Note to editors: If a county or state is not listed, there were no honor students from that area. If a Manhattan area address was given as a permanent address, the student will be listed in the permanent address county and also in the county for the high school of record.
News release prepared by: Julie Fosberg and Beth Bohn, 785-532-2535, media@k-state.edu

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

K-STATE AWARDS SEMESTER, GRADUATION HONORS FOR SPRING 2010

MANHATTAN -- Kansas State University is recognizing more than 2,850 students with spring semester honors and more than 320 students with graduation honors.

K-State students who earned a 3.75 grade point average or higher for the spring 2010 semester were awarded semester honors. Students had to be enrolled in at least 12 semester hours of graded course work.

Summa cum laude, K-State's highest graduation honor, was awarded to 103 students who graduated with an academic average of 3.95 or higher; 120 students graduated magna cum laude with an academic average of 3.85 to 3.949; and 125 students graduated cum laude with an academic average of 3.750 to 3.848.

Students earning semester and/or graduation honors receive commendations from their deans, with the honors recorded on their permanent academic records.

K-State students earning semester honors and students earning graduation honors, by county and hometown:

 

KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY SPRING 2010 SEMESTER HONORS

KEARNY COUNTY

Lakin: Andrew Paul Blackburn, Elyssa Kathryn Blackburn, Lyndie Danae Holmes, Alicia Marie Shankle, Amanda Colleen Shankle, Justine Danielle Sullivan

Editor's note: The students listed below gave an out-of-county permanent address. These students are listed by high school to get the news to their hometown newspapers.

Lakin High School: Keri Dene Deaver

KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY SPRING 2010 GRADUATION HONORS

Lakin: Andrew Paul Blackburn, summa cum laude with a bachelor of arts

 

KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY SPRING 2010 SEMESTER HONORS

KINGMAN COUNTY

Cunningham: Kristen Nicole Sterneker

Nashville: Amanda Ruth Depenbusch, Nicholas Depenbusch

KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY SPRING 2010 GRADUATION HONORS

Kingman: Emily Nicole Theis, magna cum laude with a B.S. in human ecology

 

KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY SPRING 2010 SEMESTER HONORS

KIOWA COUNTY

Greensburg: Kelsey Heft, Whitney Neill Stotts

KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY SPRING 2010 GRADUATION HONORS

Greensburg: Whitney Neill Stotts, magna cum laude with a bachelor of arts