Cannon Roberts (Humanities Major, Specialization in English, Class of 2005)

• Pursuing M.A. in creative writing at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York. 
• On the editorial staff of the literary journal Harpur Palate and is co-director of the creative writing conference Writing by Degrees. 
• Awarded a grading TA position in the English Department at SUNY-Binghampton, writing a novel entitled Entering Bell County for his M.A. thesis.
• Awarded a scholarship to attend the Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg, Russia, studying creative writing with authors such as Anthony Swofford (author of Jarhead) and George Saunders (author of Civilwarland and recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship). 
• His story, “Because of Pope Joan,” is published in the Canadian journal Grimm Magazine.

Beth Atkinson Ryan (Humanities Major, Specialization in Pre-Law, Class of 2002)

• J.D.  Texas Tech University School of Law, cum laude (May 2006)
• Associate Attorney with Hinkle, Hensley, Shanor, & Martin, L.L.P. in Roswell, New Mexico
• On Law Review her second year of law school where her student comment was one of twelve student articles chosen for publication: “The 13th Juror: Re-Evaluating the Factual Sufficiency Standard of Review in Criminal Cases,  37 Tex. Tech. L. Rev. 1291” (2005).
• On executive board of Law Review as Student Writing Editor for her third year of law school, receiving the Distinguished Jackson Walker “Outstanding Second Year Award” for Texas Tech Law Review and the Distinguished “W. Frank Newman Award” for Excellence on Texas Tech Law Review.
• Her article, “‘Can I Start You Off with Some Drinks?’: An Analysis of Commercial Alcohol Provider Liability” in Texas is forthcoming, and her article, “Salty Standing: An Analysis of Standing as It Relates to Oil and Gas Interests,” is currently in progress.

Dan Bustillos (Humanities Major, Specialization in Science, Class of 1998)

• J.D.  University of Houston Law Center (2002)
• Pursuing Ph.D. Institute for the Medical Humanities at University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston
• UTMB Law & Ethics Fellow and a member of the UTMB Institutional Ethics Committee (IEC) and a research professor at the Health Law and Policy Institute at the University of Houston Law Center
• Writing his dissertation on the development of philosophical hermeneutics from Dilthey, Schleiermacher, and Husserl, down through Heidegger, Gadamer, Habermas, and Ricoeur, and how this field can shed light on cross-cultural understanding in clinical (medical) settings.
• Serves on Baylor College of Medicine's Institutional Review Board for human-subject research and a special gene-therapy IRB subcommittee for Baylor, as well as on UTMB's ethics committee in Galveston.
• Co-author of The Texas Medical Jurisprudence Examination: A Self-Study Guide a "Kaplan" style review book for the state exam that physicians must take to be licensed in Texas, and co-editing a reader on Religion and Medicine.