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.
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.
World premiere of Honors alumnus music piece
The world premiere of Chris Cresswell’ s newest piece,
Fabric of a World Unfolding will take place on May 22nd
at the Flea Theater in TriBeCa as part of Kathleen Supove’s
Music with a View Festival. Also, Nocturne No. 1 for Winds
was a runner up in the 2012 Young Composer Mentor Project
put on by the National Band Association.
Capstone Presentation Day Schedule Published
Our finalized schedule for presentation day is published here for your reference. There are some fantastic topics this year (as always)! We hope to see you there!
Honors Students Among 2012-13 Remembrance Scholars
Congratulations to the 21 Honors juniors who were among the 35 Remembrance Scholars
named for the 2012-13 academic year: Ryan Badman, Ivan Bakin, Amanda Balch,
Jaime Bernstein, Tara Brenner, Andrew Cline, Daniel Cowen, Christopher DePalma,
Kemardo Henry, Alyssa Ierardo, Gordon Jones, Anna Kahkoska, Daniel Kepple,
Alaina Mallette, Juliann Merryman, Matthew Musacchio, Perry Russom,
Kishauna Soljour, Natascha Trellinger, Sarah Walton, and Bailey White.
We are proud of you!