Patricia Gangwer Mayeux, a long-time employee at the University, has created an endowment, the income from which is used to fund prizes to be given annually to that year's best Honors Projects. Prize(s) will be awarded at the Senior Reception on May 4, 2018. Download the application here. After it is completed, it has to be turned into the Honors College Office - 024 Founders Hall.
To be eligible for a prize an Honors student must:
Present their project at the Undergraduate Research Symposium or National/State Research Conference
Have submitted an Honors Project to the Honors office.
Have earned an “A” on their project
2018 recipients were:
Leigh A. Dunewood: Examining the Social Experiences and Academic Persistence of High-Achieving Students of Color at a Predominantly White Institution (PWI)
Keefe Watson: Technology and the Marginalization of Older Adults: How Politeness Theory and Stereotype Embodiment Interact in Older Adults' Technology Use
Mia Eberts: Exploring Lexical Diversity in a Set of Multiples
Alyssa Hulthen: Examining Variability in Productive Syntax within a Set of Triplets
2017 recipients were:
Michelle Sire: Repeat After Me: Dance Program Evaluation for the Friendship Circle
Vanessa Burke: The Good and Bad of Workplace Gossip
Alexis Decker: Assessing Spanish-Speaking Children: A Comparison of International Practices
2016's recipients were:
Drew Ashby-King — #BG4Unity: Testing the effectiveness of a social media activism workshop
Alisha Sanders- Roman Archaism in Depictions of Apollo in the Augustan Period
2015's recipients were:
Angela Barbour — Luck of the Draw
Benjamin Dobler— Explaining Consciousness
Stephanie Padula — Characterization of a Novel Clade of Transporters in Phytophthora
Morgan Tucker — Enlightenment in Education: Buddhist Influences of Kindness in Thai Education
2014's recipients (pictured below with Dean Simon Morgan-Russell) were:
Merissa Acerbi — The Effect of Visual Wulst Lesions and Trigeminal Nerve Sectioning on the Discrimination of Magnetic Inclination in the Homing Pigeon (Columba livia)
Ashley Chapman — Warning! You Are About to Enter "The Friend Zone"
Hannah Duffy — Determining a Developmental Window for the Effect of Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB) on Ultrasonic Vocalizations (USVs) in Sprague-Dawley Rat Pups
Katie O'Leary — Brighter Connections Theatre: A Study of the Behavioral and Social Effects on Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders Through the Use of Drama Therapy
2013's recipients were:
China Billotte — Career Services Usage: An Analysis of Efficacy and Contextual Barriers'
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