2025 Issue 1

Academic Pride, Friendship, and Place: The Western Regional Honors Conference

As the opposite of a morning person, I wasn’t thrilled to get up at 6 a.m. to get to the airport to catch our flight to Denver, where fourth-year biochemistry student Daphne Prakash, fourth-year history major Nyla Provost, and I were presenting at the Western Regional...

Honoring the Past, Shaping the Future: Dr. Katherine Koh’s Academic Legacy

During this winter quarter, we had the wonderful opportunity to meet and speak with Dr. Katherine Koh, a historian of the Christian Reformation and current chair of the Department of History, Politics, and Sociology at La Sierra University. Koh joined the Honors...

Malaysia-Singapore 2024: Reflections on Religion

Malaysia-Singapore 2024: Reflections on Religion Every summer, the rising Junior cohort travels to Malaysia and Singapore as part of the Honors curriculum, broadening their worldview by immersing themselves in a different culture. For the 2024 trip, that culture...
Legacy Graduate Spotlight

Legacy Graduate Spotlight

Graduating mathematics and computer science senior, Zack Sutter (center left), is the third legacy graduate the La Sierra University Honors Program has had.  The first legacy graduate the program saw was Andrew Ranzinger ‘16, son of Alina Sanchez ‘90. The second...

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Crossing Oceans, Chasing Dreams

Crossing Oceans, Chasing Dreams

Almost all my life, I lived on the beautiful island of Palau. Palau is one of the places that you must visit, as it is also called the Pristine Paradise. The emerald shining ocean, blazing sunset, and shores surrounded by green forests are what keep my island special....

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Freshman Corner: Raindrops on a Window

Freshman Corner: Raindrops on a Window

Before college, navigating academics felt like a solitary journey, as many of my peers did not enjoy school the same way I did. I believed I could find excitement even in classes I desperately struggled in, but it seemed I was alone in this belief. I shared the same...

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KUCHING: From a Photographer’s Lens

KUCHING: From a Photographer’s Lens

A compilation of experiences in Penang from the lens of Olivia Genobaga during the Summer of 2024. A seamstress weaves traditional tapestry in the Sarawak Cultural Village, one of our first stops on the trip. Adam and Eddie take refuge from the sweltering sun under a...

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