Oxford Abroad Symposium

Our latest symposium featured 3 of our Honors students — Hannah Lammon, Jana de Kock, and Marcella Benner — who traveled abroad to Oxford to participate in the Oxford Study Abroad Program for a semester. The students covered everything from tutorials, interview strategies, application advice, Oxford athletics, to social/travel opportunities. Those who attend Oxford satisfy 3 of their 5 required Honors requirements and get to take advantage of the unique Oxford tutorial system. If you’re interested in applying, the deadline is March 5th for Fall 2021 and the application can be found at https://honorsprogram.submittable.com/submit/62407/oxford-study-abroad. If you want to read more about Oxford, see https://www.osapabroad.com/.

Coffee Conversation – How safe is our drinking water?

Dr. Kimberly Dobrinski led a Coffee Conversation discussing the safety of drinking water throughout the US. The students discussed a variety of topics, ranging from inequality in access to water to specific instances of water pollution concerns like those in Flint Michigan.

Animals in Literature and the Problem of Mass Extinction

By Drs. Cari Hovanec and Rachel Murray

On January 27th, Drs. Cari Hovanec and Rachel Murray presented a symposium on Animals in Literature and the Problem of Mass Extinction. Dr. Hovanec is a Professor of Instruction in English and Writing. She is the author of Animal Subjects (2018). Her research and teaching interests include literature and the environment and television studies. Her co-author Dr. Rachel Murray is a Fellow in English at Sheffield University, and the author of The Modernist Exoskeleton (2020). She is an expert on twentieth-century literature and animals in literature. The symposium concerned the ways in which Modernist writers have approached the concept of extinction and broached the question, “Why haven’t we learned?”