HONORS EXPERIENCE PROGRAM'S HANNAH "GRACE" HOPKE PUBLISHED IN THE MACKSEY JOURNAL
September 2020
HEP student Hannah “Grace” Hopke's paper, “Communist Deus Ex Machinas: The Brechtian Epic and Its Influence Today” has been published in The Macksey Journal, which includes the works from The Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium. Grace originally presented her paper at the inaugural Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium held virtually on May 1, 2020.
HONORS EXPERIENCE PROGRAM'S TRYSTAN LOUSTAU FEATURED AS FSU STUDENT STAR
July 6, 2020
[FSU News] Trystan Loustau was featured as an FSU Student Star in the Florida State University News on July 6, 2020 for her many achievements thus far at FSU. Her most recent accomplishment is a paper, “Back to Child, Back to Husband: Containing Transgressive Mothers in Into the Woods,” which focuses on the representation of motherhood in the musical, which will be published in the journal Studies in Musical Theatre.
Honors Experience Program Student Research Featured in New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Blog Posts
May 29, 2020
Fourteen FSU Honors Experience Program (HEP) students, under the guidance of HEP faculty member, Dr. Arianne Johnson Quinn, and Dr. Doug Reside, curator of the Billy Rose Theatre Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, participated in a collaborative research project on three largely unknown musical theatre works from American history.
"The goals for this project were simple: to support undergraduate student research and allow them to develop the necessary skills to perform independent original research on musical theatre using digital archival sources, and to work collaboratively as they begin taking steps towards publication and further research." -Dr. Arianne Johnson Quinn, FSU Honors Experience Program
HONORS IN THE MAJOR THESIS WORK
Faculty-Student Mentorship Profiles
Each year, upper division students from disciplines across campus participate in an undergraduate thesis project. It provides the student an opportunity to look deeper into an area of interest and work with faculty members, who assist with direction and guidance throughout the process.
Read more about the experiences of students and faculty who participated in the Honors in the Major (HITM) thesis program HERE.
[Featured Student: Serena Bradshaw, African-American Studies]
RECORD NUMBER OF HONORS GRADUATES!
May 7, 2020
The FSU Honors Spring Class of 2020 was featured in the FSU News on May 7, 2020. This semester, FSU awarded a record number of Honors Medallions to the Spring 2020 Graduates!
"Florida State University awarded honors medallions to 383 high-achieving graduates — the university’s largest class to date — during a virtual ceremony on Thursday, April 30."
Read the article in its entirety HERE.
[Photo credit: Andrew Myers, FSU Undergraduate Studies]
2020 FLORIDA COLLEGIATE HONORS COUNCIL ANNUAL CONFERENCE - AWARD WINNERS
February 9, 2020
Congratulations to Allison Laudadio, Atilla Sulker, Roland Spillman and Elizabeth Steidley for their awards in fiction/poetry and freshman writing at the the 2020 Florida Collegiate Honors Council's (FCHC) Annual Conference, which took place during the weekend of February 7-9, 2020 at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida!
Read more about the conference and the attendees.