2025 Honors Information

DEPARTMENTAL HONORS

Departmental Honors are awarded to students who meet the advanced project requirements in research, performance, or writing of their major department.

Sehan Adan – departmental honors in Biology, participated in the Innovation Scholars Program, Mayo Clinic.

Veronica Arellano Martinez – departmental honors in Sociology, project titled, “Individual and Communal Manifestations of Trauma: The Murder of George Floyd and the Mental Health of College Students and the Minneapolis Community”

Victoria Battle – departmental honors in Music, performance titled, “Composition Showcase Recital”

Ariana Beeby – departmental honors in Computer Science, project titled, “Utilizing a Touch Screen Kiosk to Analyze Initial User Interaction”

Ariana Beeby – departmental honors in Mathematics, project titled, “Building Bridges: Location Numbers of Barbell Graphs”

Hayley Bush – departmental honors in Film Production, project titled, “Underwater Filmmaking”

Gustavo Cano Garnica – departmental honors in Business and Economics; competed in the Deloitte Tax Challenge showcasing their analytical skills, problem-solving abilities, and tax knowledge.

Alexa De Leon Padilla – departmental honors in Sociology, project titled, “Faith Under Fire: Investigating the Attitudes of Catholics Toward the Church in the Wake of Ongoing Sex Abuse Scandal and Cover-up”

Fatuma Farah – departmental honors in Business and Economics; competed in the Finance & International Business Category of the Innovation Scholars Program, Mayo Clinic.

Max Figura – department honors in Mathematics, project titled, “Applying Different Movesets to the Lattice-SAW Model of Tornadic Vortices”

Eleanor Flynn – departmental honors in Physics, project titled, “Quantifying Daphnia Locomotion: Investigating Physico-Chemical Interventions with Deep Learning”

Sean Gaffaney – departmental honors in Physics, project titled, “From Flagella to Flocking: Macroscopic Modeling of Locomotion from Single Organisms to Cluster Formation”

Juan Garcia Genis – departmental honors in Business and Economics; competed in the Deloitte Tax Challenge showcasing their analytical skills, problem-solving abilities, and tax knowledge.

Savanna Gorbunow – departmental honors in Film Production, project titled, “Director’s Cut”

Aeriana Hanif – departmental honors in Business and Economics; scored in the top 10% of the nation on the Peregrine Academic Exit Exam for Undergraduate Students in Business Administration while maintaining a GPA above 3.5 in the major and overall

Jimmy Hemera – departmental honors in Physics, project titled, “Chemical Kinetics of the Reaction Between the Acetyl Radical and Oxygen”

Abi Hilden – departmental honors in English (Creative Writing), screenplay titled, “Music-Kill”

Blake Jagodzinske – departmental honors in Business and Economics; earned a score in the top 10% of the nation on the Peregrine Academic Exit Exam for Accounting and Finance majors while maintaining a cumulative GPA above 3.5 in major and overall

Chiara Jirillo Mellace – departmental honors in Communication Studies and New Media, project titled, “Social Media Analysis and Strategy Development”

Zoie Johnson – departmental honors in Biochemistry, project titled, “Using Imidazolium Ionic Liquids for a Greener Amidation Reaction”

Jason Jopp – departmental honors in Computer Science, project titled, “Using Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Navigation: Working Towards Self-Aware Robots” 

Jason Jopp – departmental honors in Data Science, project titled, “Semantic Image Segmentation for Rock Detection in a Simulated Lunar Environment”

Pavel Kifyak – departmental honors in English, project titled, “Oedipus Deo Optimo Maximo”

Sarah Lam – departmental honors in Chemistry, project titled, “Green Synthesis of Betti Bases via Umpolung-Biginelli Reactions using Amberlyst-15 with Computational Modeling Analysis”

Tomas Menna – departmental honors in Business and Economics; earned a score in the top 10% of the nation on the Peregrine Academic Exit Exam for Accounting and Finance majors while maintaining a cumulative GPA above 3.5 in major and overall

Kayla Mielke – departmental honors in Theater, project titled, “From Page to the Stage: Directing Tian”

Ayub Mohamed – departmental honors in Business and Economics; earned a score in the top 10% of the nation on the Peregrine Academic Exit Exam for Accounting and Finance majors while maintaining a cumulative GPA above 3.5 in major and overall

Hanad Mussa – departmental honors in Business and Economics; competed in the Deloitte Tax Challenge showcasing their analytical skills, problem-solving abilities, and tax knowledge

Elias Muy – departmental honors in Biochemistry, project titled, “Gait Analysis in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease During ON and OFF medication phases”

Luke Omodt – departmental honors in Physics, project titled, “Exploration of Ground States and Thermoelectric Properties for Anti-Ruddlesden-Popper Polar Metals”

Nick Parkos – departmental honors in Psychology, project titled, “Utility of the P3 Event-Related Potential for Detecting Risky Substances Use Behavior”

Juan Rengifo – departmental honors in Business and Economics; scored in the top 10% of the nation on the Peregrine Academic Exit Exam for Undergraduate Students in Business Administration while maintaining a GPA above 3.5 in the major and overall

Daniel Retic – departmental honors in Physics, project titled, “Developing a Machine Learning Model to Discover New Dielectric Materials”

Karelly Reyes Alvarado – departmental honors in Communication Studies and New Media, project titled, “Framing the Borders: Revealing Media Bias in Immigration Reporting”

Dylan Schneider – departmental honors in Business and Economics; scored in the top 10% of the nation on the Peregrine Academic Exit Exam for Undergraduate Students in Business Administration while maintaining a GPA above 3.5 in the major and overall

Caroline Schön – departmental honors in History, project titled, “Ein bleiches Schattenleben: Romanticism’s Paradox in the Life of Karoline von Günderrode and the Shadow of Young Werther”

Caroline Schön – departmental honors in Theater, project titled, “Writing, Creating, and Finally Staging Tian”

Canaan Seife – departmental honors in Business and Economics; competed in the Deloitte Tax Challenge showcasing their analytical skills, problem-solving abilities, and tax knowledge

Carter Sorenson – departmental honors in Business and Economics; scored in the top 10% of the nation on the Peregrine Academic Exit Exam for Undergraduate Students in Business Administration while maintaining a GPA above 3.5 in the major and overall

Leah Tift – departmental honors in Mathematics, project titled, “Building Bridges: Location Numbers of Barbell Graphs”

Elizabeth Wulff – departmental honors in Psychology, project titled, “Let’s Talk: Potential Interpersonal Closeness Mitigation for Loneliness in Older Adults”

Pa Nhia Yang – departmental honors in Business and Economics; scored in the top 10% of the nation on the Peregrine Academic Exit Exam for Undergraduate Students in Business Administration while maintaining a GPA above 3.5 in the major and overall

Hector Yuquilima – departmental honors in Business and Economics; earned a score in the top 10% of the nation on the Peregrine Academic Exit Exam for Accounting and Finance majors while maintaining a cumulative GPA above 3.5 in major and overall

Rodrigo Zaragoza-Contreras – departmental honors in Business and Economics; competed in the Deloitte Tax Challenge showcasing their analytical skills, problem-solving abilities, and tax knowledge.

Joseph Zmuda – departmental honors in Business and Economics; competed in the Management Information Systems Category of the Innovation Scholars Program, Mayo Clinic.

 

All names in this program are current as of April 1, 2025.

 

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