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    Director Jamie Williams [email protected]

    Assistant DirectorStefani Thachik ste [email protected]

    Newest NSP grads honor mentors, receive majorawards, move on to top grad schools and companies

    DirectorCalhoun Honors College

    Dr. Bill Lasser [email protected]

    Graduate Assistant Hawken Brackett

    [email protected]

    May graduate Jennifer Moffitt received the 2011 Nor-ris Medal, Clemsons top award for most outstandinggraduating senior. Jennifer is the fourthNational Schol-ar to receive the Norris since 2007.

    The graduating seniors received many awards, including: Jessica DeanOutstanding Undergraduate Award rom the Presidents

    Commission on the Status o Women; Phi Kappa Phi Certifcate o Meritrom the College o Business and Behavioral Science; Ernest Jewell

    Hardesty Moore Award or Outstanding Senior rom the department oPsychology; Matt Locke Award rom the Division o Student A airs

    Caitlin FoulserOutstanding Senior Award rom the Mathematical Sci-ences Faculty

    Susie IrizarryConservation Biology Senior Scholar Awards rom theCollege o Agriculture, Forestry and Li e Sciences and the departmento Forestry and Natural Resources

    Elizabeth SloanPhi Kappa Phi Certifcate o Merit rom the College oEngineering and Science Ray SmithJerome V. Reel Award o Academic Excellence rom Omicron

    Delta Kappa national leadership honor society

    The 2011 graduates presented the annual NSP AwaDistinction to professor and advisors who have servtheir mentors and who supported their intellectual,-sonal and professional development at Clemson. Therecipients were:

    Neil Calkin Mathematical Sciences Jonathan Beecher Field English | Jeff Fine Political ScienceCharles

    Gooding Chemical Engineering Harry Harritos Architecture| Dana Irvin Calhoun Honors College

    Robin Kowalski Psychology | Lance Young Business Yanhua Zhang Languages

    after GRADUATION After considering a wide range of offers from top medical andgraduate schools and Fortune 500 companies, the newest NSPgraduates will begin the next chapters at the following locations:

    Achieng AdongoClemson,mas- ters in industrial engineering

    Ben BooneBB&T LeadershipDevelopment Program

    Judith CrewsClemson,masters in architecture and health

    Jessica DeanFlorida State,masters in higher education

    Allison ForemanClemson,doctorate in engineering and science education

    Caitlin FoulserN.C. State,doctorate in mathematics

    Susie IrizarryUnilever NationalParks Congressional InternshipProgram

    Jennifer Mof ttEastmanChemical Company,research chemical engineer

    Zach MusgraveMichigan,doctorate in computer science and engineering

    Elizabeth SloanTexas-South-western,medical school

    Ray SmithMassachusetts Insti-tute o Technology,doctorate in chemical engineering

    Josh Von FangeFluor Corpo-ration (Shanghai),sourcing account manager

    SENIORretreat

    Above A fnal group challengeto solve to conclude their NSP

    experience. Left Crossing abridge during the zip line tour.

    Josh Von Fange and Zach Musgrave race across a lake at the end of a zipline tour during the April 8-10 senior retreat. This retreat bookends the newScholar retreat of four years earlier, and allows Scholars to re ect on theirNSP experience and to make commitments to each others continued success.