Three incoming NTCC honors students witnessed Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar in an afternoon production on 11 July. They traveled to the annual Texas Shakespeare Festival in Kilgore. Donors of Honors Northeast and of the college,Jerald and Mary Lou Mowery made the visit possible. The students drove from NTCC and back with Dr. Andrew Yox, honors director.
Dr. Chris McAllister (Biology Department) and student Michael Rodriguez attended the annual North American Native Fishes Association (NANFA) convention at Beaver’s Bend State Park, Oklahoma, June 6-9, 2024. They listened to presentations from NANFA members and went on field trips to collect fish for their parasite research. Dr. Mac and Michael discovered what they believe to be several new species of parasites from fish from the area. Michael continues in the Independent Research class this summer and plans to attend Texas A&M-Commerce in the fall.
Three NTCC history students emerged on top in the 2024 Bonnie Spencer competition, for the best student essays in history, outside of the honors seminars. Essays could have been entered from any other history course from any history instructor, full-time or part-time, on campus or off, such as with embedded dual history classes.
Vanessajane Bayna’s state Caldwell-Award winning essay on toxification and big oil in Texas may not only result in a publication. The NTCC Presidential Scholar now awaiting her sophomore year may see her work one day as a cinematic premiere. This past May, four upcoming scholars of Honors Northeast--Rebeca Martinez, Ariana Tagg, Isabel Tresidder, and Avery Woods, and as well as Title V Director Athena Hayes, and Honors Director, Dr. Andrew Yox, journeyed to Austin for research on modern Texas political leaders and their relation to the petroleum industry. The group pursued research both at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library, and the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, both attached to the University of Texas campus.
Hughes Springs Culinary department serves at Cass County Women’s Luncheon