Wail Amor, Honors Undergraduate Research Fellow

Congratulations to Wail Amor on being published! He is a co-author on "Garlic Ointment Inhibits Biofilm Formation by Bacterial Pathogens from Burn Wounds." It was published in the Journal of Medical Microbiology.

This paper can be read here: http://jmm.sgmjournals.org/content/early/2012/02/02/jmm.0.038638-0.short?rss=1

Professor Kurt Caswell Published

Congratulations to Professor Caswell on publishing two new essays! The first is entitled, "A Short Walk in Anasazi Country." The essay talks about Professor Caswell's journeys through South East Utah's Grand Gulch. His second essay is called, "Death in Seville" which speaks about Spanish bullfighting.

The first essay can be found here: http://www.earthlines.org.uk/.

The second essay can be found here: http://www.engl.unt.edu/alr/.

Honors Alumnus Julie Meadows in Malaysia

 

Julie shaking hand with the Malaysian Prime Minister Najib

Honors graduate Julie Meadows has been accepted as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Malaysia. She arrived in Kuala Lampur last month for training and is now in the town of Marang to begin teaching. We at the Honors College are excited to hear all about Julie's adventures!

Here is information on how to apply for a Fulbright: http://us.fulbrightonline.org/home.html

For more information on the Fulbright program and how to apply talk to Dr. Mark McGinley in the Honors College.

Passport Program

Each spring semester, the Honors College coordinates the Passport Program, an optional offshoot of the required First-Year Experience Program. The goals of the program are to further connect our students to the Lubbock and Texas Tech communities and strengthen their critical reflection skills, as well as to promote more effective communication skills in a non-classroom setting

Students just coming out of their first fall semester in the Honors College choose either an Arts & Academics Track or a Community Service Track and log ten to fifteen hours a month for February, March, and April. At the end of the first two months, they submit a written reflection of their experiences and are then eligible for a sizable award to be applied to the next fall's tuition!

For a list of the activities available to our Arts & Academics Track students, take a look at the blog created by A&A Track Coordinator, Clara Bush.

Honors Associate Dean Selected for National Honors Advisory Board

TTU Honors College Associate Dean, Dr. Marjean Purinton, has been selected from an extremely competitive applicant pool for the National Collegiate Honors Council's Advisory Board. Dr. Purinton's inclusion on the board will benefit the Texas Tech Honors College immensely, both through an increased visibility of our Honors program as well as through collegial connections that she builds between our program and others nation-wide. Additionally, Dr. Purinton's extensive experience in education and Honors will be a great asset to the National Collegiate Honors Council as well.

For more information about NCHC, visit their website at http://www.nchchonors.org/. For more information about Dr. Purinton, see her bio at http://www.depts.ttu.edu/honors/facultystaff/faculty.php.

Spring 2012 Honors Advising Has Begun!

The Honors College has started the Spring 2012 advising cycle and we are excited to have so many diverse offerings this year! Take a look at our available courses by visiting the Spring 2012 course website.

In addition, the Honors advising team created two very important videos this semester in order to help students know what to expect during their advising sessions. Please watch the videos and pay close attention to their serious nature.

FYE Program Highlights Undergraduate Research

Each fall semester, the Honors College First-Year Experience (FYE) Program highlights the various Honors opportunities available to our incoming students. This year, two Honors FYE Mentors, Cade Stull and Joe Herbert, created a short video to highlight one of the most important opportunities available to our students, undergraduate research.

Cade followed and filmed Joe working as a researcher at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) Cancer Center through the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Program. The video is both informative and entertaining: