{"id":13160,"date":"2012-05-21T10:20:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T14:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=13160"},"modified":"2022-09-27T13:02:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T17:02:08","slug":"wright-state-honors-top-scholars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/05\/21\/wright-state-honors-top-scholars\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State honors Top Scholars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13161\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/05\/21\/wright-state-honors-top-scholars\/topscholars2012\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13161\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13161\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13161\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2012\/05\/TopScholars2012-260x204.jpg\" alt=\"Photos of the six top scholars with their books.\" width=\"260\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13161\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">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.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Each student was personally selected by their college dean\u2019s office from a list of seniors with GPAs of 3.6 or higher.<\/p>\n<p>Each year since 1995, the Parents Association purchases a book in each scholar\u2019s name in his or her subject area for addition to the University Libraries\u2019 collections. The scholar is named on a bookplate and in the online catalog record for their book.<\/p>\n<p>Top Scholars for 2012 are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lynsey Lee Shepard<\/strong><br \/>\nRaj Soin College of Business<br \/>\nMajor: Financial Services<br \/>\nBook: <em>Creating a Balanced Scorecard for a Financial Services Organization <\/em>by Naresh Makhijani &amp; James Creelman<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eric John Blosser<\/strong><br \/>\nCollege of Education &amp; Human Services<br \/>\nMajor: K\u201312 Physical Education\u2014Sports Science<br \/>\nBook: <em>Motor Learning and Control: Concepts &amp; Applications<\/em>, 9th ed. by Richard A. Magill<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cory Firmin Snyder<\/strong><br \/>\nCollege of Engineering &amp; Computer Science<br \/>\nMajor: Electrical Engineering<br \/>\nBook:<em> Computational Intelligence, Control and Computer Vision in Robotics and Automation<\/em>, edited by Bidyadhar Subudhi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cynthia Sue McGillivary<\/strong><br \/>\nCollege of Liberal Arts<br \/>\nMajor: Anthropology<br \/>\nBooks: <em>Laughing at Leviathan: Sovereignty and Audience in West Papua<\/em> by Danilyn Rutherford<\/p>\n<p><strong>Haley Jo Kreider<\/strong><br \/>\nCollege of Nursing and Health<br \/>\nMajor: Nursing<br \/>\nBook: <em>Fundamentals of Nursing: Human Health &amp; Function<\/em>, 7th ed. by Ruth F. Craven, Constance J. Hirnle and Sharon Jensen<\/p>\n<p><strong>Huong-Thao Thy Tran<\/strong><br \/>\nCollege of Science and Mathematics<br \/>\nMajor: Biological Sciences<br \/>\nBook: <em>Netter\u2019s Infectious Diseases<\/em> by Elaine C. Jong &amp; Dennis L. Stevens<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/05\/21\/wright-state-honors-top-scholars\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":13161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,725,747,715,4855,719],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-home-news-sidebar","category-liberal-arts","category-news","category-social-sciences-and-international-studies","category-special-categories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13160"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129748,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13160\/revisions\/129748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}