COD Celebrates Student Academic Excellence
Caroline Koch of Elmhurst is recognized as an Honors Scholar during the recent "Celebration of Academic Excellence" recognizing the 2013-2014 Honors and Scholars Awards recipients.
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Also recognized during the event were Kellie Brennan of Lisle, who received a full scholarship to Elmhurst College; Timothy Mazur of Addison, who received a full scholarship to North Central College; and Candace Snyder of Bolingbrook, who received the Western Michigan University Transfer Gold Scholarship. Presidential Scholar Christian O'Kelley of Lombard was also recognized as the recipient of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship, the largest private scholarship for two-year and community college transfer students.
Honors Scholars
Members of the Honors Scholars are students who have successfully completed a minimum of 15 semester hours of Honors courses, including an Honors seminar or the Humanities 2210 Leadership Development course. Students maintained a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.2/4.0 in order to receive Honors Scholars designations on their transcripts.
Honors Scholars: Priyanka Das, Brian Ellis, Brittany Gaspari, Thor Groseth, Hayley Hickson, Iqra Isphahani, Elise Jackson, Alisha Jamal, Tabitha Johnson, Jonathan Kaye, Caroline Koch, Marie Labbe, Matt Mazur, Lindsey Musiel, Elizabeth Nwokobia, Nathan Reid, Emil Sadykhov, Bradley Salvato, Andrew Sawyer, Candace Snyder and Neel Thakkar.
Presidential Scholars
Students accepting the Presidential Scholars Award are required to pursue a degree or certificate; be enrolled in 15 credit hours per semester; complete a minimum of 15 semester hours of Honors courses, including an Honors seminar or Humanities 2210 Leadership Development course; and complete a designated Service Learning course or 20 hours of approved volunteer work within their first year of the scholarship. To receive the Presidential Scholars Designation on their transcripts, students completing these requirements maintained a cumulative GPA of at least 3.5/4.0 at COD.
Presidential Scholars: Austin Ahlert, Nicholas Bashqawi, Jeremy Bingen, James Blondin, Kellie Brennan, Emma Buchholz, Amanda Charicki, Hannah Dickson, Cassandra Fenwick, Quinn Haack, Natalia Khalatyan, Melissa Klancic, Ashley Kresser, Maggie Kunze, Justine Lorenc, Matthew Maynard, Alexandra McGarel, Claira Mittman, Christian O'Kelley, Patricia Schwarts, Sarah Self, Matthew Smith, Amanda Tumbarello and Caroline Wurster.
Board of Trustees and Deans Scholars
Students accepting the Board of Trustees or Deans Scholars Award are required to pursue a degree or certificate; be enrolled in 15 credit hours per semester; and complete a minimum of 15 semester hours of Honors courses, including an Honors seminar or Humanities 2210 Leadership Development course. To receive the Board of Trustees or Deans Scholars designation on their transcripts, students completing these requirements must maintain a cumulative GPA of at least 3.5/4.0 scale at COD.
Board of Trustees and Deans Scholars: Tooba Ghafoor, Jesse Hiltner, Susan Mazur, Timothy Mazur, Alphecca May Octava, Jessica Ramirez and Brent Wilson.
2014 Honors Council of the Illinois Region Spring Student Symposium
The following students were selected to give presentations at the 2014 Honors Council of the Illinois Region Spring Student Symposium on various topics of research: Tooba Ghafoor, Martin Hayford, Hayley Hickson, Jonathan Kaye, Brittany Konieczny, Karin Machalova, Matt Mazur, Claira Mittman, Elizabeth Nwokobia, Parker Rechsteiner, Hannah Schewe, John Von Drasek, Calvin Westrick and Tom Wojcik.
Continuing Presidential, Board of Trustees, Deans and Chaparral Scholars
The following students are either new or continuing scholars during the 2013-2014 academic year. They are pursuing completion of award requirements while continuing their coursework for a degree or certificate at College of DuPage.
Continuing Presidential, Board of Trustees, Deans and Chaparral Scholars: Alana Joy Alfeche, Alexis Amor, Julia Andersen, Virginia Anderson, Ali Barto, Aaron Basham, John Batke, Spencer Baum, Michael Baumgartner, Brittany Baumgartner, Thomas Beardsley, Joni Beqari, Debora Bernal, Hayley Bingen, Nikolett Bogdan, Tyler Bratland, Karissa Brazdys, Kevin Brewton, Courtney Byczynski, Christopher Chapa, Dylan Chapman, Vishal Chaudhari, Shao Wen Chen, Yahya Choudhry, Hira Chouhdry, Sage Cicero, Agnieszka Cisak, Samuel Ciucci, Christopher Collins, Josh Copp, Ralph Daguit, Irenka De Leon, Erick Diaz, Joanna Domanski, Tori Donoghue, Randall Dziak, Colton Eakins, Christian Eustaquio, Haley Evans, Thomas Faron, Douglas Fillip, Jocelyn Fletcher, Ryan Fogarty, Rachel Fonseca, Saul Galvez, Zachary Garcia, Julian Gonzalez, James Gosciniak, Timothy Goulding, Marta Gowett, Erik Greenwell, Michael Hansen, Jonathan Harrison, Jonathan Heideman, Jarrett Herman, Amy Herz, Michael Hoffman, Marissa Hopgood, Holly Houghton, Bradley Howell, Kimberly Hughes, Ilham Hussaini, Hope Javier, Marina Jawad, Kaitlin Jennings, Sophie Jermyn, Laura Kaczmarczyk, Jennifer Kaeppel, Syeda Khalid, Iman Khan, Nathan Kiehn, Max Kimmet, Melissa Klancic, Lisa Kleidon, Thea Klinker, Benjamin Knightwright, Jessica Krause, Kelly Krebaum, Marc Kurdas, Sarah Lapp, Emmanuel Leon, Annika Lindgren, Daniel Lodge, Dominic Lofrano, Rebecca Luedtke, Nicolette Maas, Chelsea Madsen, James Maguire, Ryan Mamlic, Amanda Manton, Mitchell Martin, Megan McAvoy, Taylor McKeown, Joash Ged Mencias, Caley Miller, Kelly Mortell, Michael Murphy, Rebecca Navratil, Karina Negron, Katherine Nowak, Marc Robert Oda, Sarah Patterson, Alexander Pejic, Eric Pekosh, Alexander Picchi, Fatima Raza, Stewart Reed, Michael Restaino, Vitaliy Rikhlyuk, Michael Robles, Stephany Ruiz-Gonzalez, Cameren Rutz, Hannah Schewe, Zackary Sedivy, Zachary Slezak, Rachael Smith, Peyton Sopoci, Scott Spoolstra, Matthew Stewart, Thomas Stoffels, Timothy Stotz, Elizabeth Strong, Jacob Sumeraj, Zachary Thompson, Timothy Tunnell Jr., Stephen Tuscher, Samuel Venezia, Joseph Vitone, Matthew Vitt, Ruth Vrtis, Emily Witek, L. Daryle Worley, Asha Yacob, Megumi Yamane, Ashley Young, Christian Youssef, Stacy Zalisk, Abigail Zeeb, Allison Zeeb, Jacqueline Zeisloft, Rocco Zucchero and Ashleigh Zurek.
For more information, visit www.cod.edu/academics/honors or call (630) 942-3318.