Student Scholar Spotlight – Emily Pope
Student Scholar Spotlight – Emily Pope
Featured student work during their time as a college scholar in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Emily Pope
In spring 2021, I was invited to the virtual National Council on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) conference. This honor included creating a poster, a small speech, and gathering resources to share concerning a play I wrote in summer 2020 called Callaway. The conference itself included hundreds of college students from around the nation in dozens of different fields of study, and I feel proud to have been selected to represent the UT College Scholars among this advanced cohort of students.
During this process, I was able to network with students from fields vastly different from my own, and I found that our projects often had more in common than I would have thought at first. The NCUR conference also gave me the confidence I needed to continue pursuing my production of Callaway as my senior thesis project. The questions my peers asked of me led me to reflect on obstacles in my project, and the interest they expressed showed me that my project was worth continuing.