{"id":67803,"date":"2007-02-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/freshmen-honored-as-university-college-scholars\/"},"modified":"2007-02-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-08T00:00:00","slug":"freshmen-honored-as-university-college-scholars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2007\/02\/freshmen-honored-as-university-college-scholars\/","title":{"rendered":"Freshmen honored as University College Scholars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2021\/05\/group-413.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"207\" align=\"right\"\/>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 February 8, 2007 \u2013 The top University of Rhode Island students of the 2005-06 freshman class were chosen to be formally inducted as University College Scholars \u2013 the top students in their entire freshman class.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThese students received a certificate of achievement and $500 check from the URI Alumni Association in recognition of their success.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tTo be considered as a University College Scholar, students must earn a minimum of a 3.9 cumulative grade point average out of a possible 4.0 in their freshman year.  Then, of the about 30 candidates, the students compete for the award <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nbased on contributions that they have made outside <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nof the classroom to the community and university.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nPictured above<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nURI University Scholars pose with Jayne Richmond, dean of University College and President Robert L. Carothers. They are from left: Alison Schultz, a chemistry major from Warwick; Tarik Zawia, a marketing major from Warwick; Elizabeth Darling, an English major from Barrington; Christina Boucher, a nursing major from Harrisville; Katelyn Rattray, a pharmacy major from Presque Isle, Maine; Jennifer Robinson, a Textile, Fashion Merchandising and Design major from Cranston; Maranda Cimeno, an undecided major in the College of Human Sciences and Services from Woonsocket; Alexander Reeb, a German major from North Wales, Penn.; Shannon Marks, an English major from Providence; and Elizabeth Kephart, a biology major from Topton, Penn. URI News Bureau Photo by Michael Salerno Photography.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 February 8, 2007 \u2013 The top University of Rhode Island students of the 2005-06 freshman class were chosen to be formally inducted as University College Scholars \u2013 the top students in their entire freshman class. &#13; These students received a certificate of achievement and $500 check from the URI Alumni Association in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}