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The Baby Finally Cried
My classmate holding one of the boy twins after the emergency Caesarean section! (From left to right: Ali F., Hannah R. and Rachel P.) Honors nursing student Rachel Pruitt‘s first experience working in...
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Moving to the Puebla Beat
Papela picado banners strung up between buildings in Puebla Apparel merchandising and product development student Kayla DeMark spent a month in Puebla, Mexico, this summer as a participant in the U...
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Heavy on the Roquefort, S’il Vous Plaît
Honors biology and French double-major Duru Erkan recently returned to the States after spending a month living with a French family in Perpignan, who taught her how to do as the French do, starting...
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Master Classphalt: Finding the Right Recipe
Path scholar and honors civil engineering student Piper Fuller met engineering professor Dr. Kevin Hall at a Path Program event during Piper’s first semester at the U of A. She mentioned in passing...
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Taking the Office Outside
This summer honors landscape architecture student Max Frank traveled to Mozambique to design better, more affordable housing plans in Nampula. In this blog, he reflects on the challenges of the trip,...
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A Skeptic’s View on Ghost Hunting
Skeptic Jaredan Durbin gets into the ghostly mood as the students explore the top floor of Old Main (don’t worry, we had permission to be in there). Jaredan Durbin is an Honors College junior majoring...
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The Ticking of the Clock
The cleaning crew lead the ghost hunters to spots in Old Main where they have experiences strange happenings in the middle of the night. Duru Erkan is a sophomore honors college fellow majoring in...
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Ghost Hunting: A Story in Three Acts
Dr. Misty Bastian’s honors intersession course Ghost Hunting was an unforgettable, interdisciplinary foray into the anthropology of the otherworld. Fifteen honors students were exposed to the...
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AKWAABA (Welcome)
James Robinson II, a senior Path scholar and honors social work major with a minor in African and African American studies, spent six weeks this summer in Accra, Ghana, exploring culture, history and...
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Join the Dean Team!
Do you have what it takes to join the DEAN TEAM??? Do you have big ideas for the Honors College? Have you ever wanted to see the “inner workings” of higher education administration? Would you like...
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Designing for Cancer Survivors
Honors apparel merchandising and product development major Hannah Lane is using her honors thesis to create fashion pieces for an oft-overlooked group: breast cancer survivors who have...
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Seeking graduate student to write, tweet, post, photograph, doodle, etc....
Interested in getting some hands-on experience in communications? If you are a graduate student (or graduate-student-to-be), a fluent writer/creative sort, and enjoy posting to Facebook, Twitter,...
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A Romanesque Holiday
Maxwell Carter explores Parc Güell in Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia. Political science and African & African American studies double major Maxwell Carter spent a semester in Spain last year —...
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The Desert of the Mind
“Listen carefully, my son, to the master’s instructions, and attend to them with the ear of your heart.” These are the first lines of The Rule of St. Benedict, a 6th-century guide to monastic life....
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And Now, A Word from Dean Mandeep Kaur
Dean Mandeep Kaur takes charge – for a day. Photo: Whit Pruitt. “Okay, now what?” That’s what I thought after I won the Dean for the Day Election. I was going to be the head honcho of the Honors...
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Making the Unfamiliar Familiar: Research Conferences
Becky Zapata standing next to her poster at the ABCT Conference in Atlanta, GA. Honors psychology and sociology senior Rebeca Zapata recently had the opportunity to present research from her honors...
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Thesis Blues? Let Your Topic Choose You!
By: Darci Walton So what’s it gonna be? As a freshman (and even sophomore) the most terrifying word for me to hear was “thesis.” The idea of a thesis sounded like something fancy academics wrote by...
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What’s In an Umbrella?
Beck Williams, an honors political science major who participated in the January 2020 Honors Passport study abroad intersession course to Peru, found himself in an unexpected dilemma when the class...
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Serving the State During a Pandemic
This summer, Logan Moss, at far right, took a (physically distanced) seat at the table with Gov. Asa Hutchinson and five other interns. This past summer Path Scholar Logan Moss had a once-in-a-lifetime...
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Taking A Front-Row Seat on History
2 Path Scholar Elijah Conley, a political science and journalism major from Melbourne, Arkansas, reached for a stretch goal and applied for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation internship. He was...
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