Political Science, Pre-Med, Psychology, Spanish, Women's Studies, and Writing. Pathways into medicine and the professions The Wilkes Medical Scholars Program is a selective early admission program into medical school: Students receive a B.A. or B.S. degree from the Wilkes Honors College in Jupiter and the M.D. degree from Florida Atlantic’s College of Medicine in Boca Raton in seven or eight years. Other academic pathways are integrated with graduate study in Business, Education, Engineering, Computer Science, Nursing, and History. Honors theses Each student completes an honors thesis as part of the requirements for the BA or BS degree. Some of these theses have led to published papers in peer-reviewed journals, and many can be found in Florida Atlantic University's online digital library. Symposium/research day The Honors College Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Research is an annual event that showcases student research in a conference format with talks, a poster session, and a visual arts presentation. Each year, the Chastain Honors Symposium Lecture is given by a faculty and staff chosen keynote speaker, and is open to the public. Past presenters have included The Honorable Carole Y. Taylor, a judge on the Florida Fourth District Court of Appeal, and Dr. Michael Ruse, Guggenheim Fellow and editor of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought. Graduate and professional school placement Some 65% of alumni enter graduate school, and have pursued degrees at institutions including MIT, Harvard Medical School, the University of Chicago, Georgetown, and UC Berkeley. Prominent alumni Prominent alumni include Ben Keough (Literature, '03), editor at the NY Times/Wirecutter, Morgan Cable (Physics, '05), Astrobiologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, Olsi Gjyshi (Biochemistry, '06), resident physician at the University of Texas Anderson Cancer Center, and Michael Metzner (Biological Chemistry And Visual Art, '12), a writer for ABC's Grey's Anatomy. Although the college is both small and young, a number of its graduates already hold faculty appointments at other universities, including Erik Pettersson (Psychology, '04, now at the Karolinska Institut in Stockholm), Ari Rosenberg (Psychology, '04, University of Wisconsin), Michael Degani (Anthropology, '05, Johns Hopkins), Rachel Pauletti (Psychology, '07, Lynn University), and Tarah Raldiris (Psychology, '11, Flagler College). Notes External links Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College List of concentrations at the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College Honors Options at Florida Public Universities and Colleges Florida Atlantic University The Scripps Florida Research Institute Theses completed by Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College students Wilkes Honors