TCU Hosts Honors International Faculty Institute
June 2017
The Honors International Faculty Institute (HIFI) convened in May for a three-day intensive workshop sponsored by the John V. Roach Honors College, the National Collegiate Honors Council, and the European Honors Council. Twenty-one Honors faculty members from the United States and the Netherlands gathered at TCU to share knowledge about Honors education and to brainstorm […]
Read MoreFemale Equality in Stem Fields
June 2017
Themes of lauded film Hidden Figures linger as conversations about gender bias continue, especially in STEM fields. by Makenzie Stallo. Reprinted from TCU Magazine. Sitting in the middle of a Midwest college classroom with books on the desk and pencils sharpened, Diane Snow was unprepared for what happened next on the first day of her introductory […]
Read MoreHonors Student Wins Investigative Reporters & Editors Award
June 2017
Honors student Elizabeth Campbell is among 31 Carnegie-Knight News21 fellows to win an Investigative Reporters & Editors Award in the category “Study Reporting Large.” Campbell and her team won for Voting Wars, a project that documented voter disenfranchisement leading into the 2016 U.S. election. In a nationwide investigation, the student reporters revealed “erosions in voter rights and […]
Read MoreHonors Faculty Fellow Receives the 2017 Gerald E. and Corinne L. Parsons Award
June 2017
The John V. Roach Honors College is pleased to report that Dr. Peter Szok, professor in the Department of History and Honors Faculty Fellow, received the 2017 Gerald E. and Corinne L. Parsons Award from the American Folklife Center at the US Library of Congress. The Parsons Award, founded by AFC reference librarian Gerry Parsons […]
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