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HONORSConvocation

Elizabeth Gibson Drinko

JOAN C. EDWARDS PLAYHOUSEFRIDAY, APRIL 22, 2022

7:00PM

M A R S H A L L U N I V E R S I T Y

60th Annual

1962-2022

The annual Honors Convocation is named for Elizabeth Gibson Drinko, a longstanding supporter of academic programs at Marshall University, including the activities of the Drinko Academy. A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she graduated in 1940 from Crafton High School, where she was a member of the YMCA Leader Corps, the National Honor Society, the French, Spanish and Latin clubs, Girl Reserves, and a class officer in her junior and senior years. She earned a baccalaureate degree in psychology from

Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, where she was a member of Beta Sigma Omicron (now Zeta Tau Alpha), the Panhellenic Council, the acrobatic swim team, the YWCA and May Court. She served an internship at the Neuropsychiatric Institute of Living in Hartford, Connecticut.

In 1946, Elizabeth married John Deaver Drinko, a Cleveland attorney and graduate of Marshall University. Together they had four children, eleven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Libby Drinko was an active volunteer who held offices in the United Presbyterian Women’s Group, the Cleveland Council of Panhellenic, and participated for many years in the United Presbyterian Missionary Conference, the Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts of America. Her service also included the boards of several foundations.

She was the recipient of honorary degrees from Marshall University, Westminster College and Keystone College.

The Honors College is grateful to have had such an outstanding friend and patron as Elizabeth Gibson Drinko. We also appreciate the continued support of the Drinko Academy to make this evening the special event that it has been for sixty years.

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T H E M I S S I O N O F H O N O R S E D U C A T I O N A T M A R S H A L L U N I V E R S I T Y

The Honors College at Marshall University provides an environment for innovative teaching and learning within an interdisciplinary curriculum motivated by creative, critical inquiry and respect for a multiplicity of thoughts, experiences, and identities. The Honors College collaborates with university and public partners to foster inclusive academic excellence in a diverse and supportive community of scholars dedicated to becoming socially conscious, responsible leaders and lifelong learners engaged in the acquisition and application of knowledge for a greater good.

Near the end of the spring semester, shortly before the Marshall University Commencement, the Honors Convocation has long provided an inspiring, campus-wide celebration of exceptional undergraduate student achievement. Named in 1994 for an extraordinary friend of Marshall, Elizabeth Gibson Drinko, the evening ceremony and reception has always been a means to publicly recognize graduating students that complete a distinct curriculum of honors coursework in addition to their major programs. It is also a way to provide students from across the university—at all points in their course of study—special recognition and commendation for clearly and effectively demonstrated excellence in academic achievement, research, and service.

The event has given faculty from across the university a valued opportunity to formally and publicly share achievements made by outstanding undergraduate students whom they have chosen for an award in their departments. To all honored students and those who have supported them at home and on campus, the university extends a hearty congratulations. We are proud to recognize the intellectual curiosity, passion for learning, and dedication to critical thinking exhibited by students listed in this program. These students have sought to test themselves and their faculty with difficult questions, while seeking solutions, and in so doing developed habits that should help prepare them for what are, no doubt, challenging times that we collectively face.

Facilitating the annual tradition of convocation as a college since its creation in 2009 and first incoming class in 2010, the Honors College has sought to demonstrate its service and commitment to the entire academic community of Marshall. We are able to do our work for the greater good of our university community and the many communities of which our faculty and students are a part through the support of colleges and academic programs who present these awards.

Like other universities, Marshall is a community in the physical sense given that we have our own distinct land, roads, and buildings. Far more importantly, we are a community bound by much more than the shared landscape of campus. We are knitted together by shared social practices that give a fundamental rhythm to life on campus through the timing of classes throughout each day and the many co-curricular and other events that bring punctuating anticipation and new opportunities each week of every semester.

M E S S A G E F R O M T H E D E A N

Brian Albert Hoey, Ph.D., Interim DeanThe Honors College at Marshall University

M E S S A G E F R O M T H E D E A N

Two years ago, together with universities around the world who were preparing to bring their communities together in collective celebration, Marshall had to face the unwelcome arrival of a novel coronavirus responsible for the disease that we came to know as COVID-19. In April 2020, when we would have held our Honors Convocation that year, our campus was nearly empty of people. How strange it was that all but a few students, who were sheltering-in-place in university housing, had gone home. Face-to-face classes and gatherings of virtually any kind were cancelled and students and faculty had to quickly adapt to learning remotely. Though necessary public health measures, the unsettlingly abrupt cancellations deprived the community of Marshall of many day-to-day events and special ceremonies in which we enact social and academic rituals that form the very fabric not only of everyday lives for its members—students, faculty, and staff—but also markers of essential periods of transition such as the culturally significant rites that mark completion and graduation.

Through considerable effort at every level, we have stayed strong as a community and have maintained an exceptional record of achievement while tending to each other’s welfare during the past two years. It is thus all the more wonderful to welcome everyone back to what we have wanted, which is to be together—face-to-face—in joyful convocation as we recognize the outstanding achievements of undergraduate students from across the university. Though the times remain such that we face a future inscribed with enhanced social, political and environmental uncertainties, and complex problems for which there were no sure solutions, we can draw shared comfort from the community—the family—that is Marshall.

We welcome you to join us today in rededicating ourselves to providing for and drawing on our shared mission at Marshall to make purposeful decisions and take meaningful actions that advance our collective well-being.

Take care and be well.

Dr. Brian A. HoeyInterim Dean, Honors College

Dr. Montserrat MillerExecutive Director, John Deaver Drinko Academy

Dr. Cicero FainVisiting Diversity Scholar, Marshall University

Cara BaileyInterim Assistant Dean, Honors College

Coordinator of the Society of Yeager Scholars

Program

Welcome ..........................................................................................................Dr. HoeyIntroduction of Guest Speaker ...............................................................Dr. MillerGuest Speaker ..................................................................................................Dr. FainRecognition of Partners in Honors Education ....................................Dr. HoeyPresentation of Student AwardsConcluding Remarks ...................................................................................Dr. Hoey

Please join us for an Honors Reception to follow our program in the lobby of the Memorial Student Center across 5th Avenue. For your safety, please use the

crosswalk, following signs and event staff, to the venue.

P R O G R A M P A R T I C I P A N T S

G U E S T S P E A K E R

Dr. Cicero M. Fain, III, is a fourth-generation black Huntingtonian. He received his B. A. from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and his M.Ed. from George Mason University. He is the recipient of the Carter G. Woodson Fellowship from Marshall University and received his M.A. and Ph.D. in History from The Ohio State University. His teaching career includes positions at Marshall, Ohio University-Southern, Niagara University, and the College of Southern Maryland. He has authored several articles in peer-reviewed journals, including

“Buffalo Soldier, Deserter, Criminal: The Remarkably Complicated Life of Charles Ringo,” in the Ohio Valley Journal, which is his current book project. His first book, “Black Huntington: An Appalachian Story,” published in 2019 by the University of Illinois Press was a finalist for the Appalachian Studies Association Weatherford Award. In 2021 it garnered the Literary Merit Award from the West Virginia Library Association. This summer, as a recipient of a 2019 Scholarly Research Fellowship, he will continue research on Ringo’s formative experiences at the Kentucky Historical Society. He is currently serving a two-year appointment as the Visiting Diversity Scholar at Marshall.

H O N O R E D S T U D E N T S B Y C O L L E G E

College of Arts and MediaDean Wendell Dobbs

School of Art and Design

Art HistoryOutstanding Undergraduate

Shannon Scott

Graphic DesignOutstanding Undergraduate

Zoe MayCharles Wood ~

PaintingOutstanding Undergraduate

Nicolas CavinsBaylee GrueserLevi Simpkins

School of Journalism and Mass CommunicationsOutstanding Undergraduate

Laren Carnell – Advertising/Public RelationsChloe Cook – Advertising/Public Relations

Kady Lemons – Media ProductionAndrew Rogers – Journalism

Ryan Sirk – JournalismCarter Truman – Journalism

School of Music

Jazz StudiesOutstanding Senior Award

Wesley McDowell

~ Honors College student* Yeager Scholar

A W A R D S A N D S C H O L A R S H I P S B Y C O L L E G E S

Music EducationMusic Student Service Award

Bailey Sanders

Music PerformanceBelle and Lynum Jackson Award

Jackson Hall

Concert of Soloists Competition WinnerSean Link

School of Theatre and DanceTheatre

Outstanding UndergraduateKendra Williams

Lewis College of BusinessDean Jeffrey Archambault

Accountancy & Legal EnvironmentAcademic Achievement in Accounting

Annika Behnke ~

Outstanding Service to Department and Community (Accounting)Stacy Butler

Finance and EconomicsAcademic Achievement

Joshua Dauber – Economics ~Emmy Fatica – International Business ~

Jacob Losh – Economics Erin Roberts – International Business ~

Hanna Shrout – Finance ~Wayne Worthington – Finance



Management and Health Care Administration Academic Achievement

Taylor Bailey – Health Care Administration Taylor Haley – Management Alex Khoury – Management

Thomas Smith – Management Michael Watson – Management

Outstanding UndergraduateSarah Blatt – Management

Marketing, Management Information Systems and Entrepreneurship

Academic Achievement Reagan Booten – Marketing

Hannah Ellis – EntrepreneurshipBailey Harmon – Marketing Malina Mosrie – Marketing

Brooklyn Persinger – Management Information SystemsKatelyn Spears – Management Information Systems

College of Education and Professional DevelopmentDean Teresa Eagle

Early Childhood EducationOutstanding Undergraduate

Lucy Diedrich

Curriculum, Instruction & FoundationsAcademic Achievement

Beth (Perry) May – Elementary EducationJared Switzer – Related Arts

Hannah Thompson – Secondary Education

Special EducationAcademic Achievement

Erica Choice



College of Engineering and Computer ScienceDean David Dampier

Civil EngineeringOutstanding Undergraduate

Harrison Randolph

Academic Achievement Zack Ihnat * ~Austin Jarrell

Madison Morgan ~Trevor ThewesJacob Trogdon

Computer Sciences and Electrical EngineeringAcademic Achievement

Brooke Ballengee - Electrical and Computer Engineering

Outstanding LeadershipNicole Adkins – Electrical and Computer Engineering

Hannah Vitalos – Computer Science ~

Outstanding UndergraduateJared Banzon – Electrical and Computer Engineering

Lesley Pennington – Computer ScienceAndrew Wall – Computer and Information Security

Industrial and Systems EngineeringAcademic Achievement in Occupational Safety & Health

Danielle Berry James Ellis

Aaron NapierShanekiqua Mitchell

Michael Morrison

Outstanding Undergraduate in Occupational Safety & HealthRachael Bush



Mechanical EngineeringAcademic Achievement

KC HoardCole Klemstine ~Spencer Murphy

Excellence in ResearchYousef AbdelgaberBrittany Ballengee

Outstanding UndergraduateZachary Preston

College of Health ProfessionsDean Michael Prewitt

Clinical Laboratory SciencesOutstanding Academic Achievement in Medical Laboratory Science

Anna Chenoweth

Outstanding Undergraduate in Medical Laboratory ScienceEmily Cernuto

Communication DisordersAcademic Achievement

Teagan BeitzelCaroline Foreman ~Miranda Weekley ~

Outstanding UndergraduateEmmalee Moles



DieteticsOutstanding Undergraduate

Samantha Farnsworth

Health ScienceAcademic Achievement in Health Science

Chandni MehtaRae Mooij

Peyton Morrone

Outstanding UndergraduateAlyssa Milbee ~

Spirit of Health Science Service AwardKyndall Baker

NursingAcademic Achievement

Adria Fox * ~Rileigh Parsons

Social WorkAcademic Achievement

Rayen CiccolellaMeadow HooverSydnee Moore

Rennan RinehartKammie Ruth

Outstanding UndergraduateJacob Shull

College of Liberal ArtsDean Robert Bookwalter

EnglishOutstanding English BA Student

Kathyrn Porter ~



Best English Education MajorHannah Thompson

Best Creative Writing MajorMolly O’Callaghan

Best Literary Studies MajorAudrey Blue

Best Professional Writing MajorMae Young

Best English Generalist MajorMadison Knight ~

GeographyAcademic Achievement

Jasper BallAnastasia BrooksRoman Geathers

Outstanding UndergraduateJacob Glandon

Sam E. Clagg ScholarshipBrycen May

Humanities, Classics and Religious StudiesOutstanding Undergraduate Thomas Donovan – Philosophy

Celeste Maddy – Classics ~Phoebe Stanley – Greek Heather Young – Latin

Modern LanguagesAgnes Porter Beaudry Scholarship

Taylor White

Outstanding UndergraduateRyan Green – JapaneseZack Ihnat – Spanish * ~

Kevin Overbaugh – Spanish Taylor White – French



Political Science Outstanding Undergraduate

Sam Godschalk – Political ScienceSkye Metzer – International Affairs ~

PsychologyOutstanding Undergraduate

Jayson Bowen ~Lauren Gaal

Destiny Tomblin

Outstanding Research Abir Benamar

Brennan Counts

Special MeritBrian Ash

Megan Russell

Sociology and AnthropologyAcademic AchievementTeddy Fuller – Sociology ~

Ivy Scoville – Anthropology ~

Outstanding Undergraduate Sydney Adkins – Anthropology * ~

Lanae Watland – Sociology

College of ScienceDean Chuck Somerville

Biological SciencesAcademic Achievement

Alexandra Evans ~Olivia Hart ~

Hayden O’Dell ~Lakin Wellman


Outstanding Undergraduate ResearchRebecca Foy ~

Kaden Thomas ~

ChemistryOutstanding Analytical Chemist

Carrie Sullins

Outstanding BiochemistBrady McSweeney

Outstanding First-Year ChemistHunter Mitchell

Outstanding Graduating ChemistYiannakis Lysandrou

Outstanding Inorganic ChemistDavid Vidrine

Outstanding Organic ChemistTrace Clark ~Perin Schray

Outstanding Physical ChemistKara Joseph * ~

Outstanding Senior ChemistSarah Hoard – Forensic Chemistry

Liz Stefancic – Biochemistry ~

Criminal Justice & CriminologyOutstanding Undergraduate in Criminal Justice

Grace Simpson

Margaret Phipps Brown Award for Honor and Excellence in Criminal JusticeMakena Rauch

Sam Dameron Leadership & Service Award in Criminal JusticeMaddi Morgan ~



GeologyAcademic Achievement

Brooke Burns * ~

Outstanding First-Year MajorJack Pennington ~

James Stacks

Outstanding First-Year StudentAlyssa Blevins ~

Outstanding UndergraduatePaul Summers ~

Mathematics and StatisticsOutstanding Undergraduate

Ryan ButcherLouis Instrall

Brook JacksonAJ Messinger ~Logan Rose * ~

PhysicsAcademic Achievement

Jacob LeeAJ Messinger ~Joseph Powell ~

Alva and Dixon Callihan ScholarshipJacob Lee

AJ Messinger ~

Dr. Thomas J. and Mary A. Manakkil Memorial ScholarshipJoseph Powell ~

Outstanding UndergraduateAlec O’Dell



T H E H O N O R S C O L L E G EDean Brian A. Hoey

The A. Mervin Tyson AwardGiven annually to an outstanding student in the Honors College

upon nomination by Honors seminar faculty

Mallory Stanley ~

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W I N N E R S , A L T E R N A T E S , F I N A L I S T S A N D S E M I F I N A L I S T S

Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Jarred Carter

SMART ScholarshipAustin Woodrum - Semifinalist

U N I V E R S I T Y H O N O R S G R A D U A T E S

Graduating with University Honors through the Honors CollegeIn addition to completing their university and major requirements, students in the Honors College complete a total of 24 credit-hours in honors coursework and experiences while maintaining a fulltime schedule at a minimum 3.3 GPA. Yeager Scholars complete their own requirements to graduate with University Honors through the Honors College and as recognized members of the Society of Yeager Scholars.

Emily Frances AdkinsAshalia Marie Aggarwal

Megan AldridgeAveri Grace Aya-AyAnnika Ai Behnke

Gavin Parker BootheJayson Thomas BowenMadison Taylor Boyd

Julia M. Cardot *Tabitha Mae CollinsAlex Ryan Conley *

Britney CoxRyan C. Davis

Holly Elizabeth EdwardsAlexandra S. Evans Brendin Bailey Flinn

Caroline Faith ForemanAdria Janelle Fox *Rebecca Jane Foy

Olivia Rene’ GilliganJacquelyn Olivia Goodenough

Laura Jane HallSavannah Faith HareOlivia Camille Hart

E. Zack Ihnat *Torren Alexa KalaskeyMakenzie Rae Kazee

Tyler KennettHaven D. Ketterman

Cole Samuel KlemstineMadison Reah Knight

* Yeager Scholar

* Yeager Scholar

U N I V E R S I T Y H O N O R S G R A D U A T E S

Isabella LillyEthan Luke Little

Lillian Margaret LucasHallie Denae McCoy

Jordan A. McGeeIan Christopher McKnight *

Madline Kaye MerrittJennifer Myungsook Murphy

Emma Austin Rae MyersHayden Michael O’Dell

Tristan M. PattonKathryn L. Porter

Anna Lindsay PrestonIsaac William RaineyMorgan Leigh RashLogan Daniel Rose *Nicholas Troy Scott

Ivy Rose ScovilleRileigh Booth Smirl *

Hannah StanleyMallory Rane StanleyElizabeth R. Stefancic

R. Wade SullivanKaden Monroe Thomas

Gabrielle Antoinette TolerAdolfo A. Torres

Miranda Shae WeekleyLe Trae Marcuis Wilborn *

Joshua Patrick Wine

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The Honors College extends a very heartfelt thank you to the many instructors who provided outstanding honors seminars (FYS100H, HON 200 and HON 480) to Honors students, core curricular seminars to the Yeager Scholars during this academic year, and a wide variety of departmental honors-designated courses that contribute to the mission of honors education at Marshall. We are also grateful to the departments and other units of these instructors (noted following their names). Without collaboration we cannot succeed.

Professor Clara AdkinsCommunication Studies

Professor Cynthia AdkinsPsychology

Professor George AdkinsPsychology

Dr. Karna BasantMathematics

Professor Michelle Biggs (HON 200) Student Affairs

Dr. Tim BurberyEnglish

Dr. Allison Carey (Yeager Seminar III) English

Dr. David Cartwright (Yeager Seminar III) Computer and Information Technology

Dr. Mike CastellaniChemistry

Professor Sarah Davis(HON 200) Advising and Undergraduate Studies

Professor Shoshannah DiehlEnglish

Dr. Andrea DuhonMathematics

Dr. Slav Gratchev (HON 480) Modern Languages

Professor Gustavo HalleyPsychology

Professor Lindsey Harper(HON 480) Libraries

Dr. Brian HoeyDepartment of Sociology and Anthropology

Dr. Christine Ingersoll (FYS100H & HON 480) Advertising

Professor Nancy JacksonCommunication Studies

Professor Matthew James (HON 200) Student Affairs

Dr. Kelli Johnson (HON 200) Libraries

Dr. Ji Yoon JungMathematics

Dr. Derrick KollingChemistry

Professor Nicole LawrenceEnglish

Professor Kay Lawson (HON 480) School of Music

Dr. Mariana Linz (HON 480) PsychologyDr. John Markiewicz

ChemistryDr. Herman Mays

(HON 480) Biological SciencesProfessor Daniel O’Malley (Yeager Seminar IV) EnglishProfessor Patricia Proctor

(Yeager Seminar I and HON 480) Political ScienceDr. Rachael Peckham

(HON 480) EnglishDr. Missy Reed

(HON 480) Special EducationProfessor Sandra Reed

(Yeager Seminar II) School of ArtDr. Robin Riner

Sociology & AnthropologyDr. Phil Rutherford

HistoryProfessor Sarah Stevenson

PsychologyDr. Donna Sullivan

Sociology & AnthropologyProfessor Lori Thompson

(HON 480) LibrariesDr. Jana Tigchelaar (HON 480) English

Dr. Jill TreftzEnglish

Dr. John Young (HON 480) English

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H O N O R S C O L L E G E C U R R I C U L U M A N D P O L I C I E S C O M M I T T E E

The Honors College Curriculum and Policies Committee (HCCAP) reviews proposals for upper-division seminars and serves as an advisory body for policies of the college. Voting membership consists of faculty representatives of all colleges at Marshall University. The Committee also includes two Honors student representatives each year. We are grateful for the contributions of these outstanding members of the Marshall community.

Membership of the 2021-2022 Academic Year

FacultyTyson Ang

Marketing, College of Business

Jayme WaldronBiological Sciences, College of Science

Isaac LarisonLiteracy Education, College of Education and Professional Development

Liz PaciolesHealth Sciences, College of Health Professions

Sandra ReedArt and Design, College of Arts and Media

Jana TigchelaarEnglish, College of Liberal Arts

Paulus WahjudiComputer Science, College of Engineering and Computer Sciences

Honors StudentsAveri Aya-Ay

Biological Sciences

Alex ConleyBiological Sciences

Honors College StaffBrian A. Hoey

Interim Dean, HCCAP Chair

Cara BaileyInterim Assistant Dean

Sande YentesHonors Advisor

Kate McComasOffice Administrator, HCCAP Secretary

S T E E R I N G C O M M I T T E E O F T H E H O N O R S C O L L E G E S T U D E N T A S S O C I A T I O N

The Honors College Student Association’s activities are led by a Steering Committee of students who enroll in HON 488, which is offered each semester. As one of the college’s student-led courses, it is not a traditional instructional course. It is an experiential and collaborative learning course. We are grateful for the contributions of these outstanding members of the Marshall community.

Membership of the 2021-2022 Academic YearPresident

Logan Rose – Mathematics

Vice PresidentOlivia Lewis – Accounting

Treasurer Ian McKnight – Biomedical Engineering

SecretaryAlex Conley – Biological Sciences

MembersAveri Aya-Ay – Biological Sciences

Brooke Burns – GeologyNatalie Dauber – Biological Sciences

Andrea Kirk – Communication DisordersMaddy Scott – Biological Sciences

Paul Summers – Geology

T H E H O N O R S O R A C L E N E W S

The Honors Oracle News is a product of student effort in the context of the HON 484 course, which is offered each semester. As one of the college’s student-led experiential and collaborative learning courses, it is not a traditional instructional course. Through collaborative peer-mentorship, students in this course learn about journalistic writing, develop interpersonal skills through interviewing at least two sources per story and create publishable work that could be suitable for resumes and portfolios. We are grateful for the contributions of these outstanding members of the Marshall community.

Membership of the 2021-2022 Academic YearExecutive Editor

Rileigh Smirl – English

Layout EditorSierra Hamsher – English

ReportersRafael Alfonso – Computer ScienceAveri Aya-Ay – Biological Science

Jillian Brown – ArtBrooke Burns – GeologyEvan Green – Journalism

Cameron Whetzel – Chemical SciencesJames Williamson – Biological Science

H O N O R S C O L L E G E S T A F F

Cara BaileyInterim Assistant Dean

Coordinator of the Society of Yeager Scholars

Angelica GarciaGraduate Assistant

Dr. Brian A. HoeyInterim Dean

Kate McComasOffice Administrator

Sande YentesHonors Advisor

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