2013 Honors Road Trip, Destination: OKC

On Friday, September 27th, Drs. Benton, Latimore, Hada and 42 Honors students joined Dr. Edwards and 3 students from his classes in the Communication and Performance Studies program. Our destination: the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, the OKC National Memorial and Museum, La Luna Mexican Cafe, and the Myriad Gardens, where we watched the Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park performance of King Lear.

Coming Soon: ECU Honors Homecoming

Please make plans to attend the Honors Homecoming at 2 p.m. on Saturday, October 5^th in the Academic Engagement Center (Faust 159).  This year’s featured alumnus is 2008 Honors Program graduate Audrey Myers.

Audrey Myers

Audrey successfully defended her Honors undergraduate thesis ‘Thermodynamics of the Zinc-Oxygen-Hydrogen System” in the fall of 2007 and went on to graduate from East Central University with a Bachelors in Science in Chemistry in May of 2008. After graduating from East Central University, Audrey went on to enter in the Ph.D. program in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Oklahoma in the fall of 2008. She was awarded a Masters of Sciences in Chemistry in May 2011 after completing her coursework and passing her General Exam in May 2010. Her first advisor left the University of Oklahoma in May of 2012, but she was still able to wrap up her project from his lab and co-author a paper which she hopes will soon be published. In November of 2012 she gave a guest lecture over that project for the Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program at ECU titled “Colorful Chemistry: Iron Coordination Complexes.” In the summer of 2012, Audrey started work in a new lab with a new advisor which she hopes to finish in the spring or summer when she will defend her dissertation. While at OU, Audrey was a teaching assistant in several undergraduate chemistry labs, including General Chemistry, Quantitative Analysis, and Instrumental Methods of Chemical Analysis. In the spring of 2011, Audrey received Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from the University of Oklahoma Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.

2013 Constitution Day Lecture and Honors Reception

On Tuesday, September 17th Honors students gathered to attend the annual Constitution Day Rothbaum Lecture at 7 p.m. in the Ataloa Theatre. This year's lecture over "The Future of the Second Amendent" was given by University of North Texas' associate professor of political science Dr. Paul Collins. Following the lecture, Honors students were invited to attend a private reception with Dr. Collins to mingle and discuss the lecture and the Second Amendment in the Pogue Art Gallery .

We've Visited the Burkean Parlor

We have picnicked!

We've Exercised Our Creative Intelligence