Honors Symposium
Call for Submissions: Outstanding Student Papers
2010 Undergraduate Honors Symposium
Friday, February 26, 2010, Elliott University Center: 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 2010 Symposium will feature 36 student paper presentations. Presentations are followed by a keynote speaker and reception.
We welcome submissions from any UNCG undergraduate student. Papers can be written in any discipline, though the presentation must be geared toward a general audience. Students may submit a paper that has been completed for a course or write a paper especially for the Symposium.
Students can submit a paper by:
Sending it for consideration both electronically and in hard copy to Dr. Stacey Peebles in Lloyd International Honors College, Foust 205, by Friday, December 11, 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 respondents 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 2009, the prize, dedicated to the encouragement of high quality academic writing at UNCG, included monetary awards of $300, $150, and $50 in two categories: Arts & Humanities, and Sciences & Professional Schools. For more information about the Symposium, students and faculty may contact Dr. Stacey Peebles in Lloyd International Honors College at (336) 334-4734 or slpeeble@uncg.edu.
2009 Honors Symposium
The 2009 Honors Symposium was held Friday, February 13, 2009, 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).
The Honors Symposium Prize, sponsored by UNCG's Lloyd International Honors College, is awarded for outstanding papers submitted to the Symposium. In 2009, the prize, dedicated to the encouragement of high quality academic writing at UNCG, included monetary awards of $300, $150, and $50 in two categories: Arts & Humanities, and Sciences & Professional Schools.
Past 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"