Activities and News:
- Trip to Stennis Space Center: Kardas and three students, Michelle Beavers, Zachary Pinson, and Hali Pinson visited the NASA center as part of their research grant.
- Lawrence of Arabia trip: 12 honors students attended the 50th anniversary screening in Texarkana of David Lean's epic tale of T. E. Lawrence during World War I.
- NCHC Boston: Kardas, Deborah Wilson, Suraj Manandhar, Jessica Zigler, Kara O'Neal, and Darrell Gray attended the annual meeting and presented at four sessions: Honors College as App Author: Campus Map for iPad and iPhone (Manandhar & Kardas), Utility of the Non-Cognitive Questionnaire in Honors College Admission and Retention: A Three-year Study (Wilson & Kardas), iPads for Honors Seminar: Evaluation of First-Year Program (Kardas & Wilson), Everything You Always Wanted to Know about SPSS but Were Afraid to Ask: Maximizing the Honors Experience in a Contract Statistics Course (Wilson, Zigler, O'Neal, & Gray).
- SAU Tech and College of the Ouachitas: Both two-year colleges have agreed in principle to work with the SAU to set up articulated honors programs at their schools so that their students may join the Honors College as juniors.
- iPads: are again being provided to students in lieu of their first year honors stipends.
- Wireless printer: to facilitate use of the iPads, a fast black and white wireless printer has been installed in the Honors Lounge for student use.
- Honors Lounge Open House and Committee meeting
- The Honors Seminar has hosted the following visitors: David Rankin, Trey Berry, Lisa Toms, Allen Lachut.
- Student News: Deana Hughes wrapping up Honors Semester at NAU. Samson King accepted to Primatology/Neuroscience internship over Winter Break at Wake Forest University. We are still working on a trip to Cuba.
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