Honors Research
Conducting field work. Spending a summer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Using an on-campus archive. Making a film. Creating a business plan. Planning an exhibition. Collaborating in a capstone design seminar. Going in-depth with an expert mentor. Gaining skills essential for graduate and professional education.
When they matriculate at the state’s flagship research university, honors students enjoy the extraordinary benefit of working directly with leading scholars in their chosen field of study. UT faculty members excel in the classroom, but they are also nationally respected members of their discipline making contributions to the discovery of knowledge and advancement of culture.
Every honors student must complete a Senior Project, a minimally 3-credit hour course involving original, independent, faculty-mentored scholarship. These projects are then usually presented in scholarly and professional settings, and celebrated at UT’s annual Exhibition of Undergraduate Research & Creative Achievement. UT offers $100,000 annually in grants to support honors students' research and creative work for Senior Projects.
2006-2007 Senior Projects include: “Nutrition Education in the Pre-school Setting,” “A Study of After-Pulsing and Magnetic Field Effects in Photodectors,” “Long Exposure Night Photography on Color Film,” and “Detection of Differently Expressed Genes Involved in Immune Function.”
