Whitman and Honors Alum Featured Profile

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Oriana Fuentes (MG ‘12) is one of our many successful Honors alums. Read all about her on the Whitman Voices webpage. Prof. Christopher Rohlfs served as Oriana’s Capstone Advisor in the creation of her project, “The Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Sovereign Debt Sustainability in Latin America”. You can download it from our Surface Library…

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CAPES Award Winner, Maryann Akinboyewa

Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement & Scholarship Honors student Maryann Akinboyewa’s dedication and service to community were celebrated with the conferring of The Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement and Scholarship. The award recognizes committed students who have significantly contributed to their communities through innovative public scholarship and community engagement. Maryann devoted countless hours to the…

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Honors + D1 Athlete = Super Impressive!

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SU Athletics held a special event to honor the student athletes in the Class of 2015. Among the group were Caroline Habjan (AS ’15) and Rose Aschebrock (AS/PC ’15) of the Women’s Rowing team and Steven Fantigrossi (AS ’15), head student manager of the SU Football team. It takes extreme dedication, time management and endurance…

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Honors alum Tsubasa Morioka reports on her Fulbright ETA experience

Tsubasa Moroika with her host sisters

Tsubasa Morioka graduated in 2012 with a B.S. in Information Management & Technology and won the Capstone Award for best Professional project for her thesis “Analyzing the Tea Party Movement, the Coffee Party Movement, and the Occupy Wall Street Movement: Case Study on How the Internet Influences Grassroots Social Movement.” After graduation, she spent a…

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An Honors Marriage

Hello Honors Community, This is a brief story we just had to share! Meet Andrew Catauro ’06 (TRF/ITA) and Shannon (Grotzinger) Catauro ’07 (MAG/SOC) . Andrew and Shannon met in the Honors Program on their first day of class for PHI 107, completed what was then “General Honors”, and went on to get married!  Andrew works…

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Capstone projects can lead to great things!

Just a little inspiration for those of you working on your Capstone projects!   Recent Honors alumna Adriana Gonzalez-Vega made a film, “Frente Al Mar”, for her Honors Capstone project last year.  When it was shown on presentation day, it was clear that not only did Adriana have some serious talent, but that this particular…

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Honors Alumna, Rachel LeQuire ’12, Chosen for Peace Corps

Hello Honors Community! Coming to you today with some spectacular news about one of our Honors Alumni, Rachel LeQuire! Rachel has been chosen by The Peace Corps to go to Guatemala and work with The Healthy Schools Program in February ; working with children, teachers and principals in various rural towns. She will be helping with initiatives to educate…

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