Note to editors: If a county or state is not listed, there were no honor students from that area. If a Manhattan area address was given as a permanent address, the student will be listed in the permanent address county and also in the county for the high school of record.
News release prepared by: Julie Fosberg and Beth Bohn, 785-532-2535, media@k-state.edu

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

K-STATE AWARDS SEMESTER, GRADUATION HONORS FOR SPRING 2010

MANHATTAN -- Kansas State University is recognizing more than 2,850 students with spring semester honors and more than 320 students with graduation honors.

K-State students who earned a 3.75 grade point average or higher for the spring 2010 semester were awarded semester honors. Students had to be enrolled in at least 12 semester hours of graded course work.

Summa cum laude, K-State's highest graduation honor, was awarded to 103 students who graduated with an academic average of 3.95 or higher; 120 students graduated magna cum laude with an academic average of 3.85 to 3.949; and 125 students graduated cum laude with an academic average of 3.750 to 3.848.

Students earning semester and/or graduation honors receive commendations from their deans, with the honors recorded on their permanent academic records.

K-State students earning semester honors and students earning graduation honors, by county and hometown:

 

KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY SPRING 2010 SEMESTER HONORS

ALLEN COUNTY

Humboldt: Tanner Ray Korf, Bailey Jo Myers, Emily Marie Schomaker, Sarah Elaine Works

Iola: Bryan Alan Clark, Jason Coltrane, Jacob Lawrence Heffern, Kelsey Leigh Mcgie, Luke Riebel, Dylan Michael Works

Editor's note: The students listed below gave an out-of-county permanent address. These students are listed by high school to get the news to their hometown newspapers.

Iola High School: Benjamin Clubine, Nicole Renee Kress

KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY SPRING 2010 GRADUATION HONORS

Moran: Amy Nicole Walton, magna cum laude with a doctor of veterinary medicine

Editor's note: The students listed below gave an out-of-county permanent address. These students are listed by high school to get the news to their hometown newspapers.

Iola High School: Benjamin Clubine, summa cum laude with a B.S. in chemical engineering

 

KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY SPRING 2010 SEMESTER HONORS

ANDERSON COUNTY

Garnett: Levi Aron Arnett, Katelin Marie Cooper, Zachary John Hanson, Kyle Joseph Peine, Jason Michael Wright

Welda: Dena Marie Bunnel

Westphalia: Sarah Beth Falke

Editor's note: The students listed below gave an out-of-county permanent address. These students are listed by high school to get the news to their hometown newspapers.

Anderson County High School: Jason Coltrane

KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY SPRING 2010 GRADUATION HONORS

Welda: Dena Marie Bunnel, magna cum laude with a bachelor of arts and magna cum laude with a B.S. in agriculture

 

KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY SPRING 2010 SEMESTER HONORS

ATCHISON COUNTY

Atchison: Nicole Corinne Cardona, Lillian M Cooper, Danielle Nicole Frakes, Sara Christine Kentzler, Brittany Lynn Lykins, Abby Lynn Navinskey, Jaclyn Marie Paolucci, Ashley Elizabeth Pruett, Andrew Dale Purdy, Theresa A Wurzbacher

Lancaster: Todd Halling

Editor's note: The students listed below gave an out-of-county permanent address. These students are listed by high school to get the news to their hometown newspapers.

Atchison County Community High School: Blake W Alexander, Andy Todd Gigstad

Atchison High School: Taylor Marie Allen, Emily Jayne Gehrt

KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY SPRING 2010 GRADUATION HONORS

Atchison: Ashley Elizabeth Pruett, magna cum laude with a B.S. in dietetics

Editor's note: The students listed below gave an out-of-county permanent address. These students are listed by high school to get the news to their hometown newspapers.

Atchison County Community High School: Andy Todd Gigstad, magna cum laude with a B.S. in business administration