{"id":4661,"date":"2025-05-22T20:02:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T20:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sociology\/?page_id=4661"},"modified":"2025-05-22T21:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T21:12:08","slug":"departmental-honors-recipients","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sociology\/student-recognitions\/departmental-honors-recipients\/","title":{"rendered":"Departmental Honors Recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By completing a Departmental Honors Project, sociology majors are able to graduate with Distinction in Sociology, an honor that goes well beyond the traditional Latin Honors (i.e. cum laude, magna cum laude, and summa cum laude). The purpose of the Graduation with Distinction in Sociology award is to acknowledge superior student achievement as a sociologist and a scholar.<\/p>\n<h3>2025 Recipients<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4679\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4679\" style=\"width: 402px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4679\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/05\/Veronica-and-Alexa-824x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Alexa De Leon and Veronica Arellano Martinez pose with Prof. James Vela-McConnell, their departmental honors faculty mentor.\" width=\"402\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/05\/Veronica-and-Alexa-824x1024.jpg 824w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/05\/Veronica-and-Alexa-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/05\/Veronica-and-Alexa-768x955.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/05\/Veronica-and-Alexa-1235x1536.jpg 1235w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/05\/Veronica-and-Alexa-1647x2048.jpg 1647w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sociology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/05\/Veronica-and-Alexa.jpg 1961w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4679\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alexa De Leon and Veronica Arellano Martinez pose with Prof. James Vela-McConnell, their departmental honors faculty mentor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Veronica Arellano Martinez<\/li>\n<li>Alexa De Leon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2022 Recipient<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Paul McCoyer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2021 Recipient<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Ebelin Morales Delgado<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2017 Recipient<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Emily Campbell<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2016 Recipients<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Keisha Barnard<\/li>\n<li>Devin Wiggs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2011 Recipients<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Jessica Pfaffendorf<\/li>\n<li>Brieanna Watters<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2007 Recipient<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Megan Schiller<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By completing a Departmental Honors Project, sociology majors are able to graduate with Distinction in Sociology, an honor that goes well beyond the traditional Latin Honors (i.e. cum laude, magna cum laude, and summa cum laude). The purpose of the Graduation with Distinction in Sociology award is to acknowledge superior student achievement as a sociologist &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"parent":4659,"menu_order":37,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4661","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4661"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4682,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4661\/revisions\/4682"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/sociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}