Fellows
The Honors Program of the College of Education and Health Professions is proud to showcase recipients of Honors College and Bodenhamer Fellowships from the University of Arkansas. The fellowships are generous, academically competitive and awarded on merit. The awards provide $80,000 in support over four years (and non-resident tuition award, if applicable). For more information or to apply, visit the Honors College Fellowships page.
Kendall Fisher
Major: Public Health
Minors: Medical Humanities & Music
Plans after graduation: I plan to attend a Master of Physician Assistant Studies graduate program and going on to specialize in ear, nose, and throat.
Thesis/Project mentor: Dr. Rachel Glade
Thesis/Project summary: Examining the attendance for follow-up infant hearing screenings.
Hometown: Bentonville, Arkansas
Study Abroad Location/year: I will be going to various cities in Europe this summer 2024 through the AIFS Study + Travel program to study comparative healthcare or European art and culture.
Other Interests: I play flute in the University Wind Ensemble and give campus tours with the Student Ambassadors! I also enjoy listening to music, hiking, reading, collecting vinyl records, and getting coffee with friends.
Ellie Hassler
Major: Pre-Nursing
Minor: Human Development & Family Sciences
Plans after graduation: I plan to work as a nurse in a pediatric intensive care unit and eventually want to go back and get my master’s degree and become a pediatric nurse practitioner.
Thesis/Project mentor: TBD
Thesis/Project summary: I am interested in researching how being diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder as a child affects their social interactions and cognitive development.
Hometown: McKinney, Texas
Other Interests: I am a member of Alpha Delta Pi and volunteer with Cross Church’s Dream Team. I also love reading, listening to podcasts, and ordering sweet potato fries every chance I get.
Emma Hulbert
Major: Nursing
Minor: Spanish
Plans after graduation: Work in a healthcare facility in which my ability to speak Spanish will assist a wide variety of patients in receiving quality care.
Thesis/Project mentor: TBD
Thesis/Project summary: I aspire to base my thesis on the differences in nursing roles in healthcare facilities between the United States, more focused: Arkansas, and the location in which I next study abroad, prospectively Accra, Ghana or Jonkoping, Sweden.
Hometown: Fayetteville, Arkansas
Study Abroad Location/year: This past summer, I studied abroad in Alicante, Spain with the Center for Education Abroad. I plan to study abroad again in the summer of 2022 and am exploring the following programs: "U of A Faculty Led: Community Health Nursing in Ghana" and "U of A Faculty Led: Health Teams Abroad in Sweden."
Other Interests: I am a passionate member of the University of Arkansas Cheer Team, an avid traveler, and a lover of all things chocolate.
Linden Mountain
Major: Childhood Education
Minor: Biology
Plans after graduation: Attend the university’s master's program to obtain a Master in Arts of Teaching degree before working as an elementary school teacher. Further in the future, I would like to become an administrator or design elementary curriculum.
Thesis/Project summary: Area of interest is Movement Integration in the classroom
Hometown: Springdale, Arkansas
Study Abroad Location/year: I participated in the university’s faculty-led Education in Ireland study abroad program in the summer of 2022. Through this program, I had the opportunity to observe several Irish primary schools and speak with educators about their experiences.
Other Interests: I am part of the Volunteer Action Center board where I act as the Development Coordinator for a literacy mentoring program. I am also a member of Pi Beta Phi.
Terrell Page
Major: English Education
Minor: Spanish
Plans after graduation: I’d like to eventually become a Spanish-English interpreter at the school where I’ll teach (exact location, TBD). Before that, though, I hope to write a Young Adult novel. Immediately after graduation, I just want some time to figure out how best to combine my passions for myself before becoming a teacher (since while I’m teaching, I won’t have time for everything).
Thesis/Project mentor: I’m working with Dr. David Fredrick on integrating videogames into methods of Creative Writing instruction in high school.
Thesis/Project summary: I will be teaching collaborative worldbuilding and narrative design through a game design lens to show high school Creative Writing students how videogames tell stories. But I’ll also pair this with short story writing, consistently comparing videogame storytelling with traditional, written forms of storytelling. Throughout the 3-week unit, I plan to use the videogame Undertale (and, briefly, a few other independent games) as an illustrative example of good storytelling in games.
Hometown: Magnolia, Arkansas
Study Abroad Location/year: I plan to study abroad in Puebla, Mexico (Summer 2022, hopefully), in the faculty-led Spanish Immersion & Service Learning program. This program would allow me to sharpen my Spanish skills and my teaching skills at the same time and give me more cultural insight on how to teach Latinx students.
Conference Presentations: I presented on Black representation in children’s cartoons at Johns Hopkins University (virtually) in Spring 2021. The presentation was called “Mirror, Mirror: Countering Racism through Children’s Cartoons”. Here is a link to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R3MxxPTVaE
Other Interests: Music (Kirk Franklin, Insaneintherainmusic, Mr. Kilombo, etc.), soccer, videogames (The Legend of Zelda, Fire Emblem, Super Smash Bros.), contemporary Young Adult novels (like Ayana Gray’s Beasts of Prey!)