Honors College Spotlight

"Paris" Film Review: "Inflated Hopes"
[10/5/2009]
Director Cedric Klapisch's new film, "Paris," begins with young girls looking out over the City of Light and asking their mother, "Where is the universe?" She responds, "Everywhere." But for the city dwellers in this film, Paris is everywhere.
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"In Their Words"
[8/18/2009]
"Baylor Life" takes you into the lives of Baylor students. Featured students Preston Yancey, Dan Marchini, and Jennifer Atwood are proud members of the Honnors College. Each podcast will give you the opportunity to listen in as students tell their stories from inside and outside of the classroom.
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How Public Art Connects Us
[7/15/2009]
That we Americans are hearty individualists is so widely acknowledged as scarcely to be the stuff of headlines. Much more worthy of the occasional headline is that there's a downside to this, one that manifests itself in many different ways. (Dr. David Smith teaches in the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core, is a senior lecturer in history and author of "Money for Art: The Tangled Web of Art and Politics in American Democracy")
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News 8 Austin: Honors & Engineering Attract Young Minds
[6/19/2009]
Giving high-performing students the opportunity to experience both science, mathematics, and great texts as part of exposure to a well rounded education
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People Make the Difference
[6/19/2009]
While our history and mission are significant characteristics of Baylor's uniqueness, the number one component for me is the people who have made a difference in my life and the lives of many others.
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Prescription: Plato
[5/22/2009]
Reading Plato's Republic doesn't have obvious benefits for an aspiring physician. But while it lacks in practical tips for diagnosing appendicitis and starting an IV, the text is the perfect prescription for challenging a student's logic and reasoning skills. Read how Nathan Grohmann (Univ. Sch. '09) combined the Classics, service and a scholarship into a potion for pre-medical sucess.
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Three Honors College Students Selected for Fulbright Scholarships
[5/5/2009]
Of the five Baylor students selected for the prestigious Fulbright Scholarships this year, three are Honors College students.
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An Honorable Pursuit
[3/16/2009]
As Baylor's Honors Program celebrates 50 years of scholarship, the University is seeing the fruits of 1,400 current undergraduates following "an honorable pursuit."
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Baylor Named a 'Best Value'
[3/16/2009]
Finance magazine ranks Baylor among nations' best for academic quality and affordability.
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Why Teach Interdisciplinary Curriculum?
[2/17/2009]
An integrated curriculum matters for at least three reasons: 1) It makes us more fully human, 2) it creates true--not false--professionals, and 3) it provides us with a path to our faith.
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