WELL DONE!
Photos courtesy of Parker Roberts
Plasma physics for Goldwater Scholar Senior physics and math major Parker Roberts has big goals and even bigger dreams. He plans to earn a Ph.D. in plasma physics and then “contribute to the development of new technologies that will help humanity explore our universe and power our societies in grander ways than ever before.” Whew! Currently, however, he is “merely” finishing his senior year at Berry after working this
summer on a powerful new thruster at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a 2019-20 Goldwater Scholar. Yes, we said Goldwater Scholar! He is the second Berry student in as many years to receive the nation’s preeminent undergraduate scholarship in the natural sciences, engineering and mathematics. Sarah Cooper (19C) was a Goldwater Scholar last year, and Daniel Alligood (17C) earned honorable-
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The right stuff
Dr. Alan Hughes works with psychology student Caroline Stiles.
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BERRY MAGAZINE • WINTER 2019-20
Psychology Chair Dr. Alan Hughes has the right potential and credentials to be one of just 41 higher-education administrators nationwide chosen to participate in the Council of Independent College’s yearlong 2019-20 Senior Leadership Academy. The opportunity is meant to prepare prospective leaders to assume positions as the chief officers in any division of independent higher education, including academic affairs, student affairs, finance, enrollment management and advancement. Hughes has taught at Berry since 2007.
mention status as a junior in 2016. “To receive the Goldwater Scholarship is to be inducted into a community of Americans who have done great things for the world by courageously pushing forward the bounds of what is known and possible,” Roberts said. “I find it simultaneously inspiring and humbling to be granted this opportunity.”
Posters don’t lie Director of Sports Information and Promotions Blake Childers (15C) brought national recognition to Berry when his decidedly “I am pumped” football poster earned third place and his “We definitely mean business” women’s soccer poster took sixth in the 2018-19 College Sports Information Directors of America Publication and Design Contest. The football poster also claimed first-in-district honors. Berry’s division included institutions in NCAA Divisions II and III, the NAIA and the National Junior College Athletic Association. Photo credit for both winners goes to Berry student Matthew McConnell.