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Honors Convocation Photo Gallery

We’ve sorted through all our photos from Honors convocation!  At the Flickr link below, you will find individual pictures of students receiving their medals from the Dean of their college.  Once you find the image you want: click on it to open the larger version. Then, right click on it to bring up a menu that will bring you to the download page for the full size photo.

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Or view and download general images from the entire event here:

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SU Debate Team Has Winning Year!

Now that the academic year has come to a close, we wanted to point out some of the great accomplishments of the SU Debate Team, an organization filled with a number of our Renée Crown University Honors Program! This year, Samm Costello and David Kopel (Honors) won the Franklin and Marshall debate tournament, beating out other excellent teams from Swarthmore, American University and William in Mary in elimination rounds to get the win. The two also made it to the elimination rounds at an impressive five tournaments! Additionally, Brooke Baerman (Honors) and Anirudh Sridhar made it to the final round in the novice division at the University of Connecticut, eventually placing as the 2nd place novice team at that tournament. The Debate Team as a whole had many other excellent finishes such as making it to quarterfinals at Boston University, one of the most difficult tournaments of the year, having very good speaker rankings at many tournaments, and having one of the strongest showings ever at the National Championships where David Kopel and Samantha Costello placed 19th overall!

Lastly, the Team ranked in a number of categories this year:

  • Team of the Year- David Kopel and Samantha Costello ranked 17th nationwide
  • Speaker of the Year- Mathew Gasda was ranked 37th, David Kopel 41st, and Samantha Costello 60th in the nation
  • Novice of the Year- Brooke Baerman was ranked 68th in the nation
  • Club of the Year- the Syracuse University Debate Society really proved how far they have come as a team, achieving the rank of 14th in the nation. This put them far ahead of their competitors such as: Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, George Washington University and Fordham University.

 We at the Honors Program are proud of the work of the Debate team and all of the Honors students who have contributed to its success!

Honors Alumna, Kelsey O’Dell ’10, Announced as Recipient of Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship

The Renée Crown University Honors Program is proud to announce that Kelsey O’Dell, Honors graduate of 2010, has been name as a recipient of a 2012 Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship for graduate work or professional study. Kelsey earned her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the College of Arts and Sciences in 2010 and graduated Summa Cum Laude with Renée Crown University Honors, submitting her Capstone Project The Association of Type-D Personality and Prognosis Following Diagnosis of Cardiovascular Disease: A Review and Meta-Analysis. Kelsey has officially been accepted for the Physician’s Assistant Program at the Yale University School of Medicine and will begin her coursework this coming fall. Please join us in congratulating this outstanding accomplishment of one of our very own Honors Program Alumna.

Portrait of Kelsey O'Dell

Honors class partners with Syracuse’s Somali Bantu community

Five hundred Somali Bantu call Syracuse their home, and thanks in part to an initiative spearheaded by anthropology research associate and public sector folklorist Felicia McMahon, they are reviving their traditional folk arts here in Central New York.  

 

Follow the link below to read the full article about Professor McMahon’s Folk Arts, Festivals, and Public Display course and it’s interaction with the Bantu community.

http://sumagazine.syr.edu/2012spring/features/culturalexchange.html


Honors Students Stephen Barton, Rachel Weiser named Judith Greenberg Seinfeld Distinguished Fellows

Stephen A. Barton, a graduating senior majoring in international relations; economics; and Russian language, literature and culture in The College of Arts & Sciences, and Rachel Weiser, a graduating senior majoring in English in Arts and Sciences, have been named Syracuse University’s 2012 Judith Greenberg Seinfeld Distinguished Fellows.