Meet The Honors Staff: Bobbie Brown

It’s not always easy navigating the college world without a great adviser. That’s where Bobbie Brown steps in. And she plays several roles: student, teacher, mother and grandmother who went from an honors students to a honors adviser. Most students become acquainted with her when they’re determining their academic paths.

Bobbie is a non-traditional student. Before college, she worked as an accountant and office manager for ten years. During an economic downturn, her company let her go. Everyone was getting laid off and nobody was hiring.

“That’s when I decided to reinvent my life,” she said. Continue reading

Tips For Med School: An Interview With Kalee Moore

Honors grad Kalee Moore is a medical student at UNT Health Science Center. She graduated with a bachelors of Science in biology with a chemistry minor in 2014.

Currently in her second year of med school, she’s been hitting the books, taking tests and learning new skills to have what it takes to be a doctor. Now she wants to give students insights from her experience on what to expect once they face that entrance interview. 

What’s med school generally like?

We learn our skill sets like procedures, suturing and injections using mannequins in a simulated hospital lab that we have on campus. Then we practice with patients that are paid to come in and act out scenarios. The reality will set in during the second half of seeing and touching the actual patients. Nothing can really 100 percent simulate a real person with a real problem in front of you. Continue reading

Physics Junior Explores Super Earth’s Moons

Things are looking up for physics junior Niyousha Davachi. She’s exploring another star system, theorizing with lagrangians (pronounced la-grahn-jians) and winning awards at conferences across Texas and the country.

If there’s potential life on another planet, Niyousha may someday take part in finding out.

“Something that really interests me is the universe itself and how it was created,” she said. “That goes into cosmology so okay, what exactly happened at the beginning of time when the definition of time started?” Continue reading