In addition to meeting college-specific requirements, all Honors graduates have:
- Completed 2 Honors courses and 2 Honors seminars
- Designed and submitted an individualized program of study
- Completed and presented an independent Honors Project
In addition to meeting college-specific requirements, all Honors graduates have:
Honors Project: Pathway, a Novel Mechanism that Drives Myeloid Differentiation
Moment of pride: I am proud that I have been an undergraduate research assistant for Dr. Raquel Espin Palazon for over 2 years.
Post-grad plans: Attending Optometry School.
Honors Project: Analyzing the Efficacy of In-Person versus Virtual Group Singing Therapy, as an Early Intervention for Swallowing in Persons with Parkinson’s Disease
Moment of pride: Being asked to be a TA for BIO 344 (Human Reproduction).
Post-grad plans: Attending PA School.
Honors Project: Silencing the Stigma and Promoting Social Acceptance: Tourette’s Syndrome Education and Awareness at Iowa State University
Honors Project: Carbon Accrual in Saturated Riparian Buffers
Participation & Awards: HON 121 Leader
Honors Project: Analyzing the Impacts Chronic Wasting Disease has on Varying Communities within the United States
Honors Project: Succession Planning for Farmers
Post-grad plans: Attending Law School.
Participation & Awards: HON 121 Leader
Honors Project: Spontaneous Haploid Genome Doubling in Arabidopsis thaliana
Moment of pride: Getting into research my freshman year through the honors program.
Honors Project: Fine Arts Improving the Mental Health and Well-Being of Students at Iowa State
Moment of pride: My induction into the Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society.
Post-grad plans: Attending Dental School after a gap year.
Honors Project: Risks of Antimicrobial Resistance in Swine Manure Treated Environments
Moment of pride: Capstone project
Post-grad plans: Attending University of Minnesota Medical School.
Participation & Awards: HON 121 Leader and Honors Ambassador
Honors Project: Development of Real Time PCR for Nine Clostridium perfringens Toxins
Moment of pride: Earning the Outstanding UHP Scholarship.
Post-grad plans: Attending Veterinarian School at Iowa State University.
Participation & Awards: HON 121 Leader and Student Enrichment Grant Recipient
Honors Project: Global Cities at the Crossroad: Pursuing Justice in Planning for Climate Change
Honors Project: Nanoparticle-mediated drug delivery of an antioxidant, mitoapocynin, via an intramuscular route in an organophosphate rat model of epilepsy: Toxicity studies
Moment of pride: Interning in France at the USDA European biological control lab.
Post-grad plans: Attending University of Kentucky.
Participation & Awards: HON 121 Leader
Honors Project: Determining the Effects of Dry Extruded Corn in Receiving Cattle Diets
Honors Project: Characterizing Differences in the Nasal Microbiota of Healthy Lambs and Stillborn Lambs resulting from Cache Valley Viral Infections
Moment of pride: Being accepted into vet school.
Post-grad plans: Attending Iowa State University's College of Veterinary Medicine.
Honors Project: Evaluating the potential to reduce soil transport at strategic flowpaths in western St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, using best management practices (BMPs)
Moment of pride: I am proud to be a member of Gamma Sigma Delta, Phi Beta Kappa, and Eta Sigma Phi.
Participation & Awards: UHP Grant Recipient
Honors Project: Quantifying the Effects of Ethoxylated Isotridecanol as an Additive to Plant Growth Regulators
Post-grad plans: Receiving Master's at the Ohio State University.
Participation & Awards: HON 121 Leader
Honors Project: Drosophila PTTH Mutants to Analyze Aging and Muscle Function
Moment of pride: The CALS Council Senior Award for Inclusive Excellence.
Post-grad plans: Research Technician Position at Thomas Jefferson University at Dr. South's lab focused on skin cancer research.
Participation & Awards: UHP Grant Recipient
Honors Project: Campus Trees of Iowa State
Participation & Awards: HON 121 Leader, Honors UA, Mentor & Melampy Grant Recipient
Honors Project: The Use of Bacteriophage in the Fight Against Mastitis
Moment of pride: I am proud of making such amazing friends.
Post-grad plans: Attending University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine.
Participation & Awards: HON 121 Leader
Honors Project: Phenotypic characterization of intestinal organoids in healthy dogs and dogs with idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease
Moment of pride: I was one of the captains (section leaders) of the ISUCFVMB trombone section this past fall. I loved getting to teach the freshman and work with my best friends every single day towards a common goal.
Post-grad plans: I will be starting a Medical Lab Science program this summer, working towards being a clinical microbiologist in hospital diagnostic labs!
Participation & Awards: HON 121 Leader
Honors Project: Verifying Yeast 2 Hybrids of Blumeria Haustoria to Barley Plants using Microbial Analysis
Moment of pride: I am proud to have worked in Dr. Roger Wise’s lab for 3 years now. I have further developed my lab skills and made connections within the Plant Pathology, Entomology, and Microbiology department.
Post-grad plans: Attending graduate school in the future to pursue a Master's in Public Health.
Participation & Awards: Mentor & UHP Grant Recipient
Honors Project: Verification of a qPCR Assay for Detection of Phialophora gregata in Varied Soybean Tissues and Brown Stem Rot Suspect Samples
Moment of pride: Cornell University Graduate School Fellowship
Post-grad plans: Attending the Plant Pathology Ph.D. program at Cornell University.
Participation & Awards: Mentor Grant Recipient
Honors Project: Creating a Scope 1 and 2 Carbon Calculating Tool for Small Business and Individual Use
Moment of pride: Working with the Live Green! Team on Campus.
Post-grad plans: Job, full time offer accepted
Participation & Awards: HON 121 Leader, Honors Undergraduate Assistant
Honors Project: Explore Poultry: Interactive Learning Modules
Moment of pride: Served as an Honors FHP Leader and Honors Undergraduate Assistant.
Post-grad plans: Iowa State Master of Arts in Teaching, Science Education
Honors Project: Dam Effects on Pre-Weaning Health and Lifetime Outcomes in Holstein Dairy Cattle
Moment of pride: Highest 2% AGLS Senior - Spring 2023 and Spring 2024
Post-grad plans: Working as a Dairy Nutrition Consultant for Nelson Dairy Consultants.
Honors Project: Proportion of Bovine Leukemia Virus Antibody Positive Dams Actively Shedding Virus in Colostrum in a Small Research Dairy
Honors Project: Establishment of Natural Transformation as a Genetic Tool for Studying Avibacterium Paragallinarum
Moment of pride: Being the president of Microbiology Club
Honors Project: Streamlining Data Coding: GPT Automation of Idea Unit Coding
Honors Project: Isolation of Porcine Astrovirus 4
Moment of pride: Being awarded the Mensa Foundation Women in STEM Scholarship.
Post-grad plans: Attending ISU College of Veterinary Medicine.
Participation & Awards: HON 121 Leader
Honors Project: An Evaluation of the European Union’s Farm to Fork Strategy: Formation, Feedback, and Moving Forward
Participation & Awards: HON 121 Leader, Mentor Grant Recipient
Honors Project: Assessing the Impact of Women’s Education on Perceived Household Food Security in Western Kenya
Moment of pride: I am proud to have received the presidents leadership award this year for my involvement at ISU.
Post-grad plans: I am hoping to be accepted into Princeton In Africa Fellowship Program to work in education and youth development.
Honors Project: Optimizing Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Mycoplasma bovis Isolates
Post-grad plans: Attending Pharmacy School.
Honors Project: Evolve with Mammals: The Efficacy of Board Games as Alternative Learning
Honors Project: A Creative Capstone to 21st Century Marketing in the Agricultural Industry
Moment of pride: Being a part of the McNair Scholars Program.
Post-grad plans: I will be both working a full-time job as a Jr. Program Manager with Liberty Fund based in Indianapolis through the Orr Fellowship as well as attending Butler University for a Masters in Strategic Communications.
Honors Project: Our Panhellenic: A Close-Knit Sisterhood
Moment of pride: Serving as CPC VP-Judicial Affairs.
Post-grad plans: Attending Medical school.
Honors Project: Marketing and Sales in the Saddlebred Industry
Moment of pride: Top 2% of my class as a Junior.
Participation & Awards: HON 121 Leader, Mentor Grant Recipient, Honors Ambassador
Honors Project: Creating a Business Case Study Competition for Undergraduate Students
Moment of pride: Completing internships with my 3 dream organizations - Disney, NBCUniversal, and NASA!
Post-grad plans: In the middle of the interview process right now - so excited for all of the possibilities!
Participation & Awards: HON 121 Leader
Honors Project: Connecting Personality to Scientific Literacy
Moment of pride: I am most proud of leading the Honors 121 class.
Post-grad plans: Working in business analytics with plans to attend grad school or law school at some point in the future.
Participation & Awards: HON 121 Leader
Honors Project: Charting the Course: A Study on the Career Decisions of Accounting Graduates
Moment of pride: Being inducted into Cardinal Key Honor Society.
Post-grad plans: Attending Missouri State to pursue a Masters of Accounting.
Honors Project: Public Carbon Pipeline Sentiment
Honors Project: The Effect of COVID Provider Relief Funds on Healthcare Organizations
Moment of pride: I'm proud of my time serving as the Vice President of Finance for the Collegiate Panhellenic Council.
Post-grad plans: Work full time at CliftonLarsonAllen in Nashville.
Honors Project: Made in Iowa: Low Carbon Concrete from Local Waste
Moment of pride: I am proud of my contributions as the Co-President of the NOMAS chapter to spark critical conversations and create opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students in the program.
Post-grad plans: Architectural Designer at DLR Group in New York City.
Participation & Awards: HON 121 Leader
Honors Project: Architectures of Protest atop Distorted Foundations
Moment of pride: I've been able to act as a Peer Mentor for College of Design freshmen and transfer students for 4 semesters now!
Post-grad plans: I will be working at Healy Bender Patton & Been Architects in Naperville, IL.
Honors Project: Architecture for Non-Humans
Moment of pride: Being a Cyclone Aide Advisor.
Participation & Awards: UHP Grant Recipient
Honors Project: Mushroom Bricks
Honors Project: A Death Disposition Database
Moment of pride: Member of The Phi Betta Kappa Society.
Post-grad plans: Pursuing master's degree in public affairs.
Honors Project: Sprout: An Exploration into Eco-Brutalism
Moment of pride: I am most pround of my leadership positions as the Vice President of Iowa Students of Landscape Architecture, and the President of Conservation Club.
Post-grad plans: I am still in the interview & application stage, but I look forward to working in the field.
Honors Project: Exhibit Curation: Architectural Histories of Rome
Moment of pride: Hixson Scholar Award/Peer Mentor Experience
Post-grad plans: Interested in Healthcare/K-12 Architecture, unknown position at this time.
Participation & Awards: HON 121 Leader, Honors Ambassador, W. Robert Parks Commendation Award
Honors Project: Grounds for Growing a Dye Garden
Moment of pride: Re-establishing the Design Council as President.
Post-grad plans: Pursuing a Masters in Printmaking in the next few years.
Participation & Awards: UHP Grant Recipient
Honors Project: The Art of Seating
Honors Project: Architectural Design for Non-Human Ecologies: Bridging the Gap Between Built Environment and other Natures
Moment of pride: I happy to have had the opportunity help lead the National Organization of Minority Architecture Students.
Post-grad plans: Junior Designer at Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill.
Honors Project: Integrated Safety Controller for Robot Cell
Moment of pride: Technical Director of Formula SAE team.
Post-grad plans: Manufacturing Development Engineer at John Deere.
Participation & Awards: HON 121 Leader
Honors Project: Comparison and Evaluation of SLAKEs and Cornell Aggregate Stability Tests
Moment of pride: Outstanding Presentation and Future Leader in EWB.
Post-grad plans: Masters at Purdue in ABE working with Water Quality and Sensing.
Honors Project: Image to CAD Modeling Framework for Biomedical Applications
Participation & Awards: HON 121 Leader, Honors Ambassador
Honors Project: Performance Assessment of Transmission Towers' Failures after the 2020 Iowa Derecho
Moment of pride: President of ASCE
Post-grad plans: Masters of Engineering in Structural Engineering at ISU.
Participation & Awards: Mentor & Student Enrichment Grant Recipient
Honors Project: Iowa's Shifting Ecology: Climate Change Implications for Iowa's Wildlife Through the 21st Century
Moment of pride: My work with the WiSE Department and the CCEE Undergraduate Research program.
Post-grad plans: Water/Wastewater Engineer at HR Green.
Participation & Awards: HON 121 Leader
Honors Project: Development of Cathode Materials for Next-Generation Solid-State Batteries
Moment of pride: My friends
Post-grad plans: Attending Georgia Institute of Technology.
Participation & Awards: HON 121 Leader, Mentor Grant Recipient, Honors Ambassador
Honors Project: Wave Augmented Floating Offshore Wind Turbine (WAFOWT)
Moment of pride: Being a NASA Intern and Sustainability Ambassador.
Post-grad plans: Seeking employment.
Participation & Awards: HON 121 Leader, Mentor Grant Recipient
Honors Project: Planning Iowa's Energy: What do the People Want?
Moment of pride: Winning the 8th Annual PesiCo MBA Invitational Case Competition!
Post-grad plans: Lead Power & Utilities Analyst at 1898 & Co. (part of Burns & McDonnell).
Honors Project: Does an Engineering Background Impact Quality of Leadership?
Moment of Pride: My honors project.
Post-grad plans: Job searching.
Honors Project: Digital Logic Lab Tool
Moment of pride: Being a TA for CPRE281.
Post-grad plans: Skyworks solutions.
Participation & Awards: HON 121 Leader, Honors Ambassador
Honors Project: Economic Comparison of Staged and Detoured Construction Zones
Moment of pride: Being an Ambassador since Sophomore Year.
Post-grad plans: Highway Designer for Iowa DOT.
Participation & Awards: HON 121 Leader
Honors Project: Childcare and Early Education—A Modern Comparison of the United States and Sweden
Participation & Awards: Mentor Grant Recipient
Honors Project: Cause, Consequence, and Control of Silver Vacancies in BaAg2–xAs2
Moment of pride: Being president of Ukrainian Club.
Post-grad plans: Attending Stanford University.
Participation & Awards: HON 121 Leader, Mentor Grant Recipient
Honors Project: Integrating Music into Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing
Moment of pride: Students for Open Discussion President
Post-grad plans: Ph.D. in Welding Engineering at Ohio State University.
Participation & Awards: HON 121 Leader
Honors Project: Comedy Graduate School
Moment of pride: KURE KQ Director
Participation & Awards: Mentor Grant Recipient
Honors Project: A Review of Bicycle Infrastructure: What Can Be Applied to Middle America?
Moment of pride: Learning more about bike infrastructure through my honors project.
Post-grad plans: Field Engineer, M.A. Mortenson.
Participation & Awards: HON 121 Leader
Honors Project: Outstanding Senior in Environmental Engineering.
Moment of pride: Placing 6th in trampoline at the National Association of Intercollegiate Gymnastics Clubs national meet
Post-grad plans: Teaching at a Catholic high school in Belize for a year before pursuing graduate studies in environmental engineering.
Participation & Awards: HON 121 Leader
Honors Project: Dance Revolution
Moment of pride: FHP Co-Leader
Participation & Awards: HON 121 Leader
Honors Project: Acoustic driven circulation around cylindrical obstructions in micro channels
Moment of pride: Being a second author on a published paper.
Post-grad plans: Mechanical Analyst for HVAC Consulting.
Participation & Awards: Mentor Grant Recipient
Honors Project: Association Between Financial Debt Literacy and Student Well-Being at Iowa State University
Moment of pride: College of Human Sciences Dean’s Recognition Award | Cl Dowling & Yahnke Private Wealth Scholarship | Keeling Wealth Advisors Financial Planning Scholarship | June Kaser Lovejoy Tri-Delta Scholarship | Director of Member Finance of the Omega Delta Chapter
Post-grad plans: Moving to Madison Wisconsin and pursuing a career in financial services.
Honors Project: Into the Archive: A Pilot Study on Using 3D Technology to Render Historic Garments and Textiles for Accessibility and Preservation
Moment of pride: The Fashion Show Design Director CHS graduating senior of the semester award.
Participation & Awards: Mentor Grant Recipient
Honors Project: Examining Motivational Factors for Performing Arts Attendance in Iowa State University Students.
Moment of pride: Being on Cardinal Court this year during Homecoming.
Post-grad plans: Walt Disney World doing the Disney College Program.
Participation & Awards: HON 121 Leader, Mentor & UHP Grant Recipient
Honors Project: The Relationship Between Modifiable Health Behaviors and Spirituality in Patients with Substance Use Disorder
Moment of pride: Salt company connection group leader was a life changing leadership role.
Post-grad plans: Attending medical school.
Honors Project: The Effects Cannabis has on the Endocanabenoid System
Moment of pride: Being the president of the ExerCYse is Medicine club on campus.
Post-grad plans: Attending graduate school at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Honors Project: The Importance of Culinary Education in Didactic Programs for Undergraduate Dietetics Students
Honors Project: Into the Archive: A Pilot Study on Using 3D Technology to Render Historic Garments and Textiles for Accessibility and Preservation
Moment of pride: Maintaining Dean's list through all four years at ISU.
Honors Project: Shape Differences Effect on Bilateral Transfer Using Mirror Tracing
Post-grad plans: Attending University of Minnesota-OTD.
Honors Project: Dual-task and Auditory Interference Effect on Auditory Reaction Time
Moment of pride: Completing my honors capstone project.
Post-grad plans: Taking a gap year spent in MN and applying to Physician Assistant programs!
Honors Project: Counting Cellular Images in an Immunocytochemistry Dataset with Deep Learning Methods
Moment of pride: Facilitating four programming competitions for the Computer Science and Software Engineering Club.
Post-grad plans: Wells Fargo Technology Analyst.
Participation & Awards: UHP Grant Recipient
Honors Project: Inertial and RF UWB Sensor Fusion for Indoor Localization
Moment of pride: 1st place overall team finish in the Cardinal Space Mining Club.
Honors Project: Social Media, Body Image, & the Big Five Personality Traits
Honors Project: World Food Issues Children's Book
Moment of pride: I am proud of being an outreach chair for the Iowa State Pre-Health Conference for the last three years and seeing how much the conference has grown.
Post-grad plans: Applying to Physician Assistant school.
Honors Project: Internet Safety to Combat Against Child Exploitation and Grooming
Moment of pride: President of Kappa Kappa Psi Honorary Band Fraternity.
Post-grad plans: Attending Jacksonville University School of Law.
Honors Project: The Effects of Exercise on the Endocannabinoid System and Brain Health in Adults with and without Cannabis use
Moment of pride: Completing this program is something I am quite proud of while also being a member of the Biological Honors Society and obtaining the fundraising chair leadership position for the Biological Sciences Club.
Post-grad plans: Take the next year to determine which field of health care I would like to pursue.
Honors Project: Investigation the Relationship between Natural Resource Abundance and State Fragility
Moment of pride: Expanding my international experience from no travel outside the United States, to completing a travel course, two semesters abroad, and an international internship.
Participation & Awards: HON 121 Leader, Mentor Grant Recipient, Honors Ambassador
Honors Project: Trust in the Courts, Voting Behavior, and Political Attitudes in College-Aged Americans
Moment of pride: Deans List, Phi Beta Kappa, 2023 Dean's High Impact Award for Undergraduate Research, tour guide!
Post-grad plans: Applying for jobs.
Participation & Awards: Mentor & Summer Grant Recipient
Honors Project: A Survey and Comparison of Syntactic Analysis Systems for Language Description
Moment of pride: Award for Excellence in Classical Studies.
Post-grad plans: for Linguistics (still deciding between two programs).
Honors Project: Mindfulness Impact on Intrinsically Motivated Physical Activity
Post-grad plans: I am applying for a post grad job.
Participation & Awards: UHP & Student Enrichment Grant Recipient
Honors Project: Noobs vs Pros: Comparing Coping Styles across Streamers
Moment of pride: Undergraduate Lab Manager Media Research Lab.
Post-grad plans: Counseling Masters
Participation & Awards: HON 121 Leader, Mentor & Summer Grant Recipient
Honors Project: “Jump Analysis”: An Approach to Analyzing Continuity in Written Text Production
Moment of pride: The amazing opportunity to be a FHP leader.
Post-grad plans: Data analyst internship.
Honors Project: Impacts of Water Quality on G418 Antibiotic Effectiveness
Moment of pride: I served as the soprano section leader in Cantamus Treble Choir for three years.
Post-grad plans: Research Assistant
Participation & Awards: UHP & Student Enrichment Grant Recipient
Honors Project: Exploring Experimental Film Firsthand
Moment of pride: Dean’s Summer High Impact Award and connected sharing of Undergraduate Research at the National Conference of Undergraduate Research in Long Beach, California.
Honors Project: All Laid out like a Tarot (Original Screenplay)
Moment of pride: Working at the Journal of Popular Culture.
Participation & Awards: Mentor & Summer Grant Recipient
Honors Project: Exploration of Titania-Silica Nanosheets as Catalysts for Plastic Upcycling
Moment of pride: Receiving the Barry Goldwater Scholarship alongside three of my fellow ISU students.
Post-grad plans: Pursue a Ph.D. in Chemistry at Stanford University.
Honors Project: Association of Physical Activity and Quality of Life on Commitment to Sobriety and Substance Abuse Treatment
Post-grad plans: Attending Physician Assistant School.
Participation & Awards: Mentor & UHP Grant Recipient
Honors Project: Feminine Heritage Within Stitches
Post-grad plans: Attending Student Affairs master's program at ISU.
Participation & Awards: HON 121 Leader, Ho-PoC Grant Recipient
Honors Project: Diversity Dialogues: Success & Struggles at Iowa State University
Moment of pride: I'm honored and proud to have been the only undergraduate student recognized on the 2024 Women Impacting ISU Calendar!
Post-grad plans: I will be starting a career in student affairs, focusing on serving underrepresented students.
Honors Project: A Study on Storytelling
Moment of pride: HOME Peer Mentor
Post-grad plans: Internship with Stride Autism Center.
Honors Project: To what Extent does the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights apply to American Constitutionalism
Moment of pride: I was the Honors Student Board President and I am proud of the work I did for HSB.
Post-grad plans: Attending law school.
Honors Project: The Properties and Synthesis of Sr(Co1-xCux)2P2
Post-grad plans: Attending the University of Maryland.
Honors Project: JVM vs LLVM Compiler
Moment of pride: President of Boxing Club at ISU.
Post-grad plans: Software Engineer at ALMACO.
Honors Project: Framing, Its Effects, and Mitigation
Moment of pride: Balancing my involvement in many different areas.
Participation & Awards: Summer, Student Enrichment, and UHP Grant Recipient
Honors Project: A Modern Chapbook: Poems and Dialogues on Wellbeing in an Unwell World
Moment of pride: I am proud of receiving the Will C. Jumper scholarship in poetry! It truly honors the growth I've made in my creative writing over my time at ISU.
Post-grad plans: I will be moving to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where I will be tutoring college and high school students in English.
Participation & Awards: Summer Grant Recipient
Honors Project: Proofs and Automation for Chemical Reaction Network Verification
Honors Project: Cycle of Empowerment: Psychological Impacts of Menstrual Health Education
Moment of pride: I am very proud of the honors project I completed during my time at ISU, and the opportunities to research and learn about women's experiences and health through various seminars and my research project.
Post-grad plans: My current plans include a gap year to work before applying to PhD programs for Clinical/Counseling Psychology!
Honors Project: Heuristic Based Deception Detection
Moment of pride: Presenting research at MPA in Chicago and the Honors Poster Presentation.
Post-grad plans: Heading back home to New Jersey to attend the master's program in I/D Psychology at Montclair state University in Montclair, NJ.
Honors Project: The Truth about Human Trafficking
Post-grad plans: International Public Policy at University College London.
Participation & Awards: HON 121 Leader
Honors Project: Actual Play Medium Influences on Novelty, Surprise, Transportation, and Competence Needs and Effects of Expertise
Moment of pride: I am proud of being a guide (basically equivalent to captain) for Iowa State Marching Band’s color guard.
Post-grad plans: I hope to earn my PhD in cognitive psychology.
Honors Project: A Verified Compiler Targeting Chemical Reactions In DNA Soup
Moment of pride: My time as the vice president of the Philosophy Club.
Post-grad plans: Pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Michigan.
Participation & Awards: HON 121 Leader
Honors Project: Testing the Efficacy of the Ultra-Filtration Centrifuge for the Stable Isotope Analysis of Bone Collagen
Moment of pride: I restarted the Arab Student Association, and was president of the organization in my last semester.
Post-grad plans: Working at a law firm and applying for law school in the next cycle.
Participation & Awards: HON 121 Leader, Mentor & Summer Grant Recipient, Honors Ambassador
Honors Project: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Documenting Product- and Process-focused Advice in Writing Center Sessions
Moment of pride: I'm proud of being a published co-author in the Young Scholars in Writing Journal from research done in the Language Processing, Acquisition, and Change Lab.
Post-grad plans: I'm going to be an English language assistant for NALCAP (North American Language and Culture Assistants Program)in Spain.
Honors Project: Using Eyewitness Descriptions of Perpetrators to Forecast Lineup Identification Accuracy
Moment of pride: President of the Psychology Club.
Participation & Awards: HON 121 Leader, Summer Grant Recipient
Honors Project: Duckietown as an Experimental Verification Platform for Evaluating Perception Metrics
Moment of pride: 4 years as an improv comedian in Grandma Mojos
Post-grad plans: Phd in Ecology at Pennsylvania State University
Honors Project: 2024 Iowa Republican Caucus: Why isn't Donald Trump doing Better?
Moment of pride: Researching with Dr. Peterson.
Post-grad plans: Attending law school in Fall 2025.
Honors Project: The Beliefs of Witchcraft and Religion for Liberian-Americans
Moment of pride: I enjoyed being a YWCA peer mentor.
Post-grad plans: Master's in Library and Information Science at Indiana University.
Participation & Awards: Student Enrichment Grant Recipient
Honors Project: Selecting and Testing Activity of Different Mre11/Rad50 Mutations for Use in Single Molecule FRET Assays
Moment of pride: Biochemistry Club President
Post-grad plans: Gap year before deployment.
Participation & Awards: Mentor, Summer, and Student Enrichment Grant Recipient
Honors Project: Synthesis, Characterization, and Application of High-Entropy Intermetallics
Moment of pride: Receiving the Barry Goldwater Scholarship.
Post-grad plans: Pursuing a Chemistry PhD at Stanford University.
Participation & Awards: HON 121 Leader
Honors Project: The Potential Enzymatic Activity in Solid Anaerobic Digestate Compared to Two Iowa Soils
Moment of pride: Taking 8 semesters of carillon and playing a few carillon concerts in the Campanile.
Post-grad plans: Working as a Soil Conservationist for the Minnesota USDA-NRCS.
Honors Project: Engineering an Improved mRNA Vaccine using Unique Secondary Structures
Participation & Awards: UHP Grant Recipient
Honors Project: Mia's All About Me
Moment of pride: Designer and Visual Arts Editor of Sketch Literary Journal.