2008 Accolades and Awards
- Meredith’s chapter of the Alpha Lambda Delta (ALD) National Honor Society won a Silver Membership Award from the national organization. Membership awards are presented to chapters that show a notable increase in membership in a single year. Meredith’s chapter membership had an increase of 29 percent during the 2007-08 academic year.
- The Meredith College chapter of Kappa Omicron Nu (KON), an honor society for human environmental sciences majors has received two Chapter Awards of Excellence from the national organization. The Chapter Award of Excellence recognizes quality of programming and leadership development in the network of more than 100 campus chapters throughout the United States. Meredith’s Kappa Delta Omicron Chapter received an award for both the 2007-08 and 2008-09 academic years. Professor of Human Environmental Sciences Deborah Tippett serves as chapter advisor. She will assume the elected position as chair of Kappa Omicron Nu for the 2010-12 term.
- In 2009, Meredith MBAs scored better than 85% of other MBA students from colleges and universities across the nation who took the ETS Field Test of Business, MBA. The nationally normed test is used to assess mastery of business concepts, critical thinking and reasoning ability for MBA students.
- Meredith College received a 2009 City of Raleigh Environmental Award for the College’s on-campus composting program.
- Meredith students earned first and second place in the Otto Zenke Competition, sponsored by the Carolinas Chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers (CCASID). Senior Jennifer Resch won first place and senior Brenna Anderson won second place.
- Senior Regina Heubel earned a 2009 Green/Sustainable Design Scholarship from the International Furnishings and Design Association (IFDA) Educational Foundation.
- Assistant Professor of Art Shannon Johnstone was awarded a $2,000 scholarship to participate in the Maine Media Workshops in Rockport, Maine.
- The Avenging Angels won USA South Championships in tennis and soccer in 2008-09.
- Meredith’s School of Natural and Mathematical Sciences is the recipient of a National Science Foundation S-STEM grant award for Paschal-Science, Technology, and Mathematics (Paschal-STM) Scholarships. This award will provide $599,972 in scholarship and programming funds over the next four years for eligible incoming math and science freshmen and returning sophomore students with financial need.
- Jeannette Rogers, departmental assistant of Dance, Theatre and Music in the School of the Arts was awarded a 2008-09 Regional Artist Project Grant in the amount of $1,500 for travel to France to meet with modern Occitan poet Miquel Décor, whose works she is translating.
- The Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation awarded Meredith College $5,000 for a grant to support the production of a catalogue in conjunction with the exhibition Desire and Otherness: Photographs by Titus Brooks Heagins in the college’s Frankie G. Weems Art Gallery.
- Sports Information Director Greg Jarvis is serving a second two-year term on the Executive Board of the North Carolina Collegiate Sports Information Association (NCCSIA). Jarvis is the organization’s publicist.
- Stephanie Crocker, a student in Meredith College’s Master of Education program, has been named the Wake County Autism Teacher of the Year, 2008-09 by the North Carolina Autism Society. Crocker earned her undergraduate degree from Meredith in 2004, and is completing Meredith’s Master of Education in special education.
- Shante Allen earned a competitive Freeman ASIA Award which supported her semester of study at the Institute for the International Education of Students in Tokyo, Japan, where she is studying Japanese language and culture.
- Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences Erin Linquist was inducted as co-executive director of the Collegiate Academy of the North Carolina Academy of Sciences. She will serve in this role for five years.
- News Director Melyssa Allen is serving a two-year term as president-elect of the College News Association of the Carolinas (CNAC). CNAC is comprised of higher education public relations professionals from public and private school across North Carolina and South Carolina.
- Assistant Professor of Theatre Steven Roten received an award for meritorious achievement in directing at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF).
- Sustainability Coordinator Laura Fieselman has been accepted as a 2009 Environmental Leadership Program Southeast Regional Fellow.
- Two projects created by Meredith’s Department of Marketing have earned awards in the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) District III Awards Program. The “2008 President’s Report” earned a Special Merit Award in the Annual Reports category, and a recruitment publication series designed for high school sophomores and juniors earned an Award of Excellence in the student recruitment category.
- Brittany Bristol, a student at Meredith College, received the third annual North Carolina Campus Compact Community Impact Student Award.
