On January 27th, Dan Walden, Associate Professor of English at Baylor University, gave a fascinating presentation to Honors Program students on pirates! The timing was perfect as Gasparilla festivities were beginning that night and the main Gasparilla event was the next day. Dan noted that the life of pirates not anything like the modern depictionsContinue reading “Honors Symposium – Dan Walden”
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Honors Symposia – Heather Masonjones and Emily Rose
Dr. Heather Masonjones and Dr. Emily Rose launched the Spring 2017 Honors Program Symposium series with a fascinating presentation on their work on seahorses in the Bahamas. Their work has been focused on a pond called Sweetings on the Bahamian island of Eleuthera, where the density of seahorses is far above that found in theContinue reading “Honors Symposia – Heather Masonjones and Emily Rose”
Honors Symposia – Carly Hilinski-Rosick
On November 30th, Dr. Carly Hilinski-Rosick, Assistant Professor of Criminology at The University of Tampa, spoke to a packed room of Honors Program students about revenge porn. One of her research interests is victimization, and revenge porn is an increasingly common form of victimization. She presented some of the results of her recent survey of UTContinue reading “Honors Symposia – Carly Hilinski-Rosick”