2014 Graduates
2014 Graduates
Eighteen College Scholars graduated in spring and summer of 2014. Their senior projects included an original film, a photographic exhibition, a holocaust education exhibition, scientific investigations in biophysics and neuroscience, as well scholarly work in the social sciences.
Kristin Ballenger – Teaching second or third grade at a charter school in Phoenix through Teach for America while pursuing the masters in elementary education at Arizona State University.
Desta Bume – Ph.D. student in chemistry, Johns Hopkins Univsersity.
Jacob Clark – Masters student in business analytics at UT
Elizabeth Conner – Masters student in Public Health at UT and recipient of the University of Tennessee J. Wallace & Katie Dean Graduate Fellowship.
Clinton Elmore – Masters student in journalism and electronic Media at UT.
Ellen Ford – Research Technician at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Erin Grimson – Anthropologie stylist and free-lance photographer, Knoxville http://www.eringrimson.com
Emma Hicks – Post- graduate internship program in DC through the National Student Leadership Forum.
Alex Houck – Fulbright Scholar in Madrid, Spain, assisting in molecular neurobiological research, analyzing proteins in the brains of mice to learn more about Alzheimer’s disease. He also will take intensive Spanish courses and volunteer at a university teaching hospital.
Olivia Jones – Masters student in Middle Eastern Studies, University of Exeter.
Dustin Le – Pursuing the M.D. at UT Southwestern Medical School in Dallas.
Melissa Lee – Ph.D. student in neurobiology and behavior, Columbia University.
Abigail McKamey – Teaching in Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, helping to start the Nashville Academy of Computer Science charter school and pursuing a masters degree in education from David Lipscomb University.
Taylor Odle – Graduate student in higher education, Vanderbilt University.
Devan Pope – Stewardship Coordinator, Nashville Symphony.
Brianna Rader – M.S. student in global health sciences, University of California, San Francisco.
Mark Remec-Pavlin – Ph.D. student in biophysics, University of California, Berkeley.
Elisabeth Spratt – Continuing a collaborative research project with the Animal Science and Nutrition departments at UT.