The Honors Program is proud of the achievements of its students and alumni. We love to hear about your Honors-and-Beyond adventures!
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Coleton Kanzmeier (2022 grad) is now a Data Analytics Developer in Mutual of Omaha’s Marketing Department.
Tristan Martin (2019 grad) works as a Senior Consultant for Salesforce Implementations for Silverline out of New York. He also loves skydiving and has completed 221 jumps all across the country!
Evan Meduna (2019 grad) works at the Philadelphia Fight Community Health Center as a community education manager for people living with HIV, having completed his MSW from West Chester University last year.
Bailey Morley (2019 grad) is working at North Star High School in Lincoln as an ELL teacher while also serving as the STRIVE Mentoring Program coordinator. She is completing her Master’s in PK-12 School Administration this year and celebrating her daughter Colin, who arrived in 2021.
Sean Watson (2019 grad) is working on his Ph.D. at Harvard, working to train the immune system to fight cancer. He and his wife Katie welcomed a daughter last year!
Michael Herndon (2019 grad) is in his Ph.D. Program at UCLA.
Simon Saqueton (2019 grad) is now working full-time as a programmer--and teaching himself Japanese as he hopes to get back there again (he traveled there as an undergraduate).
Kyla Buettner (2018 grad) is moving forwards in her Ph.D. Program in Neurophysiology in Oklahoma and engaged to be married!
Michael Palandri (2018 grad) spent a year in GA working at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center and is now undertaking fieldwork with the U.S. Geological Survey.
Xavier Royer (2018 grad) is completing his M.S. at Villanova University and applying to Ph.D. programs.
Harry Won (2018 grad) is currently studying bacterial genetics in the Biological Sciences in Public Health Ph.D. program at Harvard University. Using genetic and biochemical approaches, he studies the fundamental biology of protein degradation systems in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and how they can be targeted for antibiotic development.
Andrew Jezewski (2012 grad) published his Honors thesis in the Journal of Biotechnology and Bioengineering and is now working on his Ph.D. in Molecular Microbiology at Washington University.
Brent Ruswick (1999 grad) earned his Ph.D. from Wisconsin in 2006 and is now a faculty member at West Chester University in Pennsylvania, where he teaches and administers the social studies education program. He notes that Honors and its faculty "encouraged and cultivated scholarly interests and leadership skills I did not know I possessed. Every day now, I do work that I love and that draws on the scholarly and professional skills and interests I first encountered through UNO and its Honors Program."
Honors grads note that "with colloquia and contracts, [they are] able to study and learn a wider breadth of subjects," while others find Honors help them "become a better critical thinker and researcher." We'd love to hear what Honors does for you!
