Blogging in the Park
Mar05

Blogging in the Park

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Justice and Urban Studies Team Design for Change – Dallas My inspiration for this week’s post comes from something that is so much bigger than me. It comes from an experience I had that I can’t explain, but that I have been thankful for ever since it happened. During the JUST students’...

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Photography Colloquium
Feb10

Photography Colloquium

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Photography Colloquium students braved the cold this weekend to explore downtown Abilene and take photographs with Nil Santana. To see all of the students work, visit this link....

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The Optimist: Honors Colloquia Become More Diverse
Jan29

The Optimist: Honors Colloquia Become More Diverse

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A special article on the Honors College upcoming colloquia can be found in the Wednesday, January 29th edition of the Optimist. Students interest in enrolling in colloquia can find out more information by contacting Honors College advisor, Alison Spencer (alison.spencer@acu.edu). Colloquia offered during Spring 2014 include:   If Two Heads are Better Thank One, Let’s Try Two Thousand: A Study of Collective Intelligence Dr. John Homer and Dr. Rebecca Hunter Pizza, Pills, and Psysiology: Biochemical and Exercise Physiological Perspective on Health Dr. Matthew Garver and Dr. Bruce Hopkins Our Father Abraham: Exploring Opportunities...

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Leadership and Life
Jan24

Leadership and Life

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Leadership Summit is a short course put on by COBA that takes students into the mountains of Colorado and gives them the opportunity to hear incredible business people speak about leadership and life. Our days were spent in sessions with various speakers including Wes Stafford, John Aden and...

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Salem Colloquium
Nov26

Salem Colloquium

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I had a wonderful experience traveling to Salem with the Honor’s College and studying the effects of the witch trials upon our society throughout history. This trip helped remind me that the event wasn’t just limited to a few meager sentences in a textbook, but rather that it claimed the...

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Salem, Massachusetts
Nov26

Salem, Massachusetts

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I had the opportunity to visit Salem, Massachusetts on Halloween for an Honors Colloquium studying the Salem Witch trials. I hadn’t ever really learned about the witch trials, other than hearing about them in the movies, like Hocus Pocus, which I later learned is very wrong. When we first...

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Wilderness Colloquium
Nov12

Wilderness Colloquium

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This year for Fall Break, I had the opportunity to participate in a colloquium entitled The Wilderness. A group of 11 students and 2 professors headed down to Big Bend National Park for the extended weekend for a little hiking and discussion about what wilderness means to us personally, as well as what it means to our society. By looking at several different viewpoints from various authors and contexts, we were better able to understand how the idea of wilderness has changed over the decades. We also shared how wilderness affects the way we view God and how we are called to live in relation to His creation. Did I mention that we learned...

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Elton John, Eight Tracks, and Ephemera
Apr09

Elton John, Eight Tr...

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How the 1970s Relieved and Relived American Cultural Wars During a weekend-long interdisciplinary colloquium, students examined the intersection of the 1970s American social and cultural milieu. Would the turbulence of the 1960s (Vietnam, Civil Rights, and Assassinations) fade away to the...

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Programming the Zombie Robot Apocalypse
Mar18

Programming the Zomb...

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What is artificial intelligence, and when will it enslave the human race? During a month long colloquium, a group of our students took a look at the future limits of technology where computer logic confronts human reason. The discussion included exploring consciousness versus neural networks,...

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Leadership Summit
Feb11

Leadership Summit

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Towards the end of the previous semester, I was introduced to ACU’s COBA (College of Business Administration) Leadership Summit. Although my degree in computer science is technically part of the COBA department, I had never heard of this program and never had the desire to attend. Especially...

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Aged and Alone
Jan17

Aged and Alone

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As part of the Honors Colloquium Aged and Alone: Social Isolation Among the Elderly students partnered with Meals on Wheels Plus of Abilene to study elderly who live alone.  Social workers on staff at Meals on Wheels Plus identified clients who were willing to visit with two students about...

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Best Profs: Dr. Mark Hamilton
Dec06

Best Profs: Dr. Mark...

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ACU Honors students have the opportunity to study with the best professors in the University who are leading scholars in their field and national thought leaders. Dr. Mark Hamilton is Professor of Old Testament and Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Theology. He holds a Ph.D. from...

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