[ “Year in Review” is where you should reflect on the past year and show how you have evolved as a person and as a student. You may want to focus on your growth in a particular area (as a leader, scholar, researcher, etc.) or you may want to talk about your overall experience over the past year. For more guidance on using your ePortfolio, including questions and prompts that will help you get started, please visit the Honors & Scholars ePortfolio course in Carmen. To get answers to specific questions, please email eportfolio@osu.edu. Delete these instructions and add your own post.]
G.O.A.L.S.
[ “G.O.A.L.S.” is a place where students write about how their planned, current, and future activities may fit into the Honors & Scholars G.O.A.L.S.: Global Awareness, Original Inquiry, Academic Enrichment, Leadership Development, and Service Engagement. For more guidance on using your ePortfolio, including questions and prompts that will help you get started, please visit the Honors & Scholars ePortfolio course in Carmen. To get answers to specific questions, please email eportfolio@osu.edu. Delete these instructions and add your own post.
- Global Awareness: Students cultivate and develop their appreciation for diversity and each individual’s unique differences. For example, consider course work, study abroad, involvement in cultural organizations or activities, etc.
- Original Inquiry: Honors & Scholars students understand the research process by engaging in experiences ranging from in-class scholarly endeavors to creative inquiry projects to independent experiences with top researchers across campus and in the global community. For example, consider research, creative productions or performances, advanced course work, etc.
- Academic Enrichment: Honors & Scholars students pursue academic excellence through rigorous curricular experiences beyond the university norm both in and out of the classroom.
- Leadership Development: Honors & Scholars students develop leadership skills that can be demonstrated in the classroom, in the community, in their co-curricular activities, and in their future roles in society.
- Service Engagement: Honors & Scholars students commit to service to the community.]
Career
[“Career” is where you can collect information about your experiences and skills that will apply to your future career. Like your resume, this is information that will evolve over time and should be continually updated. For more guidance on using your ePortfolio, including questions and prompts that will help you get started, please visit the Honors & Scholars ePortfolio course in Carmen. To get answers to specific questions, please email eportfolio@osu.edu. Delete these instructions and add your own post.]
Artifacts
[Artifacts are the items you consider to be representative of your academic interests and achievements. For each entry, include both an artifact and a detailed annotation. An annotation includes both a description of the artifact and a reflection on why it is important to you, what you learned, and what it means for your next steps. For more guidance on using your ePortfolio, including questions and prompts that will help you get started, please visit the Honors & Scholars ePortfolio course in Carmen. To get answers to specific questions, please email eportfolio@osu.edu. Delete these instructions and add your own post.]
About Me
I’m an Akronite, born and raised. I started birding when I was nine, and always managed to find excuses to run off to nature, whether it be running, survey trips, research projects or even just tranquil family hikes. I went to a K-8 Waldorf school, and am thankful to have been steeped in an environment that developed an appreciation of the arts, natural world and self-education. I’m also a student of the arts, and was a part of the Akron School of the Arts program in high school, participating in visual and choral art courses.
As an Ecology major, habitat conservation and the environmentalism movement are very important to me. In 2016, I worked for the Cuyahoga Valley National Park as a Youth Conservation Crew employee to remove invasive flora, reinstitute native flora, and work with large volunteer groups on conservation projects. In 2017 and 2018I was a field and lab technician for the University of Akron (UA) biology department on a joint study with OSU researching the populations of Bombus pollinators and prairie flowers in the state of Ohio, and another UA project studying the rates of self-pollination among Mimulus flower populations. I came into my lab work with no practical knowledge of the tools necessary to the success of the research, and was able to learn the application of a diversity of lab equipment, along with 3D design tools and printers to create a mechanical solutions to the problems presented in the anther maceration.
I am working towards minors in Spanish and Philosophy so that I might work on conservation projects in the Neotropics, and have the education to argue intelligently for the importance of conservation and sustainability in a future where these movements are increasingly vital to the well being of organisms across the globe.
Welcome to my Honors & Scholars e-Portfolio
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