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
ILLINOIS
Columbia: Angela Deann Mayer
DeKalb: Ashley Kathryn Guenther
Downers Grove: Katherine Kristine Johannsen
Mason City: Taylor Jean Swanson
Mt Prospect: Tommy Patrick Lawler Sr
Naperville: Carter Thomas Wands
Ofallon: Lauren Nicole Taggart
Palatine: Meriel Louisa Harwood
River Forest: Brendan James Mannix-Slobig
Rolling Meadows: Garrett Edward Kilbride
Sandwich: Robert David Munson
Taylor Ridge: Bryanna Rose McManus
Vernon Hills: Martin Tucker Wilson
Yorkville: Sarah Justine Craig
KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY SPRING 2010 GRADUATION HONORS
DeKalb: Ashley Kathryn Guenther, summa cum laude with a B.S. in agriculture
KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY SPRING 2010 SEMESTER HONORS
INDIANA
Francesville: Levi Ray Messer
KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY SPRING 2010 GRADUATION HONORS
There were no Indiana students graduating with honors.
KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY SPRING 2010 SEMESTER HONORS
IOWA
Anamosa: Ashley Beth Dohrmann
Ankeny: Todd Matthew Vogel
Bussey: Rhianna Marie Wallace
Cedar Falls: Anne Elizabeth Schmitz
Coralville: Skyler Che Hedden
Council Bluffs: Jackson Robert Dick
Muscatine: Kayla Renae Sorensen
Sioux City: Victoria Leigh Beaulieu
Traer: Sara Kay Stoakes
Urbandale: Brandon Patrick Hall, Sara Romayne Lynde
Waterloo: Dakota W Holtgrieve
West Des Moines: Alison Katherine Meyer
KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY SPRING 2010 GRADUATION HONORS
Ankeny: Abbi Nicole Sunner, summa cum laude with a bachelor of science