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HONORS 2 0 1 0 Edition FALL 2 HONOR | COMMITMENT | INTEGRITY | DISCIPLINE | FAITH | CURIOSITY | CHARACTER | CREATIVITY In This Issue Honors Students From the Meet 2010 Buchanan Scholars ............................1 Phi Kappa Phi Recognition ......................................4 2010 Visiting Artist Seminar ................................5 Record Year for Fulbrights .....................................6 Martin Lecture: Ragsdale .......................................7 Who’s Who ..................................................................8 Dean’s Desk Michelle Ebel: Austria ............................................ 10 Daniel Vaughan Presentation ............................ 11 Mathis Research Scholarship ............................. 11 The spring of 2010 has been an exciting Study Abroad ........................................................... 11 Daniel Gouger: Chile ............................................... 12 time for the Honors College, and this issue Transfer Students .................................................. 13 of Honors Edition is our opportunity to share Interdisciplinary Seminar ..................................... 13 Student Research ................................................... 14 some of the highlights with you. I will concen- Thesis Certificate ................................................... 14 2011 Visiting Artist Seminar ............................. 15 trate on awards that our students have won, Scholars Week Winners ....................................... 16 Mock Trial ................................................................. 17 because next to the reputation we have among Student News .......................................................... 18 Katie Bogle Summer Internship ......................... 19 our own students for challenging classes, I can Thesis Workshop .................................................... 19 think of nothing more important to helping our Theses Defended..................................................... 20 Undergraduate Fellowships ................................. 23 program attract a variety of additional quality Quiz Bowl ................................................................... 24 ODK Recognition ..................................................... 26 students than getting regional and national rec- Sam Mitchell: Drum and Bugle Corps ............... 28 Brad Hornick: Cadet............................................... 29 ognition for our current students. Honors College Awards......................................... 30 ILE Class .................................................................... 31 Online Forms Available .......................................... 32 In June, USA TODAY honored Jaz Gray and Shannon Murphy Lower Division Certificates .................................. 33 by naming them to its All-American All-Academic Teams. Jaz, Collage Awards ...................................................... 34 Fall 2010 Honors Lecture Series ...................... 35 who is now attending graduate school at Syracuse University, Adam Emerson: Moscow Burning ...................... 36 was one of twenty students in the nation who made the first President’s Day Open House ............................... 37 Honors Faculty team, and her picture and an accompanying article were Miller Welcomed ..................................................... 38 featured in the June 9 issue of the newspaper. She received In Memoriam: John N. McDaniel ........................ 38 a $2,500 award. Shannon Murphy, who is attending medical Eric W. Klumpe ........................................................ 39 Dean Visits Turkey ................................................. 41 school at East Tennessee State University, was named to the UFO Recognizes Assistance ................................ 42 Honorable Mention team. This marks the first time that MTSU Brad Bartel New Provost ..................................... 43 Kathy Davis Certified ............................................. 43 has had more than one person to be so recognized. Faculty and Staff News ......................................... 44 Honors Alumni Both the Tennessean and the Daily News Journal published Murphy, Holmes in D.C. ......................................... 48 Alumni and Friends News ..................................... 49 front-page stories about Kaitlin Howell’s Fulbright Award for USA TODAY Academic Team ............................... 51 medical research in Germany. In addition to Kaitlin, Eric Little, Amber Hampton: El Salvador .............................. 52 an Honors graduate who is working on a master’s degree Contributor Honor Roll ..............Inside back cover in public history at MTSU, got a Fulbright Award to teach in Cover: 2010 Awards Portugal. As with the USA Today recognitions, this is the first Eric Little: Fulbright Scholarship, Portugal. year MTSU captured more than one Fulbright, but given Laura Amy Ronner: MTSU Community Service Award. Clippard’s efforts as head of our Undergraduate Fellowship Shannon Murphy: USA Today All-USA College Academic Office (UFO), it will surely not be the last. These awards pay Honorable Mention Team, Omicron Delta Kappa Foundation Scholarship, MTSU Provost’s Award. tribute not only to our students but also to the effectiveness of Merranda Holmes: Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship Award, Omicron our programs in identifying and aiding those who are eligible Delta Kappa Foundation Scholarship. for such awards. Jasmine Gray: USA Today All-USA College Academic First Team, Omicron Delta Kappa Foundation Scholarship, MTSU President’s Award. Kaitlen Howell: Fulbright Scholarship, Germany, MTSU Robert LaLance Award. MTSU, a Tennessee Board of Regents university, is an equal opportunity, on page 4 nonracially identifiable, educational institution that does not discriminate against individuals with disabilities. AA049-0910 CONTINUED MEET ThE FrEShMEN Buchanan Scholars 1 This fall, 20 freshmen join the elite a band and organized a concert for 80-plus people. Buchanan Fellows, recipients of the His community service includes helping widowed most prestigious academic scholarship neighbors, delivering food, raising funds for a chil- offered by MTSU. Collectively, the students, dren’s hospital, and being involved in projects with twho represent three states and eleven cities his church youth group and the Key Club. Patrick is a in Tennessee, have an average ACT score of 32.8 recording industry major. and an average high school GPA of 3.918. John Michael Griner is from The Buchanan Fellowship is named in honor of Dr. Kingston, Tennessee, and attend- James M. Buchanan, an MTSU alumnus and ed Roane County High School. Nobel Prize winner. The newest Buchanan He was selected Most Scholars, and some of their accomplishments to Talented and was elected date, are listed below. vice president of the Beta Club. His community service Emilie Ann Aslinger is from Kingston, included a mission trip to Tennessee, where she graduated from Fulton, Missouri; a mission trip Roane County High School. Emilie was to a Lakota Indian reservation in 2009–10 tennis team captain and band South Dakota; and service week with sergeant, played flute in the 2007 and 2008 his church youth group. John is majoring in science All-State East Honors Band, and was select- with a concentration in pre-pharmacy. ed to attend the 2008 Tennessee Governor’s School for International Studies. She has also Ashlin Powell Harris graduated from assisted with the Knoxville Children’s Hospital Morristown-Hamblen High School Christmas benefit. Emilie is majoring in history. West in Morristown, Tennessee, where he was a National Merit Joe Scott Ballard, a mathematics major, graduated Semifinalist. He was a mem- from Spring Hill High School in Columbia, Tennessee. ber of the Morristown-West A member of the Beta Club for four years, Joe Science Club, which engages in received the Male Distinguished Scholar Award conservation projects. Ashlin is a for three consecutive years and was selected mathematics major. to the Mid-State Band of Tennessee for three years. He received numerous academic Lorel Joy Holsinger is a graduate of awards from the mathematics, science, and Summertown High School in Summertown, English departments. Tennessee, where she was a National Merit Commended Student for 2008–09. She Patrick Daniels is a graduate of Bearden was selected as a Student of the Senior High School in Knoxville, Month during her junior year and Tennessee, where he was a member was a Regional Essay Contest of the French Honors Club and winner and first-place winner completed five years of French in regional and state competi- studies. He competed in a tions for Health Occupations Scholars Bowl PBS quarterfinals Students of America. tournament. In 2009, he formed CONTINUEDon page 2 CONTINUEDBuchanan Scholars from page 1 Meredith Lynn Holt is a gradu- 11th grade. She was the founder and president of ate of Collinwood High School the Siegel High School Green Club; served through in Collinwood, Tennessee, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church as a vocal and cello where she was voted Most soloist, Royal School of Church Music Chorister 2 Studious. She achieved Training Day Housemaster, and Vacation Bible the highest possible score School volunteer; and assisted with Educational on the Statewide Writing Run-Out tours to area middle schools with the Assessment, was a Girls Murfreesboro Youth Orchestra. Brooke is an envi- State Representative, and ronmental science and technology major. received