Congratulations to our Spring 2020 Latin honors designees
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Click PLAY to listen to Professor Janet Jacobs, Director of the Honors Program, read the Latin honors designations awarded to our highly successful students
Please join us in celebrating the achievements of our amazing Honors students!
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Click PLAY to view our Latin honors designees
To graduate with Latin honors is a remarkable achievement, one that sets our students apart from more than ninety percent of their fellow graduates. The degree designation they have earned signifies their capacity to perform at the highest academic level, rewards the time and energy they have invested in producing and defending an honors thesis, and recognizes their ability to define and create an original piece of scholarly or creative work. Above all, it bespeaks their participation in the most distinguished traditions of the academy. It marks them as a member of the ancient and honorable community that humanist scholars called res publica litterarum, the republic of letters.
Our honors students pour their enthusiasm for learning into every class; by example, they have encouraged others to strive for the excellence they have attained. We trust that the energy and creativity that have defined our Honors students' academic career thus far will remain with them for the rest of their lives. If they do, we will all be their beneficiaries.
Arts & Sciences Outstanding Undergraduate
Congratulations to our Spring 2020 Outstanding Undergraduate
Aaron LaMaskin
Aaron was awarded summa cum laude in Anthropology for his thesis entitled, "Trap Doors and Emergency Exits: Collaboration and Accessibility in the “Here, Now, and Always” Exhibit at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture." He shared the following on his thesis project:
My research for my senior honors thesis focused on the “Here, Now and, Always” exhibit at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Through my research with the visitors, staff, and collaborators for the exhibit, I was able to reach a new level of understanding about how people work together, how they tell stories about themselves, and how they understand - and celebrate - differences in the ways that they think about the world.
Understanding and celebrating others’ mindsets is critical – now more than ever. As we all come face to face with unprecedented experiences and challenges, we must remember that it is our differences that make us strong, and that it is through this strength, through working together for a common good, that we can become the best versions of ourselves that we can be.