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Examples of UHP Student Achievement
2005
Barry M. Goldwater National Scholarship--Ted Yamamoto
Jacob K. Javits National Fellowship--Peter Leman
('03) Peter will enter the Ph.D. program in English literature
and Critical Theory at UC-Irvine, fall 2005
Morris K. Udall Scholar Honorable Mention, 2004--Mackenzie Shardlow
UI Alumni Awards for Excellence--Bernardo Alvarez, Elizabeth Bento, Tina Carlson, Rebecca
Conrad, Brian Dorgan, Kira Furman, Cami Johnson, Erik Mentze,
Bart Plocher, Mackenzie Shardlow, Peter Stegner.
UI Alumni Association Dean's Scholarship--Bart Plocher, Mackenzie Shardlow.
ASUI Student Achievement Awards in Leadership and
Service
The Donald R. and Cora E. Theophilus Award--Caroline Miner
Frank W. Childs Award--Caroline Miner
Guy and Grace Wicks Memorial Award--Casandra Byington
Abdul Mannan and Ismat Sheikh Scholarship Award--Shingis
Madakhmetov
Individual Community Service Award--Megan Thompson
Bookstore Leadership Awards--Brenda Eby, Jessica Helsley,
Cami Johnson, Rebecca Mowry, Hartley Riedner, Mackenzie
Shardlow, Kara Simon, Megan Thompson, Julie Zohner
Outstanding Freshman--Ketti Boyce, Jessica Gruver, Kimbre
Lancaster, Anna Makowski, Kelly McFarland, Hannah Qualls
Outstanding Sophomore--Abby Anderson, Wade Copeland,
Kimberly Farnen, Lindsey Harris, Jessica Helsley, Erik Luvaas,
Heather Pearson, Hartley Riedner, Danielle Stumbo
Outstanding Junior--Heather Coddington, Cami Johnson,
Mackenzie Shardlow, Kara Simon, Julie Zohner
Outstanding Senior--Caroline Miner, Casandra Byington
University of Idaho 2005 Student Employee of the Year--Casandra
Byington (also received the State and Western Regional title
for 2005)
Phi Eta Sigma Local Chapter Freshman Scholarship--Hannah Qualls, Katherine Scott, and Maryann Watkins
Phi Eta Sigma National Scholarships (Undergraduate)--Shingis Madakhmetov
Nineteen members of the program were inducted into Phi
Beta Kappa for 2004-2005.
Many UHP students across campus have received other distinctions
for their academic and extracurricular achievements and
are noted in the following examples, which are representative
rather than comprehensive of UHP students' achievements
and service. Peter Stegner was a co-winner of the Ernest
K. Lindley Award for 2005, the highest award a student in
the College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences can receive.
The Department of English awarded the William C. Banks Best
Student Writing in English courses for 2003-04 to Tara Karr
and Peter Stegner. The College of Science awarded the Biological
Sciences Undergraduate Research Award to Ted Yamamoto. The
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Outstanding Senior
was Brenda Toevs, the Capital Press Outstanding Junior in
Agriculture went to Julia Williams, and Outstanding Sophomore
was Meagan Rose. Karen Ellison received the Outstanding
Senior Award in Biological Systems Engineering from the
College of Engineering. Also receiving Outstanding Senior
awards from Engineering were Bryan Haney in Chemical Engineering
and Amy Stillman, Civil Engineering. Eric Larson received
the College of Natural Resources Outstanding Senior Award.
The sixth Martin Institute-sponsored delegation to the
National Model United Nations in New York City represented
Norway this year with Lindsey Benedict, Diana Duncan, Lev
Tobias, and Megan Thompson participating, along with 15
other UI students.
Six students in Dr. Sarah Nelson's Core Discovery course
sequence “Honors--Sex and Culture: Women and Men in the
21st Century,” traveled with Prof. Nelson to
offer a panel presentation at the 24th Annual
Gender Studies Symposium at Lewis & Clark College, Portland,
Oregon, March 2005. Dr. Nelson reports that the presentation
explored issues addressed in the course, through a combination
of dramatic performance and analytical discussion. The session
drew a sizeable audience and was “very enthusiastically
received.” The students--Ketti Boyce, Chris Candler, Krysta
Schell, Gabe Shaddy-Farnsworth, Tiffany Thompson, and Katie
Scott--attended other symposium sessions and described their
experience as “truly inspiring and extremely influential
for their intellectual development and their academic aspirations”
(Dr. Nelson). The presentation also fostered collaboration
between the course and the 2005 DNA Festival of Very, Very,
Very Short Plays, held each spring at the University of
Idaho. Three students from the class--Danielle Pals, Katie
Scott, and Julianne Smith--submitted scripts to the festival
competition: Katie Scott's play, entitled “Obsession,” was
accepted for performance at the festival. All three plays,
including Pals's “An Excess of Testosterone, an Excess of
Problems” and Smith's “Unsatisfied,” were performed at the
Gender Studies Symposium.
Cami
Johnson (Junior, Biological Systems Engineering - Environmental
Engineering Option), who participated in The Research Experience
for Undergraduates through Virginia Tech in Biological Systems
Engineering in the Land and Water Resources Engineering
last year, will have the results of her research presented
this summer at the annual meeting of the American Society
of Agricultural Engineers. McNair Scholar Tina Carlson (Senior,
Art Education, BFA), along with faculty member Sally Graves
Machlis and Vicki Trier, coordinator of the McNair Achievement
Program, presented “Einstein and Van Gogh: Funding for Scientists
and Artists” at the National Art Education Association annual
convention in Boston, Mass. Other students in the program
who are conducting research are Ted Yamamoto (Sophomore,
Biology and English), who has been working with Dr. Larry
Forney in the area of probiotics. Alexis Snell (Junior,
Miocrobiology), who did a BRIN fellowship last summer, is
active in research under Dr. Don Crawford and Dr. Gulhan
Yuksel. Hillery Metz (Junior, Biology and Microbiology),
another McNair Scholar and in the BRIN program, did a dual
research project in Dr. Kathy Magnusson's lab and presented
the results of her research at the BRIN conference in Pocatello
as well as at the McNair Symposium. Jennifer Elle (Sophomore,
Physics) has worked the last three semesters in Dr. Leah
Bergman's lab researching optical properties of various
semi-conductor materials. Byron Wong (Junior, Electrical
Engineering) has worked on a research project in the Material
Science Dept. for Dr. Yang Ki Hong. The results of this
research dealing with applications in the semiconductor
industry were presented at the 49th Conference
on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials in November 2004. Also
working with Dr. Hong is Andrew Lyle (Sophomore, Electrical
and Material Science Engineering). Dmitriy Myedvyedyev (Sophomore,
Electrical Engineering and General Mathematics/Modeling
Mathematics) has done research with Drs. Tom Bitterwolf
and Leah Bergman, presenting at the 2004 American Physical
Society Northwestern Meeting in Moscow. Shingis Madakhmetov
(Sophomore, Electrical and Computer Engineering) served
as a full-time research intern during summer 2004 for the
Microelectronics Research and Communications Institute at
the UI and continued this research part-time as an intern
for Dr. Rick Wells for the 2004-2005 academic year. He has
a summer 2005 internship for the National Institute for
Advanced Transportation Technology. Simon McAllister (Junior,
Chemistry: Professional) is working for Dr. Frank Cheng
on a project to examine the effects of antioxodants. Nathan
Bialke presented a talk entitled “On efficiently generating primality certificates" at
the Conference on Computational
Aspects of Algebraic Curves. His presentation dealt with
the Agrawal-Kayal-Saxena cyclotomic primality test and its
recent variants, especially those based on elliptic curve
primality proving. Katherine Loftus has a summer internship
in the Marine Invasions laboratory at the Smithsonian Environmental
Research Center.
Jennifer Cammann was named artistic director for the
new UI student magazine, Blot, and received an honorable
mention for cover design at the Idaho Press Club annual
awards banquet in Boise. Daniel Hubbard and Henis Mitro
will intern at Micron in Boise. Jessica Poindexter, awarded
an internship by NASA, will spend her time this summer at
the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
Jessie Malecha a junior in Electrical Engineering, will
return to another internship with physicist Dr. Sami Asmar
at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, while Viola Fucskó and Erik
Schweller have also been selected as interns for JPL, managed
for NASA by the California Institute of Technology, NASA's
lead center for creating robotic spacecraft and rovers.
Megan Thompson will serve as legislative intern in Senator
John Kerry's office in Washington, D.C. during the summer
of 2005.
Student
Achievement 2004
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