2022-2023 Academic Year
Congratulations to the Honors Study Abroad Awards Winners for Spring 2023 programs!
2021-2022 Academic Year
| Elizabeth Andrzejewski | Dhruuva Shroff |
| Zach Bukowski | Noah Smith |
| David Chrisbaum | Tommy Treacy |
| Macnessa Fidlin | Blake Trembath |
| Lizzy Ibitoye | Stephanie Waldshmidt |
| Max Mantych | Will Wightkin |
| Maryn Schaefbauer | Liz Wiltgen |
| Divyank Sharma | John Zehman |
Congratulations to the Honors Study Abroad Award Winners for Summer and Fall 2022 programs!
Fiona Kelly-Miller, The American College of Greece, Fall 2022
Zoey Laipple, The American College of Greece, Fall 2022
Emma Strick, Literature, History, and Culture of Ireland, Summer 2022
Congrats to Honors Junior David Chrisbaum and Honors Sophomore Joanna Gao, who presented their research Power of Partnernships: An Engaged Approach for Advancing Health and Wellbeing of the Near West Side Neighborhood at the 2022 Big East Research Symposium!
Congratulations to Honors Sophomore Isabel Bonebrake on winning a Milwaukee Press Club Journalistic Excellence Awards for Best Still Photographs/Photo award through her work as the 向日葵视频Wire鈥檚 Executive Photo Editor.
Honors Senior Maaz Ahmed was accepted into the 鈥檚 2022 cohort. The program is dedicated to supporting BIPOC theatremakers. Each scholarship recipient is awarded a financial grant of $8,000, mentorship through five online seminars, and an all-expenses-paid New York City excursion. Congratulations Maaz!
Honors Senior Jessie Gomez presented her research Severity Measures in Dental Lesions at the 91st Annual Meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropology. Her research abstract was also published in .
Congratulations to Honors Freshman Drew Donahoe, who was awarded the Opus Dean鈥檚 Award to Outstanding First Year Students in the Opus College of Engineering.
In March, Honors Freshman Abby Brack presented the research poster Psychological, Social and Demographic Predictors of Womanist Identity Development at the Association for Women in Psychology conference as a co-author.
The 向日葵视频 Boxing Club, founded and led by Honors Junior Pouya Mirzaei, won best new club of the year by the MUSG. Congrats, Pouya!
Congratulations to Honors students Erin Nugent, Amanda Pastrick, and Laryn Zvokel on winning the Spring 2022 Honors Study Abroad Awards. Amanda and Laryn will both be attending King鈥檚 College in London, England and Erin will be attending the University of Antwerp in Belgium. Congratulations also go to Maddie Clark and Selah Alft who were also awarded study abroad funds, but their study abroad programs have been cancelled.
Honors Sophomore Leen Mortada was featured in the November 29, 2021 episode of the 鈥淥ur Roots Say That We鈥檙e Sisters鈥� podcast series, a platform that gives BIPOC women of Marquette a space to be heard. Listen to the podcast on the .
Honors Undergraduate Research Symposium
Congratulations to the 2021 Honors Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship awardees and MU4Gold Research Scholars who presented their research at the Honors Undergraduate Research Symposium on November 11, 2021! Find out more about the researchers and their projects on the Honors Research Symposium webpage.
Congratulations to Honors Freshman Marshall Kopacki on winning the Rare Artist Competition, an art contest for people with rare chronic conditions organized by the Every Life Foundation. Marshall's artwork, Boys are Girls are Bugs, will be displayed at Capitol Hill, and a donation will be made in his name to the Aplastic Anemia & MDS International Foundation. Find out more about the contest and read Marshall's artist statement on the .
Honors Senior Lexi Harwick presented at the MU Center for Peacemaking's Soup with Substance event on October 27, 2021 to share her summer research "Domestic Violence Shelters and Outreach in Non-Urban Locations" as a summer peacemaking fellowship recipient. A recording of the event can be watched on .
Congratulations to the Honors Action Research Team who offered a workshop at the international Assessment Institute, on Oct. 26, 2021, called "The Value of Student Partnership in Designing Program Outcomes and an Assessment Plan," following two years of work by the team. Kudos to honors students Kate Gustafson (PSYC 2021), Andrew Hirsh (EDUC 2021), Biluge Ntabala (POSC 2022), and Ashley Sanchez (BISC 2023)!
Honors Sophomore Litzy Ponce was included as a guest in the Center for Peacemaking's Soup with Substance series on September 22, 2021 to reflect on her peacemaking internship with the Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America. A recording of the event can be viewed on the Center for Peacemaking's .
2020-2021 Academic Year
向日葵视频Honor's MU4Gold Scholars program graduates its first cohort of undergraduate researchers Spring 2021.
Congratulations to the 2021 Honors Summer Research Fellowship Award Winners! Each student was awarded $3500 for their research projects to be carried out June - August 2021. Browse the winner's projects here.
Congratulations to the 2021 Summer and Fall Study Abroad Award winners!
Congratulations to Honors Senior Kate Gustafson who has been recognized as the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Senior! This honor is given on the basis of academic record, service, leadership integrity, and evidence of commitment to the ideals of a liberal arts education. Kate will record a message to the Class of 2021 that will be shared with College students, faculty and staff through our social media accounts and college website.
Congratulations to the many Honors students who have been named as 2020-2021 Student Affairs award winners!
Emerging Leader Awards:
Katie Darragh, Freshman, COMM
Sebasti谩n La Rosa, Freshman, HESC
Michael Mastri, Sophomore, ARSC
Claire Schomogyi, Freshman, ARSC
Bryanna Spietz, Sophomore, ARSC
Noah Smith, Sophomore, ARSC
Melissa Variny, Sophomore, BUAD
Liz Wiltgen, Sophomore, NURS
Contemplative in Action Leadership Awards
Ryan Anselment, Junior, BUAD
Katie Breck, Junior, ARSC
Carissa Burnes, Senior, EDUC
Savannah Charles, Senior, ARSC
Claire Conger, Senior, HESC
Jacquelyn Gerhardson, Senior, ENGI
Evelia Guerrero, Senior, NURS
Brandon Harisis, Senior, ARSC
Nick Howard, Junior, ARSC
Kajal Khatri, Senior, ARSC
Ellie Marino, Senior, ARSC
Joey O鈥機onnor, Senior, BUAD
Jennifer Pennypacker, Junior, ARSC
Adam Romanski, Senior, HESC
Congratulations to two Honors seniors on award wins in the Philosophy department: Noelle Douglass was awarded the Francis X. Boden Award for Excellence in the Study of Philosophy and Eric Miller was awarded the Rev. John Naus, S.J. Award for Excellence in the Study of Ethics and Values.
Congratulations to Honors Freshman Ari Manta on winning the English department鈥檚 6-word short story contest out of 113 submissions from students, staff, and faculty with the story: 鈥淚鈥檓 always thinking about forgetting you.鈥�
Additional compliments go to Honors Freshman Stephanie Waldschmidt, named runner-up for her two stories 鈥淎quarium for sale, not cat proof鈥� and 鈥淢issing goldfish, last seen in tank.鈥�
Congratulations to Honors Senior Abigail Kuborn on receiving two Undergraduate Awards from the Department of Biological Sciences for the 20/21 academic year - an Academic Achievement Award and Catherine Welsh Smith Award for Research.
Congratulations to Honors Junior Katie Breck and Freshman Cameron Heiser on their election as s (MUSG) 2021-2022 President and Vice President, respectively!
Honors Sophomore Noah Smith (German and Literature Major), has been accepted to attend the Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies鈥� inaugural undergraduate seminar, 鈥淭he World in the Book: 1300-1800,鈥� in Fall 2021. The 10 week seminar will use the multidisciplinary field of book history to explore how medieval and early modern people used different media鈥攖heological texts, maps, travel narratives, reference works, literature, and more鈥攖o make sense of a changing world.
Kate Gustafson, Honors senior and Psychology major and a member of the inaugural MU4Gold class, was accepted to present her research 鈥淓mpathy Building: Assessing the Effectiveness of a Virtual Reality Intervention to Improve Community-Police Relationships鈥� at the Council on Undergraduate Research鈥檚 , which will take place as a virtual event on April 27-28, 2021. Kate is one of only sixty students chosen to present research from hundreds of applications.
Honors Senior Lily Regan (Secondary Education in English Language Arts Major) has been accepted to present her research, 鈥淏uilding Relationships and Breaking Barriers: Culturally Relevant Professional Development for Secondary Educators," at the (CCCC). The CCCC Research initiative sponsors research that produces knowledge about language, literacy, communication, rhetoric, and the teaching, assessment, and technologies of writing. The Conference will be in a virtual format April 7-10, 2021.
Two Honors students have been selected as McBeath Interns for the . Annie Mattea (Senior majoring in Journalism) will intern in the summer of 2021 and Alexa Jurado (Senior double majoring in Journalism and Digital Media) will intern in the fall of 2021.
Honors Senior Noelle Douglass (Double major in Communication Studies and Philosophy) is working towards a senior thesis, the first communication studies department undergraduate thesis in over a decade. Her project researches the terms used for female attractiveness, how these terms are valued, and how social media platforms mediate these valuations. Noelle is seeking individuals of all ages, genders, races, sexualities, and backgrounds to participate in her research by taking an online, . You can find out more about Noelle鈥檚 project and follow the results of her research on the project's instagram page, .
Kaitlyn Hill, an Honors Junior double majoring in Political Science and Spanish, has accepted an internship to work with in Washington DC during the 2021 summer. As an intern, Kaitlyn will work on a wide range of projects and assist staff in an administrative capacity to address constituent requests and concerns.
Through her work with the MU Center for Peacemaking, Honors Junior Katherine Walsh (Economics & International Affairs Major) has collaborated on creating the Relational Learning Project. In conjunction with the Afghan Peace Volunteers and other international nonviolence organizations, the project aims to connect people from around the world to learn more about one another鈥檚 views on nonviolence. Find out more on the .
Honors Freshman Macnessa Fidlin (Double major in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Philosophy) has joined Dr. Chelsea Cook鈥檚 research lab to study the social behaviors of bees and how social environments influence group behavior. This summer, the lab will continue research studying the thermodynamic behavior of social fanning, among other experiments. Find out more about the .
Tess Murphy, an Honors Junior double majoring in Political Science and Writing-Intensive English, is the Spring 2021 intern at the in Washington D.C. this summer. As an intern, Tess works on various research and writing projects, specifically in areas of social policy, congressional outreach, education, and women in economics/technology.
2019-2020 Academic Year
Honors Freshman Victor Zarate (Mechanical Engineering major) won the Midshipman of the Semester in the 向日葵视频 Navy ROTC program for the Fall 2020 semester. NROTC focuses on academics, leadership, physical fitness and community involvement in order to provide students with the necessary skills to become future leaders of this great country. Find out more on the NROTC website. (/navy-rotc/)
Honors Senior Zo毛 Comerford (Double major in Journalism and Digital Media) is the 2020 Pete & Bonnie Axthelm Memorial Scholarship recipient, a merit-based award for outstanding MU journalism students with an expressed interest in sports journalism. Find out more about the Axthelm Memorial Program.
December 9, 2020
Inspired by the short documentary film "The Guerilla Bunny" which showcases a public art project in Massachusetts, Dr. Melissa Shew's HOPR 3957 class created painted rocks to spread positivity around campus. Read more about the project.
