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Congratulations to Outstanding Honors FellowsPast Accolades: 2007-08 | 2006-07 | 2005-06 | 2004-05 2008-9 Academic YearPresentations 27 Honors Fellows were chosen to present their undergraduate research on April 28 at Elon's Student Undergraduate Research Forum: Molly Strayer, Katie Volkerding, Brian Gibbons, Larissa Ferretti, Meredith Mosko, Rebecca Watts, Brian Beaty, Chelsie Wagner, Ameia Helms, Daniel Brown, Victor McGlaughlin, Danielle Dufour, Jonathan Mahlandt, James Burns, Grace Chao, Alyse Knorr, Kelly McCarty, Victoria Davis, Julia Roberts, Erin Barnett, Amy Reitnouer, Benjamin Smith, Sara Gould, Angela Lovelace, Katy Branston, Sara Portoghese and Breanna Detwiler. Congratulations!
Kelly McCarty ('09) presented at “The Performances of Power and Power of Performance” Workshop
Center for the Study of International Governance (United Kingdom), (re)Imaging Argentina: Art in Post-Dictatorial Argentina Georgia Political Science Association Annual Conference, Art and Democracy in the Post-Dictatorship of Argentina International Communications Association Conference, Mexico City and The Evolution of Media and Collective Memory: Argentina and the United States (co-
presenter: David McCarty, Professor, Michigan State University) Presented in Spanish.
Brian Beaty ('09) won the best poster presentation award at the 34th Annual West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference held at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego on Saturday, April 18. Brian Beaty ('09), Daniel Brown ('09) and their mentors Yuko Miyamoto and Linda Niedziela attended the annual meeting of the North Carolina Academy of Science at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, N.C. on April 3-4. Brian Beaty won first place honors in the poster session and Daniel Brown took second place in the behavioral biology, psychology, anthropology and physics oral presentation section. Sara Gould ('09) presented her thesis, titled The Elon Academy: A Transformative Experience, at the North Carolina Campus Compact Institute. She will also present in June at the John Hopkins National Summer Learning Conference in Chicago. Julia Roberts ('10) presented her research at the Association of Southeastern Biologists (ASB) in Birmingham, AL in early April. The presentation was titled "The composition and structure of beech gaps in Great Smoky Mountains National Park 15 years after beech bark disease infestation" and is a result of her SURE work with Dr. David Vandermast. Julia also presented at the Southeastern Anthropological Society Conference and won honorable mention. Brian Beaty ('09) presented his research, titled "The Impact of Silencing Talin on the Cell Cycle and Apoptosis in Human Cells", April 2-3 at the North Carolina Academy of Science (NCAS) in Asheville, NC. He also traveled to San Diego, CA April 18 to present at the West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference. Larissa Ferretti ('09) will share her research this spring with lawmakers in Washington about the effects of parental involvement in teaching math and number skills to young children. The May presentation is part of a highly selective program through the Council on Undergraduate Research that features leading undergraduate research from around the nation. See E-net article. Senior Honors Fellows ('09) Erin Barnett, Daniel Brown, Breanna Detwiler, Larissa Ferretti, Alyse Knorr, Sara Portoghese, Benjamin Smith and Chelsie Wagner presented at the National Conference of Undergraduate Research in La Crosse, Wisconsin in April. Rebecca Watts ('09) presented her thesis research in-progress -"An Analysis of Language Transfer in Three Major Metro-Area Hispanic Newspapers in North Carolina"- at the National Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies Conference in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Meredith Mosko ('09) presented her paper at the Eastern Economics meetings Feb 27-March 1st.
Kristen Rectenwald's ('09) thesis was chosen as one of the few undergraduate projects to be presented at the Southeast Commission for the Study of Religion (SECSOR) in Chapel Hill. She presented her paper entitled From Divine Judgment to Medical Diagnosis: Tracking Disease in British Consciousness at the regional meeting of the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature on March 14th.
Katie Volkerding ('09) is presenting her thesis data in an oral presentation at South East ACSM in Birmingham, AL. Katie has also been accepted into the Physical Therapy Program and UNC Chapel Hill, Elon and Duke. She will be attending UNC Chapel Hill.
Victoria Davis ('09) presented a paper: Terrorism and Diplomacy: A Comparitive Study of the U.K., Japan, and the US at the International Studies Association South Annual Conference to be held at Randolph-Macon College in October.
Publications
Andrea Spaeth ('07 Grad) recently published an article with her thesis mentor Dr. Matt Gendle, Elon student Sarah Dollard, and Wellness Coordinator Cindy Novak, entitled "Functional relationships between serum total cholesterol levels, executive control and sustained attention." The article was published in Nutritional Neuroscience.
Alyse Knorr ('09) has written two poems called "The Mundane" and "By Memory" that will be published in the 2008 issue of The Albion Review. Alyse will also have three poems called "Last Moments on the Boat," "The Mundane," and "What It Was Like," that will be published in the fall 2008 issue of the North Central Review. Other Accomplishments
3 fellows were honored at this years ODK Awards Ceremony. Victoria Davis ('09) was given the Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Fellowship Award, Alyse Knorr ('09) was given the Student Communications Media Award and Kim Duggins ('10) was given the Perito Award.
3 fellows were chosen as Periclean Scholars for the Class of 2012: Katie Kenney, Mara Bollenbacher and Megan Reeves.
15 fellows were inducted into Phi Kappa Phi, the nations oldest and largest academic honor society, on April 22, 2009: James Burns, Gabrielle Dean, Kimberly Duggins, Katrina Folsom, Stephanie Franz, Victoria James, Christopher Jarrett, Amanda Kennison, Elisabeth Kensrue, Amanda McBride, Alexandra Milan, Nichole Rawlings, Molly Strayer, Gregory Walton and Clayton Winkelvoss.
Angie Lovelace ('10) received a Society of Professional Journalists, Region 2 Mark of Excellence Award for Feature Photography, Second Place.
Paige Kensrue, Elon women's tennis player and co-captain of the team was named Southern Conference's Student Athlete of the Week for Feb. 4-10.
17 Sophomore fellows were inducted into Phi Eta Sigma, the Freshman Honor Society, on October 28, 2008: Elizabeth Dobbins, Amy Eubanks, Virginia Fischer, Stephanie Franz, Margaret Hemmingson, Victoria James, Christopher Jarrett, Hannah Lane, Elizabeth Leman, Taylor Madaffari, Amanda McBride, Jana Murdock, Kiva Nice-Webb, Joanna Rabiej, Molly Strayer, Laura Sweeney and Amber Woods.
Sarah Vavreck ('10) received a $5,000 Gilman Scholarship. To apply for the national scholarship, Sarah wrote 2 essays and will create a follow-up project to her study abroad program in Ghana during the Fall.
Alumni Accomplishments
Andrea Spaeth ('07 Grad) accepted an offer to enter the Ph.D. program in neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania.
Cara DiSisto ('08 Grad) had her work accepted through a blind peer review for presentation in the Advertising Division of the 2008 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference in Chicago this past summer. Cara is currently a marketing analyst at Red Ventures in Charlotte, NC.
Alex Hopkins ('08 Grad) incorporated his Honors thesis into a publication with his thesis mentor Dr. Heidi Glaesel in the online Encyclopedia of Earth: http://www.eoearth.org/article/Managing_coral_reef_fisheries. To get the full citation for Alex's work simply scroll to the end of the linked encyclopedia entry. Julie Kenneally ('08 Grad) will present a paper developed from her Elon thesis work with Dr. Rudy Zarzar: Women who Kill and the Media that Makes them Famous: A Study of how Media Cover Female Suicide Terrorism.
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