17 students representing just about every college at UTA joined Interim Dean Gustafson and Dr. Karl Petruso on an 18-day trip to Scotland for the annual Honors College study abroad program.

The tour started in Edinburgh, where the group spent four days acquainting themselves with the Scottish capital, cuisine (haggis, sticky toffee pudding), and dialect. Then they headed north to Aberdeen, Inverness, and ultimately the Orkney Islands, where they encountered neolithic sites and Pictish monuments up to 5,000 years old. Continue reading