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...

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...

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...

How Research Transforms Students into Scholars: Scientific Engagement in the Honors Program

May 23, 2025 | Featured, Issue, Winter 2025, Winter 2025 Featured

Despite being a small institution, La Sierra University’s undergraduate research labs have consistently given students opportunities to participate in published research. Particularly, students within the Honors Program consistently produce meaningful research each...

Saudade: Gallery Contributor and Art Honors Student Nobuyuki Yano in Conversation with Katie Jang

May 20, 2025 | Issue, Winter 2025

On Dec. 8, 2024, La Sierra University’s Brandstater Gallery hosted an exhibition titled “Saudade” featuring works by the painting workshop students. I had the pleasure of interviewing one of the contributors in Honors, fourth-year art major and pre-dentistry student...

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