Student Accomplishments
RECENT STUDENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS
We are proud of our current and former students’ impressive work! We highlight some recent successes of our students and alumni below.
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2019-2020 Department of Sociology Award Recipients
Awards
Outstanding Undergraduate in Sociology
William Pinteric
Outstanding Graduate Student in Sociology
Maria Tahir
Grusendorf Award for the Outstanding Sociology Senior
William Pinteric
The Herman Spirit Award
Priscilla Segovia
Graduate Program Award for Outstanding Contribution
Dezerae Reyes
Scholarships
Clarence Schultz Scholarship
Karen Gaytan
Charlotte McCord Scholarship
Nancy Cox
David Barnett
Ursula Henderson
Geoff Wood Memorial Scholarship
Angelica Embley
Cindy Mays
Shelby Renee Newman Memorial Scholarship
Sidni Martinez
Newsom/Matlock Scholarship
Kyle Benacquisto
Graduate Gender Studies Scholarship
Cindy Mays
Graduate College Merit Fellowships
Samantha Smothermon
Lisa Fournier
Kassandra Rocha
Graduate College Scholarship
Amanda Armstrong
Brenda Fagan
Casey Frank
Alexia Gutierrez
Lindsay Loftin
Aspen Navarro
Kassandra Rocha
Honors
Newsom Scholars
David Barnett
Kyle Benacquisto
Mary Blackburn
Claire Boudrot
Annabeth Gibson
Mckinsey Kuehn
Stephanie Lopez
Cecilio Lopez Rosales
Madeline Mycue
Nikki Ondrus
William Pinteric
Eric Pulido-Ceja
Austen Ramsey
Kendall Richardson
Jose Silva
Leticia Silva
Ashley Thomas
Kaelyn Verbraska
Liberal Arts Academic Achievement Certificates
Mikaela Billington
Lauren Chaffin
Nancy Cox
Angelica Embley
Elizabeth Epperson
Heidi Foster-Yandell
August Kutac
Naomi Malyar
Sidni Martinez
Madeline Mycue
Kenzie Nasser
Eric Pulido-Ceja
Luis Ramirez Cano
Justin Wallace
Caden Ziegler
Alpha Kappa Delta (AKD), International Honor Society of Sociology, 2019-2020 Inductees:
Valorie Allen
Kyle Benacquisto
Claire Bourdon
Kyle Grissom
Hollyann Fitzgerald-Sebring
Cindy Mays
Corinne Medford
Kassandra Rocha
Edward Smith
Samantha Smothermon
Maria Tahir
Andrea Villagomez
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION, PUBLICATIONS, AND SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES
- Graduate student in Dementia and Aging Studies (MSDA), Brenda Fagan, has been selected to attend the 2020 Mind & Life Summer Research Institute. This year’s theme is “Cultivating Prosocial Development Across the Lifespan: Contexts, Relationships, and Contemplative Practices.”
- Graduate student in Sustainability Studies, Lindsay Loftin, was the student delegate appointed to represent the Sustainability and Sociology programs at the annual student Graduate Leadership Conferences at Texas State.
- Graduate student in Sustainability Studies, Tom Myers, was accepted into the Ellen MacArthur Foundation- 2020 From Linear to Circular Program, was a 2020 Nominee/Finalist-Texas Business Hall of Fame-2020 Future Texas Legend Veteran Award, selected to pitch at the 2020 SXSW Texas State Innovation Lab, and is currently interning with the TXST Office of Sustainability. Tom was also featured in the March 6, 2020, TXST Digital Newsroom Article https://news.txstate.edu/student-achievements/2020/texas-state-grad-student-goes-solar-for-solarsno-shaved-ice.html
- Graduate student in Sustainability Studies, Amanda Armstrong, is working on a saline aquaphonics publication with Dr. Saha in the Ag department.
- BS Applied Sociology senior, Karen Gaytan, was awarded the 2020 Undergraduate Research Fellowship which will support her research project titled San Ygnacio Documentary.
- MS in Dementia & Aging Studies graduate student, Lisa Fournier, has started a blog that she feels connects the dots between her caregiving experience and the research she is doing in this program: http://carepartnerguide.com/wp/