5 LSC-Tomball Students Present Research at the Great Plains Honors Council Conference

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Published on: July 05, 2017 TOMBALL, Texas Music has always played an enormous role in LSC-Tomball Honors Student Hannah Savoies life, but she never thought that her interest in music would one day give her an opportunity to present research in front of hundreds of people at this years Great Plains Honors Council (GPHC) conference at Lamar University.

Students are chosen to submit abstracts for these conferences based on their Honors Day research presentations, said Professor Ava Veselis, director of The Honors College at LSC-Tomball. Once accepted to present at these conferences, they spend a good deal of time refining their research, and the final product is one that is academically impressive. I am proud to have these students represent The Honors Collegetheir research is substantive and sophisticated.

Savoie, along with four other students, Miranda Willborg, Jacob Files, Cheyenne Stokes, and Mary Kouns, presented their fall semesters research at the conference.

I love how songs reveal a more explicit meaning once there is a visual representation of those musical stories coming to life in front of the audience through cinematography, Savoie stressed, before adding, I chose to do my research over the 2012 rendition of Les Miserables because I simply love musicals. I was a huge fan of the musical, and an even bigger fan of the most recent version of the film that had come out, so I figured I would never get tired of researching this topic. That is when I decided that this was the film I wanted to analyze because I wouldnt mind watching it a million times for my research.

The GPHC is a regional section of the National Collegiate Honors Council, which provides guidelines for all of the honors colleges and programs in the United States. More than 440 participants from 45 different educational institutions across six states, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas, attended this years event. ...

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