Honors Symposium
2012 Honors Symposium
The 2012 Honors Symposium was held on Friday, February 24, from 2:00 to 6:00 in the Elliot University Center.
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The Honors Symposium offers outstanding undergraduates the opportunity to participate in an academic conference with concurrent sessions. Each student presents a ten-minute paper, after which a faculty respondent offers commentary. The 2011 Symposium featured 51 student paper presentations, and we look forward to an equal number of exceptional presentations this year. Presentations are followed by a keynote speaker and reception.
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We welcome submissions from any UNCG undergraduate student. Papers can be written in any discipline, but presentations should be geared toward a general audience. Students may submit a paper that has been completed for a course or write a paper for the Symposium.
Students can submit a paper by:
Sending it for consideration both electronically and in hard copy to Dr. John Woell in Lloyd International Honors College, Foust 205, by Friday, December 9, at 5:00 p.m. Students should plan for a ten-minute presentation, which corresponds to about five double-spaced pages. Students whose papers are accepted for the Symposium may be asked to revise them in accordance with reviewer comments.
Faculty can get involved by:
- Encouraging students with excellent work to submit a paper.
- Offering to serve as moderators at the Symposium.
- Attending the Symposium and encouraging students to attend as well.
The Honors Symposium Prize, sponsored by UNCG's Lloyd International Honors College, is awarded for outstanding papers submitted to the Symposium. In 2011, the prize, dedicated to the encouragement of high quality academic writing at UNCG, included monetary awards of $250, $150, and $100 in two categories: Arts & Humanities, and Sciences & Professional Schools.
For more information about the Symposium, students and faculty may contact Dr. Woell in Lloyd International Honors College at (336) 334-4734 or jwwoell@uncg.edu.
2010 Honors Symposium
On Friday, February 26, 34 undergraduates presented their research and creative work in a series of panels convening at 2:00, 3:00, and 4:00 in the EUC. Presentations covered such diverse areas as music, nursing, economics, classics, visual studies, and religious studies.
At 5:00 in the Maple Room, Michael Parker delivered the Symposium keynote address: "Everything You Hear Can and Will Be Used: A Brief Guide to Research for Fiction Writers." Mr. Parker teaches creative writing and literature in UNCG's English Department, and is the author of a number of novels and collections of short stories. His works include Hello Down There (1993), The Geographical Cure (1994), Virginia Lovers (2004), If You Want Me to Stay (2005), and Don't Make Me Stop Now (2007).
Click here to see the Symposium schedule (*PDF).
The Honors Symposium Prize, sponsored by the Honors College, is awarded for outstanding papers submitted to the Symposium. In 2010, this prize dedicated to the encouragement of high quality academic writing at UNCG included monetary awards of $250, $150, and $100 in two categories: the Arts & Humanities and the Social, Physical, and Applied Sciences.
2010 Symposium Prize winners
Arts & Humanities:First Prize, $250: Alexandra Creola, "Hero Burials: The Tourist Attraction of Ancient Greece"
Second Prize, $150: Gina Hurley, "At Face Value: Mark Twain, the Presentation of the Self, and Photographic Agency, 1871-1908"
Third Prize, $100: Laura Brown, "Locating Lee Smith's Oral History in Southern Literary Traditions"
Social, Physical, and Applied Sciences:
First Prize, $250: Tom Liles, "Stability and Security Problems in Ingushetia"
Second Prize, $150: Lee Weston Salisbury, "Hedge Funds: Structure, Function, Regulation, and Risk"
Third Price, $100: Carrie Stephens, "The Effect of Fluid Boluses on Body Temperatures in Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants"
2009 Honors Symposium
The 2009 Honors Symposium was held on Friday, February 13, and featured 30 paper presentations. The keynote speaker was Mr. Roger Newman, who teaches "Journalism, the Law, and Society" at Columbia University. 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 (2008).
Past Symposium Paper Prizes
2009
Social, Physical, and Applied Sciences:
First Prize ($300)
Robert Gove (Computer Science and Applied Mathematics)
"The Importance of Theoretical Research in Resource Allocation Strategies in Rockcress"
Second Prize ($150) Graham B. Slater (History and Social Studies Teaching Licensure)
"Punitive Pedagogy: The Assault on Democracy in Education"
Third Prize ($50) Andrea J. Schronce (Political Science & Economics)
"The 2008 Beijing Olympics: Liberal and Realist Analyses"
Arts and Humanities:
First Prize ($300) Erin Andrews (English and Women's and Gender Studies)
"Taking Another Look: Visual Communication and Critical Interpretation"
Second Prize ($150) Kaitlin Clinnin (Women's and Gender Studies and English)
"Beyond the Gaze: Eroticization and Identification with Lara Croft"
Third Prize ($50) Jayme Mallindine (Religious Studies and Psychology)
"The Absent Self: Buddhism and Issues of Authenticity within Second Life"
2008: Veronica Allen (Music Education) "The Villancico in New Spain"
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