Can the tiny fruit fly help us fight fat? How about using plastic
barrels, PVC pipe and sand to provide clean water for an African orphanage – no
electricity needed?
These and other
real-world research, service and creative efforts by Honors College students
are featured in A+, the new Honors
College magazine. The 36-page magazine
also includes:
- A feature article on up-and-coming opera singer
Sarah Mesko, who earned degrees in both voice and flute, summa cum laude, from the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and
Sciences in 2008. Just five years into her career, Mesko has sung with the
Washington National Opera and Santa Fe Opera, made her European debut and shared
the stage with Plácido Domingo.
Her success hinged on an important choice made right here on campus.
- An interview with Gary Brewer and Eric Silinsh,
architects with Robert A.M. Stern Architects of New York City, on the design of
the new addition to historic Ozark Hall that will be home to the Honors College
beginning next fall.
- A graphic showing the impact of a $25,000 course
development grant (think eight student research grants and a National Endowment
for the Humanities faculty grant, for starters) plus an overview of eight new
interdisciplinary courses that have received Honors College seed funding.
- Honors College Fellow Lucky McMahon’s vivid
account of her travels and research in Mexico, which focuses on Mexico City’s
first Christian church as a site of memory and myth.
- A pop quiz to test your wits, devised by honors
professors. It looks easy …
Distributed once a year in the fall, A+ is available in print and online at http://honorscollege.uark.edu/A+.