda, a senior Honors student who will be representing ACU on April 26 at the Texas Undergraduate Research Day at the Texas Capitol. David will deliver his paper, “Cormac McCarthy’s Projection of Nature In Blood Meridian.” Undergraduate Research Day is an opportunity for students from 51 institutions across Texas to showcase their research, and this year there will be approximately 65 presentations. David is one of just two students who have been selected to represent ACU. This is a very exciting opportunity, and we are proud of you, David!     Photo credit:...

Last Thursday, April 4th, was the 5th annual Undergraduate Research Festival! A large number of participants were Honors College students. Congratulations students! The participants in the Honors College were: Historical Developments & Music Parker Gordon, Mozart in the Desert: The Effects of Classical Music in Israel Sarah Holley, Camp Bowie during World War II International Issues Kholo Theledi, Analysis of Political Inequality Research in STEM Andrew Miller, PyCBC: A Toolkit for Advanced-Detector Era Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Adam Simpson, Investigations of the Complex Number Derivative AND Imaging sound to measure thermal...

We started our two day adventure in Dallas at “the porch,” for a midday barbecue. At first, I felt a bit awkward, not really knowing who to talk to, but I was able to join into a conversation with Wendy, one of the homeless women. She kept referring to herself as the “street secretary.” She seemed to be overwhelmed by all of the faces anxiously staring at her, though she tried to keep talking to not show it. She said over and over again that “we are not all bad people,” referring to her street family. Wendy talked about how they took care of each other, how they stuck together because they were all each other had....