Templeton Honors College News http://www.templetonhonorscollege.com 2010-09-09T22:19:18+01:00 text/html 2010-09-09T13:59:23+01:00 http://www.templetonhonorscollege.com http://www.templetonhonorscollege.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=78&Itemid=62 HON 999: Honors Forum Schedule, Fall 2010 Honors Forum provides an opportunity for the entire student population of the Templeton Honors College at Eastern University to gather weekly for a time focused on nurturing community as well as individual intellectual and spiritual development. This will be accomplished through small and large-group discussions, presentations by faculty and special speakers, and celebrations of student academic experiences and scholarship. Note: Students are only permitted two absences, with the exception of absences due to university curricular commitments, university-related internships, university fine arts commitments, or varsity sports. Semester Date Location Speaker Topic F10 8-27 Eagle GR Introduction F10 9-3 No Forum: Labor Day Weekend F10 9-10 Eagle GR Jonathan Yonan Liberal Learning Lecture 1: In Defense of Christian Tradition F10 9-17 McInnis Aud. (Open to EU Community) Mark Henrie Liberal Learning Lecture 2: A Roman Catholic View of Life and Learning: Incarnation, Contemplation, and Tradition F10 9-24 Eagle GR Jake Armerding Organic Music F10 10-1 Eagle GR Student... text/html 2010-05-27T13:13:41+01:00 http://www.templetonhonorscollege.com http://www.templetonhonorscollege.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=75&Itemid=62 Excerpt from The State Article: Andrew Bilindabagabo was just a toddler when he and his family survived the Rwandan genocide, holing up inside an Anglican church compound before making a harrowing escape to the Congo. Sixteen years later, the Ben Lippen School senior, who will graduate Friday, is returning to his homeland with four classmates to film a documentary about survival, forgiveness and the promises of faith. Read more: http://www.thestate.com/2010/05/27/1304657/5-ben-lippen-students-to-film.html (http://www.thestate.com/2010/05/27/1304657/5-ben-lippen-students-to-film.html) text/html 2010-05-11T15:36:52+01:00 http://www.templetonhonorscollege.com http://www.templetonhonorscollege.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=73&Itemid=62 Excerpt from Eastern Athletics article: At its annual awards luncheon, the Middle Atlantic Conference honored Aaron Benz with a Giant Steps Award. The freshman goalie from Louisville, Kentucky was recognized for excelling while overcoming enormous obstacles. Benz had an exceptional first year in goal for Eastern’s successful Men’s Lacrosse program, but his story goes back to the spring of 2009. Read more: http://www.goeasterneagles.com/index.php?option=com_content task=view id=1704 Itemid=19 (http://www.goeasterneagles.com/index.php?option=com_content task=view id=1704 Itemid=19) text/html 2010-04-19T20:00:00+01:00 http://www.templetonhonorscollege.com http://www.templetonhonorscollege.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=76&Itemid=62 Class of 2011 On top of receiving a top-notch education and becoming integrated into a Christian community, one of the very best experiences for the Templeton Honors College student is a semester spent abroad. This opportunity not only allows students to separate themselves from their usual surroundings and schedules, but it also provides an opportunity to become immersed in a whole other culture. For one THC student, this experience was quite an eye-opener. “Studying in the Middle East, I spent the entire semester as a white Christian among Arab Muslims,” wrote Evan Hewitt, who took part in the Middle East Studies Program for the 2010 spring semester. Based out of Cairo, Egypt, this program spanned two and a half months and included classes for subjects ranging from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to Tabla drumming. Also, this program provided an opportunity for students to spend one month traveling through Turkey, Syria, Jordan and Israel. Following his experience abroad however, Evan Hewitt did not promptly... text/html 2010-04-18T20:00:00+01:00 http://www.templetonhonorscollege.com http://www.templetonhonorscollege.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=74&Itemid=62 Class of 2013 Currently a freshman in the Templeton Honors College, class of 2013 student, Chelsea Merkel is wasting no time on setting out to broaden her horizons. As an enrollee in the biochemistry program at Eastern University, Miss Merkel is looking forward to a career in the sciences. One step that Merkel is taking to achieve that goal is interning at the Veterans Hospital of Lebanon, Pennsylvania this summer. Miss Merkel acquired this position during the 2009-2010 school year and will be able to commence working at the close of the spring 2010 semester. When asked about the contribution of her Eastern University and Templeton Honors College experiences toward her internship this summer, Merkel stated that, “The techniques I learned in the labs at Eastern and the concepts that were taught in the classes definitely gave me a better understanding of the things which with I will be working.” In addition, Miss Merkel believes that her Western Civilization courses will... text/html 2010-04-15T20:00:00+01:00 http://www.templetonhonorscollege.com http://www.templetonhonorscollege.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=69&Itemid=62 Class of 2012 For most students, a semester spent abroad yields the opportunity to experience unfamiliar cultures, interact with challenging curriculums and to form new relationships. For Danielle Bailey and Marissa Bartow however, a semester abroad holds an exciting and challenging experience that stands outside of the norm. This trip for the two Honors College students will mark the culmination of a year-long project of historic proportions. Over the course of the 2009-2010 school year, Bailey, Bartow, fellow student Ruth Chia and Dr. Jonathan Yonan have been busy transcribing, editing and indexing the diary of Moravian church leader Christian Ignatius LaTrobe. LaTrobe’s diary, which spans the latter half of the 18th century, reveals many fascinating insights into the life of an upper middle class man of the late 1700s. In addition to this insight though, the diary also discloses unique information regarding LaTrobe’s involvement in the abolition of the slave trade, the life of Charles Wesley, the Warren Hastings trial and... text/html 2010-04-15T20:00:00+01:00 http://www.templetonhonorscollege.com http://www.templetonhonorscollege.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=77&Itemid=62 Scholar-in-Residence As Scholar-in-Residence for the Templeton Honors College and Professor of Philosophy at Eastern University, Dr. Phillip Cary is worth more than his weight in gold to the faculty and students that he works with. Serving in his capacity as a teacher, Dr. Cary also spends time as both a mentor and a friend to those around him and has been a professor of the Honors College Western Civilization course since its inception in 1999. Besides his more humble workings though, Dr. Cary is also world-renowned for his expertise in the life of Augustine and other areas of philosophy. A new addition to Dr. Cary’s already impressive résumé is the publishing of his fifth book, entitled Good News for Anxious Christians: Ten Practical Things You DON'T Have to Do. The themes that Dr. Cary deals with in this work are inspired by real-life conversations that the professor has had with his students, colleagues, pastors and friends. According to Dr. Cary, “The... text/html 2010-04-14T20:00:00+01:00 http://www.templetonhonorscollege.com http://www.templetonhonorscollege.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=71&Itemid=62 Assistant Professor In 2009, the Templeton Honors College had the distinct pleasure of seeing another faculty member in print with the presentation of Dr. Jonathan Yonan’s article Evangelicalism and Enlightenment: Two Generations in the Okely Family . An assistant professor at the Honors College, Dr. Yonan contributed his article to the collaborative work entitled Self, Community, World: Moravian Education in a Transatlantic World. Published in December of 2009, the first edition of this text was published by Lehigh University Press and edited by Heikki E. Lempa and Paul Peucker. To find more information online about this book, please see the link below. Dr. Yonan was also an exemplary candidate to be included in this project because of his expertise in the area of the Moravian church. Included in his compositions that served to prepare Dr. Yonan for this work was his thesis completed at the University of Oxford entitled, Evangelicalism and Enlightenment: The Moravian Experience in England, c. 1750-1800 . However, this essay was... text/html 2010-04-13T14:10:52+01:00 http://www.templetonhonorscollege.com http://www.templetonhonorscollege.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=64&Itemid=62 Class of 2003 Following the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove and his wife Leah participated in an Iraqi relief initiative by Christian Peacemaker Teams known as Operation Iraqi Freedom. During the conclusion of this journey, the Wilson-Hartgroves and their team of aid workers experienced an unexpected catastrophe on their trip. While driving in the western desert of Iraq, a car in their convoy wrecked after coming into contact with a piece of shrapnel close to a nearby town. To the team members’ collective surprise upon returning to the scene of the accident however, the volunteers involved in the crash had already been rescued by people in the town and were treated free of charge by a local doctor. The name of that town was Rutba, and the exemplary hospitality that the Wilson-Hartgroves encountered there is exactly what inspired them to open the Rutba House. Named after the same town which so poignantly impacted their... text/html 2010-04-07T15:04:55+01:00 http://www.templetonhonorscollege.com http://www.templetonhonorscollege.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=62&Itemid=62 Class of 2009 To many, achievement is weighed by wealth, luxury, certifications or another sort of worldly measure. However, Christopher Plumberg, a graduate of Eastern University and the Templeton Honors College, has decided to measure his achievement by something else. According to Plumberg, “I believe that my life must consist in being filled with the Holy Spirit and being surrendered to His will.” Although extremely commendable in itself, this attitude and aim of obedience to Christ is comparatively accented by Plumberg’s achievements in the field of astrophysics. While still in undergraduate studies, Plumberg began work with Eastern University’s Dr. David Bradstreet on measuring the physical parameters of a solar system by monitoring changes in light intensity over time. After graduating and completing other published work on the cataclysmic variable system V795 Her, Plumberg also worked with Doctors Charles Kankelborg and Craig DeForest of Montana State University. In the articles and other publications that followed from this research, many ground...