Student Achievements

HISTORY MAJORS SUMMER INTERNSHIPS

 Amber Ables, Senior and President of Park University’s Phi Alpha Theta Chapter Zeta Omicron, is at the Kansas City Museum supporting the Summer Drop-Ins educational programs and developing educational activities to accompany the Community Curator program.  Christopher Leitch, Director, Kansas City Museum at Corinthian Hall commented that Ables “brings an eager, positive attitude and a lot of energy” to her work. 

Thomas Scheckel, Junior is assisting the Jackson County Historical Society and Archives, in Independence on cataloging and creating an electronic database on probate records that date from the 1830s to the 1920s.  He recently completed preserving newspapers dating from the mid-1800s.  David Jackson, Jackson County Archivists, commented that Scheckel “is a dedicated researcher and a meticulous fact-finder concerning the records of Jackson Countians.”

Zeta Omicron Awards Banquet

Park University History Honor Society, Zeta Omicron held their annual banquet award ceremony on Friday, April 29,2011. The banquet is held as a send off to the graduating seniors and acknowledgement of all the hard work each individual student has achieved throughout the year.

New Zeta Omicron Members:                                      

Brady Hanssen, Alfred Hoppert, Amber Ables,     Joshua Howard,and John Lange.                                   

Zeta Omicron Thesis/Project Prize: James Hodges receives award from Dr. Timothy Westcott

Park University Student Chosen to display artwork at the "Art is my Business Exhibit" at the Kauffman Foundation

Michelle Davis, Senior, Fine Art Major competed in the "Art is my Business Exhibit" and won a spot to hang her painting. The year-long exhibit is located at the urban entrepreneur partnership near 18th and Vine in the KC Jazz District. It is a program of the Kauffman Foundation. The exhibit recognizes Kansas City artistic heritage and celebrates the entrepreneurial spirit of an art student.

Park University Student Aiden Galarza has Article Published

October 2010

Willis AW, Evanoff BA, Lian M, Galarza A, Wegrzyn A, Schootman M, Racette BA. Metal emissions and urban incident Parkinson disease: a community health study of medicare beneficiaries using geographic information systems. American Journal of Epidemiology, online Oct. 19, 2010.

Washington University of St. Louis-School of Medicine had an announcement on their website homepage under 'Pollutants in some urban areas increase Parkinson's disease risk'.   The direct link to the website article is  http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/21431.aspx

Insight Journal Publication

October 2010

Park University computer science major Leonardo Sa and Dr. Wen-Jung Hsin, recently had their paper published in the Insight Journal. The Insight is a journal of Scholarly Teaching by the Center of Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Park University.

The title of their paper is "Traceable Recursion with Graphical Illustration for Novice Programmers".

http://www.insightjournal.net/Volume5/TraceableRecursionGraphicalIllustration.pdf

Mid-America Conference on History

University of Arkansas- Little Rock

(Left to Right: John Lange, Sr.; Vanessa Garza, Sr.; and Amber Ables, Jr.)

Mid-America Conference on History The University of Arkansas—Little Rock hosted, from September 23-25, the Mid-America Conference on History in which three history majors—Amber Ables, Vanessa Garza and John Lange—along with Dr. Westcott presented conference papers. Research is one of three uniting components that history majors encounter during their studies.  Presenting that research in professional settings assists majors in improving their thesis.  Ables presented on “Anne Boleyn: A Woman with Two Faces-Determining which of them was a Mask.”  Garza continued her research on “The Impact of Transcendentalist Thought on the Movement to Abolish Slavery”, while Lange   presented on “Adolf Eichmann: Nazi Party Careerist or Intentionalist?”  Westcott’s presentation continues a theme of pre-World War I interaction between Russia and the United States in his paper “The ‘Free Russia’ Campaign: American Crusaders unite with Russian Nihilists, 1890-1910.”             While visiting Little Rock, the participants visited the presidential library of President William Jefferson Clinton and the Civil War battlefield located at Pea Ridge. -Entrance to the Oval Office at the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library-

John Lange, Senior-presents paper	Amber Ables, Jr- presents paper
Vanessa Garza, Sr- presents paper	Eastern overlook at Pea Ridge Battlefield, Pea Ridge Arkansas.   (Left to Right: John Lange, Sr.; Amber Ables, Jr.; Vanessa Garza, Sr.; and Dr. Tim Westcott, associate professor of history and Chair, Department of Culture and Society)

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