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The UHON Program seeks to develop and strengthen the talents of our students so that they may enter the post-baccalaureate world prepared intellectually, socially, and ethically to serve and to excel.

98% percent of our students who wish to pursue graduate or professional degrees are admitted to the schools of their choice, 96% of them with substantial scholarships, fellowships, or assistantships. Recently our graduating seniors have been accepted to such graduate programs as:

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Ph.D., Psychology)
  • University of Virginia (Ph.D., Biophysics)
  • Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (J.D., M.P.A.)
  • Stanford University (M.S.E.)
  • The University of Maryland (M.F.A., Creative Writing)
  • The University of Chicago (Ph.D., Comparative Religious Studies)
  • Tulane University (Ph.D., English, and Ph.D., Biology)
  • Louisiana State University (Ph.D., Anthropology)
  • University of Tennessee at Memphis (M.D.)
  • Georgia Institute of Technology (Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Chemistry)
  • North Carolina State University (Ph.D., Microbiology)
  • Vanderbilt University (Ph.D., Chemistry)
  • University of Georgia (M.B. A. and Ph.D., English)
   

Pam Ross, M.D.
(UHON Class of 1987)

Pam Ross was an exceptional chemistry student and student leader at UTC, serving in student government, on the Honor Court, as a resident assistant in housing and as president of her sorority, Delta Sigma Theta, while maintaining a magna cum laude academic record in the demanding UHON and chemistry pre-med curricula.

Since receiving her M.D. from Emory University School of Medicine in 1991, Dr. Ross has literally saved countless lives as an emergency medicine physician. She is currently Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine and Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics with the University of Virginia Health System. She also serves on the Virginia Child Fatality Review Board, which develops procedures to ensure that child deaths in Virginia are analyzed in a systematic way.