Honors Symposium Schedule
Monday, March 22, 2010
Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy
8:00-8:30 a.m. Breakfast
U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander hosts breakfast in the Baker Center’s Rotunda.
8:30-9:00 a.m. “Research and the Public Good”
U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander speaks in the Baker Center’s Toyota Auditorium.
9:05-9:55 a.m. Student Presentations and Research Q&A
Classroom 204-205:
Ellen Epley, senior in College Scholars — Art and Anthropology
Britta Johnson, sophomore in College Scholars — Chemistry
Todd Skelton, senior in College Scholars — Business
Classroom 207-208:
Jaclyn Barnhart, junior in Global Studies
Craig Bleakney, senior in College Scholars — Public Health
Allison Thigpen, senior in College Scholars — Health Policy
Conference Room:
Mark Walker, sophomore in Nuclear Engineering, speaks on how he got involved with research in his field, followed by a question-and-answer session. This session is geared for freshman and sophomore students interested in doing research in the sciences.
10:10-11:00 a.m. “The University in Crisis”
Interim UT President Jan Simek leads a discussion in the Baker Center’s Toyota Auditorium. The discussion addresses issues such as the inevitable additional budget reductions approaching in 2011 and offers critical analysis of the situation of public higher education in the U.S. and in Tennessee but also positive thinking about the future of the UT even in such challenging times. Student participants include Jenny Bledsoe, former editor-in-chief and current opinions editor of The Daily Beacon; Anne Buckle, member of the Provost’s and Dean of Arts and Sciences’ Student Advisory Councils; Todd Skelton, SGA commuter senator and editor-in-chief of Pursuit, UT’s new Undergraduate Research Journal.
11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Lunch
A light lunch will be provided in the Baker Center’s rotunda.
12:20-1:10 p.m. “Late Lessons of a Scholarship Boy”
Richard Rodriguez, noted writer and journalist, delivers the keynote speech in the Baker Center’s Toyota Auditorium. In his first book, “Hunger of Memory,” Rodriguez wrote about the painful but necessary experience of assimilation and of his difficult Americanization in the classroom, as a Hispanic “scholarship boy” at Stanford University.
1:10-1:25 p.m. Book Signing
Three of Richard Rodriguez’s books will be available for purchase: Brown: The Last Discovery of America, Days of Obligation, and Hunger of Memory, on which Mr. Rodriguez’s speech is based.
1:25-2:15 p.m. Student Presentations and Research Q&A
Classroom 204-205:
Kathryn Dabbs, senior in Mathematics
Shande King, senior in Mathematics
Chelsea Plaut, junior in Mathematics
Classroom 207-208:
Camille Crumpton, sophomore in Economics and Accounting
Catie Karczmarczyk, senior in Political Science
Lindsay Merriman, senior in College Scholars —War and Global Health
Conference Room:
Jenny Bledsoe, junior in Religious Studies and English Literature, speaks on how she got involved with research in her field, followed by a question-and-answer session. This session is geared for freshman and sophomore students interested in doing research in the humanities.
2:30-3:20 p.m. Student Presentations and Research Q&A
Classroom 204-205:
Rachel Grubb, senior in College Scholars — Music
Samantha Senn, senior in Theater
Classroom 207-208:
Laura Grese, senior in Exercise Science
Kevin Kuo, senior in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Jenna McKinnie, senior in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Conference Room:
Catie Karczmarczyk, senior in Political Science, speaks on how she got involved with research in her field, followed by a question-and-answer session. This session is geared for freshman and sophomore students interested in doing research in the social sciences.
3:35-4:25 p.m. Student Presentations
Classroom 204-205:
Michael Jungwirth, senior in College Scholars — Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Jonathan Lockhart, senior in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Chemistry
Jeff Malik, senior in Geography