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  • Skylar Hodson
    Skylar Hodson wins Russell-Mowery Perpetual Honors Scholarship

    Skylar Hodson, the recent winner of the most prestigious award of Phi Theta Kappa in Texas, the Dr. Mary Hood Award, has also become the fourth winner of the Russell-Mowery Perpetual Honors Scholarship. This annual $500 award goes to an honors student who has made significant contributions to Northeast Texas culture and life. Hodson has played a major role in the two of NTCC’s prize winning film efforts, and is the director of this year’s film on oil politics in Texas...

  • Alison
    Alison Majors becomes NTCC’s fourth, James and Elizabeth Whatley Scholar

    In her first year as an honors student at NTCC, Alison Majors was promoted to Presidential Scholar, and composed a major essay on minorities in Texas which she presented at the Mount Pleasant Public Library, the meeting of the Walter Webb Society in College Station, and the Great Plains Honors Council in Stillwater.  She is a recent winner, nationally, of the Leaders of Promise award conferred by Phi Theta Kappa, and Coca Cola...

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    Cypress Bank donates laptop for Honors student

    For the seventeenth-straight year in a row, Cypress Bank has presented a high-end laptop for the use of Northeast Texas Community College honors students.  This year’s Cypress Bank Scholar is Yahir Garcia...

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    Wade Kerley, Dr. Will McWhorter to speak at annual Northeast Texas Poetry Reading

    The annual Northeast Texas Poetry Reading on Friday, 6 September at 11 AM will again occur at the Foyer of the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts on the Northeast Texas Community College campus.  The public is invited for this free event, the seventeenth of its kind in as many years.  As before, the Reading will feature the six readings of the highest ranked poems of the adult and student divisions, and a presentation of winning Northeast Texas images. Two speakers also will share their perceptions of our region, Daingerfield Mayor Wade Kerley, and the NTCC Computer-Science Professor, Dr. Will McWhorter...

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    Honors Northeast receives $10,000 donation to support film projects

    The Northeast Texas Community College Foundation recently received a donation of $10,000 from the Stevenson family of Gilmer. These funds will help the Honors Northeast program continue its legacy of unique special projects, specifically their annual feature-length film. Pictured at the check presentation is (from left): Dr. Andrew Yox, NTCC Honors Director, Wlliam Stevenson, David A. Stevenson, David L. Stevenson, and Dr. Ron Clinton, NTCC President. David L. Stevenson was surprised when he learned that NTCC Honors students had produced an original film...

  • Mary Faith Wilson
    Mary-Faith Wilson wins 7th Gladys Winkle Humanities Scholarship in Honors

    The Gladys Winkle Family has empowered six NTCC honors students through the years with a special scholarship for excellence in the Humanities that comes in addition to an institutional honors scholarship.  This year’s winner is Mary-Faith Wilson, a star of the HuMusic Seminar last fall before she even entered honors, and this year, one of the top-tier Presidential Scholars of Honors Northeast.

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    Honors students and NTCC Webb Society pioneer new story on oil in Texas

    Francois Jarrige’s, and Thomas Le Roux’s, The Contamination of the Earth provides the best introduction to global toxification.  However, its argument--that a fragmentation of knowledge has enabled a dangerous re-chemicalization of the world--sidesteps the vainglorious glee that often attended the development of a petro-based society in both capitalism and politics.  A good example is Modern Texas.  Reliance on internal combustion engines initially did wonders in terms of cleaning up the dreck of Texas streets...

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    Annual Northeast Texas Poetry Contest planned

    Honors Northeast, the honors program of Northeast Texas Community College announces a call for poems and images that can accent or enliven our sense of the surroundings, people, the culture, and/or the history of Northeast Texas. Adult poetry winners will take home $100 and $50 for first and second place...

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    Honors students advance film research in Austin

    Vanessajane Bayna’s state Caldwell-Award winning essay on toxification and big oil in Texas may not only result in a publication.  The NTCC Presidential Scholar now awaiting her sophomore year may see her work one day as a cinematic premiere. This past May, four upcoming scholars of Honors Northeast...

 

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