Student Achievements
Honors students have received prestigious awards and have been accepted to top-notch programs and graduate schools. Read about their accomplishments.
Current Students:
- Maria Parra-Sandoval, a University Honors and Department Honors graduate, will be attending the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University on a full scholarship beginning in fall 2009.
- Jesse Dabney, a University Honors and Department Honors graduate was awarded a Fulbright Study Scholarship for postgraduate study at the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany in 2009-2010.
- Tyler Parry, a 2008 Department Honors graduate, has been accepted full graduate support to pursue his PhD in history at the University of South Carolina.
- Kenneth Hynes, a University Honors graduate, and his partner, Devon Taylor, recently won the grand prize for their senior design project “The Home Power Meter” at the semi-annual College of Engineering Senior Design Competition.
- Mary Catania, a University Honors graduate, has been awarded The Rogers Fellowship to pursue a PhD in English literature at UNLV. The Rogers Fellowship is a five-year award that provides funding and teaching opportunities over the course of the graduate program to students doing advanced work in English literature, creative writing or poetry.
- Two Honors College students, Breanne Davies and Jessica Wilde were involved with the project: Social Media Strategies Used in the Las Vegas Hospitality Industry: Co-Creating New Relationships with Customers that won first place at the 2009 International Tourism Student Conference in Breda, The Netherlands.
- Honors Students Felix Rodriguez, Sarah Harrison and Jacob Zodieru were recently selected to present their business plan in the 2009 Donald W. Reynolds Governor s Cup Collegiate Business Competition.
- Honors Student Charles Mao was a part of UNLV s American Marketing Association chapter that recently took second place in the International Case Competition at the 31st annual International American Marketing Association Collegiate Conference.
- Juan Plata, a fall 2008 graduate in Mechanical Engineering as well as a University Honors Scholar and a Department Honors Scholar will be enrolling in Stanford University s Ph.D program in bioengineering. Juan was also accepted to graduate programs at Rice University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Washington.