Our Students
Honors students themselves are probably the best reason to join the Honors Program. They are diverse, self-directed and ambitious. Our students come from a wide variety of backgrounds and majors but they come together in Honors classrooms to collaborate to solve complex problems and issues. Read more about some of our students and alumni.
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Jenny Smith Jenny Smith received the National Association of Secretaries of State Medallion Award from Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown in 2011 for her work registering more than 20,000 Oregonians to vote. The NASS Medallion Award honors individuals, groups and organizations with an established record of promoting voter education and participation... |
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Karina Espana As a pre-medical student, I thoroughly appreciate the University Honors Program's vision of fostering innovation and student inquiry. I have been persistently challenged and grown in ways that I attribute to the UHP's efforts. I am incredibly grateful for the faculty's endless support in my endeavors. Pursuing research at the National Institutes of Health has been one of the most incredible experiences in my pursuit of a career in medicine... |
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Patrick Belin I became interested in the University Honors Program when I learnt that the curriculum was made to prepare students with an interest in moving on to grad school—with the additional selling point that I would be among a significantly smaller cohort as opposed to the University Studies track. Since I have always been interested in the humanities I embraced the material completely and feel much more well-informed about the nature of what we know... |
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William Holden William Holden was a participant in the 2011 Critical Language Scholarship Program through the United States State Department. He was one of about 25 students to study Russian language through an intensive, immersion-oriented curriculum at the KORA Institute in Vladimir, Russia. Students in this program received lessons in history, Russian literature, grammar, phonetics and media... |
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Cassie Miura "I regard my experience in the University Honors Program as one of the foremost aspects of my undergraduate education. The skills fostered during the freshman and sophomore years not only taught me to confront diverse bodies of knowledge in a productive and systematic fashion but would later help me to frame the historical and contemporary interests of work specific to my field... |
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Meet Ryland Stucke »
Ryland, an Honors Program alumnus, was a pre-medical student at Portland State who participated in an Honors Internship.