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SSU Students win Dean's Awards
for Undergraduate Scholarship at
the 2011 Celebration of Scholarship

May 24, 2011

Presenters at the 2011 Celebration of Scholarship were invited to submit their papers or posters for a cash prize for the Dean's Awards.

Five $100 awards were presented to students in the College of Arts & Sciences and five $100 awards were presented to students in the College of Professional Studies for outstanding research papers and/or projects.

Submissions were evaluated on the quality of the thesis statement or creative concept, how completely, coherently or imaginatively ideas were developed, how well ideas were supported with research, how well the paper was written (i.e., free of mechanical errors and written in an accessible and learned style) or how professionally the concept was executed.

Winners of the 2011 Dean's Awards were Aigul Bektashova for her English Composition, "Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan." Abigail Teske, Lauren Kelley and Jonathan Bivens won in the Humanities category for "We Done a Survey, and Stereotypes Need Fixed." Mary Kincaid, won in Humanities for "Leonardo da Vinci: The Artist, the Scientist, the Philosopher."

Christian Ottaway won for his creative submission of "10,000 Years of Influence." In the Scientific/Mathematics category, Brandon Dunham won with "Machine Learning" and Kimberly Stalder won with "Water Fluoridation and Dental Decay."

Winners of the Dean's Awards for exceptional papers presented at the 2011 Celebration of Scholarship at Shawnee State University were presented with $100 for their work. In the photo, from left, front row, are students Christian Ottaway, Mary Kincaid, Aigul Bektashova and Lauren Kelley with Professor Shannon Lawson, director of the University Honors Program, and Connie Stoner, director of Clark Memorial Library. In the second row, from left are student Brandan Dunham, Associate Professor Isabel Graziani, Dean of Professional Studies Dr. James Kadel, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Dr. Timothy Scheurer, students Abigail Teske and Kimberly Stalder, who also won the Clark Memorial Library Research Award.