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| Mike in Venice |
With an honors degree from the UofA, 2013 graduate
Mike Norton attests to the great value of the honors program and its
resources.
“My undergraduate thesis was
excellent preparation for graduate-level research, acclimating me to how
to design big research questions and how to self-discipline yourself to
get them done,” Norton said. “With the help of my undergraduate honors
adviser, Dr. Lanier Nalley, I saw what it was like to gather data,
analyze it, and write it up into a full thesis. If anything, I learned
what a regression looked like before it was my full time job.”
With assistance from his honors
adviser, Norton was able to find money for an internship that helped
create the World Cocoa Foundation, an NGO in Accra, Ghana, study abroad
at the London School of Economics in the UK, a world renowned school for
economics and political science. These experiences lead to an
internship at the White House working in rural policy, and they are the
reason he is a recipient of the Marshall Scholarship at Oxford
University pursuing his master’s degree in politics, he said.
“The Honors College
and Bumpers College helped make my study abroad and internship
opportunities happen,” Norton said. “I’ve been fortunate both in
undergrad and grad school to have superb advisers that have guided me
along and pushed me when necessary.”
Read the full article by Bryttni Hardin with the Arkansas Traveler
