Honors program has unique opportunity

Pierce College students will present research projects at UC Irvine conference

SUSAN LOPEZ Features Editor @susanlo63291265

Honors students writing papers and speaking with teachers are one thing, but getting to present abstract research projects to a conference full of professionals in their field is an important opportunity that allows the student to get the first-hand experience regarding research in any field that they want even if it is not directly coordinated with their major.

“They have the benefit to work within their field of study so they can have more depth and scope of what they’re studying,” Davoodian said.

Sarkis Chrikjian, a Biology

Honors Student, Komalpreet Batth is unsure to which career to choose when she transfers, but with her topic on Astrology, “A Belief System,” she expects to make people understand that this old belief is more than a generic statement.

“A lot of people don’t know there was a moon, and a whole birth chart to how the planets and the stars were aligned the day that you were born,” one or more conferences are given the opportunity to compete, to apply to selective transfer schools and for scholarships grants as well. undergraduate students and through the honors program, we can be able to send them to other conferences where they can present,” Davoodian said. Honors Program Faculty member and Sociology Professor Shigueru Tsuha have had an influential impact on students who are presenting in this conference, guiding them in every step of this presentation.

In 2018, there were only around five students who attended the conference and this year, this group has grown, according to Biology Major Anahita Karimi Bidhend who is presenting for the second time at the HTCC conference.