Students Recognized at Annual Awards Ceremony
On Wednesday, April 29, 2015, thirteen undergraduate students were inducted into Triota (the Penn State Academic Women's Studies Honor Society) and seven undergraduate and graduate students were recognized for their academic excellence and accomplishments:
Triota Inductions and
Presentation of Undergraduate Student Awards
by Mindy Boffemmyer,
Lecturer and Women’s Studies Undergraduate Director:
Undergraduates inducted into the Women’s Studies Honor Society, Iota Iota Iota:
Tatyana Bonds, Bethany Bowser, Chelsea Capps, Naomi Clouden, Antonella Crescimbeni, Hanna DeMarte, Amanda Goldberg, Megan Lamb, Rudi Laudenslager, Chelsea McGhee, Alexis Scott, Hannah Sterner, Madeline White
The Mimi Barash Coppersmith Endowed The Laura Richardson Whitaker Memorial
Scholarship in Women’s Studies: Award in Women’s Studies:
Melissa McCleery, Senior, Majoring in Molly Dilts, Senior, Majoring in
Women’s Studies, Political Science and Women's Studies, and Communications
Spanish Arts and Sciences
The Mimi Barash Coppersmith Endowed
Scholarship Outstanding Undergraduate
Student:
Olivia Pecora, Junior, Majoring in Mimi Barash Coppersmith with
Women’s Studies and Sociology with a Melissa McCleery and Olivia Pecora
certificate in Crime, Law, and Society
Presentation of Graduate Student Awards
by Dr. Lise Nelson,
Women’s Studies Graduate Director:
Laura Richardson Whitaker Memorial Graduate Fund in Women's Studies:
(two winners)
Maria del Rosario Castro Bernardini, Aprana Parikh, Dual Ph.D. Candidate
Ph.D. Candidate in Rural Sociology and in Geography and Women's Studies
Women's Studies
Sara Woods Graduate Fund in Women's Sara Woods Graduate Fund in Women's
Studies: Outstanding Graduate Student: Studies: Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor:
Laura Sapelly, Dual Ph.D. Candidate in Emma Gaalaas Mullaney, Dual Ph.D.
Art Education and Women’s Studies Candidate in Geography and Women's
Studies