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.

Muhyadin Abdullahi – departmental honors in Business Administration: 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

Brittany Bauer – departmental honors in Biology, project titled, “Correlation of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Growth to Municipal Water Nitrate Levels”

Jared Browning – departmental honors in Chemistry, project titled, “Bioderived Self-healing Hydrogel Synthesis”

Natalia Castillo – departmental honors in Psychology, project titled, “The Role of Polygraph ‘Lie Detection’ in False Confessions”

William Clough – departmental honors in Business Administration:  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

Jaley Coplin – departmental honors in Business Administration: 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

Rachel Ferkin – departmental honors in Chemistry, project titled, “Biginelli Synthesis Inspiring Future Reactions”

Dylan Flaherty – departmental honors in Communication Studies, Film, and New Media, project titled, “Augsburg College Students & COVID-19: Experience & Impact”

Liam Gallagher – departmental honors in Chemistry, project titled, “Study of KRas Hydration Layer Using ODNP”

Jacob Geffre –  departmental honors in Business Administration: Scored 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.

Jeff Gilbertson – departmental honors in Music, project titled, “Investigating Group Music Therapy in Depression in Teens: a Case Study”

Noah Goblirsch – departmental honors in Psychology, project titled, “Evaluating the Efficacy of a Peer-Supported ACT Intervention for College Students: A Randomized Pilot Study”

Cyrus Heimlich –  departmental honors in Business Administration: Deloitte Case Competition Presenter</

Kianna Helmin – departmental honors in Biology, project titled, “Studying Gene Expression of Hedgehog Throughout Four Stages of Development in Artemia Franciscana“</

Mina Himlie – departmental honors in Social Work, project titled, “But Where Are You Really From?: An Autoethnography of a Transracial, Transnational Adoptee”

Janell Howard – departmental honors in Health, Physical Education, and Exercise Science, project titled, “Hip Kinematics of Female College-Aged Dancers”

Kendall Jenkins – departmental honors in Chemistry, project entitled, “Umpolung Biginelli; Development and investigation of a green multi-component reaction”

Branwen Jorenby – departmental honors in Biology, project titled, “Using CRISPR to Disrupt hedgehog in Drosophila melanogaster”

Hanna Kazempour – departmental honors in Social Work, project titled, “Highlighting BIPOC Experiences in Chemical Dependency Treatment”

Julian Lapour – departmental honors in Economics, project titled, “Food Insecurity and Availability in Minnesota”

Lajntxiag Lee – departmental honors in Mathematics, project entitled, “Analyzing Soil CO2 Flux Dynamics Across Multiple NEON Sites”

Mollie Jean Lohmann – departmental honors in History, project entitled, “’Egyptian Magicians and the Discoverie of Witchcraft”

Rayan Macalin – departmental honors in Social Work, project titled, “Does Exposure to Drug Use in Childhood Increase the Likelihood of Drug Use for Somali American Teenagers?”

Lacey McDonald –  departmental honors in Business Administration: 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

Ayan Mohamed – departmental honors in Business Administration: 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

Richard Nistler – departmental honors in Business Administration: Scored in the top 10% of the nation on the Peregrine Academic Exit Exam for Accounting and Finance majors while maintaining a GPA above 3.5 in the major and overall

Minna O’Connell – departmental honors in Theater, project titled, “A Look Into the History of Musical Theater Through Workshops, Research, and a Devised Theater Performance”

Samuel Ojebode – departmental honors in Business Administration: Deloitte Case Competition Presenter

Nathan Olson – departmental honors in Theater, project titled, “Devising Original Theater and Producing Theatrical Social Media Content for an Immersive Theater Tour”

Diana Ortiz Alvarracin – departmental honors in Mathematics, project entitled, “Modeling soil carbon fluxes at long-term research sites in the United States”

Edwin Panora – departmental honors in Physics, project entitled, “Characterization of Swimming Behavior of Daphnia Magna in Presence of a Dopamine Agonist”

Kowsar Rage – departmental honors in Social Work, project titled, “Community Support Group for Somali Parents”

Mackenzie Ray – departmental honors in Mathematics, project titled, “Perspective 3D Modeling of a 4D Hypercube”

Alex Ruiz – departmental honors in Business Administration: Scored in the top 10% of the nation on the Peregrine Academic Exit Exam for Accounting and Finance majors while maintaining a GPA above 3.5 in the major and overall

Barbara Sabino Pina – departmental honors in Chemistry, project titled, “Using R to Analyze Peroxy Radical Kinetics”

Jake Schachter – departmental honors in Psychology, project titled, “Evaluating the Components of a Hybrid Trauma-Informed ACT Intervention for College Students: A Randomized Pilot Study”

Ubah M. Shire – departmental honors in Psychology, project titled, “Facial Stimulus Development”

Zully Sosa – departmental honors in Communication Studies, Film, and New Media, project titled, “Includes Attachment: How Parasocial Relationships are Formed and Expressed”

Justin Stauffacher – departmental honors in Business Administration: 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

Ted Strombeck – departmental honors in Computer Science, project entitled, “Predicting Myers-Briggs Personality Types through Machine Learning”

Amanda Todd – departmental honors in Communication Studies, Film, and New Media, project titled, “Targeting the Persuadables: Using the 2016 Election Conspiracy Theories as a Predictor for Future Political Targeting”

Amanda Todd – departmental honors in Theater, project titled, “Directing the Theater Production The Most Massive Woman Wins as a Way to Explore Female Representation and Body Image”

Caitlin Tran – departmental honors in Business Administration: 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

Lauren Weiland – departmental honors in Mathematics, project entitled, “The Effects of Rotational Symmetry on the Performance of Laguerre’s Method”

Lorraine Wongbi – departmental honors in Biology: Mayo Innovation Scholars Program

All names in this program are current as of April 3, 2023

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