May 3, 2009
UHON
Graduates Honored
The UHON program staff and faculty
honored May and August 2009 UHON graduates at a breakfast on May
3. The event included individual presentations of UHON medals by
Dr. Gregory O'Dea, UHON Program Director. The UHON medals have been
worn in commencement activities by graduating UHON students since 1998.
Full members of the program receive gold medals and associate members
receive silver ones.
Front
row, left to right: Caprill Hacker, Jennifer Gordon, Jennifer Adkins,
Clark Williams, Jessica Woods Moerman and Rishi Naik. Second row:
Natalie Vander Elst, Rishi Naik, Brian Beise and Shirin Ahlhauser; Back
row: Liz Dickinson, Sarah Wililams, Keeton Christian, Nicole Linklater
and DeMarcus Pegues.
Honorees Included:
Jennifer Lynn Adkins - B.A.
Communication, Minor: English-Writing, Minor: Business
Administration, cum laude,
Honors in Communication for Young
Adults and the
Future of Newspapers: A Study of News Sources, Needs and Approaches
Shirin Elizabeth
Ahlhauser
- B.S. Political Science: International and Comparative
Studies, Minor: Humanities, magna
cum laude
Brian Russell Beise - B.A.
English: Writing, Minor: French, magna
cum laude,
Highest Honors in English for Long
Stories Short
Adam Ross Binkley - B.A.
English: Writing, Minor: Psychology, magna
cum laude,
Highest Honors in English for You
Shouldn’t Be Here, You Shouldn’t Have Come at
All
Christina Nicole Chavez - B.A.
Economics, B.S. Business Administration: Finance,
Minor: Spanish, summa cum laude,
Highest Honors in Economics for Dissecting
the
Credit Crisis: The Federal Reserve’s Role in the Current Crisis
Keeton Haley Christian
- B.A. History, Minor: Spanish, cum laude
William Joseph Conner
- B.A. History, Minor: Religious Studies, summa cum laude,
Highest Honors in History for St.
Augustine of Canterbury: A Pawn for Primacy
Elizabeth Carol
Dickinson - B.S. Business Administration: Accounting,
summa cum laude,
Highest Honors in Accounting for An
Examination of the Factors Affecting
Organizational Citizenship Behavior
Jamie Ellen Dinkins
- B.S. Biology: Ecology, magna cum
laude, Highest Honors for A
Morphological Analysis of a “Confounding” Population of Castanea in Northwest Georgia
Jennifer Lee Gordon
- B.S. Chemistry: Biochemistry Pre-Med, Minor: Biology, summa
cum laude, Highest Honors in Biochemistry for Surface Interaction between
Cholesterol and Carbon Powder
Ashley Caprill Hacker
- B.S. Political Science: International and Comparative
Studies, Minor: Spanish, summa cum
laude, Highest Honors in Political Science
for Islam and the West: The Crisis
of Modernity
Charlotte Diane Kimsey
- B.S. Political Science: Legal Studies, Minor: History, cum
laude, Honors in Political Science for The Sixth Amendment and Aggregate Crime:
Individual Roles of the Judge and Jury in Criminal Sentencing
Nicole Carol Linklater
- August Candidate for B.A. Communication, Minor: Sociology,
magna cum laude, Highest Honors in Communication for “In-Student Guide
to the
City” Publication
Rishi Shashikant Mistry - B.S.
Psychology, magna cum laude,
Highest Honors in Psychology
for Investigation of m-CPP-induced
Ritualistic Chewing Behaviors as an Animal
Model of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Jessica Lee Woods
Moerman
- B.S. Geology, B.S. Chemistry, summa
cum laude, Highest
Honors in Chemistry for Not Just an
Eyesore: Analysis of Metals Leached from
Smoked Cigarette Litter by ICP-OES
Rishi Dilipkumar Naik
- B.S. Chemistry, summa cum laude,
Highest Honors in Chemistry
for Progress Toward Self-Assembled
Platinum (II) and Rhodium (III) Molecular
Squares
DeMarcus Antoine Pegues
- August Candidate for B.S. Psychology, Minor: Speech, summa
cum laude, Highest Honors in Psychology for The Impact of Recruitment Messages
on Minority Applicants’ Perceived Self-Efficacy and Organizational
Attraction
Nathalie Vander Elst,
associate - B.A. Humanities, Minor: Psychology, magna cum laude, Highest
Honors for Space and the Modern Mind
in E.M. Forster’s Fiction
Clark Woodham Williams
- August Candidate for B.A. Foreign Language: French, B.A.
English: Writing, cum laude
Sarah Elizabeth Williams
- B.S. Psychology, B.S. Rehabilitation Science: Physical
Therapy, cum laude, Honors in
Psychology for The Effectiveness of
Video Self
Modeling for Modifying Playground Behaviors of Children with Autism
Spectrum
Disorder
