Wright State honors Top Scholars

The 2012 Top Scholars: (back row, l-r) Eric John Blosser, Lynsey Lee Shepard, Cory Firmin Snyder, (front row, l-r) Cynthia Sue McGillivary, Huong-Thao Thy Tran, and Haley Jo Kreider.

The Wright State University Parents Association and the Wright State University Friends of the Libraries honored six graduating seniors as the Top Scholars for their colleges at a reception held May 18 in the Paul Laurence Dunbar Library.

Each student was personally selected by their college dean’s office from a list of seniors with GPAs of 3.6 or higher.

Each year since 1995, the Parents Association purchases a book in each scholar’s name in his or her subject area for addition to the University Libraries’ collections. The scholar is named on a bookplate and in the online catalog record for their book.

Top Scholars for 2012 are:

Lynsey Lee Shepard
Raj Soin College of Business
Major: Financial Services
Book: Creating a Balanced Scorecard for a Financial Services Organization by Naresh Makhijani & James Creelman

Eric John Blosser
College of Education & Human Services
Major: K–12 Physical Education—Sports Science
Book: Motor Learning and Control: Concepts & Applications, 9th ed. by Richard A. Magill

Cory Firmin Snyder
College of Engineering & Computer Science
Major: Electrical Engineering
Book: Computational Intelligence, Control and Computer Vision in Robotics and Automation, edited by Bidyadhar Subudhi

Cynthia Sue McGillivary
College of Liberal Arts
Major: Anthropology
Books: Laughing at Leviathan: Sovereignty and Audience in West Papua by Danilyn Rutherford

Haley Jo Kreider
College of Nursing and Health
Major: Nursing
Book: Fundamentals of Nursing: Human Health & Function, 7th ed. by Ruth F. Craven, Constance J. Hirnle and Sharon Jensen

Huong-Thao Thy Tran
College of Science and Mathematics
Major: Biological Sciences
Book: Netter’s Infectious Diseases by Elaine C. Jong & Dennis L. Stevens