URAC Presenter: Hering explores Langston Hughes jazz poetry
Share on: Posted on Friday, April 16, 2021
Timothy Hering, one of the eight select podium presenters to be featured at this year’s Undergraduate Research and Arts Celebration (URAC) on Wednesday, April 21, will discuss his senior honors capstone project, “Jammin’ with Langston Hughes: A Symphony of Truth in Black America.”
Hering’s combined English and music project explores how Langston Hughes an American writer, a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance and innovator of jazz poetry integrates jazz into the sociopolitical discourse in his poetry, not only as a lyric but through the jazz aesthetic and as a recognizable form of music.
Senior honors defenses mark end of intensive research projects
Share on: Posted on Wednesday, April 7, 2021
This spring, several Westminster College senior honors scholars will publicly defend their capstone research a culmination of nearly two years’ worth of high-level academic exploration.
“While every student at Westminster experiences capstone, students in the All-College Honors Program begin working on their capstone research early in the junior year, developing and proposing a project to their honors board of three faculty,” said
Dr. Kristianne Kalata, director of the All-College Honors Program and associate professor of English.
Each honors scholar conducts research under the mentorship of three faculty mentors two experts in the major field of study and one faculty member from another department. After a project has been approved, students work closely with their lead honors board faculty adviser to conduct innovative, rigorous hands-on research.