Honors Program Directory
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Julie Allen
Professor, Comparative Arts & Letters | Humanities
Why Honors?
(801) 422-7891| julie_allen@byu.edu | 3025 JFSB
Why Honors?
(801) 422-7891| julie_allen@byu.edu | 3025 JFSB
Spencer Ashford
Student Advisor, Honors Program | Engineering | Student Life
Spencer is a Computer Engineering major with a Computer Science minor. He is highly interested in robotics. He likes robotics in part because of its Interdisciplinary nature, which is why he loves the Honors Program. He appreciates that the Honors Program...
(801) 422-5497 | honors@byu.edu | 102 MSRB
Spencer is a Computer Engineering major with a Computer Science minor. He is highly interested in robotics. He likes robotics in part because of its Interdisciplinary nature, which is why he loves the Honors Program. He appreciates that the Honors Program...
(801) 422-5497 | honors@byu.edu | 102 MSRB
Nicole Bay
Adjunct Faculty, Linguistics | Humanities
Why Honors? BYU’s Honor’s program provides a fantastic opportunity to both faculty and students to discover connections they might not have noticed otherwise because of their in-depth focus on their own field. I love...
(801) 422-1696 | nicole_bay@byu.edu | 3019 JFSB
Why Honors? BYU’s Honor’s program provides a fantastic opportunity to both faculty and students to discover connections they might not have noticed otherwise because of their in-depth focus on their own field. I love...
(801) 422-1696 | nicole_bay@byu.edu | 3019 JFSB
Natalie Blades
Associate Professor, Statistics | Physical and Mathematical Sciences
(801) 422-5076 | blades@stat.byu.edu | 218 TMCB
(801) 422-5076 | blades@stat.byu.edu | 218 TMCB
Lauren Bushnell
Student Advisor, Honors Program | Marriott School of Business | Fine Arts and Communications
Lauren is a Marketing major in the Marriott School of Business with minors in Communications and Nonprofit Management. She loves being part of the Honors Program as a student, TA, and advisor because of the opportunities it has provided her with...
(801) 422-5497 | honors@byu.edu | 102 MSRB
Lauren is a Marketing major in the Marriott School of Business with minors in Communications and Nonprofit Management. She loves being part of the Honors Program as a student, TA, and advisor because of the opportunities it has provided her with...
(801) 422-5497 | honors@byu.edu | 102 MSRB
Michael Call
Associate Professor, Comparative Arts & Letters | Humanities
Why Honors? The Honors program is a wonderful opportunity to get out of our normal academic comfort zones and dialogue with others while thinking together about fascinating and thorny questions, the kinds of questions...
(801) 422-1616 | michael_j_call@byu.edu | 3039 JFSB
Why Honors? The Honors program is a wonderful opportunity to get out of our normal academic comfort zones and dialogue with others while thinking together about fascinating and thorny questions, the kinds of questions...
(801) 422-1616 | michael_j_call@byu.edu | 3039 JFSB
Ryan Christensen
Associate Professor, Philosophy | Humanities
Why Honors? I am a philosopher. Philosophy is the love of wisdom, and wisdom doesn't have disciplinary boundaries. Honors gives me a place to share my search and to learn the wisdom others have found.
(801) 422-4821 | ryan_christensen@byu.edu | 4085 JFSB
Why Honors? I am a philosopher. Philosophy is the love of wisdom, and wisdom doesn't have disciplinary boundaries. Honors gives me a place to share my search and to learn the wisdom others have found.
(801) 422-4821 | ryan_christensen@byu.edu | 4085 JFSB
Dennis Cutchins
Associate Director, Honors Program | Undergraduate Education
Why Honors? I am drawn to Honors for several reasons, but two of the most important are lifelong learning and interdisciplinarity. I love learning and Honors gives me chances to learn every day from talented...
(801) 422-9042 | dennis_cutchins@byu.edu | 4167 JFSB
Why Honors? I am drawn to Honors for several reasons, but two of the most important are lifelong learning and interdisciplinarity. I love learning and Honors gives me chances to learn every day from talented...
(801) 422-9042 | dennis_cutchins@byu.edu | 4167 JFSB
Mary Davis
Associate Professor, Microbiology & Molecular Biology | Life Sciences
Why Honors? I love the intersection of disciplines as it allows us to see information in a new way. The Honor’s program allows me to help students discover this amazing space for learning.
(801) 422-6207| mary_davis@byu.edu |3129 LSB
Why Honors? I love the intersection of disciplines as it allows us to see information in a new way. The Honor’s program allows me to help students discover this amazing space for learning.
(801) 422-6207| mary_davis@byu.edu |3129 LSB
Mat Duerden
Associate Professor, Experience Design & Management | Marriott School
Why Honors? I love BYU’s Honors Program because it’s a space for individuals from diverse disciplines to come together and wrestle with interesting questions...
(801) 422-3834 | duerden@byu.edu | W435 TNRB
Why Honors? I love BYU’s Honors Program because it’s a space for individuals from diverse disciplines to come together and wrestle with interesting questions...
(801) 422-3834 | duerden@byu.edu | W435 TNRB
Aaron Eastley
Associate Professor, English | Humanities
Why Honors? Our lives are a fascinating mixture of things beautiful and tragic, functional and fanciful, mundane and immense. Our learning should be the same. And the Honors Program, more than any other program...
(801) 422-1695 | aaron_eastley@byu.edu | 4119 JFSB
Why Honors? Our lives are a fascinating mixture of things beautiful and tragic, functional and fanciful, mundane and immense. Our learning should be the same. And the Honors Program, more than any other program...
(801) 422-1695 | aaron_eastley@byu.edu | 4119 JFSB
Emron Esplin
Associate Professor, English | Humanities
Why Honors? The interdisciplinarity, the chance to team teach with a good friend, and (so I’m told since I’m new to the program) the amazing students. I’m excited to teach...
| emron_esplin@byu.edu | 4148 JFSB
Why Honors? The interdisciplinarity, the chance to team teach with a good friend, and (so I’m told since I’m new to the program) the amazing students. I’m excited to teach...
| emron_esplin@byu.edu | 4148 JFSB
Marlene Esplin
Associate Professor, Comparative Arts & Letters | Humanities
(801) 422-6246| mhesplin@byu.edu | 3050 JFSB
(801) 422-6246| mhesplin@byu.edu | 3050 JFSB
Elisha Fernandez
Student Advisor, Honors Program | Education |Humanities | International and Area Studies
Elisha is majoring in Editing and Publishing with a minor in Communications. She loves writing, creating and enjoying music, dancing, and painting. You can often find her consumed in a good book. Her family is from the Dominican Republic, and she speaks...
(801) 422-5497 | honors@byu.edu | 102 MSRB
Elisha is majoring in Editing and Publishing with a minor in Communications. She loves writing, creating and enjoying music, dancing, and painting. You can often find her consumed in a good book. Her family is from the Dominican Republic, and she speaks...
(801) 422-5497 | honors@byu.edu | 102 MSRB
Vika Filimoeatu
Advisement Supervisor, Honors Program | Undergraduate Education
Vika manages all aspects of student advisement for the Honors Program. She is in charge of organizing different advisement workshops and student related events. She supervises the student-to-student advising and works directly with students...
(801) 422-1997 | vika_filimoeatu@byu.edu | 102B MSRB
Vika manages all aspects of student advisement for the Honors Program. She is in charge of organizing different advisement workshops and student related events. She supervises the student-to-student advising and works directly with students...
(801) 422-1997 | vika_filimoeatu@byu.edu | 102B MSRB
Todd Fisher
Professor, Mathematics | Physical & Mathematical Science
(801) 422-4046 | tfisher@math.byu.edu | 278 TMCB
(801) 422-4046 | tfisher@math.byu.edu | 278 TMCB
Julianne Grose
Associate Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Biology | Life Sciences
Why Honors? I love the honors program because it encourages both faculty and students to look bigger - uniting disparate fields of study and stimulating new pathways of thought.
(801) 422-4940 | grosejulianne@gmail.com | 3140 LSB
Why Honors? I love the honors program because it encourages both faculty and students to look bigger - uniting disparate fields of study and stimulating new pathways of thought.
(801) 422-4940 | grosejulianne@gmail.com | 3140 LSB
George Handley
Professor, Comparative Arts & Letters | Humanities
Why Honors? I love the chance to explore ideas outside of traditional paradigms and curricula because the best and most exciting knowledge is sometimes the kind of thing you can't really easily predict or over-...
(801) 422-7151 | George_Handley@byu.edu | 3770C HBLL
Why Honors? I love the chance to explore ideas outside of traditional paradigms and curricula because the best and most exciting knowledge is sometimes the kind of thing you can't really easily predict or over-...
(801) 422-7151 | George_Handley@byu.edu | 3770C HBLL
Derek Hansen
Professor, School of Technology | Engineering & Technology
Why Honors?
(801) 422-7467 | dlhansen@byu.edu | 265 B CTB
Why Honors?
(801) 422-7467 | dlhansen@byu.edu | 265 B CTB
Jennifer Haraguchi
Associate Professor, French & Italian| Humanities
Why Honors? Because Honors classes push us all--students and professors alike--to test new ideas, re-evaluate what we already know, and integrate that knowledge into our own realm of experience.
(801) 422-8179| jennifer_haraguchi@byu.edu | 3139 JFSB
Why Honors? Because Honors classes push us all--students and professors alike--to test new ideas, re-evaluate what we already know, and integrate that knowledge into our own realm of experience.
(801) 422-8179| jennifer_haraguchi@byu.edu | 3139 JFSB
Alexandra Jones
Program Assistant, Honors Program | Pre-Business
Alexandra is pre-business hoping to major in Finance. She loves working in the Honors Program and being able to meet a variety of students...
(801) 422-3038 | honorsprogram@byu.edu | 102 MSRB
Alexandra is pre-business hoping to major in Finance. She loves working in the Honors Program and being able to meet a variety of students...
(801) 422-3038 | honorsprogram@byu.edu | 102 MSRB
Jason Kenealey
Associate Professor, Nutrition, Dietetics & Food Science | Life Sciences
Why Honors?
(801) 422-6671| jason_kenealey@byu.edu | S-249 ESC
Why Honors?
(801) 422-6671| jason_kenealey@byu.edu | S-249 ESC
Brock Kirwan
Professor, Psychology | FHSS
Why Honors? Because my nerdy obsessions don’t respect disciplinary bounds. I love talking about the neuroscience and psychology of memory, but I also love learning and talking about music, literature, animal behavior, home canning, etc. The Honors program is a great way to explore new interdisciplinary connections.
(801) 422-2532 | kirwan@byu.edu |1074 KMBL
Why Honors? Because my nerdy obsessions don’t respect disciplinary bounds. I love talking about the neuroscience and psychology of memory, but I also love learning and talking about music, literature, animal behavior, home canning, etc. The Honors program is a great way to explore new interdisciplinary connections.
(801) 422-2532 | kirwan@byu.edu |1074 KMBL
Janelle Macintosh
Associate Professor, Nursing | College of Nursing
Why Honors? As a nurse, I engage with people at their most vulnerable and most elated moments in life. I am excited to see what unexpected connections students and my fellow teacher find between literature and...
(801) 422-6376 | Janelle-Macintosh@byu.edu | 458 KMBL
Why Honors? As a nurse, I engage with people at their most vulnerable and most elated moments in life. I am excited to see what unexpected connections students and my fellow teacher find between literature and...
(801) 422-6376 | Janelle-Macintosh@byu.edu | 458 KMBL
Grant Madsen
Associate Professor, History | FHSS
Why Honors?
(801) 422-2145 | gmadsen@byu.edu| 2145 JFSB
Why Honors?
(801) 422-2145 | gmadsen@byu.edu| 2145 JFSB
Spencer Magleby
Director, Honors Program | Undergraduate Education
Why Honors? When asked if I would be the Honors Director, I reflected deeply. Could I do a good job? Could I add value for students? Would I like it? Would peers think I was hoity-toity (yes, a term from my...
(801) 422-3151 | magleby@byu.edu | 350C MSRB
Why Honors? When asked if I would be the Honors Director, I reflected deeply. Could I do a good job? Could I add value for students? Would I like it? Would peers think I was hoity-toity (yes, a term from my...
(801) 422-3151 | magleby@byu.edu | 350C MSRB
Tracy Maylett
Adjunct Faculty, Leadership | Honors Program & Marriott School
Why Honors? Each of us is a leader in multiple capacities, whether we have the title or not: family, church, business, community... the list goes on. Most of our opportunities to lead...
(801) 515-6500 | tmm@byu.edu | 102 MSRB
Why Honors? Each of us is a leader in multiple capacities, whether we have the title or not: family, church, business, community... the list goes on. Most of our opportunities to lead...
(801) 515-6500 | tmm@byu.edu | 102 MSRB
Rory McWhorter
Leadership Development Coordinator, Honors Program | Undergraduate Education
Rory works with students to help them identify opportunities to fulfill the Honors Leadership Development Experience requirement. He is the instructor for the affiliated practicum course - HONRS 390R, and manages the pre-approval and reporting...
(801) 422-8176 | rory_mcwhorter | 102 MSRB
Rory works with students to help them identify opportunities to fulfill the Honors Leadership Development Experience requirement. He is the instructor for the affiliated practicum course - HONRS 390R, and manages the pre-approval and reporting...
(801) 422-8176 | rory_mcwhorter | 102 MSRB
Charity Monroe
Charity studies Public Relations in the Communications Program and is minoring in Statistics. She loves working in the Honors Program because it connects her with amazing scholars from all across campus. Charity loves skiing, surfing, baking, and reading.
Rex Nielson
Associate Professor, Spanish & Portuguese | Humanities
Why Honors?
801-422-2176 | rex_nielson@byu.edu | 3149 JFSB
Why Honors?
801-422-2176 | rex_nielson@byu.edu | 3149 JFSB
Marc Olivier
Professor, French & Italian | Humanities
Why Honors? Because no program on campus is as dedicated to bridging disciplinary divides and fostering connective thinking. French philosophers of Enlightenment (my intellectual heros) would be proud!
(801) 422-5950 | olivier@byu.edu | 3127 JFSB
Why Honors? Because no program on campus is as dedicated to bridging disciplinary divides and fostering connective thinking. French philosophers of Enlightenment (my intellectual heros) would be proud!
(801) 422-5950 | olivier@byu.edu | 3127 JFSB
Jeff Parkin
Teaching Professor, Theatre & Media Arts| Humanities
Why Honors?
(801) 422-8130 | jeff_parkin@byu.edu |F-442 HFAC
Why Honors?
(801) 422-8130 | jeff_parkin@byu.edu |F-442 HFAC
Julie Radle
Assistant Director, Honors Program | Undergraduate Education
Julie manages the operational and academic functions of the Honors Program. She works directly with faculty, Alcuin Fellows, Department Coordinators, graduate assistants, Honors communications team, program staff and TAs. She is the liaison...
(801) 422-3038 | julie_radle@byu.edu | 102A MSRB
Julie manages the operational and academic functions of the Honors Program. She works directly with faculty, Alcuin Fellows, Department Coordinators, graduate assistants, Honors communications team, program staff and TAs. She is the liaison...
(801) 422-3038 | julie_radle@byu.edu | 102A MSRB
Jamin Rowan
Associate Professor, English | Humanities
Why Honors?
(801) 422-8968 | jamin_rowan@byu.edu| 4143 JFSB
Why Honors?
(801) 422-8968 | jamin_rowan@byu.edu| 4143 JFSB
Kurt Sandholtz
Associate Professor, Romney Institute of Public Service & Ethics | Marriott School
Why Honors? Honors classes were my favorites when I was a BYU undergrad. They pushed me. I study how traffic across social worlds spurs innovation, so the opportunity to...
(801) 422-3759 | sandholtz@byu.edu | 587 TNRB
Why Honors? Honors classes were my favorites when I was a BYU undergrad. They pushed me. I study how traffic across social worlds spurs innovation, so the opportunity to...
(801) 422-3759 | sandholtz@byu.edu | 587 TNRB
Kerry Soper
Professor, Comparative Arts & Letters | Humanities
Why Honors? I was drawn to teach at the BYU Honors Program because of my own experience as an undergrad at Utah State. It was there, in those classes, that I first took charge of my own education, finding the...
(801) 422-1242 | kerry_soper@byu.edu | 3032 JFSB
Why Honors? I was drawn to teach at the BYU Honors Program because of my own experience as an undergrad at Utah State. It was there, in those classes, that I first took charge of my own education, finding the...
(801) 422-1242 | kerry_soper@byu.edu | 3032 JFSB
Denise Stephens
Associate Professor, Physics & Astronomy | Physical & Mathematical Sciences
Why Honors? Why not Honors? Why wouldn't you take the opportunity to explore new ideas outside of your comfort zone that will help you grow and change in ways you never...
(801) 422-2167 | denise_stephens@byu.edu | N486 ESC
Why Honors? Why not Honors? Why wouldn't you take the opportunity to explore new ideas outside of your comfort zone that will help you grow and change in ways you never...
(801) 422-2167 | denise_stephens@byu.edu | N486 ESC
John Talbot
Associate Professor, English | Humanities
Why Honors? Because everything really is connected to everything else, and when you get a glimpse of it -- and a glimpse is all we can get -- that's what takes your breath away.
(801) 422-8235 | John_Talbot@byu.edu | 4198 JFSB
Why Honors? Because everything really is connected to everything else, and when you get a glimpse of it -- and a glimpse is all we can get -- that's what takes your breath away.
(801) 422-8235 | John_Talbot@byu.edu | 4198 JFSB
Karl Warnick
Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering | Engineering
Why Honors? As a BYU student years ago, I experienced the Honors Program first hand. It was a wonderful part of my education. The Honors courses I took were profoundly uplifting and influential. My Honors...
(801) 422-1732 | warnick@byu.edu | 450 EB
Why Honors? As a BYU student years ago, I experienced the Honors Program first hand. It was a wonderful part of my education. The Honors courses I took were profoundly uplifting and influential. My Honors...
(801) 422-1732 | warnick@byu.edu | 450 EB
Emma Webster
Student Advisor, Honors Program | Economics | Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Emma is an Economics major and Mathematics minor pursuing the Ballard Scholar award in the Marriot School of Business. She is passionate about social change and equality and loves the opportunities that the Honors Program provides to discuss important...
(801) 422-5497 | honors@byu.edu | 102 MSRB
Emma is an Economics major and Mathematics minor pursuing the Ballard Scholar award in the Marriot School of Business. She is passionate about social change and equality and loves the opportunities that the Honors Program provides to discuss important...
(801) 422-5497 | honors@byu.edu | 102 MSRB
Lucy Wesemann
Student Advisor, Honors Program | Life Sciences | Neuroscience | Nursing
Lucy is a Biology major pursuing the Ballard Scholar award in the Marriott School of Business. She appreciates how the Honors program fuels her love for learning and challenges her to think in non-traditional ways. She enjoys hiking, playing pick-up...
(801) 422 - 5497 | honors@byu.edu | 102 MSRB
Lucy is a Biology major pursuing the Ballard Scholar award in the Marriott School of Business. She appreciates how the Honors program fuels her love for learning and challenges her to think in non-traditional ways. She enjoys hiking, playing pick-up...
(801) 422 - 5497 | honors@byu.edu | 102 MSRB
Clint Whipple
Associate Professor, Biology | Life Sciences
Why Honors? My favorite classes as an undergraduate at BYU were all honors classes. The combination of rigor and pleasure...
(801) 422-9293 | whipple@byu.edu | 4027 LSB
Why Honors? My favorite classes as an undergraduate at BYU were all honors classes. The combination of rigor and pleasure...
(801) 422-9293 | whipple@byu.edu | 4027 LSB
Sally Wynn
Student Advisor, Honors Program | Family, Home, and Social Sciences (except Economics)
Sally is majoring in Psychology, with the goal of going to graduate school and becoming a School Psychologist. She loves the Honors program because she gets to meet so many different people and see new ways to look at the world! Sally enjoys...
(801) 422-5497 | honors@byu.edu | 102 MSRB
Sally is majoring in Psychology, with the goal of going to graduate school and becoming a School Psychologist. She loves the Honors program because she gets to meet so many different people and see new ways to look at the world! Sally enjoys...
(801) 422-5497 | honors@byu.edu | 102 MSRB
Dennis Cutchins
Associate Director, Honors Program | Undergraduate Education
Why Honors? I am drawn to Honors for several reasons, but two of the most important are lifelong learning and interdisciplinarity. I love learning and Honors gives me chances to learn every day from talented...
(801) 422-9042 | dennis_cutchins@byu.edu | 4167 JFSB
Why Honors? I am drawn to Honors for several reasons, but two of the most important are lifelong learning and interdisciplinarity. I love learning and Honors gives me chances to learn every day from talented...
(801) 422-9042 | dennis_cutchins@byu.edu | 4167 JFSB
Vika Filimoeatu
Advisement Supervisor, Honors Program | Undergraduate Education
Vika manages all aspects of student advisement for the Honors Program. She is in charge of organizing different advisement workshops and student related events. She supervises the student-to-student advising and works directly with students...
(801) 422-1997 | vika_filimoeatu@byu.edu | 102B MSRB
Vika manages all aspects of student advisement for the Honors Program. She is in charge of organizing different advisement workshops and student related events. She supervises the student-to-student advising and works directly with students...
(801) 422-1997 | vika_filimoeatu@byu.edu | 102B MSRB
Alexandra Jones
Program Assistant, Honors Program | Pre-Business
Alexandra is pre-business hoping to major in Finance. She loves working in the Honors Program and being able to meet a variety of students...
(801) 422-3038 | honorsprogram@byu.edu | 102 MSRB
Alexandra is pre-business hoping to major in Finance. She loves working in the Honors Program and being able to meet a variety of students...
(801) 422-3038 | honorsprogram@byu.edu | 102 MSRB
Spencer Magleby
Director, Honors Program | Undergraduate Education
Why Honors? When asked if I would be the Honors Director, I reflected deeply. Could I do a good job? Could I add value for students? Would I like it? Would peers think I was hoity-toity (yes, a term from my...
(801) 422-3151 | magleby@byu.edu | 350C MSRB
Why Honors? When asked if I would be the Honors Director, I reflected deeply. Could I do a good job? Could I add value for students? Would I like it? Would peers think I was hoity-toity (yes, a term from my...
(801) 422-3151 | magleby@byu.edu | 350C MSRB
Rory McWhorter
Leadership Development Coordinator, Honors Program | Undergraduate Education
Rory works with students to help them identify opportunities to fulfill the Honors Leadership Development Experience requirement. He is the instructor for the affiliated practicum course - HONRS 390R, and manages the pre-approval and reporting...
(801) 422-8176 | rory_mcwhorter | 102 MSRB
Rory works with students to help them identify opportunities to fulfill the Honors Leadership Development Experience requirement. He is the instructor for the affiliated practicum course - HONRS 390R, and manages the pre-approval and reporting...
(801) 422-8176 | rory_mcwhorter | 102 MSRB
Charity Monroe
Charity studies Public Relations in the Communications Program and is minoring in Statistics. She loves working in the Honors Program because it connects her with amazing scholars from all across campus. Charity loves skiing, surfing, baking, and reading.
Julie Radle
Assistant Director, Honors Program | Undergraduate Education
Julie manages the operational and academic functions of the Honors Program. She works directly with faculty, Alcuin Fellows, Department Coordinators, graduate assistants, Honors communications team, program staff and TAs. She is the liaison...
(801) 422-3038 | julie_radle@byu.edu | 102A MSRB
Julie manages the operational and academic functions of the Honors Program. She works directly with faculty, Alcuin Fellows, Department Coordinators, graduate assistants, Honors communications team, program staff and TAs. She is the liaison...
(801) 422-3038 | julie_radle@byu.edu | 102A MSRB
Julie Allen
Professor, Comparative Arts & Letters | Humanities
Why Honors?
(801) 422-7891| julie_allen@byu.edu | 3025 JFSB
Why Honors?
(801) 422-7891| julie_allen@byu.edu | 3025 JFSB
Nicole Bay
Adjunct Faculty, Linguistics | Humanities
Why Honors? BYU’s Honor’s program provides a fantastic opportunity to both faculty and students to discover connections they might not have noticed otherwise because of their in-depth focus on their own field. I love...
(801) 422-1696 | nicole_bay@byu.edu | 3019 JFSB
Why Honors? BYU’s Honor’s program provides a fantastic opportunity to both faculty and students to discover connections they might not have noticed otherwise because of their in-depth focus on their own field. I love...
(801) 422-1696 | nicole_bay@byu.edu | 3019 JFSB
Natalie Blades
Associate Professor, Statistics | Physical and Mathematical Sciences
(801) 422-5076 | blades@stat.byu.edu | 218 TMCB
(801) 422-5076 | blades@stat.byu.edu | 218 TMCB
Michael Call
Associate Professor, Comparative Arts & Letters | Humanities
Why Honors? The Honors program is a wonderful opportunity to get out of our normal academic comfort zones and dialogue with others while thinking together about fascinating and thorny questions, the kinds of questions...
(801) 422-1616 | michael_j_call@byu.edu | 3039 JFSB
Why Honors? The Honors program is a wonderful opportunity to get out of our normal academic comfort zones and dialogue with others while thinking together about fascinating and thorny questions, the kinds of questions...
(801) 422-1616 | michael_j_call@byu.edu | 3039 JFSB
Ryan Christensen
Associate Professor, Philosophy | Humanities
Why Honors? I am a philosopher. Philosophy is the love of wisdom, and wisdom doesn't have disciplinary boundaries. Honors gives me a place to share my search and to learn the wisdom others have found.
(801) 422-4821 | ryan_christensen@byu.edu | 4085 JFSB
Why Honors? I am a philosopher. Philosophy is the love of wisdom, and wisdom doesn't have disciplinary boundaries. Honors gives me a place to share my search and to learn the wisdom others have found.
(801) 422-4821 | ryan_christensen@byu.edu | 4085 JFSB
Mary Davis
Associate Professor, Microbiology & Molecular Biology | Life Sciences
Why Honors? I love the intersection of disciplines as it allows us to see information in a new way. The Honor’s program allows me to help students discover this amazing space for learning.
(801) 422-6207| mary_davis@byu.edu |3129 LSB
Why Honors? I love the intersection of disciplines as it allows us to see information in a new way. The Honor’s program allows me to help students discover this amazing space for learning.
(801) 422-6207| mary_davis@byu.edu |3129 LSB
Mat Duerden
Associate Professor, Experience Design & Management | Marriott School
Why Honors? I love BYU’s Honors Program because it’s a space for individuals from diverse disciplines to come together and wrestle with interesting questions...
(801) 422-3834 | duerden@byu.edu | W435 TNRB
Why Honors? I love BYU’s Honors Program because it’s a space for individuals from diverse disciplines to come together and wrestle with interesting questions...
(801) 422-3834 | duerden@byu.edu | W435 TNRB
Aaron Eastley
Associate Professor, English | Humanities
Why Honors? Our lives are a fascinating mixture of things beautiful and tragic, functional and fanciful, mundane and immense. Our learning should be the same. And the Honors Program, more than any other program...
(801) 422-1695 | aaron_eastley@byu.edu | 4119 JFSB
Why Honors? Our lives are a fascinating mixture of things beautiful and tragic, functional and fanciful, mundane and immense. Our learning should be the same. And the Honors Program, more than any other program...
(801) 422-1695 | aaron_eastley@byu.edu | 4119 JFSB
Emron Esplin
Associate Professor, English | Humanities
Why Honors? The interdisciplinarity, the chance to team teach with a good friend, and (so I’m told since I’m new to the program) the amazing students. I’m excited to teach...
| emron_esplin@byu.edu | 4148 JFSB
Why Honors? The interdisciplinarity, the chance to team teach with a good friend, and (so I’m told since I’m new to the program) the amazing students. I’m excited to teach...
| emron_esplin@byu.edu | 4148 JFSB
Marlene Esplin
Associate Professor, Comparative Arts & Letters | Humanities
(801) 422-6246| mhesplin@byu.edu | 3050 JFSB
(801) 422-6246| mhesplin@byu.edu | 3050 JFSB
Todd Fisher
Professor, Mathematics | Physical & Mathematical Science
(801) 422-4046 | tfisher@math.byu.edu | 278 TMCB
(801) 422-4046 | tfisher@math.byu.edu | 278 TMCB
Julianne Grose
Associate Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Biology | Life Sciences
Why Honors? I love the honors program because it encourages both faculty and students to look bigger - uniting disparate fields of study and stimulating new pathways of thought.
(801) 422-4940 | grosejulianne@gmail.com | 3140 LSB
Why Honors? I love the honors program because it encourages both faculty and students to look bigger - uniting disparate fields of study and stimulating new pathways of thought.
(801) 422-4940 | grosejulianne@gmail.com | 3140 LSB
George Handley
Professor, Comparative Arts & Letters | Humanities
Why Honors? I love the chance to explore ideas outside of traditional paradigms and curricula because the best and most exciting knowledge is sometimes the kind of thing you can't really easily predict or over-...
(801) 422-7151 | George_Handley@byu.edu | 3770C HBLL
Why Honors? I love the chance to explore ideas outside of traditional paradigms and curricula because the best and most exciting knowledge is sometimes the kind of thing you can't really easily predict or over-...
(801) 422-7151 | George_Handley@byu.edu | 3770C HBLL
Derek Hansen
Professor, School of Technology | Engineering & Technology
Why Honors?
(801) 422-7467 | dlhansen@byu.edu | 265 B CTB
Why Honors?
(801) 422-7467 | dlhansen@byu.edu | 265 B CTB
Jennifer Haraguchi
Associate Professor, French & Italian| Humanities
Why Honors? Because Honors classes push us all--students and professors alike--to test new ideas, re-evaluate what we already know, and integrate that knowledge into our own realm of experience.
(801) 422-8179| jennifer_haraguchi@byu.edu | 3139 JFSB
Why Honors? Because Honors classes push us all--students and professors alike--to test new ideas, re-evaluate what we already know, and integrate that knowledge into our own realm of experience.
(801) 422-8179| jennifer_haraguchi@byu.edu | 3139 JFSB
Jason Kenealey
Associate Professor, Nutrition, Dietetics & Food Science | Life Sciences
Why Honors?
(801) 422-6671| jason_kenealey@byu.edu | S-249 ESC
Why Honors?
(801) 422-6671| jason_kenealey@byu.edu | S-249 ESC
Brock Kirwan
Professor, Psychology | FHSS
Why Honors? Because my nerdy obsessions don’t respect disciplinary bounds. I love talking about the neuroscience and psychology of memory, but I also love learning and talking about music, literature, animal behavior, home canning, etc. The Honors program is a great way to explore new interdisciplinary connections.
(801) 422-2532 | kirwan@byu.edu |1074 KMBL
Why Honors? Because my nerdy obsessions don’t respect disciplinary bounds. I love talking about the neuroscience and psychology of memory, but I also love learning and talking about music, literature, animal behavior, home canning, etc. The Honors program is a great way to explore new interdisciplinary connections.
(801) 422-2532 | kirwan@byu.edu |1074 KMBL
Janelle Macintosh
Associate Professor, Nursing | College of Nursing
Why Honors? As a nurse, I engage with people at their most vulnerable and most elated moments in life. I am excited to see what unexpected connections students and my fellow teacher find between literature and...
(801) 422-6376 | Janelle-Macintosh@byu.edu | 458 KMBL
Why Honors? As a nurse, I engage with people at their most vulnerable and most elated moments in life. I am excited to see what unexpected connections students and my fellow teacher find between literature and...
(801) 422-6376 | Janelle-Macintosh@byu.edu | 458 KMBL
Grant Madsen
Associate Professor, History | FHSS
Why Honors?
(801) 422-2145 | gmadsen@byu.edu| 2145 JFSB
Why Honors?
(801) 422-2145 | gmadsen@byu.edu| 2145 JFSB
Tracy Maylett
Adjunct Faculty, Leadership | Honors Program & Marriott School
Why Honors? Each of us is a leader in multiple capacities, whether we have the title or not: family, church, business, community... the list goes on. Most of our opportunities to lead...
(801) 515-6500 | tmm@byu.edu | 102 MSRB
Why Honors? Each of us is a leader in multiple capacities, whether we have the title or not: family, church, business, community... the list goes on. Most of our opportunities to lead...
(801) 515-6500 | tmm@byu.edu | 102 MSRB
Rex Nielson
Associate Professor, Spanish & Portuguese | Humanities
Why Honors?
801-422-2176 | rex_nielson@byu.edu | 3149 JFSB
Why Honors?
801-422-2176 | rex_nielson@byu.edu | 3149 JFSB
Marc Olivier
Professor, French & Italian | Humanities
Why Honors? Because no program on campus is as dedicated to bridging disciplinary divides and fostering connective thinking. French philosophers of Enlightenment (my intellectual heros) would be proud!
(801) 422-5950 | olivier@byu.edu | 3127 JFSB
Why Honors? Because no program on campus is as dedicated to bridging disciplinary divides and fostering connective thinking. French philosophers of Enlightenment (my intellectual heros) would be proud!
(801) 422-5950 | olivier@byu.edu | 3127 JFSB
Jeff Parkin
Teaching Professor, Theatre & Media Arts| Humanities
Why Honors?
(801) 422-8130 | jeff_parkin@byu.edu |F-442 HFAC
Why Honors?
(801) 422-8130 | jeff_parkin@byu.edu |F-442 HFAC
Jamin Rowan
Associate Professor, English | Humanities
Why Honors?
(801) 422-8968 | jamin_rowan@byu.edu| 4143 JFSB
Why Honors?
(801) 422-8968 | jamin_rowan@byu.edu| 4143 JFSB
Kurt Sandholtz
Associate Professor, Romney Institute of Public Service & Ethics | Marriott School
Why Honors? Honors classes were my favorites when I was a BYU undergrad. They pushed me. I study how traffic across social worlds spurs innovation, so the opportunity to...
(801) 422-3759 | sandholtz@byu.edu | 587 TNRB
Why Honors? Honors classes were my favorites when I was a BYU undergrad. They pushed me. I study how traffic across social worlds spurs innovation, so the opportunity to...
(801) 422-3759 | sandholtz@byu.edu | 587 TNRB
Kerry Soper
Professor, Comparative Arts & Letters | Humanities
Why Honors? I was drawn to teach at the BYU Honors Program because of my own experience as an undergrad at Utah State. It was there, in those classes, that I first took charge of my own education, finding the...
(801) 422-1242 | kerry_soper@byu.edu | 3032 JFSB
Why Honors? I was drawn to teach at the BYU Honors Program because of my own experience as an undergrad at Utah State. It was there, in those classes, that I first took charge of my own education, finding the...
(801) 422-1242 | kerry_soper@byu.edu | 3032 JFSB
Denise Stephens
Associate Professor, Physics & Astronomy | Physical & Mathematical Sciences
Why Honors? Why not Honors? Why wouldn't you take the opportunity to explore new ideas outside of your comfort zone that will help you grow and change in ways you never...
(801) 422-2167 | denise_stephens@byu.edu | N486 ESC
Why Honors? Why not Honors? Why wouldn't you take the opportunity to explore new ideas outside of your comfort zone that will help you grow and change in ways you never...
(801) 422-2167 | denise_stephens@byu.edu | N486 ESC
John Talbot
Associate Professor, English | Humanities
Why Honors? Because everything really is connected to everything else, and when you get a glimpse of it -- and a glimpse is all we can get -- that's what takes your breath away.
(801) 422-8235 | John_Talbot@byu.edu | 4198 JFSB
Why Honors? Because everything really is connected to everything else, and when you get a glimpse of it -- and a glimpse is all we can get -- that's what takes your breath away.
(801) 422-8235 | John_Talbot@byu.edu | 4198 JFSB
Karl Warnick
Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering | Engineering
Why Honors? As a BYU student years ago, I experienced the Honors Program first hand. It was a wonderful part of my education. The Honors courses I took were profoundly uplifting and influential. My Honors...
(801) 422-1732 | warnick@byu.edu | 450 EB
Why Honors? As a BYU student years ago, I experienced the Honors Program first hand. It was a wonderful part of my education. The Honors courses I took were profoundly uplifting and influential. My Honors...
(801) 422-1732 | warnick@byu.edu | 450 EB
Clint Whipple
Associate Professor, Biology | Life Sciences
Why Honors? My favorite classes as an undergraduate at BYU were all honors classes. The combination of rigor and pleasure...
(801) 422-9293 | whipple@byu.edu | 4027 LSB
Why Honors? My favorite classes as an undergraduate at BYU were all honors classes. The combination of rigor and pleasure...
(801) 422-9293 | whipple@byu.edu | 4027 LSB
Spencer Ashford
Student Advisor, Honors Program | Engineering | Student Life
Spencer is a Computer Engineering major with a Computer Science minor. He is highly interested in robotics. He likes robotics in part because of its Interdisciplinary nature, which is why he loves the Honors Program. He appreciates that the Honors Program...
(801) 422-5497 | honors@byu.edu | 102 MSRB
Spencer is a Computer Engineering major with a Computer Science minor. He is highly interested in robotics. He likes robotics in part because of its Interdisciplinary nature, which is why he loves the Honors Program. He appreciates that the Honors Program...
(801) 422-5497 | honors@byu.edu | 102 MSRB
Lauren Bushnell
Student Advisor, Honors Program | Marriott School of Business | Fine Arts and Communications
Lauren is a Marketing major in the Marriott School of Business with minors in Communications and Nonprofit Management. She loves being part of the Honors Program as a student, TA, and advisor because of the opportunities it has provided her with...
(801) 422-5497 | honors@byu.edu | 102 MSRB
Lauren is a Marketing major in the Marriott School of Business with minors in Communications and Nonprofit Management. She loves being part of the Honors Program as a student, TA, and advisor because of the opportunities it has provided her with...
(801) 422-5497 | honors@byu.edu | 102 MSRB
Elisha Fernandez
Student Advisor, Honors Program | Education |Humanities | International and Area Studies
Elisha is majoring in Editing and Publishing with a minor in Communications. She loves writing, creating and enjoying music, dancing, and painting. You can often find her consumed in a good book. Her family is from the Dominican Republic, and she speaks...
(801) 422-5497 | honors@byu.edu | 102 MSRB
Elisha is majoring in Editing and Publishing with a minor in Communications. She loves writing, creating and enjoying music, dancing, and painting. You can often find her consumed in a good book. Her family is from the Dominican Republic, and she speaks...
(801) 422-5497 | honors@byu.edu | 102 MSRB
Emma Webster
Student Advisor, Honors Program | Economics | Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Emma is an Economics major and Mathematics minor pursuing the Ballard Scholar award in the Marriot School of Business. She is passionate about social change and equality and loves the opportunities that the Honors Program provides to discuss important...
(801) 422-5497 | honors@byu.edu | 102 MSRB
Emma is an Economics major and Mathematics minor pursuing the Ballard Scholar award in the Marriot School of Business. She is passionate about social change and equality and loves the opportunities that the Honors Program provides to discuss important...
(801) 422-5497 | honors@byu.edu | 102 MSRB
Lucy Wesemann
Student Advisor, Honors Program | Life Sciences | Neuroscience | Nursing
Lucy is a Biology major pursuing the Ballard Scholar award in the Marriott School of Business. She appreciates how the Honors program fuels her love for learning and challenges her to think in non-traditional ways. She enjoys hiking, playing pick-up...
(801) 422 - 5497 | honors@byu.edu | 102 MSRB
Lucy is a Biology major pursuing the Ballard Scholar award in the Marriott School of Business. She appreciates how the Honors program fuels her love for learning and challenges her to think in non-traditional ways. She enjoys hiking, playing pick-up...
(801) 422 - 5497 | honors@byu.edu | 102 MSRB
Sally Wynn
Student Advisor, Honors Program | Family, Home, and Social Sciences (except Economics)
Sally is majoring in Psychology, with the goal of going to graduate school and becoming a School Psychologist. She loves the Honors program because she gets to meet so many different people and see new ways to look at the world! Sally enjoys...
(801) 422-5497 | honors@byu.edu | 102 MSRB
Sally is majoring in Psychology, with the goal of going to graduate school and becoming a School Psychologist. She loves the Honors program because she gets to meet so many different people and see new ways to look at the world! Sally enjoys...
(801) 422-5497 | honors@byu.edu | 102 MSRB