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Honors is Pleased to announce the 2005 Helen B. Cannon Awardee, Matthew Wright, who will receive $1000 as he works on his Honors senior thesis. Four Honorable Mentions were also selected from among the applicants, and will each receive $200. Matt and the other honorees were recognized at the second annual Helen B. Cannon Reception on April 28, which was also attended by Helen Cannon, her husband Dr. Larry Cannon of USU's Mathematics Department, their daughter Laurel Cannon Alder, and son-in-law Nathan Alder. Matt is pictured below, with his father, the Cannons, and the Alders. |
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| Matt Wright is majoring in English and Economics and minoring in Mandarin Chinese, and will graduate with Honors in English and University Studies in Spring 2006. Matt has written for the Utah Statesman for the past two years, currently works at Bear River Mental Health with children suffering from mental illness, and has been accepted to the Rhetoric Associate program for next year. Matt will use the Award this coming year as he completes his Honors thesis, which, he explains, "will examine how Tolkien's major works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, are translated and adapted into contemporary Chinese and Taiwanese literature, how that adapted literature in turn influences the popular culture climate of these countries, and what a global pop culture means in the context of modernity." After graduation, Matt plans to attend law school, where he will focus his studies on international law. | |
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The 2005 Honorable Mentions are Guy Schauerhamer, Brooke Christensen, Tyce Kearl, and Lisa Ferrara (not pictured). |
Dr. Larry Cannon chats with Tyce Kearl and Guy Schauerhamer about their plans for the future. |
Twenty-Eight students at Utah State University's Spring 2005 Commencement will be graduating with Honors. |
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Jonathan Atkin |
Honors in Nutrition and Food Sciences |
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Honors Presents the 2005-2006 Honors Fellow Team. Many thanks to last year's Honors Fellows, who did such a wonderful job! |
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| Honors students enjoyed food and games at the annual Honors Spring Bash, which was held this year at the Stan Laub Training Center on Wednesday, April 27. Honors took this opportunity to present our spring graduates with certificates and gold cords for commencement. | ||
| Several Honors students presented posters at the 2005 Student Showcase. Student Showcase is a perfect venue for Honors students to publicly present their senior theses/projects. | ||
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Ladd Schiess Landscape Architecture |
Michelle Lundberg |
Rebecca Nudd Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Vice Provost Joyce Kinkead and Honors Director David Lancy pose with USU students at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research in Fairfax, Virginia. Honors students Tyce Kearl, Diana Lewis, and Glen deGuzman presented posters in their respective fields of study. |  |
Congratulations to Rebecca Nudd, who received one of five USU Diversity Awards for 2005 in March. The Diversity Award recognizes individuals who've contributed to affirmative action, equal opportunity and diversity at Utah State. Becky's is a well-known face on campus—you may recognize her name from the recent "A Day of Sharing" activities at Willow Park. |
Utah State University was represented at the Rocky Mountain Peer Tutoring Conference in early March by several students. Among these were Honors students Ben Minson and Heather Hunsaker. Ben is graduating this semester with Honors in Professional and Technical Writing, and Heather is working toward an Honors degree in English. |
| And Honors student Felicia Horsley was elected to represent USU students as ASUSU's HASS Senator for 2005-2006. |
| Take a moment to meet Dakota Sinclair, a freshman at USU who is currently considering entering law school after graduation. "It has been an experience going from being homeschooled my entire life to college, but I have adjusted well," Dakota says, also explaining that he has enjoyed his time thus far in the Honors Program, and hopes to earn a 4.0 for the coming semesters. In addition to his studies, Dakota devotes a large portion of his time to archery, which has been his passion for the past three years. "I took my first archery lesson 3 years ago," Dakota tells us. "With a lot of hard work, practice, and focus, I quickly moved up in the ranks of U.S. Archery. I compete all over the country in national Olympic recurve tournaments. I am ranked 8th in the United States. In May 2005, I will compete in the U.S. Collegiate Outdoor competition. My goal is to make the collegiate team that competes in Izmir, Turkey, in the World University Games. My long term goal is to make the 2008 Olympic Archery Team and compete in Beijing, China." |  |
| Honors is pleased to announce success with our first offering of BIOL 4750H, Writing in the Sciences. Instructor Jennifer Bowman has spent the semester working closely with a small group of Honors students on improving the clarity of their writing, and collectively the class has produced an URCO grant, Sigma Xi grant, an Eccles Undergraduate Fellowship, an article in the Utah Statesman, and a USU nomination for the Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship. The students in her class report that the peer collaboration while preparing applications was so helpful that they plan to continue meeting as a group to review one another's future applications. |
| The Eccles Undergraduate Fellowship was awarded to Kat DuHadway, an Honors student majoring in Computer Science and minoring in Biology. Kat is one of ten students who received the fellowship, co-sponsored by the Eccles Foundation and the College of Science. The award is in the amount of $7500, and is designed to provide support for students to research full-time over the summer months. Kat is currently researching under the mentorship of David Peak, with the Physics Department, and Keith Mott, with Biology. After graduation, Kat hopes to attend graduate school and study computational biology. |
| Speaking of Scholarships, please remember that if you're interested in applying for a prestige scholarship, we are here to help. The Honors Team mentors students applying to such scholarships as the Goldwater, Udall, Goddard, and Marshall. You can read more about these programs at http://www.usu.edu/honors/fellowships_grants.htm. |
| Honors is also looking forward to Fall 2005, and the first-ever Scholars Freshman Interest Group. The Scholars FIG will be open to both Honors and non-Honors students, and Scholars FIG students will enjoy activities and the mentorship of Honors student Peer Mentors in the Valley View and Mountain View Towers. Students interested in the Scholars FIG should contact Shannon Jolley, Theme Housing Coordinator, at shannon.jolley@hfs.usu.edu or (435) 797-8224. |
If you are finding that the cost of textbooks is depriving you of social capital, read on. If you have ever done an Honors contract with a faculty member and found it a positive, useful experience, please send in a 200-word write-up to: dlancy@cc.usu.edu . Describe the nature of the project, the process of negotiation with the faculty member, the nature of your meetings/discussion with him/her, what drove your decision to select this course/professor/ project and the outcomes. Can you identify any long-term benefits and/or was this contract related to your thesis? The best essay will earn a $100 bookstore gift certificate, the 2nd best $75 and there will be several $25 Honorable Mention awards. Dr. Lancy will select the winners. |
If you'd like to receive emails from the Honors Office regarding important priority registration dates, scholarship opportunities, and university activities, be sure you've subscribed to the Honors Listserv, at http://lists.usu.edu/mailman/listinfo/honors_list. This site also allows you to unsubscribe from the listserv, should you wish to do so. |
And finally, please remember that Honors is here to help you! If you find yourself in serious trouble with your schoolwork, please do visit with us before doing anything drastic. We can help you devise a plan and negotiate with professors about assignments and classes. We helped several students this past semester avoid dropping all of their courses by developing a strategy for getting them back on track. |
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