Honors Program

Tuesday, August 9, 2016

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced today that Westminster College and Dr. Bethany Hicok, professor of English and director of the honors program, received a $105,400 grant to lead a three-week summer seminar for college and university professors on “Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive.”

Monday, May 23, 2016

A Westminster College class of 2016 graduate, Kelly Higby, has been selected to present her undergraduate honors research at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. this July. 

Thursday, May 19, 2016

Recent graduate, Brenna Guard, neuroscience major and member of the honors program, received honorable mention for her poster presentation, "The Role of Acetylcholine in Expression in a Rat Model of Addiction” at a regional neuroscience symposium.

Thursday, April 28, 2016

Dr. Bethany Hicok, Westminster College professor of English, traveled 6,000 miles to and throughout Brazil to write her latest book, Elizabeth Bishop’s Brazil, which was published last week by the University of Virginia Press.

Thursday, April 7, 2016

This month, five Westminster College honors students presented their research at the Northeast Regional Honors Conference in Cambridge, Mass. from March 31-April 3.

Monday, March 21, 2016

Over the weekend, Westminster College honors students visited the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, exploring the special exhibition, Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs.