By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director
Clara Ramirez, ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅βs pioneer winner of the Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship in 2010, recently won a residency at Duke University as a primary-care Administrative Fellow. She is moving this summer from her home in Fort Worth to Durham, North Carolina to assume her new role.
Pictured (from left): Daniel Landaverde, Aaliyah Avellaneda, Clara Ramirez, and Brenda Godoy.
By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director
Pictured: Coming ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ Presidential Scholar, and Mount Pleasant HS Salutatorian, Perla Guzman with some of the books donated by SMU.
By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director
Pictured: Front row (from left) Natalie Garza (3rd), Aubrey Watkins (2nd), and Andrew Higgins (1st). Back row: Melody Mott (Mentor, PTK-Honors Coordinator who adjudicated the contest), Dr. Melissa Fulgham, and Dr. Andrew Yox.
By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director
By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director
On 5 May, for the fifteenth time, community judges and ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ students converged on the foyer of the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts at ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ for an annual McGraw-Hill Poster Contest. The scholarly competition was enabled again by generous grants, from Beverly Kelley of Mount Vernon, and the McGraw-Hill Education Corporationβthrough the special work of Bill Welsh, and Casey Slaght who work in the corporate office in Dubuque, Iowa.
Pictured: 2021 winners with History Faculty: front Row: Fatima Fuentes, Erika Alvarado, and Davin Whatley: Back row: ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ history professors--Dr. Andrew P. Yox, Dr. Melissa Fulgham and James McGregor
By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director
Skylar Fondren, a Presidential Honors Scholar at ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅, has been named a 2023 Coca-Cola Academic Team Gold Scholar and will receive a $1,500 scholarship.
Skylar was named a Leader of Promise by Phi Theta Kappa in 2021 and has been very active in Honors Northeast, Phi Theta Kappa, and ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅βs Journalism program.
Pictured: Daniel Landaverde, ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ McGraw-Hill Competitor in 2019-2020. He is a recent Winner of a Jack Kent Cooke and is currently an associate with Marsh, a global leader in insurance brokerage and risk consulting
By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director
Pictured: Neida Perez, Dr. Andrew Yox, Aubrey Watkins, Alyssa Ochoa, and Sam Pollan.
By: Dr. Andrew Yox
Pictured (from left) is: Sam Pollan, Alyssa Ochoa, Michelle Calderon, Skylar Fondren, and Aubrey Watkins.
By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director
Last weekend in El Paso, ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ honors-student essayists won their 31st and 32nd Caldwell essay awards in Texas history. The film effort of ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅βs Webb Society and Honors Northeast won its fifth $600 Chapter Project Award, for the best creation in Texas history performed by any collegiate or university group.
