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Each spring, Dean College recognizes its outstanding graduates for their significant accomplishments inside and outside of the classroom. We are delighted to announce the following award recipients. Read on to learn more.
Several Westminster College honors students will publicly defend their capstone research projects this spring, marking the end of nearly two years of high-level academic exploration.
Westminster College honors student Lily Hefner presented a research paper, “Using Low-Activity MAOA as a Mitigating Factor in the United States Criminal Justice System,” at the 58th annual conference of the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) in Chicago in November. A junior molecular biology and criminal justice studies double major from Washington, Pa., Hefner’s paper was a product of work completed for her interdisciplinary Honors Program research project. Hefner’s research examines the role a particular gene can play in the likelihood of someone committing a c...
Twenty-four Westminster College students had the opportunity to expand their educational and cultural horizons during the All-College Honors Program’s annual journey to Greece this summer.
Meet Taylor Harman ’24, one of 10 students selected for a 2023 Summer Research Fellowship. Taylor is a senior neuroscience major from Edinburg, Pa. She and her faculty mentor, Dr. Deanne Buffalari, associate professor of psychology and director of the neuroscience program, spent their summer months working on the project “Does Stimulant History Affect the Anxiety-Like Response to Nicotine in Male Rats?”