Universities and colleges have announced the recent achievements of local students.
Graduations
- Washington State University in Pullman, Wash., released its list of fall 2015 graduates on Monday, including David M. McCarthy of Bartlett. McCarthy received a Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences and is a cum laude graduate. A cum laude designation requires a grade point average of at least 3.50 but less than 3.70.
Honors
- The following local residents were recently initiated into the University of Memphis’s chapter of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. They include Arielle Granchelle, Regan Chandler and Jarrett Anderson, all of Arlington; Mariah Marlowe, Stephanie Pierce, William Bargery, Andrew Thornton, Alicia Essary and Andrea Bishop, all of Bartlett; and Aaron Montanez and Samantha Early, both of Lakeland. Membership is by invitation and requires nomination and approval by a chapter. Only the top 10 percent of seniors and 7.5 percent of juniors, having at least 72 semester hours, are eligible for membership. Graduate students in the top 10 percent of the number of candidates for graduate degrees may also qualify, as do faculty, professional staff, and alumni who have achieved scholarly distinction.
Study abroad
- A trio of local students departed from Harding University in Searcy, Ark., in January for a three-month semester studying at the university’s campus in Greece. They included Andrew Montgomery, a Bible and preaching major from Bartlett; Madison Taylor, a communication sciences and disorders major from Arlington; and Hayden Wagner, an accounting major from Lakeland. The experience is an immersion in Greek culture, including a Mediterranean cruise and visits to historical sites in the Peloponnese, Northern Greece, Turkey and Israel. During their stay, the group has lived in Porto Rafti, Attica, cultivating new relationships with fellow students. Students in the program have a full course load available to them, taught by visiting Harding professors who travel with the students.
- Harding University student Riley Phillips of Arlington departed the Searcy, Ark., campus in February to spend a three-month semester living in Chile while studying at Harding University in Latin America. Phillips, a biomedical engineering major, has been living on the program campus in Vina del Mar, a seaside resort near Santiago, Chile. The program is an immersion in Latin and South American culture. Students in past semesters have had the opportunity to travel to places such as Easter Island, the Lake District of Chile, and Machu Picchu in Peru. The program emphasizes the ruggedness of South America with excursions to the Amazon rainforest and the Atacama Desert region. Students in the program have a full course load available to them taught by visiting Harding professors who travel with the students. The classes will focus on the Spanish language, culture and South American history.
