Student Excellence

In spring 2023, the department recognized outstanding undergraduate and graduate students at our annual awards ceremony. The following students received awards: Keaundra Allen, Outstanding Graduating Senior in the DDHR concentration; Jonah Bullen, Outstanding Graduating Senior in the Major. Bullen also received the Gerald F. Schroedl Outstanding Graduating Senior Award; William Cawley, Professor Michael H. Logan Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award; Megan McQueen, Outstanding Graduating Senior in the Forensics concentration; Umeria Taylor, the Sandy Jeffers Memorial Scholarship.

The annual Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement (EURēCA), took place on April 25, 2023, with 1,179 student participants and 161 awardees. The event provides an opportunity for undergraduates to share their research through poster presentations judged by a panel of faculty. Anthropology major Jack Orebaugh received an Achievement Award in the College of Arts & Sciences, Social Sciences Division, for his poster entitled “Observations of Blow Fly Diversity in Cases of Advanced Burnings.” Haslam Postdoctoral Fellow Charity Owings served as his faculty mentor. Orebaugh went on to win second place in the On-Demand Student Poster Competition for his work “Ultrastructural Morphology of Blow Fly (Diptera: Calliphoridae) Ommatidia,” at the Entomological Society of America annual meeting in National Harbor, Maryland.