Recent Highlights of FCC Honors

All-American candidates
- 2007 Maryland 1st Team - Lauren O'Connell; 2nd Team - Tyler Koontz
- 2008 Maryland 1st Team - Sarah Dirndorfer; 2nd Team - Chaeli Zik
- 2009 Maryland 1st Team - Suganya Soundararajan; 2nd Team - Gabriela Holdcroft
Honors College graduates
- 2007 - 14 graduates (largest class in FCC history)
- 2008 - 7 graduates (tie 2nd largest class)
- 2009 - 7 graduates (tie 2nd largest class)
Honors Independent Study projects
- 2006-2009 - 12 projects completed (plus 3 incomplete)
- 2008 - Sarah Dirndorfer won Bronze Remi at the Worldfest Film Festival for her project entitled "Sustainable Living."
Conference Presentations by students
- 2007 Maryland honors conference - 1 (Kevin Brosius)
- 2007 Northeast regional honors conference - 2 (Iman Azur, Shannon Showe)
- 2008 Maryland honors conference - 5 (Alexandra Cobb, Sarah Dirndorfer, Laura Dochtermann, Jami Grey, Anthony Ruopoli)
- 2009 Maryland honors conference - 2 (Marley Pegler, Sara Atwood)
- 2009 Northeast regional honors conference - 8 attended conference and participated in City As Text explorations of Annapolis, MD
- 2009 Phi Theta Kappa national conference - 2 (Gabriela Holdcroft, Nicole Janney)

University of Maryland Transfer Scholarship
- 2007 Cory Bland (full tuition)
- 2008 Laura Dochtermann (full tuition); Garrett Hughes ($5,000)
- 2009 Michael Misulia (full tuition); Sara Atwood ($5,000)
Hood College
- 2007 Diane Foland ($16,000 Honors Transfer Scholarship; $28,000 total)
- 2007 Iman Azur, Christina Smith, Heather Smith, Andrea Vizzo ($16,000 Honors Transfer Scholarship)
- 2008 Jami Grey ($10,000 PTK Scholarship; $20,000 total scholarships)
Towson University Honors College Transfer Scholarship
- 2008 Sarah Dirndorfer
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- 2009 Amanda Harris (STEM Scholarship: $5,000 first year; $10,000 in years 2 & 3)
American University
- 2009 Marley Pegler ($27,000 Presidential Scholarship)
Lee University (Cleveland, TN)
- 2009 Jesse Tosten ($5,500 Phi Theta Kappa Scholarship, $3,000 Transfer Scholarship, and $2,000 Honors Scholarship renewable each semester)
Coca Cola Scholarship National Finalist
- 2009 Suganya Soundararajan ($1,000)

25th Anniversary Celebration
- Dinner with talk by Dr. Nancy Maryboy on "From Paradox to Collaboration: Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Western Science" in Feb. 2008.
Honors Student Association
- 2009 Talent Show - raised over $1,100 to support Invisible Children, a nonprofit organization that helps children in war-torn Uganda
- 2009 Big Sweep - raised over $700 for Invisible Children and picked up 16 bags of trash, 10 bags of recyclables, a bicycle frame, a tire, and other debris
- 2009 White Water Rafting - four teams (23 students and six staff members) learned about teamwork, leadership, and a little Appalachian culture through camping and navigating the rapids on the New River in West Virginia
Phi Theta Kappa
- 2008 - Alpha Delta Sigma chapter became an active chapter with 54 new inductees
- 2009 - Alpha Delta Sigma chapter earned Five Star status for its activities and the Pinnacle Award for its membership growth

Mock Trials
- H102H - students had to write legal briefs and present their arguments in a court setting either prosecuting or defending Great Britain, Germany, Soviet Union, or Austria-Hungary for causing WWI.
- MA206H - students were challenged to prove that the professor's grading was statistically biased; they lost, but the students made a great case!
Phi Theta Kappa Leadership Workshops
- 2008 - six students completed inaugural series of leadership workshops
- 2009 - nine students earned leadership certificates
Virtual Field Trips
- BI202H & CMSP103H - to engage students as active learners on field trips they were required to document what they saw (notes, pictures, & GPS location) and asked to create a virtual field trip to teach what they learned to other students.
Alternative Textbook
- MA206H - used an open source textbook in spring 2009 to reduce student costs.

Christine Conyers (FCC '06) - graduated from University of Baltimore with JD and MA in Public Policy. Congrats!
Andrea Vizzo (FCC '07) - graduated from Hood College and hired as Assistant Director, The Fund for Public Interest in Chapel Hill, NC. Congrats!
Sarah Dirndorfer (FCC '08) - public relations internship this summer; completed her first year with Towson University Honors College
Tyler Koontz (FCC '07) - Resident Advisor at William & Mary and will graduate in 2010
Christina Hawkins (FCC '06) - living in Baltimore; BA from UMBC
Lydia Mashburn (FCC '05) - living/working in Washington, DC; BA from William & Mary in 2008
Jessica Cannon (FCC '00) - teaching part time in Houston, Texas, while completing her dissertation in Southern history at Rice University

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