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Home » Issues » Summer 2012 » Along Grand Avenue

At The Top Of Their Class

Updated on: June 1, 2012

Alicia Houser and Nicole Breckling

Each year, the Austin College faculty selects two outstanding students in the graduating class for special recognition by the Board of Trustees, based upon the students’ entire academic record. During Commencement, the two students, with no distinction between them, receive the J.M. Robinson and J.C. Kidd Memorial Scholarship Medals, first presented in 1935 and 1940,… [Read More]

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Faculty Receive Honors

Updated on: June 1, 2012

Frank Rohmer

George Diggs, professor of biology, received Austin College’s distinguished Homer P. Rainey Award at Honors Convocation this spring. The award is presented annually by the Board of Trustees to a member of the faculty or staff for outstanding achievement and service to the College. During the convocation, he also was installed as the Donald MacGregor… [Read More]

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Fulbright Award To South Korea

Updated on: June 1, 2012

Allison Lowe

Allison Lowe ’12 is one of 1,500 U.S. citizens awarded Fulbright Student Program awards this spring. She will spend the 2012-2013 academic year in South Korea, participating in the Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) Program, which places new college graduates as English teaching assistants in schools or universities, where they increase foreign students’ English language… [Read More]

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More Students Honored

Updated on: June 1, 2012

Ashton Gelat

Victor “Abe” Menaldo ’12 was selected as one of 75 participants for the 2012-2013 Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals. The program includes a year of study and internship in Germany. Abe, who completed majors in economics and German with a minor in environmental studies, has studied internationally since arriving at Austin College from his… [Read More]

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Grand Times

Updated on: June 1, 2012

The Village on Grand housing seems to have found its place in the campus community. In May, then-seniors Bridgette Deem and her roommates had many good things to say about their home in the Village. From being close enough to stay involved in campus activities to saving money on gas to the luxuries of a… [Read More]

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An End To Poverty

Updated on: June 1, 2012

Students Fighting Poverty

Under the guidance of Don Rodgers, associate professor of political science, Austin College students are working to end poverty in the United States—eventually. The seven students in the program are beginning with the Texoma area, but they have big dreams. “We want to serve as a pilot program for the whole country,” Rodgers said. Students… [Read More]

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Thinking And Acting Green

Updated on: June 1, 2012

GreenServe

Austin College Kangaroos went green this spring. For the College’s annual GreenServe event in April, alumni and students joined in community service with an environmental focus. From work on the prairie restoration project at Sneed Environmental Research Area near campus to cleanup of a wetlands habitat near Portland, Oregon, to a preservation effort at Theodore… [Read More]

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Outstanding Leaders

Updated on: June 1, 2012

Daryl McKee - Edwin B. and Louise C. Jordan Scholarship Program, Robert D. Bradshaw Scholarship for Co-Curricular Leadership and John D. Moseley Alumni Scholars Program

Within a class of 300-plus students, many leaders emerge. When those leaders’ spheres of influence extend from academics to community service to campus organizations, people take notice. Two such campus leaders are recognized each spring as the Altrusa Outstanding Senior Woman and as the Outstanding Senior Man. Kimberly Cook and Daryl McKee received those awards… [Read More]

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100 Years Of Science

Updated on: June 1, 2012

A New Century of Science

Editor’s Note: Following the Winter 2012 Austin College Magazine focus on “100 years of Science” at the College, we received notes from multiple alumni that a distinguished faculty member from the past century deserved recognition in such an article. While the issue was not intended as a comprehensive look at the 100 years, we recognize… [Read More]

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Building Up The IDEA Center

Updated on: June 1, 2012

Construction on the IDEA Center continues on schedule, with occupancy planned for Fall Term 2013. A Topping Out ceremony on June 27 marked the completion of the highest level of the steel structure of the building. Friends, faculty, and staff watched as Hunt Construction crews hoisted a tree atop the building in a construction industry… [Read More]

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