PNC and Calumet Students Attend 2015 Honors Conference

PurdueLogoA group of honors students from Purdue University North Central and Purdue University Calumet recently attended the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) conference in Chicago.

PNC students Eileen Long and Alexis Ulrich, both English majors, and Stefanie Nanney, a psychology major, presented their research at this conference

PNC Honors Program president Rachel Kunnen, vice president Matt Variot and Honors Program members Zach Zromkoski, attended sessions that gave them ideas for developing the Purdue University Northwest Honors College. Sessions covered topics that included drama, poetry, music and film.

The conference presented the ideal opportunity for the PNC and Calumet students to meet their peers from across the globe to present research, discuss their interests and to gather ideas that they could use for their Honors Program and the future PNW Honors College. They also attended a roundtable discussion on the Purdue Calumet Peer Mentoring program and an idea exchange on the use of the Team App.

“Attending the NCHC was eye opening,” said Kunnen. “This was my first time attending and after being a part of the various seminars, I realized that other schools were facing the same problems our own program has been dealing with. After hearing other students talk about their new ideas, I was inspired to try as many new things with our program as was possible and make the program better than it already is.”

To learn more about the PNC Honors Program, visit www.pnc.edu/honors.