Jacob photographing wildlife during his
summer 2010 study in Kenya

"Getting to have academic minded conversations with my peers allows me to develop my own ideas and feelings about how the world works and how it could be.  Also, having access to UHON’s impressive alumni network allows me to ask important questions about possible future school and career choices.  And I have been very honored to get to meet and ask questions of many of the speakers that come to UTC to give special lectures--because of UHON, I have had the opportunity to speak directly with David Brooks about how President Obama really runs the White House, gotten the chance to speak and meet with Malcom Gladwell, and have dinner with B.B. Bell, a retired four star general. Because UHON is a part of my life, I have had many opportunities to showcase my education to so many people and am thoroughly prepared to embark to graduate school."

Jacob King is a senior from Independence High School in Thompson's Station, TN. He is majoring in Anthropology and is the recipient of the Jeffrey L. Brown Memorial Scholarship for an outstanding student in anthropology. He is the founder of UTC's Classics Club and current president of the Sociology, Anthropology, and Geography Association and the anthropology honor society, Lambda Alpha.

He received a UHON Student Research Assistantship to work with interior design professor Catherine Kendall on writing a dictionary of interior design terms. During the summer of 2010, he studied wildlife ecology and primatology in Kenya, focusing on dietary studies on the Tana River Mangabey and Yellow Baboon. Currently he is working on research with anthropology instructor Warren Roberts regarding how preliterate people use myth to encode important details about their environments and how modern researchers can apply the scientific method to decode these myths and better understand their origins.

Last updated: October 7, 2010.