Whatever path Kayla finds herself on, you can be sure she will make it her own. May you have many adventures awaiting you. Congratulations!
The HC won't be quite the same with Joshua! We wish him nothing but success in his pursuits.
“I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.”
~ Emily Dickinson
Ella says that Dr. Phelps-Durr has been a great mentor and advisor, overseeing her research and as her department advisor.
Congratulations, Ella! Keep up the great work!
“Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.”
Liz hopes to one day work for a nonprofit to help causes she is passionate about, but for the near future she has accepted a position with FHSU University Marketing as a Digital Media Specialist and hopes to pursue an MBA.
As her advisor, Brad Goebel was a huge help in helping her plan and coordinate, and Dr. Rachel Dolecheck was flexible and supportive in Liz's adjustment to being an online student with an in-a-hurry baby on the way. Dr. Mary Martin's classes have been directly applicable to Liz's internship work and she says Dr. Martin has been great to work with due to her eagerness to help and how she builds relationships with her students.
Cassy will remain at FHSU to continue on with her Master's in Speech Language Pathology this fall.
Best of luck, Cassy, you'll do great!
#OnceaTigerAlwaysaTiger
Aspen says, “Tara Marshall from the CSD Department really helped me fall in love with this major. She was the first professor that I had in the department, and her energy and love for the field helped foster my growing passion for Speech Pathology. Blake Roth also in the CSD department was an excellent professor who always believes in his students and lets them know that. He also served as my faulty mentor and was very reassuring and supportive when I was struggling and feeling anxious about admission to graduate school. My parents pushed me academically when I was growing up, which has helped me develop into the student I am today. The cohort of girls in the Speech Pathology department are so supportive and encouraging of each other, which has made it a very good learning and growing environment.”
She plans to attend FHSU to pursue her Master’s in Speech Language Pathology, and hopes to be a Medical SLP. She has a particular interest in Neonatal feeding and swallowing.
Aspen will continue to do great things here at FHSU and we love to see great Tigers continue their education here with us! Congratulations!
“Persistence is the most powerful force on earth, it can move mountains.” ~ Albert Einstein
Anna says, "I am buying a house in June, which has been a dream of mine for a very long time, and I feel so blessed that I am in a financial place to do that because of all the scholarships and internship/career opportunities I received while at Fort Hays."
Anna credits her parents and three younger sisters for contributing significantly to her success.
Anna has put all her effort into everything she chose to be involved with here at FHSU and made the most of so many fantastic opportunities. We wish her the best of luck in Wichita!
“If one advances confidently in the direction of [her] dreams, and endeavors to live the life which she has imagined, she will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
~ Henry David Thoreau (with a little edit)
This February the Honors College vacated our original home in the lower level of the Forsyth Library. It's a bittersweet parting. We had almost 10 years of Honorables in our tornado-proof home, which we shared with our Makerspace neighbors and many more over the years. We made it our own and rarely had to worry about the Kansas weather. We thought surely it's the safest spot on campus.
The time has come for good old Forsyth to get an update, which you can read more about here on the renovation blog, so all of us library dwellers have scattered to our various new nests around campus while she gets a glow up. We're gladly still hallway neighbors with Makerspace, but we're also making new friends in Picken Hall!
It's convenient to be nearby our Admissions counselors since we meet SO many prospective Tigers and their families. Also, this is an insider secret, we can get pretty chatty. 😲 Sometimes our visitors are quite late to their next appointment. This is a little easier to manage now that they often only need to pop upstairs. Time management is hard when you're having a good time.
It's been a bit of an adjustment to not share our spaces in the same way we did in the library and to get ourselves organized but we're very excited about some of the little things: there's a real water fountain nearby, the bathrooms are HUGE, we learned about what FHSU Testing Services does, we're more convenient for some students (though less convenient for others), and most importantly...windows. Cue a chorus of "Let The Sunshine In"!
Come visit us in Picken Hall 123!
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| Morgan, Then (2017) & Now |
Morgan Jibowu, formerly Morgan Mitchiner, graduated from our program in 2017, earning a BS in Biology (health professions) with a minor in Chemistry.
(To put that date in perspective, the HC was founded in 2015, and our beloved Kathay Johnson joined the team in 2018!)
Morgan graduated with an MPH in Infectious
Diseases and Zoonoses from Kansas State University. Now at the University
of
Texas Health Science Center in Houston, she’s working on her dissertation for a
PhD in Epidemiology.
She has worked as a consultant for the American Medical Association, as a contractor for CDC at the Dallas Quarantine Station, as an Epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Health System, and she now works for the Texas Department of State Health Services as an Epidemiologist.
While working at Johns Hopkins Health System, Morgan published two papers. She has also presented alongside 23andMe scientists.
Beyond her many Honorable achievements, Morgan’s found time to see the world she makes such an impact on.
“I just got back from Italy where Doyin and I did 2.5 marathons and climbed 3 Empire State buildings hiking around the Amalfi Coast. School and work are cool or whatever but we hope to travel a lot more and try out new food!” Morgan said.
She speaks fondly of her time with the HC and
of her cousin, FHSU Digital Curation Librarian, Mary Turner.
