The Great Plains Honors Council, an association of eighty honors colleges and programs from Nebraska to Texas, hosted a poster contest featuring four different areas of scholarly research at its annual meeting.
Honors Northeast (the honors program at Northeast Texas Community College) scholars Kayleah Cumpian, Tyler Reynolds and Elyse Coleman took three of the four prizes, with an honors student from Western Missouri University, Kelly Cochran, winning the fourth award.
Cumpian?s poster dealt with her research last summer for an REU internship at Texas A&M University-Commerce. Her work explored the therapeutic potential of an Analog Methanobactin Peptide. Reynolds? poster, based on his work in the fall NTCC humanities-music honors seminar, analyzed the United States War in Iraq as an instance of ?false nobility.? †Coleman, a member of Psi Beta at NTCC, showed how the mental asylum became a laboratory for the development of psychiatry.
?We have so many people to thank for the scholarly readiness of our honors students?McGraw Hill?s sponsorship of our yearly contests, the Friends of Honors Northeast who judge our yearly contests and support our students financially as they present work in other cities, our NTCC administration, and some extremely dedicated, mentoring professors," Dr. Andrew Yox,†NTCC Honors Director, said.
All three winning NTCC scholars presented work recently at the National Collegiate Honors Council meeting in Denver, and for a Friends of Honors Northeast luncheon in NTCC?s boardroom† All three also will be among the 20 NTCC scholars of the honors program competing in the upcoming McGraw Hill Poster Contest April 24 at 9:30 a.m. in the Whatley Foyer.† The public is welcome to attend this event, and admission is free.
For questions about Honors Northeast or the upcoming poster contest, contact Honors Director, Dr. Andrew Yox at†ayox@ntcc.edu.
