Honors Program Newsletter: February 2023
Message From the Director
Clarkson Honors students spent this past fall semester pursuing an impressive array of experiences. Our Honors Program sophomore course, Introduction to Community Engagement, put students to work volunteering with several partners in the local community. Fourteen of our Honors students were privileged to assist the town of Waddington with preserving their history, from documenting artifacts to developing a digital walking history tour. Those community connections and real-world training are invaluable for our students. Their interpersonal skills, enriched by research in their fields, come to fruition in later years. A trio of our seniors — Jennifer O'Brien ’22, Mary Donnelly ’22, and Gracie DeLaBruere ’23 — all shared their ongoing work at a variety of conferences. In Clarkson Honors, much of our learning happens outside the classroom.
— Kate Krueger, Director, University Honors Program / Professor of Literature
Preserving History
Clarkson Honors students take community engagement seriously. There’s even a class about it. Students in Introduction to Community Engagement are working with peers in the University’s construction engineering management program to help preserve and display historical artifacts in the village of Waddington, New York.
National Presence
Gracie DeLaBruere ’23 stepped onto the national stage this November when she and her classmates presented research at the 63rd Annual Psychonomic Society Meeting. She has been working with Professor Andreas Wilke on a project that examines statistical thinking in children.
Making An Impression
Recent Honors graduate Jennifer O’Brien ’22 ended her time at Clarkson in style, winning the Best Undergraduate Poster Award at the Hudson Mohawk AVS (formerly American Vacuum Society) fall meeting. Her poster exhibited research that she and co-researchers published in the October issue of Small.