Congratulations to Outstanding Honors Fellows

2007-8 Academic Year

Amy Reitnouer ('09) won 3rd place in the Cinelon film competition for the film, The Last Story, for which she served as producer and wardrobe and set designer. Lisa Carter ('11) starred in this film.

Angela Lovelace ('10), Alexandra Milan ('10), Amy Reitnouer ('09), Alex Walton ('10), and Hannah Williams ('10) were inducted in Lambda Pi Eta, the Communications Honor society.  Alex Walton was chosen to be the organization's treasurer.

Brian Beaty ('09) and Tori Davis ('09) were chosen as the university's two recipients of the Perito Awards.  The $5000 award is given to outstanding rising seniors planning on graduate or professional school and who exemplify Phi Beta Kappa's motto "Love of wisdom, the guide of life."

At the ODK Award ceremony, Molly Dickinson ('08) was recognized for the John W. Barney Award, which goes to the senior with the highest cumulative GPA.  Molly's accomplishment is more impressive for having taken Honors courses!

Kristen Rectenwald (’09) won Elon's Religious Studies Scholar Award.

Kaitlyn Day (’08) won Elon's Outstanding Political Science student Award.

Brian Beaty (’09) won the Howard L. Gravett Award for an Elon student with the highest probably of going to medical school.

Alyse Knorr (’09) won the English Scholar Award.

Victoria Davis (’09) won the Katherine DuPont Weymouth Scholarship Award for an outstanding junior in the social sciences.

Brian Beaty, Grace Chao, Molly Costigan, Breanna Detwiler, Danielle Dufour, Larissa Ferretti, Jordan Frederick, Melissa Gaisser, Cynthia Goodson, Julie Kenneally, Jonathan Mahlandt, Victor McGlaughlin, Carin Metzger, Paul Mirek, Patrick Morse, Sara Portoghese, Anna Reynal, Julia Roberts, Allison Tencza, Katie Volkerding, Rebecca Watts, and Hannah Williams were inducted into Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest Honor Society, which is dedicated to academic excellence in all disciplines.  Jackie Del Giorno served as vice president of Phi Kappa Phi.

Daniel Brown, James Burns, Grace Chao, Larissa Ferretti, Sara Gould, Amelia Helms, Jonathan Mahlandt, and Vic McGlaughlin all were awarded SURE grants for 8 weeks of summer research.

Nichole Rawlings ('10) was selected for an internship at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.

Graduate Andrea Spaeth ('07)and her mentor Professor Mathew Gendle were co-authors on a recently published article, "Functional relationships between serum total cholesterol levels, executive control, and sustained attention," in Nutritional Neuroscience (Vol. 11, No. 2, 2008).  This article used Andrea's thesis research.

Lisa Rohde, Larissa Ferretti, Jessica Young, Jennifer Connolly, Kaitlyn Day, Julie Kenneally, Austin Toman, Cara Disisto, Bonnie Brackett, Jacqueline DelGiorno, Alex Hopkins, Alyse Knorr, Elizabeth Myers, Matthew Potter, Judith Boyce, Rebecca Williams, Cathryn Wile, Andrew Redman, Victoria Davis, Nichole Rawlings, Allison Arpin, Tayler Kent, Sarah Cox, Patrick Morse, Kelci Flowers, Katherine Parkman, Allison Pariani, Erin Barnett, Amy Duncan, Molly Dickinson, and Allison Kipphut will be making presentations at the Student Undergraduate Research Forum on Tuesday, April 29.  The schedule on the Undergraduate Research Program site provides the room, time and the for each presentation.

Molly Dickinson, Sarah Cox, Claire James,Craig Massey, Danica Shipley, and Amber Woods will be displaying excellence in the arts in the Celebrate Week.

Jenna McNair ('10) was chosen as the LINCS coordinator for Kopper Top Life Learning Center through EV! and the Kernoodle Center. 

Alexa Milan ('10) was chosen as the spring Arts and Entertainment section Editor for the Pendulum.

Amy Reitnouer ('09) won first place in the Isabella Cannon Centre Study Abroad Photo Contest in the "Culture" category and Grace Helms ('10) won the "Viewer's Choice" award.

Honors Fellows were honored at the Love School of Business awards ceremony on April 17. Cathryn Wile ('08) won the International Business concentration award, which goes to a student who has shown enthusiasm, success, and great promise for future achievement. Allison Tencza ('08) won the Marketing concentration award. Clayton Winkelvoss ('10) has been awarded the John and Helene Sparks Scholarship for Business.

Elly Myers ('08) and Patrick Morse ('08) were chosen as recipients of Elon's Seena Granowsky Outstanding Student in Psychology Award which goes to the student(s) who have made the most outstanding academic achievement and service to the field of Psychology.

Seven Honors Fellows from the class of 2010 have been named as part of Elon's inaugural class of Lumen Scholars: Cynthia Goodson, Amelia Helms, Jonathan Mahlandt, Nichole Rawlings, Christopher Staskel, Katherine Strickland, and Hannah Williams. Each has proposed a unified vision of research and other experiences that was deemed worthy of extra support from the university in the form of a $15,000 scholarship. Criteria for the award included intellectual inquiry and integration, intellectual curiosity and reflection, originality and feasibility.

Jessi Young ('08) has received the American Psychological Association's Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services Predoctoral Fellowship, a nationally competitive, renewable grant for graduate study.

Stephanie Franz ('11) wrote a paper, 'Inadequate Water in Northern China' that won the 2007-08 Geography Program Study Abroad Essay Contest. She will use the $500 award to defray the cost of study abroad in China.

Breanna Detwiler ('09) has been chosen as a recipient of the Morris K. Udall Scholarship, intended for scholars dedicated to careers related to the environment.  She is one of 80 students chosen in the nation.

Breanna Detwiler ('09) has been named a Truman Scholar.  Elon's first recipient of this award, which includes a $30,000 grant for graduate study, plus leadership training, internship, and other opportunities.  Read the details.

Tori Davis ('09) was chosen as a finalist for a 2008 Truman Scholarship, a prestigious national fellowship for graduate study awarded annually “to persons who demonstrate outstanding potential for and who plan to pursue a career in public service.” Read the details from E-net.

Kelly McCarty, Jamie Gorsuch, and Molly McGowan have ably represented Elon, placing high in two ballroom dance competitions, the Charlotte DanceSport Challenge and the Triangle Open Championships. They participated in both couples and individual events and made it to the more advanced rounds.

Kimberly Duggins ('10) has been selected from hundreds of applicants for a paid internship with the North Carolina Government Internship Program. She'll be working in the Unauthorized Substances Tax Division of the North Carolina Department of Revenue.

Jackie Delgiorno ('08) won first prize for her research in the Undergraduate/Master's category at the Southeast American College of Sports Medicine meeting.  She was competing against students (including graduate students) from schools like Appalachian, College of Charleston, Wake Forest, Florida State, and University of South Carolina.

Honors Fellows helped make Elon's production of The Phantom of the Opera a smashing success.  Christopher Staskel ('10) acted as porter and was in the ensemble, Sarah Linn Reedy ('10) was assistant stage manager, Lisa Carter ('11) was in the Properties Crew, Kiva Nice-Webb ('11), Molly McGowan ('10) on the Wardrobe team, and Amy Duncan ('08) on the Deck Crew.

Tayler Kent ('08) has had her thesis chosen as the winnter of the Broadcast Education Association's News Research paper competition.  She (with her mentor, Brooke Barnett) will be presenting the research at the BEA's annual conference in Las Vegas in April.

Sarah Cox ('08) had a poem selected for publication in the Albion Review, a national undergraduate magazine.  She has been selected to read her poetry at the Sigma Tau Delta conference. She is also the editor-in-chief of Colonnades.

Meredith Mosko ('09) has been named an associate editor for Issues in the Political Economy (IPE), a journal showcasing undergraduate research in economics.

Kelci Flowers ('08) has been one of the rare undergraduates accepted to present at the conference of the Academy of Eating Disorders, which will be held in Seattle in May.

Elon Honors Fellows again will be making their mark at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research.  Those whose abstracts were chosen to present at the conference include seniors Allison Arpin, Bonnie Brackett, Kaitlyn Day, Jackie DelGiorno, Amy Duncan, Alex Hopkins, Tayler Kent, Allison Kipphut, Patrick Morse, Elizabeth Myers, Andrew Redman, Lisa Rohde, Austin Toman, and Jessi Young.

Third Year Honors Fellows going to NCUR include Erin Barnett, Larissa Ferretti, and Alyse Knorr.

Judy Boyce has already been offered a position for after graduation at the accounting firm of Cherry, Bekaert, and Holland in Charlotte.

Professors Mat Gendle (Psychology) and Jeffrey Pugh (Religious Studies) have been selected to give a poster session about their Honors course, Exploring Consciousness, at the 2008 Toward a Science of Consciousness Conference.

Molly Dickinson ('08) has been selected to read her poetry and essays at the Sigma Tau Delta national conference in Kentucky. She is also the poetry editor for Colonnades.

Seniors Jackie Delgiorno, Kelci Flowers, Alex Hopkins, Elly Myers, and Patrick Morse have been chosen as recipients of the Undergraduate Research Program's Rawls scholarships.  The goal of research conducted by Rawls Scholars must be to contribute in meaningful way to the knowledge base in discipline; thus, Rawls Scholarships/Grants are intended to support the highest quality undergraduate research.

Cathryn Wile has already been offered a position for after graduation from Bank of America in the Financial Management Associates program.

Allison Tencza presented her Business research at SNCURS - the State of North Carolina Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium in November.

Molly Dickinson ('08) has been chosen as poetry editor for Colonnades.

Chris Staskel (ensemble), Sarah Reedy (assistant stage manager), Lisa Carter (assistant stage manager), and Kiva Nice-Webb (costume crew) all played roles in Elon's late October production of Cabaret.

First-year Fellow Lisa Carter and her Elon 101 class successfully nominated Ada Gustin as one of Elon's Hometown Heroes.  Gustin was honored in a ceremony on Nov. 5.

A whole bunch of second-year Honors Fellows were inducted into Phi Eta Sigma on October 22, 2007.  Phi Eta Sigma is a national honor society for students who have excelled in their first year of college.  Inductees included Molly Costigan, Shannon Davis, Kimberly Duggins, Jessica Flammer, Katrina Folsom, Cynthia Goodson, Amelia Helms, Amanda Kennison, Elisabeth Paige Kensrue, Jonathan Mahlandt, Emily Main, Alexandra Milan, Paul Mirek, Nichole Rawlings, Julia Roberts, and Janet Schibler.

Sarah Vavreck and Jordan Frederick were among four authors of a successful Elon College Fund for Excellence grant. The grant - largest of those awarded and the only one written mainly by students - is for $5200 to host a "Footprints of Africa" celebration later this fall.

Summer 2007

The thesis research of Andrea Spaeth was featured in the summer issue of Lifestyle Chat, a health newsletter of Alamance Regional Medical Center.

Sarah Cox, Jacqueline DelGiorno, Alyse Knorr, and Jessica Young were chosen to do scholarship in Elon's Summer Undergraduate Research Experience.

Alyse Knorr had a two-part series, "Trip to Africa provides perspective on life," published in the Greensboro News and Record about her experience in Namibia doing Project Pericles work related to the global fight against HIV/AIDS. Read the July 24 story, the June 25 story, and the sidebar about Project Pericles. As part of her Summer Undergraduate Research Experience, Alyse also published a series of articles on teen pregnancy that ran in the News and Record. August 13th articles included They're not just statistics,   Megan: Struggling to stay in school,   Ashleigh: Balancing motherhood and life as a teenager,  Adolescent parenting program: Help close to home, and  Staying in school not likely for teen moms. Articles that ran on August 20th included Teens have pregnancy prevention ideas,Kaya: What do you do when depression takes over?, and Brittany: Support from programs, family, friends make a difference.

Lisa Bodine, Lauren Ellis, Jonathan Mahlandt, Christopher Staskel, Hannah Williams, and Clayton Winkelvoss were selected as Orientation Leaders.