Kentucky Children’s Hospital in Georgetown, Kentucky.
Joey Kennedy (International Relations, ’16) is attending Belmont University College of Law.
Shane McCoy (English, ‘10)
received a Ph.D. in English at the University of Washington in 2017. He was an instructor at Tennessee Tech in 2017–18 and is currently a lecturer of English at MTSU.
Samuel Musili (Political Science,
‘18) is working as an administrative assistant to the deputy general counsel for TennCare in Nashville. He plans to begin law school in 2020.
Katiana Nicholson (Music, ‘18) is assistant band director at Brentwood High School.
Dylan “nobigdyl.” Phillips
(Recording Industry, ’13), pictured above, who signed with Capitol CMG in November 2017, dropped his album Solar last June and launched his single “Over Here” in November. He toured with Lecrae and Andy Mineo on the Better Late than Never Tour in the fall and had 7 million streams on Spotify in 2018. He was featured on Reach Records’ Christmas album The Gift and also on Hip Hop DX. He is headlining a 20-city tour this spring.
Aaron Shew (International
Relations, Global Studies, ’11) was named the inaugural holder
Former Buchanan Fellow Jennifer Johnson Tipton (Psychology, ’12), an adjunct instructor of Sociology at Blue Ridge Community and Technical College in West Virginia, visits with Honors College staff members Philip E. Phillips and Marsha Powers (l). of the R.E. Lee Wilson Chair of Agricultural Business at Arkansas State University last July. Shew, a former Distinguished Doctoral Fellow, completed a doctorate in Environmental Dynamics at the University of Arkansas in 2018. He was a postdoctoral research scholar at the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education until beginning his academic position at Arkansas State this January. In October, the International Rice Research Institute awarded Shew the 2018 Young Scientists Award for his outstanding scientific study on “New Innovations in agricultural biotech: Consumer acceptance of topical RNAi in rice production.”
Xoe Thacker (Biology, ’18) was first author on “Determination of Optimal Hormone and Mineral Salts Levels in Tissue Culture Media for Callus Induction and Growth of Industrial Hemp (Cannabis sativa L.)" in Agricultural Sciences in the fall. Other authors were Kayla Thomas, Matthew Fuller, Shannon Smith, and John DuBois. Joshua Tilton (English, ’18) was accepted into the University of Memphis M.F.A. program with a full graduate assistant position.
Sierra Sotelo (Recording Industry, ’17) is studying at the Texas A&M School of Law in Fort Worth.
Lesley Sweeton (English, ’18) married Kyler Kominos in June and is working as a teacher at Lavergne High School. Joanne Tan (Biology, ’14) has
completed her Doctor of Physical Therapy program at Tennessee State University and is a physical therapist PRN at Maury Regional Hospital in Columbia.
Juan C. Zelaya (Entrepreneurship, ’14), pictured above, is seeking an M.Sc. in Finance at BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo, where he was awarded a full scholarship for the two-year program. Zelaya is a part of an honors society that gives students access to beneficial networking events with the university’s corporate partners.
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