LAMP Honors 2020 AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY what's inside... 3 Letter from the Director 4 Note from SAB President 5 Student Profiles 7 Asawchatroj, Batsaikhan, Block 8 Blundell, Boice, Bourkland 9 Castano, Chougule, Crabtree 10 Cunningham, Dawson, Dolniak 11 Eudy, Geimer, Harants 12 Hardesty, Heist, Hornsby 13 Hunter, Isch, LaRue 14 Liu, London, Martinez 15 Masharib, Meyer, Moher 16 Norman, Obermaier, Parker 17 Patel, Patel, Petchsen-Ibarra 18 Saberi, Sasso, Seigel 19 Shoemaker, Singhal, Szymanski 20 Telthorst, Theobald, Torgan 21 Van Dyke, Yaqub, Yu 22 Zhai 24 Highlighted Student Work from director Rebecca Spang For thirty years, the LAMP Honors Certificate Program has graduated some of Indiana University’s finest and most accomplished undergraduates. Our alumni are cancer scientists and architects, business professors and journalists; they are market researchers, attorneys, managing directors, and so much more. All around the world, LAMPers build, analyze, argue, create—and most of all (I have found) they care. You and the alumni you join are distinctive in the intensity with which you care about work, about people, about the world, and about the great public university you attended and the wonderful niche program you all share. Graduations are always emotional times. Happy times, proud times, sad times, hopeful times. I have a little secret to tell you: I didn’t actually attend my own college graduation. I was too scared thinking about the future, too gloomy about leaving my friends, too worried about how the whole thing would go. But nonetheless I graduated. I sometimes think the main effect of having missed that ceremony decades ago is that I cherish such events all the more today. A loss in one column was offset by a gain in another. I love celebrating others’ accomplishments—especially yours. This is hardly a typical Commencement weekend, but I know its very strangeness means you will go forward even more grateful for your health, your friends, your family, your education. You will make sense of whatever the future hands you with resilience and poise. And of course you know: One perspective is never enough! Page 3 a note from student advisory board president Willa Sasso At the beginning of the semester, most LAMP professors begin by having students go around the room sharing their name and why they chose to participate in the LAMP Honors Certificate. Through my 6 semesters of hearing responses, I’ve concluded that most of us had the same basic reasons for joining. We had some sort of interest that we felt was impractical for getting a job after college, yet felt too passionately about the field to choose something else. So we decided to add this business certificate program to be able to tell our parents and future employers about the concrete skills we gained in college. The Kelley courses we all took certainly provided us with those skills: accounting, computer fluency, business law, and statistics. But what we all ended up gaining through these past few semesters as LAMP students summed to be much more than skills on a resume. In our LAMP community, we participated in discussions on luxury, black markets, meat, and fashion with each of us drawing on a diverse bank of outside knowledge. We attended seminars, heard from visiting employers, swapped experiences, and traveled abroad. Through the past three years, we likely got to know the classmates around us more than we did the students in our own majors, whether we intended to or not. We succeeded in the one piece of advice everyone gives a new student at a school like IU: we made a big school small. An article in the IU Alumni Magazine from the fall of 1989 featured the new certificate program, calling LAMP “an innovative, award-winning program.” The article told readers about LAMP’s impending start up. The conclusion of the article summed up the program and defended its necessity at the university by stating: “In an era of specialization there are no magic solutions, but LAMP is illuminating the way to liberal learning.” Now, as we graduate as the 30th LAMP class, we’ve continued down that illuminated path as a testament to how beneficial LAMP still is today. I couldn’t be more thankful for the past three years of studying alongside my fellow LAMPers. I know we will continue to serve as examples of the greatness LAMP instills in its graduates, and I can’t wait to see how allof us carry our newfound knowledge into our chosen fields. Congratulations to all, and never forget: One Perspective is Never Enough! Sales Report and Expenses: Total sales: $1,800 Event expenses: $350 Total donation to HHF: $1450 Page 4 student profiles Page 6 Liberal Arts + Management Program Class of 2020 Gem Asawchatroj Bangkok, Thailand Gem is graduating with a major in Economics and a minor in marketing. On campus, Gem danced for HipHopConnxion dance company, was Co-Captain of IU's Collegiate Gaming team, played badminton for Indiana University's club, was affiliated with Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity, and was a member of the Thai Student Association. Gem has spent his summers interning as a law associate, and as a consultant for Deloitte in Bangkok, Thailand. Gem has used these various experiences to push himself into the consulting world and to look for careers with big companies. After graduation, Gem will be deciding upon continuing his consulting career in Singapore or in Thailand. Bayasgalan Batsaikhan New Albany, Indiana Bayasgalan is graduating with majors in International Studies and Political Science along with the LAMP certificate. During her undergraduate studies, she was a D1 varsity athlete with Indiana Rowing and was part of the Athletic Director's Diversity Council. She was a member and sustainability chair of Alpha Chi Omega Sorority. She also volunteered in Vietnam during her freshman year and studied abroad in South Africa during her sophomore year, focusing on diplomacy and security. Over the past four years, Bayasgalan enjoyed her time on campus and off-campus. She will miss all the restaurants, the auditorium shows, the plays, and her friends being so close by. Tears in her eyes as she leaves Bloomington, she plans to pursue law school after a gap year. Josh Block Dallas, Texas Josh is graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in English along with his LAMP certificate. During his undergraduate studies, he took an interest in writing and went on to study the craft of several creative writing forms in Dublin during the Spring semester of his junior year. His experiences in the English department, juxtaposed with those of his fraternity, serve as the basis for his senior honors thesis project - a coming of age story in the form of a fictitious novella. After graduation, Josh plans to do service work in Colorado. Page 7 Liberal Arts + Management Program Class of 2020 Nick Blundell Cloverdale, Indiana Nick is graduating with a major in Biology and a minor in Chemistry. In the summers between his undergraduate semesters, he worked at the Yale School of Medicine studying reward centers in the brain when affected by addiction. He serves on the LAMP Student Advisory Board, and fondly remembers hosting LAMP Camp for new inductees with his fellow SAB members. After graduation, Nick plans on working in either a lab or in a hospital setting, so that he can gain experience and bolster his medical school application. Some of his favorite classes and people were found in LAMP, and he hopes to stay in touch with the friends he made from the program. Justuss Boice Fort Wayne, Indiana Justuss graduates with a major in Biology. Justuss is the first college graduate in his family. Outside of LAMP, he was actively involved in the Demas Lab studying animal behavior and endocrinology. He was also involved with the Minority Association for Pre-Medical Students and was on the executive board of the LAMP Virtu Project. The highlight of his college career was studying abroad in Cape Town, South Africa for six months during the second semester of junior year. Although his plans are to one-day attend medical school, he is planning to first pursue a gap year of service through AmeriCorps, or obtain his master’s in finance through the Kelley School of Business. He is unsure what the future may hold but is very optimistic and excited for the journey that is to come. Julia Bourkland Bloomington, Indiana Julia graduates with BAs in Political Science (Honors) and Economics and minors in Feminist Politics and Political Analysis. Her time spent at the university revolved around research on political behavior and institutional response along with advocacy work on campus. Aside from her departments, she is affiliated with the Ostrom Workshop for Political Theory and Policy Analysis. Julia loves data, research methods, and puzzles. She will spend time working before entering a doctoral program in political science. She hopes to become a political scientist and professor while working as an expert consultant to government bodies around the world. Page 8 Liberal Arts + Management Program Class of 2020 Diego Castano Guayaquil, Ecuador Diego is graduating with an Economics degree and the LAMP certificate. Over the past four years Diego has gotten to explore the cultural diversity present on campus while working for ISA (International Student Ambassadors). He very much enjoyed getting to see what the “American College Experience” is all about during his time in Bloomington. After graduation, Diego plans to move to Ciudad de Panama and is excited about traveling Central America. Khushboo Chougule Fishers, Indiana During her time at Indiana University, Khushboo has been grateful for the tight-knit, intellectual community provided by her Cognitive Science major and for the mentorship received in the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience lab.