Honors students enjoy 34th semester trip
For the 34th time, thanks to honors donors such as Drs. Jim and Paula Archer, «Ƶ honors students were able to take a free, day-trip to a big city. Fourteen students and two «Ƶ staff drivers left campus...
News & Newsletters
-
-
Largest ever: 18th annual Honors Northeast Roundup held at Ag pavilion
«Ƶ’s Agriculture Club and Program again proved this past 14 September that their expertise with food remains an important collegiate asset. They cannot only produce fresh foods in sustainable, scientific ways, but prepare them in the form of a delectable, regionally themed dinner. The «Ƶ honors program, in turn, enjoyed its eighteenth fall-semester get-together in as many years, bringing 73 parents...
-
Skylar Hodson wins Russell-Mowery Perpetual Honors Scholarship
Skylar Hodson, the recent winner of the most prestigious award of Phi Theta Kappa in Texas, the Dr. Mary Hood Award, has also become the fourth winner of the Russell-Mowery Perpetual Honors Scholarship. This annual $500 award goes to an honors student who has made significant contributions to Northeast Texas culture and life. Hodson has played a major role in the two of «Ƶ’s prize winning film efforts, and is the director of this year’s film on oil politics in Texas...
-
Alison Majors becomes «Ƶ’s fourth, James and Elizabeth Whatley Scholar
In her first year as an honors student at «Ƶ, Alison Majors was promoted to Presidential Scholar, and composed a major essay on minorities in Texas which she presented at the Mount Pleasant Public Library, the meeting of the Walter Webb Society in College Station, and the Great Plains Honors Council in Stillwater. She is a recent winner, nationally, of the Leaders of Promise award conferred by Phi Theta Kappa, and Coca Cola...
-
Cypress Bank donates laptop for Honors student
For the seventeenth-straight year in a row, Cypress Bank has presented a high-end laptop for the use of «Ƶ honors students. This year’s Cypress Bank Scholar is Yahir Garcia...
-
Honors Northeast receives $10,000 donation to support film projects
The «Ƶ Foundation recently received a donation of $10,000 from the Stevenson family of Gilmer. These funds will help the Honors Northeast program continue its legacy of unique special projects, specifically their annual feature-length film. Pictured at the check presentation is (from left): Dr. Andrew Yox, «Ƶ Honors Director, Wlliam Stevenson, David A. Stevenson, David L. Stevenson, and Dr. Ron Clinton, «Ƶ President. David L. Stevenson was surprised when he learned that «Ƶ Honors students had produced an original film...
-
Wade Kerley, Dr. Will McWhorter to speak at annual Northeast Texas Poetry Reading
The annual Northeast Texas Poetry Reading on Friday, 6 September at 11 AM will again occur at the Foyer of the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts on the «Ƶ campus. The public is invited for this free event, the seventeenth of its kind in as many years. As before, the Reading will feature the six readings of the highest ranked poems of the adult and student divisions, and a presentation of winning Northeast Texas images. Two speakers also will share their perceptions of our region, Daingerfield Mayor Wade Kerley, and the «Ƶ Computer-Science Professor, Dr. Will McWhorter...
-
Mary-Faith Wilson wins 7th Gladys Winkle Humanities Scholarship in Honors
The Gladys Winkle Family has empowered six «Ƶ honors students through the years with a special scholarship for excellence in the Humanities that comes in addition to an institutional honors scholarship. This year’s winner is Mary-Faith Wilson, a star of the HuMusic Seminar last fall before she even entered honors, and this year, one of the top-tier Presidential Scholars of Honors Northeast.
-
Honors students and «Ƶ Webb Society pioneer new story on oil in Texas
Francois Jarrige’s, and Thomas Le Roux’s, The Contamination of the Earth provides the best introduction to global toxification. However, its argument--that a fragmentation of knowledge has enabled a dangerous re-chemicalization of the world--sidesteps the vainglorious glee that often attended the development of a petro-based society in both capitalism and politics. A good example is Modern Texas. Reliance on internal combustion engines initially did wonders in terms of cleaning up the dreck of Texas streets...
