UT Tyler Students Win Awards at Regional Honors Conference

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April 26, 2022

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Two students in The University of Texas at Tyler Honors Program received awards at the 2022 Great Plains Honors Council Conference.

The regional conference highlighted the research of students from colleges and universities in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas and Nebraska.

Jacob Williams of Tyler, a junior history major, received the prestigious Dennis Boe Award for outstanding scholarly writing. His award-winning paper, “Natura Romam Deleverat (Nature Had Destroyed Rome),’’ uses environmental history to explore the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Williams’ faculty mentors are history professors Edward Tabri, PhD, and Colin Snider, PhD.

Joseph Hudson of Bullard, a senior biology major, received the John Britt Poster Award for Professional Studies for his poster, “Accessibility of Walking and Biking as Forms of Exercise in Harris County, Texas, USA.’’ His faculty mentor is Wycliffe Njororai, PhD, professor of health and kinesiology.

The UT Tyler Honors Program provides an intellectually rigorous, innovative education for students who want to be challenged and stimulated by new ideas, fresh ways of thinking and interdisciplinary opportunities. For more information, visit uttyler.edu/honors.

With a mission to improve educational and healthcare outcomes for East Texas and beyond, UT Tyler offers more than 80 undergraduate and graduate programs to 10,000 students. UT Tyler recently merged with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler (now known as UT Tyler Health Science Center). Through its alignment with UT Tyler Health Science Center (HSC) and UT Health East Texas, UT Tyler has unified these entities to serve Texas with quality education, cutting-edge research and excellent patient care. Classified by Carnegie as a doctoral research institution and by U.S. News & World Report as a national university, UT Tyler has campuses in Tyler, Longview, Palestine and Houston.