by srkirby | Apr 11, 2019 | Advice/Tips, Honors thesis
It’s an interesting phrase: defending one’s thesis. It brings up images of medieval soldiers standing their ground, swords drawn and shields raised, images of concrete walls and barbed wire. Images of Alabama linebackers in streaky eye black. But it doesn’t have...
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 | Nov 16, 2018 | Advice/Tips, Conference, Honors thesis, J.William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, Psychology, Research, Research Travel
Honors psychology major Bailey Mathis recently presented a poster on her honors thesis research at the National Conference for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology in Kansas City, Missouri. She encourages all students to attend a conference in...
by srkirby | Apr 26, 2018 | Art, Honors thesis, J.William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, Research, Research Travel
Senior studio art major and aspiring printmaker Olivia Fredricks recently received an Honors College Conference/Workshop Travel Grant to attend the Southern Graphics Council International conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. At the conference she showcased her honors...
by srkirby | Feb 21, 2018 | 5 Questions, Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food, and Life Sciences, Honors thesis
Recent honors graduate Emily Benjumea is a planner. She started her honors thesis three semesters in advance, but due to several necessary readjustments in her research she still wound up scrambling to the finish line. It turned out all right in the end, but her story...
by srkirby | Feb 1, 2018 | Accounting, Finance, Honors thesis, India, Research, Research Travel, Sam M. Walton College of Business
Senior honors student Grayson Greer conducted some top-level research on the Indian food market through interviews with top-level executives — he gained access to the corner offices of CEOs and managing directors simply by having the audacity to ask. His hard...
