Cassie Auble and
Lindsay Kerns, have won national awards for their Honors theses, which were also their
UCARE projects under the directon of Professor Carole Levin. Cassie, who was our Glenn Gray award winner and graduated with high distinction, did her project on the cultural significance of gems in early modern England. She is one of four winners nation wide of the
North American Conference on British Studies undergraduate essay award. Cassie will begin working on her M.A. in history this semester and will also be the graduate assistant in the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program this academic year. Lindsay, a member of the University Honors Program, majored in Film and New Media and minored in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. She also graduated with high distinction. She was the first undergraduate named an
academic star by the office of the dean of liberal arts. She has been named one of three
Portz Scholars by National Collegiate Honors Council’s competition for outstanding undergraduate Honors paper, and will present her research and receive her award at the annual conference in Washington DC at the end of October. For her thesis she worked on
Mary Ann Talbot, a woman who ran away to sea disguised as a boy. She made a short film about her and wrote a comic play. She also wrote a lengthy essay about the process of adapting a historical person for film and drama. Lindsay and Cassie’s work were honored in the spring by the
Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program in its undergraduate contest, which is supported by the office of the dean of undergraduate education. Cassie won first place in the research paper division, and Lindsay tied for first place for creative project division.
