by Kendall Curlee | Feb 20, 2019 | Advice/Tips, Architectural Studies, Art History, College of Engineering, Computer Science Engineering, Fay Jones School of Architecture, Honors thesis, J.William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences
You’ve got your thesis topic, and you’ve found a faculty mentor. Now the real work begins – and the most critical component is not reading dusty tomes, running experiments in the lab or digging up the latest articles in Lexis Nexis. Your most important task is to...
by srkirby | Sep 14, 2018 | Architectural Studies, Fay Jones School of Architecture, Italy, Libby Finch Award, Study Abroad
January The lighting shifts from a natural white sunlight to an orange tint as I walk down the travertine stairs to the subway station on a brisk January morning. A small crowd is funneled through the turnstiles and down another stair deeper into the concrete tunnels....
by srkirby | Sep 11, 2018 | Architectural Studies, Fay Jones School of Architecture, Italy, Libby Finch Award, Study Abroad
January: Day 23/125 Ciao! The first week of the semester is always introduction week, so allow me to introduce myself. My name is Tamsan, I’m an architecture student who has decided to study in the city that architects and others have pilgrimed to for centuries: Rome....
by Kendall Curlee | Jun 11, 2018 | Architectural Studies, Art History, Fay Jones School of Architecture, Honors Passport/Pilgrimage
Architecture major Anna Ibru, from Lagos, Nigeria, visited Europe for the first time while participating in Honors Passport: Pilgrimage. Thanks to her training in Fay Jones School of Architecture, she proved to be among the most adept in reading subtle differences in...
by Nathan Smith | Aug 23, 2016 | Architectural Studies, Fay Jones School of Architecture, History, Honors Courses, Landscape Architecture
“What makes a class honors?” We get that question a lot. And the answer is … it depends. In an engineering course, “honors” may be your entrée to working with the molecular beam epitaxy machine, which allows you to grow nanostructures one atom at a time. In an honors...
by | Jul 5, 2013 | Architectural Studies, Careers, Conference, Fay Jones School of Architecture, History, J.William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, Research Travel
Honors architectural studies and history graduate Hannah Breshears recently presented research at the Environmental Design Research Association’s annual conference in Providence, Rhode Island. While there, she received valuable feedback from other participants...