Honors Symposium
The 2009 Honors Symposium will be held Friday, February 13, 2009, at a variety of locations in the Elliott University Center.
The Keynote Speaker for the 2009 Honors Symposium will be Mr. Roger Newman, who has taught Journalism, the Law, and Society at Columbia University since 2003. He is the author of Hugo Black: A Biography (1994; 1997), co-author of Banned Films: Movies, Censors and the First Amendment (1982) and editor-in-chief of The Constitution and Its Amendments (1999) as well as editor of the Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law (to be published in 2008).
The Honors Symposium offers outstanding UNCG undergraduates the opportunity to participate in an academic conference with concurrent sessions. Each student will present a ten-minute paper, after which a faculty respondent will offer commentary. The 2009 Symposium will feature 30 student paper presentations.
The conference is competitive. Submissions are welcome from any UNCG undergraduate student (College of Arts & Sciences, Bryan School of Business & Economics, School of Education, School of Health & Human Performance, School of Human Environmental Sciences, School of Music, or School of Nursing). Papers can be written from any disciplinary perspective (natural sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities). Submissions are due in Lloyd International Honors College, Foust 205, by Monday, December 15, 2008 at 5:00 p.m. for consideration. Questions should be directed to Dr. Sarah Krive in the LIHC, at (336) 334-4734, sakrive@uncg.edu.
The Honors Symposium Prize, sponsored by UNCG's Lloyd International Honors College, will be awarded for the most outstanding paper submitted to the Symposium. The prize, dedicated to the encouragement of high quality academic writing at UNCG, includes a monetary award of $150.00. The 2008 Honors Symposium Prize was awarded to Veronica Allen, Music Education major, for her paper, "The Villancico in New Spain."
Please note: the submission form requires the Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, which can be downloaded from the Adobe web site.