Honors DONORS to the Honors Program Thank you to our generous donors who made The spring semester and early summer have been marked gifts to support the UD Honors Program by celebrations at the UD Honors Program. Early in the from October 22, 2013 to May 1st, 2014: semester, we celebrated the success of Honors students on the UD “GTS Consulting” team as they won the national PriceWaterhouseCoopers tax case competition (out of 567 teams!). Later in the semester the UD Mock Trial Team, led by several Honors students, was so successful (with victories over teams from places like Harvard and Yale), that it was selected to host the American Mock Trial Association regional tournament. We celebrated two Fulbright scholars, two Goldwater Scholars, and the winners of the UD Warner and Taylor awards (for the outstanding male and female graduating seniors, see below). Speaking of graduation, on May 30th we awarded the largest number of Honors Degrees and Honors Degrees with Distinction ever: 246 Honors Degrees and 65 Honors Degrees with Distinction! A week later we welcomed the largest crowd of alumni to ever attend our Honors Program Alumni Weekend reception (and UD welcomed record crowds to Alumni Weekend overall). It was great to see so many of you back on campus. I hope we’ll set another record next year and that you will join us in celebrating the Honors Program at UD! Alumni Weekend 2014 Dr. Michael Arnold, Director University Honors Program Mentors Needed! The Honors Program is looking for alumni mentors. Applications are available online and due September 20th to participate in this academic year. Make a difference in the life of a current Honors student both personally and professionally. Honors Alumni Mentors can give career advice, provide assistance with preparation and decisions about graduate programs and prestigious scholarships, and share their life and work experiences. The mentoring cycle lasts one academic year (October-May) with mentor and mentee contact at least once a month. For more information, please see www.udel.edu/honors/mentoring. Students will apply for a mentor when they return to campus at the beginning of the fall semester, and mentor/ mentee pairs will be announced in October. As one mentee says, “The first time I met with my mentor, we were both extraordinarily surprised by how much we had in common, both throughout our undergraduate 2014 Warner and Taylor Award Winners Brie Gerry and Ryan Leonard. experience and our post-graduate interests. Even though we met just a few times, he was an invaluable resource in terms of giving advice regarding networking, requesting informational interviews, and general post graduate planning. I know that we will keep in touch even after the mentoring program is over!” Thank you to last year’s Mentors! Thank you With your support, the Honors Program is able to provide even more resources and opportunities for our students: • I ndividual enrichment awards for special opportunities outside the classroom •C ourse enrichment funds for Honors sections • Funding for Honors service learning and study abroad trips Honors Study Break Editors: Kristin Bennighoff, Kevin Liedel, Christine Schultz Writer: Mary Kate Reilly ART DIRECTOR: Christian Derr Printer: University Printing Honors Program www.udel.edu/honors [email protected] The University of Delaware does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, religion, age, veteran status, gender identity or expression, or sexual orientation in its employment, educational programs and activities, and admissions as required by Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and other applicable statutes and University policies. 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If you have donated and your name does not appear (right) or if you would like your name listed differently, please send an email to [email protected]. Paul Agostini and Rosana M. Gonzalez Sandra Gant Ambrose Avi A. Amon Jessica S. Applebaum Michael A. and Charlotte C. Arnold David J. Barsky Valeria E. Beasley Cris M. Bennighoff and Kristin Serensits Bennighoff Lisa M. Blazejewski Giovanna Citti Bolsvert Thomas B. Boutell and Roberta S. Petusky Betty L. Bridges Alaina M. Brown Robert F. and Mary Ann Brown Ann K. Charles Ryan M. Clemens and Amy L. Baker Laura A. Cohen Meghan Martin Comegys and Rodney Comegys Sharon Stachecki Conslato Joseph A. D’Agostino Mary W. D’Agostino Julia M. Deegan Norman S. and Bonnie W. Dick Mary C. Digel Vincent A. D’Ippolito Jr. Christy Prilutski Dorris and William P. Dorris Andrea Klocko Doyle Ernest Dun and Huiying Yang Brittany C. Enslin Erin J. Finehout Beth W. Gale Katie M. Galgano Sarah L. Georger Brielle Gerry Sabrina C. Glaser and Mark S. 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Poliak Eric M. Pridgen and Wenny Lin Paul S. Puccio Mariah D. Russell Richard S. and Peggy D. Sacher Ami R. Schiess Christine Lawson Schultz and David J. Schultz Patricia Hanigan Scroggs Gary F. Smith Jr. and Tamara Legutko Smith Michael C. Smith Cheryl Smith-Lintner and Benjamin R. Lintner Thomas W. Staley Andrew T. Stamps and Meghann Kreiger Stamps Matthew T. Stone Daniel J. and Judith C. Stuart Kevin Sun Mary Sikra Thomas and Stephen A. Thomas Rajesh Tuli Vanguard Group Foundation Karen Kolaetis Wagner Dean F. Walton Jr. and Sandra C. Northrup Kenneth B. Weinstein William A. Wildhack III Darryl S. Williams Emma M. Williford Jeffrey R. Wolters and Karen Wallace Wolters Michelle Shapiro Zack Joseph M. Zarraga Daniel E. Zelac Honors ISSUE 4 | AUGUST 2014 Student Feature Public Policy Students Make a Difference bring them abroad to build schools in developing countries. She founded UD’s buildOn chapter in September and, over the course of just one year, was able to raise $30,000 to travel to Nicaragua and build a school there this summer. Liz Burland (back row, center) pictured with her UD buildOn members during a visit from buildON founder Jim Ziolkowski. The experience from buildOn, along with graduate coursework in public policy and acceptance into the Legislative Fellows program, contributed to Liz being selected as a 2014 Truman Scholarship finalist. Next year, Liz and the rest of Elizabeth Burland (AS ’15) was undecided when she the buildOn chapter hope to engage even more UD arrived at UD from her home state of Connecticut, students in education-related service in the Newark but one Intro to Public Policy class changed everything. area while also fundraising to build a school in “I’ve always been interested in poverty and public Africa. “I know that everyone’s not going to be equal service,” Liz, now a Public Policy major, explains. “I in society but everyone deserves a chance,” she states. quickly realized I have the skill set to work on policy “Education is the best way to ensure that happens.” and that’s a way I can really make a difference.” Liz’s enthusiasm for service and education policy led her to a job in Summer 2013 with buildOn, a non-profit that works to break cycles of poverty and illiteracy through educational after-school programs. Liz notes that buildOn creates servicelearning curricula to engage students at home and When he first arrived in Washington D.C. in January 2013, Mark Rucci (AS ’15) admits that he was in awe. Mark, a Public Policy major in the 4+1 Program, spent that Winter Session evaluating Race to the Top grants and assisting with the Teacher Quality Enhancement Program. “I had pictured everyone in those buildings filled with passion, but it was actually very bureaucratic,” Mark says. “It solidified for me that if you want to have passion for helping kids, you need to be as close to them as possible.” As a recipient of a 2014 Plastino Scholarship, Mark has developed a proposal for the School Nutritional Awareness Consortium (SNAC), a group of faculty, staff, students, and parents that will create policy initiatives to offer public school students better, healthier meal options. He will spend his summer travelling to schools across the U.S. to study the National School Lunch Program and its negative effects on low-income and minority students. Mark’s research will be used to adjust the existing school nutrition program in the Wildwood School District in his home state of New Jersey. Mark notes that public education worked for him, but that disparities still exist between neighboring districts. His goal is for schools to adopt SNAC and provide free breakfast and lunch for their students. Patty Cordes McClain & Rick McClain Rick (AS ‘04) and Patty (AS & BE, ‘04) met at the beginning of their freshman year, when they both lived on the second floor of Russell A. “Throughout our years at UD, we went on several trips sponsored by the Honors Program and made great memories,” Patti says. “Ten years after graduation we’re still in close contact with many friends from the UD Honors Program.” Want to be featured? Email [email protected] with “Honors Double Dels” as the subject line. Alum Feature Paging Doctor Brown After attending an admitted students weekend, Alaina Brown (AS ’04) knew that she was more than just a number to the Honors Program. “I was a student that they really want to come to UD,” she says. Under the guidance of exceptional Honors professors like Dr. Munson and Dr. Groh, During her first year at UVA, she became involved with the Charlottesville Free Clinic, a center that provides medical care for uninsured adults who are unable to qualify for low-income healthcare. in undergraduate research. year and make an impact as a practicing member of Clinic have no other options for health care,” the medical staff. Brown explains, “but I have never met more interest in Throughout medical school, residency, and her medicine career as a pediatrician in Charlottesville, VA, became favorite Munson memory after reading a calling the first edition of this very newsletter! during her “I started in the Honors Program in 1979 sophomore and remember Dr. Munson’s study break year at UD well. I didn’t realize that we were the when she guinea pigs though, until I read the part served as in the newsletter that said it all began in counselor at fall of 1979. That was us! We all looked Camp Fantastic, a camp for children with cancer forward to it, but I don’t remember there in Virginia. The children at Camp Fantastic taught ever being any broccoli, cauliflower or Brown a great deal about adolescent resiliency and carrots; that must have all come later. she found herself truly inspired by “the fighting Back in the day, I distinctly remember spirit of children with terminal illnesses.” thankful people. I plan to continue to use my skills to help those who are underserved.” Her growing passion for pediatrics only To experience more Dr. Munson, check intensified during her time at the University of out this video with his advice to incoming Virginia School of Medicine. “Pediatrics was Classroom Sneak Peek: freshmen: http://vimeo.com/74109483 my first rotation and I found that I didn’t like Introduction to Sociology any other rotation after that one,” she says. “I Illustration by Jeffrey Chase AS’91 of the disadvantaged in her community. a UD student, Brown was finally able to return this “Many of the patients that are served by the Free Christopher Naro (EG ’83) recalled his Have an Honors Story to Share for Munson’s Corner? Email [email protected] with “Munson’s Corner” as the subject line. Brown has made an effort to meet the needs Brown developed a love for chemistry and engaged Brown’s the favorite being M&M’s!” “I loved practicing preventative medicine, watching families grow, and the ability of kids to bounce back from serious illness in ways adults never do.” loved practicing preventative medicine, watching families grow, and the ability of kids to bounce back from serious illness in ways adults never do.” Though she has volunteered as a counselor at Camp Fantastic several times since her first trip as In Victor Perez’s Introduction to Sociology class, students visit IKEA to explore the complex relationship between the individual and society. “Students get to embody critical sociological theory by resisting the IKEA model and its predictability and control,” says Perez, “and simultaneously counter the dehumanization that its rational, mass consumption model imposes on the customer.”
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