2012-2013 Student Accomplishments

Morgan Dickerson giving a presentation over her thesis 'The Effects of Carbohydrate Concentrations on Heat Shock Protein Expresssion in Daphnia Magna"

• Senior biology major Blake Scott was accepted into the PhD program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
• Senior chemistry major Justin Erwin was accepted in to the PhD. program in Synthetic Organic Chemistry at Rice University.
• Senior mathematics major Ashley Cardwell was accepted into the PhD program in mathematics at the University of Oklahoma.
• Senior biology/Chemistry double major Morgan Dickerson was accepted into the Tulsa School of Community Medicine Track  in the University of Oklahoma’s College of Medicine.
• Senior chemistry major Joshua Smith was accepted into the PhD program in Chemistry at the University of Oklahoma.
• Senior English major Lindsey Dugan was accepted in to the Master of Arts in Professional Writing program at Oklahoma State University.
• Senior music major Claire Marquardt's performance of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue won first prize in ECU’s second annual Concerto Competition. Claire’s performance of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue was presented at the ECU Band’s Spring Concert, conducted by Dr. Allen Correll.
• Senior mass communications major Mary Newport won first place in the news writing category at the Oklahoma College Media Association annual conference.
• Senior mathematics major Joshua Crittenden was selected for the Research Experience for Undergraduates at the National Weather Center in Norman.

Joshua Crittenden gives a presentation over random number generation and the linear congruential method

• Senior biology major Blake Scott was selected to participate in an 8-week summer internship the Native American Research Centers for Health at The University of Oklahoma’s Health Science Center.
• Senior psychology major Cody Soden and senior chemistry major Josh Smith presented research on Organic Solar Cells at the EPA P3 Conference (People Prosperity and the Planet ) in Washington, D.C.. ECU’s team of student researchers, under the leadership of Dr. Dane Scott, was the only team from Oklahoma to receive the grant that produced this research.
• Sophomore nursing major Marissa Hinton and Senior Chemistry major Josh Smith finished 13th and 16th individually out the field of 40 in a Sectional Qualifier for the National Academic Quiz Bowl Tournament. Marissa, Josh, and other members of ECU’s Mind Games team competed against teams from Rice, Texas A&M and Oklahoma State University.
• Sophomore biology major Catherine Phipps won the Brad Henry International Scholarship offered by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education (OSRHE) and the University of Wales, Swansea (Swansea University) to undergraduate students from Oklahoma regional universities for a student exchange program in Wales in the United Kingdom.



Joshua Smith presenting 'A study of Varied Dopant Levels in BIMEVOX Compounds by Microwave Synthesis"







• Sophomore business administration major Rachel Nicholas was elected president of ECU’s Student Senate; sophomore elementary education major Morgan Johnson was elected secretary of this university-wide organization.  Senior legal studies major Meagon Eagon was elected chief justice of ECU’s Honor Court, the judicial body of the student government association.

• Sophomore mathematics major Laura Asaro was accepted into a Research Experience for Undergraduates (or REU) at The Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute at Arizona State University.
• First-year accounting major, Ashley Huhman was one of twenty students from across the nation chosen for a summer Research Experience for Undergraduates with mathematics faculty at Michigan State funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Security Agency.
• Nine Honors Program students participated in the Oklahoma Scholar-Leadership Enrichment Program, an intensive, three-hour seminar taught by nationally recognized scholars.