Honorable Mentions

Honors Students Win Scholarship Awards
Honors Students in Business Cited by the Dean
Diane Basset Wins the Oliver P. Kolstoe Award
Honors Students Graduated with Distinction
Honors Students Tie the Knot!
Honors Faculty Retirements
Honors Student Named a McNair Scholar
Honors Alum Graduated From Harvard
Katie Goulet Wins Becky R. Edgerton Award
Honors Students Elected to UNC Student Representative Council

Director Marie Livingston with the 2006-2007 Scholarship Recipients: Mike Bradshaw, Sandra Mader, Katiana Jones, and Jordan Odo

Honors Students Win Scholarship Awards

Congratulations to Mike Bradshaw, Sandra Mader, Katiana Jones, and Jordan Odo, who were each awarded an Honors scholarship at this year's spring banquet.

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Honors Students in Business Cited by the Dean

Congrats to the following students who were recognized with a Spring 2007 Dean’s Citation in the Monfort College of Business: Lindy Anderson, Andy Carroll, Courtney Claussen, John Detweiler, Lee Freeman, Peter Gaydman, Katherine McElroy, Cherica McNeal, Kevin Nathern, Justin Puckett, Calley Roth, Luke Schafer, and Katie Young.

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Diane Basset Wins the Oliver P. Kolstoe Award

Heartiest congrats to Honors Adviser, Diane Basset, who was recently recognized with the Oliver P. Kolstoe Award for her work on the transition to adulthood of youth with disabilities. As reported in UNC Today back in May: “The Council for Exceptional Children’s Division on Career Development and Transition presents the award to an individual who has made a significant contribution to the field of career development and transition through means other than direct classroom instruction.”

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Honors Students Graduated with Distinction

Cheers were heard far and wide in recent months as the following Honors students graduated from UNC with Honors Distinction:

• Jeanna Adams, whose thesis title was Semantic Development in a Young Child with a Cochlear Implant: A Case Study.
• Amber Courage,  whose thesis title was Diet and Nutrition for Active Individuals.
• Katie Goulet, whose thesis title was An Applied Thesis in Assessing Organizational Needs for the Successful and Efficient Long-Term Operation of the International Film Series.
• Megan Hoodenpyle, whose thesis title was Bilingual Speech Therapy and Aphasia: A Cultural Approach.
• Alli Howe, whose thesis title was Communication, Cognition, and Culture: A New Structure for Adolescent HIV Prevention Curriculum.
• Amy Tadehara, whose thesis title was The Art of War: A Comparative Study of the Militaries of Medieval China and Japan.

Congratulations to these top undergraduate scholars at UNC for 2006-2007!

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Honors Students Tie the Knot!

We’ve had another marriage to celebrate in Honors! Our best wishes to Eugenia Mueller who was married to Brandon Appelhans in July. We wish you both a lifetime of happiness together!

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Honors Faculty Retirements

Several faculty associated with the Honors Program recently received emeritus status upon leaving UNC. Truly, the recognition for Allen Huang, Joe Alexander, and Diane Peters was very well deserved!

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Honors Student Named a McNair Scholar

The new UNC McNair Scholars for 07-08 include Jessica James, who is also a UNC Honors student. Way to go, Jessica!

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Honors Alum Graduated From Harvard

Harvard University recently graduated one of our Honors alumna! Kudos to Jenna Geiss for earning her Education Masters degree in record time. It seems like you were only just here at UNC!

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Katie Goulet Wins Becky R. Edgerton Award

A big hooray out to our own Katie Goulet, who was recognized as the Becky R. Edgerton Award winner in the Honors Program for 2007. What outstanding work!

Katie Goulet receives the Becky R. Edgerton award from past Director Ron Edgerton

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Honors Students Elected to UNC Student Representative Council

Congrats to Rachelle Dimaria, Adriane Zachary, Justin Puckett, and Mason Smith in their election to the campus Student Representative Council for 07-08. Your work in representing the UNC undergraduate student body really shows your dedication to service. Now that’s Honors spirit!

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