Eliza Starr Talks Boeing at First Honors ELLC Alumni Series

This is a guest post by Sarah Dinning ’20. On September 14th, the Honors Entrepreneurship Living Learning Community students gathered to hear Eliza Starr as the inaugural speaker of the Honors ELLC’s “Alumni Speaker Series.” Starr, who was a member of the first Honors ELLC class last year, talked about her internship at Boeing and […]

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Honors Education Major Gives New Life to Old School Supplies

  For nearly as long as she can remember, CofC Honors junior Kathryn Templeton has wanted to be a teacher. She loves working with children, and admits she could spend hours on Pinterest clicking through endless examples of lesson plans aimed at getting kids excited about learning. Even before her freshman year as an education […]

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Honors ICAT Students Network in Silicon Valley

For students at the College, the acronym ICAT equals opportunity. Based in the School of Business, the Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Technology (ICAT) is a progressive initiative that offers students an opportunity to engage in technology entrepreneurship in meaningful ways. One of those ways is ICAT Academy, an eight-to-ten-day session in which students travel to different […]

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Alum Has Birds-Eye View on Rio Olympics

Brad Burns ’03 has his eye on the Olympics. More accurately: As the technical lead overseeing the four high-resolution imaging systems – each with 13 cameras – that are monitoring the Rio games from the sky, Burns has 52 “eyes” on the Olympics. From balloons anchored 200 meters above the ground, the Simera camera systems are providing an unprecedented level […]

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Reforming Public Education Top Priority for Alumni

Reforming Public Education Top Priority for Alumni

Sara DeWolf ’02 and Nicholas Boatwright ’11, Honors College alumni and advocates for equity in public education, will both attend master’s programs at Harvard Graduate School of Education this fall. While both have experience teaching in schools, they aspire to work behind the scenes to improve public education for all students. DeWolf, a current member of […]

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Meet Gumbo Taylor: Rock Geek, Fashionista and Entrepreneur

Meet Gumbo Taylor: Rock Geek, Fashionista and Entrepreneur

She’s fond of bad jokes, doesn’t mind getting dirty on a daily basis and goes by the name Gumbo. Yes, Montgomery “Gumbo” Taylor ’14 is one of a kind, especially when you consider she’s among the few geologists to attempt to break into the world of fashion. Two years ago Taylor started the accessory line GARB (Geologic Attention to Rock […]

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How One Honors Student is Voicing the Weather for NPR Berlin

“My name is Stephanie Selker and I’m a rising sophomore in the Honors College with a double major in Political Science and German. This summer, I’m interning for 10 weeks at National Public Radio in Washington, D.C. with NPR Berlin and NPR Worldwide. I’m about halfway through my internship and so far, it’s going really […]

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Just What the Doctor Ordered

He doesn’t wear a cape. He doesn’t have a superpower. He doesn’t have some kind of time machine or crystal ball. What James Hodge ’89 does have, however, is the capacity to help save and improve millions of lives around the globe. As a public health lawyer and a national expert on emergency legal preparedness […]

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Changing His State of Mind

Last May, Zach Sturman stepped off a plane and into an Eastern European city rife with palpable political tension. Just a little earlier that month, the three Baltic members of NATO – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – had asked the organization to send them each thousands of ground troops to prevent further hostility from Russia. This […]

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