English and Integrated Sciences for Secondary Education major
Majors: English and Integrated Sciences for Secondary Education
Grad School plans: Doctorate in education
Career goal: Professor of teacher education
Senior Honors Project: “The Transformative Teacher Project: Identifying characteristics and practices of transformative educators”
Study abroad: United Kingdom, China and Ghana
Other research: Member
of the First Generation College Student Research Team that examined
first generation college students who went on to obtain a doctoral
degree.
Presentation/publication: “The
Transformative Teacher Project” at the Hawaii International Conference
on Education and “The Importance of Failure as Part of the Engineering
Process,” Michigan Science Teachers Association Journal, Fall 2013,
Volume 58.2
Other CMU involvement: President of
the Honors Outreach Network, Leadership Safari guide, CMU Student
Government Association vice president, 2013 Homecoming Ambassador,
Writing Center tutor and three Alternative Breaks.
How Honors will help you postgraduation: “Thanks to
the Honors Program, I think more critically about the world around me
and constantly evaluate myself to see how I can make a positive impact.
These are skills I will emphasize in my own classroom someday.”