Student Class Notes

Trinity Henderson and Emaa Elrayah at the kayaking event sponsored by the Honors Ambassadors

Honors students Lauryn Ashby (blue Honors T-shirt) and Landry Dupree, right, were among 15 MTSU students and other local volunteers who started the process of building a new house for Murfreesboro residents Arionna “Ari” Robinson, an MTSU alumna, and husband Eduardo “Eddie” Alcocer. The Habitat build took place on the Student Union Commons in September.

Hunter Brady (Biochemistry), pictured above, has been accepted to the DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine at Lincoln Memorial University for medical school. He will start in July.

Eli Certain (Social Work), an Honors Transfer Fellow, participated in an online Debate tournament with schools in New York in the fall. First Speaker at the Big Apple Tournament and Open Division Champion and Third Speaker at the NEAT Tournament, Certain won a later tournament in the Junior Varsity division. He also was recently awarded a $3,000 Scholarship from the Tennessee Trucking Association.

Aubrey Keller (M.A., English), the 2022–23 editor-in-chief of Scientia et Humanitas, was selected as the inaugural recipient of the Lavery Travel Award in Film Studies and Popular Culture. The grant went toward her travel expenses to present the paper “Does My Transness Threaten You? Negative Responses to Transgender Activists’ Self-Representation on YouTube,” at the National Women’s Studies Association 2022 conference in Minneapolis in November.