| Honors graduates feted
By Linda Mchugh Last Tuesday, students, faculty, and administrators gathered at the home of AU President Benjamin Ladner and Nancy Bullard Ladner to celebrate the graduating honors program class of 2005. Noting its success over the past four years, program director Michael Mass, said the class of ’05 saw tremendous growth in a program in which most of the courses now being offered didn’t exist four years ago. In addition, he said, “The entire administration is involved,” noting that Ladner and three deans have taught in the program, and next spring Provost Neil Kerwin will teach a course in government regulation.
Photo by Jeff Watts
President Ladner thanks the honors class of ’05.
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Above, Janina Beck, Kogod, and Carey Myers, CAS; right, Luke Dodds, SIS
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In his welcoming words, Ladner observed that the members of this year’s honors class are about to become unofficial ambassadors of the university. And able ambassadors they will be. “Carey Myers,” said biology professor Lynne Arneson, “is a former Goldwater Fellow and Fulbright Scholar who has worked her way through the biology and chemistry departments, doing internships with every professor.” Myers said she will use her Fulbright Fellowship to study this summer in Limerick, Ireland, with a professor whose research on penicillin complements the work she has done on antibiotic resistance at her AU lab. The program afforded Luke Dodds, SIS, the chance to “find himself within the world and understand how the world works.” At AU he seized every opportunity he could to study abroad, joining alternative spring break trips to Vietnam and Chiapas, Mexico; spending semesters and summers in Southern Africa, Beijing, China; Berlin, Germany, and most recently joining an honors program trip to Bolivia. As for the future, Dodds hopes to find a way to “contribute to the building of a more globalist, human rights–based society.” The class of ’05 honors students will next convene at the honors convocation on May 7. |
