Carroll will celebrate the 2018 recipients of its Distinguished Alumni and Graduate Of the Last Decade Awards during a ceremony in the Stackner Ballroom of the Campus Center on Tuesday, April 24, 2018 at 5 pm. Please join us as we celebrate our most accomplished alumni and to honor their commitments to their academic work, their communities, their professions and to Carroll as well as outstanding students and exceptional faculty and staff.
This year we will be honoring these members of our community:
(English and French major at Carroll, now Professor of Department of Educational Leadership & Policy at University of Alabama)
(History major at Carroll, now Superintendent for the Township High School District 214, the second largest high school district in Illinois)
(Sociology major at Carroll, now community volunteer serving many organizations in Stevens Point, Wis. and throughout Portage County)
(Nursing major at Carroll, now Manager of Quality, Education, and Telehealth for Aurora Health Care)
2018 Student Alumni Ambassadors
Lukas Dietzen, Tyler Fencl, Samantha Gonzalez, Julia Richter and Hailey Von Dross
Faculty Award for Exemplary Contributions in Service
Dr. Lilly Goren, Professor of Political Science
Staff Award for Exemplary Contributions in Service
Megan Couch, International Student Coordinator
The 2018 Pioneer Scholars and Mentors will also be celebrated at the event:
- Allison Calteux and Professor Philip Krejcarek, Project: “Nightmares and Daydreams: A Study of Surrealist Photography and its Application to Portraiture”
- Alexis Kaenel and Dr. Abigail Markwyn, Project: “From the Joy Zone to the Gayway: Presenting women at the 1915 and 1939 San Francisco World’s Fairs”
- Sofie Kautzman and Dr. Lara Karpenko, Project: “Reinventing the Idea of the Angel of the House: Exploring the work of Julia Margaret Cameron”
- Ashley Labodda and Dr. Kevin Guilfoy, Project: “Biomedical Ethics: Comparative analysis of collectivistic and individualistic cultural influences on the practice of medical informed consent”
- Millar Minahan and Dr. Roberto Brenes, Project: “Environmental and physiological effects of the metabolite Emodin produced by the invasive species 'Buckthorn' on the mice population at Carroll University’s Greene Field Station”
- Shanna Mogden and Dr. Natalya Zinkevich, Project: “Mitochondrial ROS Production in Human Cultured HEK293 Cells Under Varying Concentrations of Serum and Glucose”
- Mikal Shankey and Dr. Monika Baldridge, Project: “Effect of Bisphenol A and Modified Growth Conditions on Mitochondrial Free Radical Production in Human Cultured HEK293 Cells”
- Hailey Von Dross and Dr. Jennifer Huck, Project: “Assessing Women Reentry Programing in Wisconsin”
- Alec Wendland and Dr. Thomas St. George, Project: “Numerical Solutions to Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems Using Bernstein Polynomial Reproducing Kernel Method”