On May 9th, the College of Health and Human Services held its annual Honors Recognition Breakfast to recognize our Dean’s Medalist recipients and nominees, project and theses award winners and our Honors Program cohort. It’s an opportunity to recognize the achievements of our students, many of whom will be graduating in just one week! On that note, we’d like to congratulate our entire graduating class of 2019 from each of our seven academic majors, for taking this next, bold, step in your educational journey!
DEAN’S MEDALIST RECIPIENTS
Graduate: Arnold Trevino, Department of Social Work Education
(Pictured with his internship supervisors, faculty mentor and Victor E. Bulldog)
Undergraduate: Shannon Muzio, Department of Communicative Sciences and Deaf Studies
(Pictured with faculty mentor, Dr. Stephen Roberts)
DEAN’S MEDALIST NOMINEES
Undergraduate:
- Lisbeth Martinez, Department of Recreation Administration
- Tina Sagherian, Department of Public Health
- Andrea Fernandez Soto, Department of Social Work Education
- Hailey Stinecipher, Department of Kinesiology

Graduate:
- Alia Alvarez, Department of Kinesiology
- Mark Reece, Department of Public Health
- Sophie Tang, School of Nursing
OUTSTANDING PROJECT AND THESES AWARD WINNERS
Outstanding Master’s Degree Project: Randi Wallace, Department of Kinesiology, for her project “The Application of Social Media for Graduate Student Recruitment: A Project Investigating Current and Prospective Student Engagement”.
Outstanding Master’s Thesis: Alia Alvarez, Department of Kinesiology,for her thesis “Coupling Imagery with Physical Practice on a Basketball Free Throw Shooting Task”.
Outstanding Doctoral Degree Project: Bethany Shirk, Department of Physical Therapy, for her project “The Effects of Multimodal Intervention Program on the Timed Up and Go and Gait Velocity for Individuals with Parkinson’s Disease”.

2018-19 HONORS PROGRAM SCHOLARS
The 14 students who made up our third cohort of our Honors Program in Collaborative Leadership were also honored for their exceptional leadership and academic achievements. Meet each our Honors Program Scholars here.
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Congratulations to all our 2019 scholars!
[ View more photos from the event at the LINK. ]