Abilene Christian University's Honors Program will host the annual meeting of the Great Plains Honors Council, an association of area collegiate honors programs, April 4-5. The conference will bring 250 honors students and professors from Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas and Missouri to the ACU campus.
The conference will feature more than 100 student research presentations, two major speakers and presentation of the Dennis Boe Awards, honoring excellence in student research. Participants will also take part in tours and hands-on learning about the frontier at Buffalo Gap Historic Village.
"The mixture of science, entrepreneurship, journalism, photography, frontier history and world culture shows the breadth that's typical in this conference," said Dr. Chris Willerton, director of the ACU Honors Program. "The purpose of these annual meetings is to give honors students experience in presenting, to provide fellowship and encouragement among honors programs, and to model cross-disciplinary study and global awareness."
Friday night's speaker will be Dr. Jon Weidanz, founder and chief scientist of Receptor Logic, director of the Center for Immunotherapeutic Research, and associate professor in the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Pharmacy, Abilene campus.
Saturday night, Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist David Leeson will speak. Leeson, is an ACU alumnus and executive producer for Video and New Media for The Dallas Morning News and CEO/Producer of Protege Films.
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