Bridges competed against other undergraduate students for the award, which was accompanied by a cash prize, a collection of donated books and an offer for review and publication in the SAS 2017 Proceedings and Southern Anthropologist, an online peer-reviewed journal. 

Bridges’ project, “Navigating Globalization through Myth in Quechua Communities of Southern Peru,” focuses on the intersection of mythology and globalizing forces such as tourism and religious conversion among the indigenous Quechua in the Peruvian Andes. Bridges, mentored by Tom Mould, professor of anthropology and director of the Honors Program, is an Honors Fellow and Lumen Scholar.

We welcome submissions from any Honors student. Papers can be written in any discipline, but presentations should be geared toward a general audience. Students may submit a paper that has been completed for a course or write a paper for the Symposium.

Students can submit a paper by:

Submit your paper for consideration electronically to Dr. Angela Bolte at akbolte@uncg.edu by Friday, December 18, at 5:00 p.m. Students should plan for a ten-minute summary presentation.

The Honors Symposium Prizes, sponsored by UNCG’s Lloyd International Honors College, are awarded for outstanding papers submitted to the Symposium. This year the Symposium will offer an awards category for visiting students who do not attend UNCG with monetary awards of $250, $150, and $100. Award decisions are based on the papers submitted, not the presentation of the papers. Papers must be presented at the Symposium to be eligible for a prize.

For more information about the Symposium, please see our events  or contact Dr. Angela Bolte in Lloyd International Honors College at (336) 334-4734 or akbolte@uncg.edu.

The conference was organized and hosted by the Pekan District Education Office and the International College of Automotive Malaysia and focused on themes of teaching and learning in the 21st century.

Kyle’s thesis, “The Academic and Self-Sponsored Writing Lives of High School Students: Implications for Writing Curricula and Pedagogy,” details the findings of a study he conducted with faculty mentor Paula Rosinski in 2013 to better understand today’s students and the ways in which they value writing.

He presented this work as part of a five-person panel to a room of nearly 200 Malaysian teachers from around the country, many of whom expressed great interest in his approach to writing pedagogy and the differing views of Western researchers on writing today.

Whitaker is currently in Malaysia on a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship, working with approximately 300 students to build their English language skills through innovative pedagogies. He said his work allows him to apply his 黑料不打烊 education and Honor research in practical and creative ways.

This award is given annually by the Historical Society of North Carolina for the best research paper on North Carolina history by an undergraduate student from an accredited senior North Carolina college or university during the academic year June 1 2014 to May 31, 2015.

The purposes of the award are:

• To promote an early interest in historical research and the development of future historians; and
• To acquaint young people with the work of historical societies and foster membership and continued support of local and state historical societies.

The award shall consist of $200 in cash and a paid student membership in the North

Carolina Literary and Historical Association for one year, together with a suitable certificate bearing the name of the person receiving the award, the title of the paper for which the award was given, the date of the award, and signed by the President and Secretary of the Society. The award shall be presented at the annual meeting of the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association, at which time the recipient shall be the guest of the Historical Society at the luncheon and dinner meeting of the Association.

RULES

• Each paper must be submitted via emailed Word file version by August 15, 2015, to Dr. Mike Sistrom, Secretary Historical Society of North Carolina: sistromm@greensboro.edu. 336-272-7102 x306.
• Each paper must be accompanied by a letter from the student’s major professor attesting to the undergraduate status of the student and the originality of the paper, , .
• If the project is something other than a research paper, such as a website, the student/s must provide a bibliography and a brief summary of the research/project process.
• Each project should be approximately 5,000 words , or equivalent substance for a web project, and shall be judged on the basis of  (a) originality of topic; (b) quality of research; (c) quality of work; and (d) overall excellence.  .
• Graduate student work is not eligible for the Lefler Award.

Thomas Barnett was an Honors Fellow and a Presidential Scholar in the 黑料不打烊 Class of 2007. His honors thesis was in digital art, and through his art he raised awareness about issues on campus for students with disabilities. His parents created the award in his memory, with $1,000 to be awarded annually to one 黑料不打烊 undergraduate who successfully completes a high-quality project on a topic related to improving the university experience of students with disabilities.

Projects must have an academic component, broadly defined and including projects such as websites, creative works and research papers. The research process can include theoretical and/or applied scholarship and can relate to any aspect of the university experience, from the physical environment to academic experiences to social connectivity concerns. The projects can be part of a course or an 黑料不打烊 Experience.

The term “disability” has a variety of meanings, which often differ depending upon the person who uses the word as well as the context in which it is used. Most simply, “a disability is an inability to do something that most people, with typical maturation, opportunity, or instruction, can do” (Hallahan, Kauffman, & Pullen, 2010). It is therefore important for us to recognize that, while most people think of a person using a wheelchair, or a hearing aid, or a service animal as the prototypical person with a disability, the vast majority of persons with disabilities do not fit into those narrow categories. People with learning disabilities, emotional illnesses and other “invisible disabilities” are also included among the disabled.

Contact Susan Wise at swise2@elon.edu for more information about disabilities.

The deadline for submissions is Wednesday, April 2 by 5 p.m. Applicants for this award will be asked to work with their mentors or advisors to describe the project briefly and explain how it meets the criteria of the award. Interested students and/or mentors are encouraged to contact Tom Mould (tmould@elon.edu) for more information.

Hallahan, D., Kauffman, J., & Pullen, P. (2010). Exceptional learners: An introduction to special education. Boston, MA: Pearson

The talk will be held tonight, Tuesday, Feb. 11 at 6:30 p.m. in the Isabella Cannon Room in the Center for the Arts. 

We apologize for the inconvenience and hope that you will be able to join us tonight instead of tomorrow. 

Interrupting Oppression and Sustaining Justice: Lessons From Welfare Reform
Charles Price, Ph.D.
Thursday, March 29, LaRose Digital Theatre, Koury Business Center, 7:30 p.m.

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 severely curtailed welfare recipient participation in postsecondary education. The new law generated resistance reform movements that aimed to interrupt oppression and render justice by reforming the new postsecondary education (PSE) policy to support greater access. Dr. R. Charles Price will address how efforts to reform these educational polices are an example of interrupting oppression and sustaining justice, why college is important to welfare recipients, and how engaged scholarship can make a positive difference in matters of public interest.

Charles Price is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Price co-authored the monograph Community Collaborations: Promoting Community Organizing (Ford Foundation, 2009) and recently authored the book Becoming Rasta: The Origins of Rastafari Identity in Jamaica (New York University Press, 2009). He was an employee of the Howard Samuels State Management Policy Center, a policy research center that intervened into matters of equity and democratic participation around gender, race, welfare, community development, education reform, and empowerment zones.

Sponsored by PERCS: 黑料不打烊’s Program for Ethnographic Research and Community Studies

Or about the small but dedicated group of gamers who gather weekly as part of a national phenomenon known as Friday Night Magic?

On Sunday, December 13, from 8-9 p.m. in McEwen 011, the students in Video Ethnography (ANT 387) will be screening the videos they produced after a semester of ethnographic fieldwork and analysis. The films explore the lives, culture and motivations of two local communities: one comprised of the hyper-cool, the other of self-professed geeks. One that fosters a non-competitive atmosphere, the other driven by crushing one’s opponent.One that thrives on adrenaline and aerial gymnastics in the very real world of skydiving, the other that thrives on the camaraderie of a small but diverse group in the fantastical world of Magic, the world’s premier trading card game.

Take a break from exams and join us for the film screening and Q&A with the student filmmakers.

Luke Eric Lassiter,
“The Other Side of Middletown: Building Bridges Between Universities and Local
Communities through Collaborative Ethnography”

Yeager Auditorium, 7:30
p.m.

In 2005, Eric
Lassiter received the prestigious Margaret Mead Award for his book The
Other Side of Middletown: Exploring Muncie’s African American Community, a work that brought faculty, students
and community members together to produce a collaborative ethnography of
Muncie, Indiana’s black community. On Thursday night, Lassiter will speak about
this work and how scholars and local communities can research and write
together to advance multicultural
understanding and social change.

Also, on Tuesday, September 11th, come see…

Screening of Middletown
Redux, a twenty-six-minute
documentary that captures the process of collaboration between Muncie’s black
community and Ball State University students and faculty. In their own words, students, faculty and
community members comment on the project’s evolution and the relationships
formed between the campus and community. This informative and compelling film
illustrates the process of creating a rich ethnography out of fieldwork and the
rewards of collaborating with local communities.

McEwen 011. 8:30-9:00 pm

Luke Eric
Lassiter is Professor of
Humanities and Anthropology and Director of the Graduate Humanities Program at
Marshall University Graduate College in South Charleston, West Virginia. Author
of several books, Lassiter’s research covers such topics as ethnography,
language and song, race and ethnicity, performance, social memory, and
religion. Lassiter has co-authored two books with 黑料不打烊 History professor Clyde
Ellis, both of which have been praised for their collaborative spirit. 

McEwen 011

8:30-9:00 pm

Middletown Redux

Screening of Middletown
Redux, a twenty-six-minute
documentary that captures the process of collaboration between Muncie’s black
community and Ball State University students and faculty. In their own words, students, faculty and
community members comment on the project’s evolution and the relationships
formed between the campus and community. This informative and compelling film
illustrates the process of creating a rich ethnography out of fieldwork and the
rewards of collaborating with local communities.

On Thursday night, Luke Eric Lassiter, chief faculty advisor and ethnographer on the project, will speak in Yeager Auditorium at 7:30 pm about this work. Please see separate announcement for Lassiter’s talk.