What’s In an Umbrella?
Beck Williams, an honors political science major who participated in the January 2020 Honors Passport study abroad intersession course to Peru, found himself in an unexpected dilemma when the class took him to the top of a hill on the island of Taquile in Lake...
Exploring the Extreme on Pilgrimage
After a few relatively sleepy centuries, the number of pilgrims following the Camino de Santiago has exploded, from 2,905 in 1987 to more than 300,000 in 2017. Today, hundreds of thousands of Christian pilgrims have embraced this medieval ritual, trekking and biking...
When It Rains, It Pours
Sometimes all it takes is a little adversity to facilitate a change in perspective. For freshman political science major William Motazedi, a hike through the pouring rain served as a turning point, transforming our Honors Passport: Pilgrimage trip from an incredible...
Where One Journey Ends, A New One Begins
Sophomore economics and international relations major Tenley Getschman muses over the differences between our Honors Passport experience of the Camino and that of the pilgrims who actually walked or biked the hundreds of miles to reach Santiago de...
I Am Raymond, Seventh of My Name
Freshman cultural anthropology major Curtis Worley bonded with the memory of the Count of Toulouse during Honors Passport: Pilgrimage. Here, he takes on the role of Raymond VII, son of the "heretical" count targeted by the French Crown in the Crusade against the...
A Heretic’s Life
At first, freshman chemistry major Jacob Purifoy worried about connecting with the liberal arts-minded students and historical sites during our Honors Passport: Pilgrimage trip, but he quickly discovered his own passion for history and the beauty of sharing...
A Tale of Nostalgia and Love
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...
Tagging History
It seems nothing is sacred: On the Honors Passport Pilgrimage trip honors history/anthropology major Elizabeth Cooper found graffiti carved into stately Romanesque cathedrals and the Roman arena at Arles. Instead of viewing these initials, names and dates as scars on...
Close Encounters on the Camino
Maddie Whipple, an honors history major/Spanish minor, imagines an encounter between pilgrims, both corporeal and spectral, at St. Sernin, a major pilgrimage church that she researched and presented to the Honors Passport: Pilgrimage class. May 21, 1240. Toulouse, the...
Women in Charge, A Medieval Murder Mystery & Namedropping (11th-Century Style)
Dani Carson, an honors biology major with minors in English and Medieval and Renaissance studies, participated in her second Honors Passport course and was awarded a particularly juicy topic to research and present to the classmates who joined her on the Camino de...
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A First (Or Second) for Everything at the Next Gen(eration) Humanities Conference
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Expanding Student Voting Access
Alexa Roldan is an honors student majoring in political science on a pre-law track from Bentonville, Arkansas. Last month, she presented her research at the Next Gen(eration) Humanities Conference hosted at the Arkansas State Capitol. Digestible, easy-to-navigate and...
STEM at the State Capitol
Colten Nicholas is an honors student majoring in crop science and biochemistry from Van Buren, Arkansas. This semester, Colten presented his research on transgenic rice species at the State Capitol Building in Little Rock. On February 14, I had the opportunity...