Category: Students

Anna Ebers, Ph.D. candidate at SUNY ESF and Fulbright Fellow, is looking for interns!

Hello Honors students! An exciting opportunity has presented itself and we wanted to pass the word onto all of you! Anna Ebers, a Ph.D. candidate at SUNY ESF and Fulbright Fellow, is looking for an E-Commerce and Marketing Intern, a Marketing Intern, and a Grant-Writing Intern to work on a really great project. If there are students who may currently be in the Syracuse area, she is hoping you decide to read a bit more and look into volunteering some of your time! (Additionally, she would love to have the same interns working on the project throughout the school year so there’s a longer possibility as well.) As this is an unpaid internship it would be a great way to earn civic engagement hours for your Honors requirements and a great resume booster!

Anna explains, “Solar Solutions for Mexico project brings affordable solar technology to villages in rural Jalisco, Mexico, one village at a time. We electrify homes with stand-alone solar systems that come with 2 LED lights and a UV filter to purify water. These systems are produced in Mexico, and a partner NGO takes care of their installation and maintenance. Children can finally study in the evenings, not impaired by smoke from burning candles and kerosene lamps. Schools, medical centers and community spaces also benefit from our initiative. To meet their needs, larger more powerful solar panels are donated from Germany, where we formed a strategic partnership with another NGO. Solar electricity brings clean light to schools and connects both teachers and students to the outside world via solar PCs. With solar electricity, hospitals can store life-saving medicines in solar fridges.  Light in community centers allows grown-ups to use their evenings productively: charge their radios and cell phones or take evening literacy classes. Access to clean light empowers the community, especially women, who can work on their handicrafts in the evening as a source of income.  To help families pay for solar products, we purchase handicrafts fair trade from local women and merchandize them through our NGO in the US. We cut out the middle man and all proceeds go back to benefit the community in Mexico. We bring economic, social, and environmental benefits to the community through solar technology”.

So, if you’re interested, click on the images below and read up on what she is looking for in an intern!

For more information do not hesitate to reach out to Anna Ebers, the project director, at aebers@syr.edu or Rev. Gail Riina, director of the Step Center, at lutheran@syr.edu.

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 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.