Class of 2011

Heather C. Boni
Winnemucca, Nev.
Dance, Psychology/UHP Core Award
Heather plans to audition for dance productions and companies and will attend a Dance Movement Therapy Intensive in New Hampshire to incorporate dance and psychology to help a wide age range of clients. She plans to pursue either a Masters in Dance Movement Therapy or an MFA to enable her to become a Dance Professor at an educational institution.
Read more of Heather's story in Lessons Learned

Alec D. Bowman
Pocatello
Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics-General Opt./UHP Core Award
This fall, Alec begins a Ph.D program in Aerospace Engineering with an emphasis in dynamics and control, at the University of Kansas.

Caroline L. Campbell
Moscow
Food Science/UHP Certificate
This summer, Caroline will intern at Cargill (Minneapolis) performing food ingredient research. She will study abroad in Santiago, Chile this fall and start graduate graduate studies in health and wellness or food chemistry fall 2012.

Kelsie J. Evans
North Bend, Wash.
Biology/UHP Certificate
Kelsie has accepted a graduate research assistantship to pursue a Master of Science degree in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the University of Idaho.

Kathryn (Kate) A. Fox (right)
Challis
Biology/UHP Certificate
Kate plans to move to Missoula to work while she applies to medical school.

Amber J. Lankford (middle)
Missoula, Mont.
Wildlife Resources/UHP Certificate
Amber will work for several months as assistant manager at the Taylor Wilderness Research Station; she's also working with a faculty member to develop a Masters project in ornithology and education that would start in the spring of 2012.

Eleanor (Ella) R. Wrenn (left)
Chugiak, Aka.
Psychology, UHP Certificate
Ella hopes to enter into a PhD Neuroscience program in the United Kingdom within the next few years--she's looking at jobs in biology labs to gain some experience.

Jordan A. Hensley
Camas, Wash.
Political Science/UHP Core Award
After graduation Jordan plans to work for a while and then pursue a master's of public policy.

Chenchen Jimmy Li
Pocatello
Electrical Engineering/UHP Core Award
This fall, JImmy begins graduate studies in electromagnetics at the University of Texas at Austin.

Adeline Lustig
Cottonwood
Anthropology Biology/UHP Certificate
This fall, Adeline will begin graduate studies at Boston University to pursue a Master of Science degree in Forensic Anthropology.

Michelle A. Machinal (right)
Richland, Wash.
Chemical Engineering/UHP Certificate
Michelle will be a process engineer for Georgia Pacific in Wauna, Oregon.

Maya D. Nair (left)
Boise
Chemical Engineering/UHP Certificate
Maya has accepted a Life-Cycle Assessment internship with Diversey in Racine, WI.

Hannah Nizam-Aldine
Melba
English-Teaching Emph., Foreign Languages-Spanish Opt., Cert. Only-Secondary/UHP Certificate
This fall, Hannah attends Colorado State University on a full-ride teaching assistantship as she studies for an M.A. degree in Teaching English as a Second Language.

Mitchell J. Odom
Moscow
Psychology/UHP Certificate
This fall, Mitch will begin medical school at Vanderbilt university.

John (Gus) A. Simpson
Salmon
Radio/TV/Digital Media Production/UHP Certificate
Gus plans to spend the summer in continuing to work at UI's Sound, Production & Lighting, gets married soon after that, and then decide what's next in terms of career or further studies/degree.
Learn more about Gus' story in Check, Check: Listening to the Sound of Success

Myca R. Taylor
Selah, Wash.
Sociology/UHP Certificate
This fall, Myca begins graduate studies at Central Washington University to pursue a Master's of Education in School Psychology.

Heather M. Tyner
Anchorage, Aka.
Food/Nutrition-Dietetics Opt./UHP Core Award
Following graduation, Heather plans to visit Scotland, get married, and start graduate studies in UI's Family & Consumer Sciences program.

Kimberly M. Williams (right)
Beaverton, Oreg.
General Studies/UHP Core Award
Kimberly is currently on church mission.

Eleanor (Ella) R. Wrenn (left)
Chugiak, Aka.
Psychology, UHP Certificate
Ella hopes to enter into a PhD Neuroscience program in the United Kingdom within the next few years--she's looking at jobs in biology labs to gain some experience.