What will inspire the next business visionary or culture shaper? Unbridled curiosity. The University Honors Program fuels the intellect of high-achieving students with one-of-a-kind learning experiences — from research to internships — that push them to think differently.
Learning without boundaries
Instead of staying within the strict boundaries of a single subject, K-State honors students explore intersecting ideas. Their intriguing courses range from “Music, politics and ideology” to “Public health and Sherlock Holmes.”
Experiences that matter
Imagine the impact undergraduate research or internships have on top-performing students’ academic growth. Layer in a semester of studying abroad, participation in academic competition teams or other high-impact experiences, and these honors students are on their way.
The honors program puts K-Staters on fascinating pathways. A sampling of recent recognitions:
- Matthew Culbertson, UHP senior in Physics and Mechanical Engineering, received national recognition as a Goldwater Scholar.
- Adelaide Easter won a Truman Scholarship in the Spring of 2024.
- Jeremy Kamman received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program English Teaching Assistantship to teach in Macedonia for nine months.
- Kale Stahl and Carson Connard were selected for the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program, a five-year fellowship that includes an annual stipend of $37,000.
Courses that challenge
Honors students can choose enhanced versions of traditional courses — like Honors Public Speaking — or genre-jumping courses like these:
- Understanding Sustainability and Fashion examines the ecologically and socially problematic ways garments are produced. It asks this big question: How can we rethink fashion for the future?
- Music in Times of Conflict traces music’s transformative role in protest movements and as propaganda. From country to rap, honors students use a new lens to analyze sociopolitical issues.
- Technology–Culture–Power explores the fascinating role of technology in the information age. It shapes power dynamics, cultural trends and even our values.
- Public Health and Sherlock Holmes examines a historical collision of science, literature and scandal. Nineteenth-century discoveries in microbiology and epidemiology coincided with literary innovations such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and with alarming crimes committed by Jack the Ripper.
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