{"id":4370,"date":"2024-09-19T16:08:21","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T16:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/?page_id=4370"},"modified":"2025-09-30T15:47:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T15:47:23","slug":"success-stories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/success-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Honors Success Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tHON 498 Crossing the Danger Water Explores the Middle Passage\u2019s Cultural Significance\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t
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Dr. Donald Gagnon teaches HON 498 Crossing the Danger Water and recently led three field studies that were essential to student learning. Professor Gagnon writes, \u201cAll semester, we’ve been studying The Middle Passage, the central part of the Atlantic slave trade, in order to discover common phenomena and the centrality<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tRead More \u00bb\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tDr. Leslie Lindenauer, Incoming Honors Director, Is Excited to Step into a New Role\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t
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  Dr. Lindenauer, Professor of History, Philosophy & World Perspectives, will serve as Director of the Kathwari Honors Program starting in Fall 2026. As an Honors Faculty member who has worked with the program for over a decade, she is excited to step into this role. Dr. Lindenauer writes, \u201cI<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tRead More \u00bb\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tKathwari Honors Students Anja Westenberg & Patrick Keegan Accepted to Partners in Peace\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t
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  Honors students Anja Westenberg (Class of 2028) and Patrick Keegan (Class of 2027) have been accepted to Partners in Peace for Fall 2026. This program is a collaboration between the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) and the Nobel Peace Center, located in Oslo, Norway. The semester-long study includes weekly<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tRead More \u00bb\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tKathwari Honors Student Karrina Furtado Engages with Academics and Culture in Greece\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t
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During the fall semester, Karrina Furtado, senior Public Health major and Kathwari Honors student, studied abroad in Thessaloniki, Greece. Furtado chose this program because it offered a variety of courses in the Humanities and Psychology, her minor, as well as options to fulfill prerequisites for graduate study in Occupational Therapy.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tRead More \u00bb\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t

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Students in Professor Clements\u2019 HON 400 – Honors Capstone Seminar completed projects for 120 Hours, an international student architectural design competition based in Norway. The competition is centered around a sustainability issue. This year, the focus was on an Arctic area in Norway where tourism is invading the territory of<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tRead More \u00bb\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tKathwari Honors Student Razi Naouali Makes An Impact on Campus in His First Year\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t
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Razi Naouali is in his first year at WCSU, but he is already very involved on campus as a Kathwari Honors student, a member of the men\u2019s soccer team, an SGA senator, and now as a student ambassador in the president\u2019s office. Naouali learned about the Honors Program at the<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tRead More \u00bb\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t

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12\/1\/2025 After completing her BA and MFA at WCSU, Mikayla Silkman is now an adjunct professor teaching in the Kathwari Honors Program and the Department of Creative & Professional Writing. During the spring semester, Silkman will serve as Interim Assistant Director of the Honors Program until April.\u00a0\u00a0 Silkman credits her<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tRead More \u00bb\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t

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12\/1\/2025 Two research teams, including two WCSU professors and five Kathwari Honors students who assisted with the work, presented a panel entitled \u201cFraming Values, Democratic Backsliding, and Political Polarization\u201d at the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) conference in Denver in October with interconnected topics:\u00a0\u00a0 “Two Americas: Contrasting Television News Coverage” led<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tRead More \u00bb\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t

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12\/1\/2025 This summer, sophomore Kathwari Honors student Kylin McMahon participated in WCSU\u2019s Summer Arts and Culture Study in M\u00e1laga, Spain. Having studied Spanish since elementary school and been a member of her high school\u2019s Spanish Honor Society, McMahon jumped at the opportunity to travel outside of the U.S. for the<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tRead More \u00bb\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tKathwari Honors Student Owen Ibey Leads through Connection\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t
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10\/23\/2025 As President of the Student Government Association, sophomore Kathwari Honors Student Owen Ibey cares about community. He chose to attend WestConn for the wide array of opportunities available, from SGA to the Music program to his major in Political Science. The Kathwari Honors Program has been an important part<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tRead More \u00bb\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4370","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/honors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}