{"id":242,"date":"2015-04-23T18:19:08","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T18:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/?p=242"},"modified":"2017-02-22T13:20:20","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T13:20:20","slug":"ub-students-visit-congress-same-day-as-gyrocopter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/2015\/04\/23\/ub-students-visit-congress-same-day-as-gyrocopter\/","title":{"rendered":"UB Students Visit Congress Same Day as Gyrocopter"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, April 15, UB students in HIST 420 “America since 1940” took a day-long field trip to Capitol Hill in D.C. to observe Senate floor discussion, and attend a hearing\u00a0at the Senate Committee on Armed Services,\u00a0entitled, “National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Plans and Programs.”\u00a0 The conversation that Dr. Yi and her students had with a Senate docent and the subject of the hearing itself were intriguing enough, but the trip became even more memorable due to two incidents that happened during their trip.<\/p>\n

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This happened to be the day that Congress honored the Doolittle Raiders <\/a>with the Congressional Gold Medal, and the students were able to take part in the ceremony.<\/p>\n

Coincidentally, a gyrocopter landed on the Capitol lawn <\/a>while they were in the building.\u00a0 But despite the unusual incident, the our UB group was able to return to campus safely and on time!<\/p>\n

After the trip, students wrote essays for class analyzing the Senate hearing as a primary source, and\u00a0proposing an appropriate budget for the Armed Services committee.\u00a0\u00a0As an Enhanced course at UB\u00a0(open to both honors and non-honors students), HIST 420 benefited\u00a0from the support of the Helen P. Denit Honors program, which funded the group’s transportation.<\/p>\n

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On Wednesday, April 15, UB students in HIST 420 “America since 1940” took a day-long field trip to Capitol Hill in D.C. to observe Senate floor discussion, and attend a hearing\u00a0at the Senate Committee on Armed Services,\u00a0entitled, “National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Plans and Programs.”\u00a0 The conversation that Dr. Yi and her students had with … Continue reading UB Students Visit Congress Same Day as Gyrocopter<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":289,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/nhudgins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}