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FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITYHONORS

Dream. Discover. Do.Recognized as one of two pre-eminentresearch universities in the state, FloridaState University offers a rigorous academicenvironment amidst a diverse communityof engaged and caring learners fromaround the world. Imagine learning fromand collaborating with internationallyrenowned faculty members while choosingfrom more than 150 undergraduatemajors, including many nationally-rankedprograms in the sciences, arts, and business.Florida State delivers a student-centeredexperience designed to inspire theacademically motivated, intellectuallycurious, and socially conscious student.We teach you to think both criticallyand creatively, to be innovative insideand outside of the classroom, and tobecome a well-rounded scholar, globallyaware citizen, and dynamic leader whowill contribute to the greater good.The University Honors Program providesan enriched curriculum and distinctprivileges for exceptionally highachieving students. The environment isintellectually stimulating, socially dynamic,and rich with unique opportunities.2Ideas and inquiry flow freely betweenpeople, departments, and disciplines.Each year, freshmen attend the UniversityHonors Colloquium, featuring lecturesby distinguished faculty, as well asinformative presentations from directorsof various academic programs. As ourstudents progress through the liberalstudies curriculum, they also havethe option to enroll in Honors-onlycourses and special-topic seminars.*Extensive choices PLUS asupportive environmentPLUS unlimited opportunitiesEQUALS a remarkable future!

Learn More. Live More. Be More.Why Honors? Internationally Recognized Faculty: Honorsprofessors invite undergraduate students intotheir laboratories, studios, and theatres – notonly to learn, but to become researchers andinnovators at the highest level of scholarship.These instructors often become mentors toHonors students. Study Abroad Grants: Florida State has 20study locations around the world, and throughthe Honors program, you can apply for grants topartially finance your study abroad. Travel Grants: As an Honors student, you areeligible to apply for grants to attend or present atprofessional conferences. Great Peers: You’ll be a part of a community ofaccomplished, interesting, and gifted studentsfrom different backgrounds and majors who areintellectually inquisitive, creative, and engaging. Early Registration: Honors students have theprivilege of being able to register for courses atthe same time as seniors. Specialized Advisers: Experienced Honorsadvisers will help you find the best avenues topursue your academic and professional goals. Smaller Classes: Honors sections of regularcourses are generally limited to 25 students;Honors seminars are limited to 15 students. Honors-only Residence Hall: Honors studentsmay apply to live in Landis Hall, located in theheart of campus and within close proximity toStrozier, the University’s main library. Recognition: By completing the Honors Programand/or Honors in the Major Program, you canearn a prestigious Honors medallion at a specialceremony. In addition, your transcript will denoteyour Honors achievements. Jump-Start your Medical or Law SchoolCareer: Challenge yourself to earn a place in theHonors Medical Scholars Program or the HonorsLegal Scholars Program, pre-professional trackprograms only available to Honors students. Supportive and Mentoring Services: Studentswill find the offices of the Honors Program,Undergraduate Research, and NationalFellowships in the new Honors, Scholars, andFellows House.*Excelling academically has itsperks. As an Honors student,you will enjoy access toeminent faculty, specializedadvisers, priority registration,and smaller classes.3

Honors. Scholars. Fellows.Admission to the University Honors Program is open to freshmen, but the Honors in the Majorprogram is open to all qualified students. As a research institution rooted in the liberal artstradition, Florida State developed the Honors in the Major program to encourage students toexplore their major discipline in greater depth by completing a research or creative project.Honors in the MajorThe Honors in the Major program provides students with the opportunity to learnfrom faculty members who are experts in their field through completion of anHonors Thesis. While many students conduct traditional research, the programalso supports the creative endeavors of those students in majors such as CreativeWriting, Dance, Film, Music, Studio Art, and Theatre. Upon successful completionand defense of your Honors Thesis, you will graduate “with honors” in your major – adistinction that is announced during the commencement exercises and is cited onyour official transcript.Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR)The Office of Undergraduate Research promotes and encourages research. The staffassists students in developing research projects and creative initiatives and overseesseveral generous awards and scholarships to help fund student research. This officealso works directly with the Office of National Fellowships to help students competefor prestigious national awards.Office of National Fellowships (ONF)The Office of National Fellowships mentors students to compete for more than 60nationally competitive fellowships. Since the office opened in 2005, Florida Stateundergraduates have won more than 125 awards, including three Rhodes, threeTruman, seven Goldwater, and 15 Hollings scholarships; four Pickering fellowships;and 56 Fulbright fellowships and assistantships.4*Florida State Universityis a place where you willbe challenged to turnresearch into discovery,inspiration into opportunity,and ideas into action.

Extraordinary StudentsDaniel StriblingColin JacobsenMajor: Chemistry, Class of 2013Major: Criminology, Class of 2013Daniel is the recipient of the prestigious 2012 Goldwater Scholarship,which is awarded to the nation’s brightest mathematics, science, andengineering college sophomores and juniors. Daniel, who was one ofonly 12 students from the state to receive the Goldwater Scholarship,studies protein recognition in biochemical systems in the laboratoryof Associate Professor Wei Yang. Stribling’s research focuses onproteins found in the human body that detect antigens that signalan infection. His research is helping to lay the groundwork for thedevelopment of drugs that can detect antigens to help the body’simmune system combat disease. When he is not in the lab, Danielperforms in the FSU Flying High Circus and is a founding member ofKillavil, a traditional Irish music group.Colin completed his Honors in the Major Thesis under the directionof Dr. Dan Maier-Katkin. His research focused on the underlyingideology of historical and contemporary right wing extremism inNorway. For his thesis, he drew on archival research on the extremeright in Scandinavia and Europe, as well as conducted interviewswith several prominent psychiatrists, politicians, authors on KnutHamsun, and experts on the radical-right in Norway. His researchsuggests there are close parallels between the rhetoric of Nazi antiSemitism and modern Islamophobia, with incidental differences ofgroup identities and the basis for perceiving a threat. Colin receivedan Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Award and theKingsbury Undergraduate Writing Award for his Honors Thesis.Elizabeth OgunrindeMichelle SauerMajor: Biochemistry, Minor: French, Class of 2014Majors: History and English Literature, Minor: Art History, Class of 2015Elizabeth completed her Honors in the Major Thesis with Dr.Nowakowski, using mice models in conjunction with massspectrometric technology to examine metabolites (small particles)to find potential biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease. Elizabeth hasreceived numerous recognitions including the Bess H. Ward HonorsThesis Grant, the UNCF-Merck Undergraduate Science ResearchScholarship, and the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Book Stipend. Aftergraduation she hopes to pursue a combined MD-Ph.D. in orderto become a physician scientist in the areas of immunology andinfectious diseases.As a sophomore, Michelle participated in a prestigious FulbrightSummer Institute Program in Durham, England. Michelle spentthe first two weeks of the program on an archaeological dig, whereshe joined British archaeologists and other American archaeologystudents to help unearth the Roman Fort at Binchester, just half anhour outside Durham. She worked in the vicus (civilian area) of thesite, uncovering Roman period nails, coins, pottery, and countlessanimal bones, and eventually discovering the original floor of theroom in which she was excavating. The second two weeks were spenttaking classes at Durham University, learning about the Anglo-Saxonand Norman periods in Durham, and focusing on the construction,preservation, and importance of the Durham Cathedral in its owntime and in the present. After graduation, Michelle plans to return toDurham University to pursue a Ph.D. in ancient or medieval historywith an emphasis on art throughout history.Aaron BrownMajor: Classical Archaeology, Class of 2013Aaron’s Honors Thesis, “The Art of Binding Magic: An IconographicAnalysis of the Defixiones from the Fountain of Anna Perenna inRome,” offered a close examination of the enigmatic images engravedalongside the texts of defixiones - defined as objects of variousmedia, such as lead tablets and containers, used in rites of ‘bindingmagic’ - which were discovered in 1999 as part of a 4th-centuryCE cache of magical materials in a fountain in northern Rome. Theresults of his case study suggest that the visual component of LateRoman defixiones was an integral part of the magical operation andserved to make spells more efficacious. Aaron received the KingsburyUndergraduate Writing Award for his Honors Thesis. He intendsto continue his study of Roman visual culture and Mediterraneanarchaeology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he ispursuing a Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology.*Developing EminentScholars, Passionate Artists,Imaginative Entrepreneurs,and Dedicated CommunityLeaders5