Honors in the News

The Honors Passion Project is a series of virtual lunchtime discussions with Honors alumni and friends about their passions, pastimes, or pursuits beyond work and academics. The second event in the series took place on Wednesday, October 14, with Honors a...

2020 Honors Outstanding Professor, Dr. Seth Archer (History), delivered the 45th Annual Honors Last Lecture, entitled "After the Vaccine: The United States Discovers Public Health," on October 21 at 3:30 p.m.

The Honors Passion Project is a series of virtual lunchtime discussions with Honors alumni and friends about their passions, pastimes, or pursuits beyond work and academics. The series began on Tuesday, September 8, with Honors alumnus Grant Holyoak’s pre...

Honors-Engaged Faculty and Students Help Analyze Campus Wastewater for Signs of Coronavirus: Researchers are monitoring COVID-19 infection trends at Utah State University by analyzing sewage samples taken from on-campus student housing facilities. This me...

Dr. Matthew Wappett is a researcher, a writer, and an educator in leadership, stress management, and inclusion. His approach to “compassionate leadership” has been implemented in many organizations and classrooms and is informed by his background in Disab...

Learn about Dr. Breanne Litts, an Honors faculty member, who received the NSF Career Award.

Read about the USU Student Group who recently won the Association of State Dam Safety Official’s first student dam model competition.

Read about the Utah State University Speech and Debate team's 2020 tournament, where USU Honors student Naomi Ward took fifth place in Persuasive Speaking.

USU Today highlights that Kristine Miller, director of the Utah State University Honors Program, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the National Collegiate Honors Council.

Cedric Mannie, an Honors Student studying Computer Engineering, is collaborating with students at the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services to conduct research on improving life for Native Americans living on reservations.

USU Honors Program Alumni Julie Robinson, NASA'a chief scientist for the International Space Station, shares her work and what led her to NASA.

USU Honors students and nutrition and food sciences professor Denise Stewardson are studying food choice awareness by surveying students about plant-based meat substitutes. Check out their event November 15!

Departmental Honors Advisor and Environmental Sciences faculty Dr. Zachary Miller recently published research on human-wildlife conflict and communication in "Human Dimensions of Wildlife."

Honors alumna Dr. Katie Brown, who is participating in this year's Honors Alumni Mentoring Program, is featured on Utah State Today's "Women of USU: Then and Now" series. She is an assistant professor of nutrition, dietetics, and food sciences.

Utah Public Radio (UPR) interviewed Dr. Jen Peeples on her focus for the 44th annual Honors Last Lecture. Peeples spoke on perceptions and visual representation of toxicity in our environment.

New Honors Think Tank instructors Dr. Seth Archer and Dr. Guadalupe Marquez-Velarde

USU Honors student and undergraduate researcher Christian Lange is studying how to create the blackest surface possible to measure light accurately.

Dr. Julia Gossard, who teaches an Honors breath course and serves as the History Department's Honors advisor, has been named the inaugural Bennion Faculty Fellow by the Mountain West Center for Regional Studies.

Dr. Charlie Huenemann, departmental honors advisor (DHA) for philosophy, was recently interviewed by BBC4 radio on the true self. He was described as "Gandalf with Glasses," with equal wit and wisdom.

USU Biology professor and departmental honors advisor Dr. Kim Sullivan studies the collision course between windows and birds.

Honors students Bryce Frederickson and Ethan Hammer won the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship for undergraduates in STEM.

"The Honors Program assisted me while at Utah State in getting more out of my courses and helped me deepen my experiences."

"Something about being an honors student makes me feel less lost in the sea of students at Utah State University, and more like I belong."

"Being in Honors put me with other driven people and gave me the opportunity for additional mentoring. It enabled me to create a portfolio piece with my own parameters that I later used to launch my career in a Fortune 500 company."

Learn about the group of Honors students who won the 26th Annual Creative Writing and Art Contest.

Honors student and faculty participated in a community event for the Latinx Creative Society, highlighting creative academic work by USU students involved with the Latinx Creative Society.

The Honors Think Tanks bring professors and students together across disciplines to study a shared topic from different perspectives.

USU English professor Dr. Brian McCuskey delivers the 42nd Annual Last Lecture, "Alice Vs. Sherlock."

2016-17 Honors Student Achievements. National Fellowships/Scholarships/Awards

On Friday, March 17, 2017, the University Honors Program offered students the unique opportunity to have lunch and conversation with National Public Radio’s Dr. Zorba Paster, who was on campus visiting Utah Public Radio.

Dr. Cathy Bullock Delivers 41st Annual Honors Last Lecture “Rock the Vote: Putting the Communication Revolution to Work”

Here students can learn more about Book Labs, how they came to be, how they have evolved, and how they can get involved.

HONORS EXPERIENCES: Honors Connections introduces students to author Steven Johnson

2016 Honors Student Achievements. National Fellowships/Scholarships/Awards list.

Read about USU Wildland Resources professor Dr. Fee Busby, who delivered the 40th Annual Last Lecture, "Make a Difference: It's Our Only Hope."

Students in the honors humanities Think Tank course, which focuses on local issues of food, water, and agricultural sustainability, selected and researched art focused on this topic.

Read about USU Honors alum Sydney Chamberlin, one of the participants in the LIGO Scientific Collaboration.

Read more about Madelyn Fife, a USU Honors Student who was awarded the Truman Scholarship.