2013 Honors Homecoming

On Saturday, October 5th, 31 Honors students gathered after the ECU Homecoming Parade to listen to featured Honors Alumnus Audrey Myers and newly elected Honors Alumni Board President Kristen Bishop speak about their experiences in Honors and their journeys and accomplishments since graduating from ECU's program.

Homecoming Parade 2013

On Saturday, October 5th, members of HSA rallied together despite the rain to represent the Honors Student Association and support HSA Queen Candidate Emily Davis in the annual ECU Homecoming Parade.

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

We have lunched!

And we'll do it again tomorrow.  Thanks to all who turned out and turned in first-round ballots for House names.  If we haven't seen you yet, we hope to see you Tuesday in the cafeteria!

We have been convoked!

Dr. Mark Hollingsworth plays "Auld Lang Syne"

The 8th Annual Honors Convocation was held on

Thursday, August 22nd at 4 p.m.

Ataloa Theatre, Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center.

Here's what the program looked like:

Welcome
Dr. Steve Benton, Director, Scholastic Honors Program
Dr. John Hargrave, President, East Central University

The Honors Experience
I. 2012-2013 Honors Teacher of the Year:
Dr. Jennifer McMahon, Professor, English and Languages

II. Undergraduate Research and Engagement
Ashley Huhman, Mathematics
Macy McDonald, English

Convocation Address:
Dr. Mark Hollingsworth, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Presidential Charge:
John Dale, President, Honors Student Association

If you were there, we're eager to hear what you found inspiring!

We Have Been Oriented!

2013 Honors Orientation

Who can put names with the faces in the order that the appear in this video?

The 2013 SummerRead Questions Have Been Posted!

Will you be a first- or second-year Honors students at ECU in the fall of 2013? Have you been waiting for news about when the questions would be posted online about the SummerRead assignment? If so, the moment you've been waiting has come. If you're a first-year student click here for your official welcome to our brand new website: "ecu eq" (www.ecueq.blogspot.com). If you're a second-year student, click here for a refresher on the SummerRead "rules of enagement."  Let the commentary begin!

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Environmentally Protected

Joshua Smith, Cody Soden, Laura Blanco-Berdugo, and Dr. Dane Scott Posing in all their glory.

Congratulations to Honors students Josh Smith and Cody Soden who will be headed to Washington D.C. later this month to make a presentation on a grant they received from the Environmental Protection Agency. This was the only grant of its kind awarded in the state!

Their particular study focused on solar cells. These cell devices convert solar energy into electricity. But they aren't being used used in our everyday lives due to their high cost, availabilty of material, stability, and their overall efficiency.

Way to go guys!