Sapere aude
The UT Honors Program celebrated Halloween with a fun-filled movie night! Students got into the Halloween spirit by painting pumpkins, putting together goodie bags filled with candy and treats, and enjoying plenty of snacks. To end the night, everyone settled in to watch Hubie Halloween and enjoy a relaxing evening with friends. It was a great opportunity to get creative, spend time together, and celebrate the Halloween season!
Stronger together! 💕 UTampa Honors students volunteered alongside President’s Leadership Fellows and registered student organization members at the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk! Students brought the energy, cheering on courageous survivors and thrivers while fostering a supportive community.
On October 24, I had the chance to attend the Florida Foreign Language Association Conference in Daytona Beach to present a study that I worked on with Dr. DeMil over the past year. The study was about third language acquisition and asked whether learners rely more on their first or second language when learning a third. It also looked at the aspects of language that learners paid attention to in conversation-based lessons. Through funding from the Honors Program and the Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry, I was able to get my trip fully funded so I could attend this conference and present alongside Dr. DeMil.
The experience was incredible and from the preliminary stages of gathering research articles for Dr. DeMil to talking about findings at a research conference, I feel that I’m prepared to start my own thesis research, now knowing what the process entails and how rewarding the outcomes will be.
Thank you, Dr. Tillman, Dr. Rukholm, and the staff at the Office of Undergraduate Research! This wouldn’t be possible without you. I especially thank Dr. DeMil for taking me under his wing this past year in this research study.
Drew Barnes