La Frontera and the West

Are you looking for a lecture to attend this semester? Please consider attending the 21st Mary Thomas Marshall Lecture on Thursday, September 24, at 7:30 p.m. at the Espino Conference Center. The lecturer will be Jay Dusard, Guggenheim Fellow in Photography and featured presenter at the “Shooting the West” Photography Symposium, September 25-27. His lecture is entitled “La Frontera and the West.”

E. O. Wilson Lecture

SRSU Honors Program Members:

E. O. Wilson will be presenting a lecture at Midland College (in Midland, Tx) on Thursday, Sept. 17, at 7:30 pm.

As Patsy Roberts, President of the SRSU Biology Club, shares, Wilson is an extremely influential evolutionary biologist. Time magazine has named him one of America's 25 Most Influential People and he has won the Pulitzer Prize twice. The purpose of his lecture is "to influence the religious and scientific communities in uniting to protect life on this planet. You can read more about this lecture at:
http://www.midlandcollegefoundation.org/news/davidson/wilson.php."

As a member of the SRSU Honors Program, you know that you must participate in three field trips/conferences in order to graduate with an Honors transcript. Traveling to Midland to listen to Dr. Wilson would count towards fulfilling that requirement.

In coordination with the Biology Club, we plan on taking a van (or vans) to the lecture. The van(s) will leave at 4:00 as the lecture begins at 7:30 PM. You will need to bring a sack dinner. We will return that evening. A sign up sheet is located in the Biology Grad Office, WSB 214. Please sign up by Friday, September 4 (tomorrow) so you can reserve your spot in the van and so that we can get sufficient tickets. There is no cost to you to attend this event (except for providing your own food). When you sign up, please designate that you are a member of the SRSU Honors Program.

My thanks to the Biology Club for their willingness to partner with us on this activity.

Please consider attending this lecture. It sounds fascinating.

Dr. Stein
Director - SRSU Honors Program
837-8770

Orientations

The ACE director and staff have had a very busy summer, especially with 4 orientations scheduled. ACE has lots of services to provide students. Be sure to take advantage of them, because you will receive prompt and courteous attention.

Welcome to the blog of the Academic Center for Excellence!

I would like to welcome you to the Sul Ross ACE Blog. During the year, this blog will keep you updated on upcoming events held by the ACE. The ACE is responsible for all of the developmental courses (remedial courses) offered at Sul Ross. The ACE is also responsible for the majority of the tutoring done on campus. The other thing that ACE is responsible for is the Honors program. Most of the departments around the Sul Ross campus have honor programs within the department. However, there was not a general honors program for those who wanted to participate, but were not in the departments which had honors programs. Now there is one. I will try to keep this blog up to date as best I can.

ACE Blog

I look forward to the development of this blog. If kept up to date, it should be a helpful blog for the faculty, staff, and students who use ACE.