Honors College hosts Ice Cream Social for Honors students

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

The Honors College at Oklahoma State University recently welcomed this year’s honors students with an annual fall semester ice cream social.

“Our annual ice cream social allows us to recognize Honors College award recipients while providing an informal setting that gives honors students an opportunity to interact with some of their professors and top-level university administrators,” said Robert Spurrier, director of the Honors College. Students also have the opportunity to mingle with their peers at the social, which helps build relationships that will last throughout the their college careers and beyond, he added.

The event recognizes all honors students who have completed the requirements for an honors award in the previous summer or spring semester, which includes the completion of 21 honors credit hours in four curricular areas and two special honors seminar classes with a cumulative grand point average of 3.5.

Most of students completed their general honors award, but other awards handed out to students include specific college or departmental honors awards and Honors College degrees. The departmental or college awards require the completion of 12 upper-division honors credit hours and a senior honors thesis or creative component with a cumulative 3.5 grade point average. The degrees, the highest academic distinction available to undergraduates, requires a minimum of 39 honors credit hours with a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 at graduation.

This fall the Honors College has a record number of “active participant” Honors College students  with 1,299 students. The students are from 151 Oklahoma cities and towns, 33 other states, and 10 other nations.

For more information about the Honors College and its programs, please contact Brent Ladd at 405-744-3626. Pictures of students in attendance with President Burns Hargis are available at http://okla.st/19mJUUH .

OKLAHOMA
BARTLESVILLE
Anthony Gaskill, Electrical Engineering
BETHANY
Megan McRae, Political Science
BIXBY
Audra Jenkins, Psychology
BROKEN AAROW
Victoria Thomas, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Laura Walters, Elementary Education
Erin Westbrook, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
CUSHING
Marli Claytor, Natural Resource Ecology and Management
DUNCAN
Hannah Kafer, Strategic Communication
EDMOND
Aiden Carmichael, Civil Engineering
Samuel Hitchcock, History
Shelby Landes, Communication Sciences and Disorders / Spanish
Brandon Silver, Computer Science
Kacie Spadea, Elementary Education
Leah Underwood, Physiology
Erin West, Strategic Communication
ENID
Judy Schillo, History / Secondary Education
Jordan Stegman, Biochemistry
JENKS
Christine Corbin, Design, Housing and Merchandising
Kelsey Khoo, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
MIDWEST CITY
Margaret Lees, Chemical Engineering
MUSKOGEE
Benjamin Gibson, Computer Science
MUSTANG
Brandon Hooks, Accounting
Steffanie Stoll, Management / Accounting
Rebecca Zwart, Elementary Education
OKARCHE
Alex Watkins, Economics
OKLAHOMA CITY
Jordan Dean, Art
Kristin Finnicum, Elementary Education
Rebecca Schoeb, Secondary Education
OWASSO
Riley Larson, Nutritional Sciences
PERKINS
Jessica Branstetter, Microbiology/Cell and Molecular Biology
PIEDMONT
Anna Baroni, Communication Sciences and Disorders / Spanish
SHAWNEE
Kara Laster, Management
TAHLEQUAH
Erika Crawford, Animal Science
Seth French, Secondary Education
TULSA
Emily Bingham, Marketing / Management
Gary Fishel Jr., Political Science
Lauren Nichols, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Kelsey Schmitz, Nutritional Sciences
YUKON
Angela Case, Civil Engineering
Brittany Cook, English
Madeline Haigh, Strategic Communication
Loren Wortham, Accounting

ARKANSAS
GRAVETTE
Brett Meek, Architecture
ROGERS
Caraline Duprey, Athletic Training
SPRINGDALE
Samantha Kaiser, Entomology

ILLINOIS
ALGONQUIN
Amber Livingston, Management / Marketing

IOWA
BETTENDORF
Elizabeth Hickman, Biosystems Engineering

KANSAS
ANDOVER
Evan WIllford, History / Computer Science
GREENSBURG
Morgan Tyree, Health Education and Promotion
ROSE HILL
Louis Steigerwald, Geology
STILWELL
Eric Skaggs, Biology

MISSOURI
MONETT
Brandon Klick, Aerospace Engineering

NEBRASKA
OMAHA
Andrew Martin, Mechanical Engineering

NEW HAMPSHIRE
EXETER
Kathleen Nelson, Mechanical Engineering

TEXAS
LEAGUE CITY
Jonathan Freberg, Mechanical Engineering
PILOT POINT
Kaley Uptergrove, Marketing / Management
PROSPER
Sara Nilson, Animal Science