College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

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  Four LAS students named recipients of the Wallace E. Barron All-University Senior Award.

  
  Every year the ISU Alumni Association recognizes five outstanding seniors.
  
  Typically at least one of those students is from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
  
  This spring almost all of the recipients have majors in LAS.
  
  Four of the five Wallace E. Barron All-University Senior Award recipients hail from LAS including Tony Borich, political science; Angela Groh, political science; Emily Puhl, history and Spanish; and Ramsey Tesdell, technical communication and sociology.
  
  The Barron Award is one of the highest honors an Iowa State student can receive during his or her collegiate career. The students are recognized for their high character, outstanding achievement in academics and university/community activities, and promise for continuing these exemplary qualities as alumni.
  
  The recipients were recognized at an ISU Alumni Association Student Recognition Luncheon on Feb. 17.
  
  Tony Borich has participated in a variety of activities during his years at Iowa State. He serves as an ex officio member of the Ames City Council and has been appointed the
  Government of the Student Body (GSB) liaison to the Council. He is also a member of the "One Community" implementation committee and the Ames Transit Agency Board of Trustees. His honors thesis, "Modern Streetcars and Issues in Ames Public Transit: A Comparative Case Study," has started discussions between the City and the University on fixed-rail transit opportunities.
  
  A double major in community and regional planning and political science, Borich has been active in both academic disciplines. His article on death penalty conviction appeals won first place in Iowa State's inaugural Pre-Law Paper Competition and was the leading article in the fall 2004 issue of the peer-reviewed Dartmouth College Undergraduate Journal of Law. He also participated in the College of Design Summer Rome Program.
  
  Angela Groh is the current GSB president and was selected last fall as one of Glamour Magazine's "Top Ten College Women." The Cedar Rapids Globe Gazette has also named Groh as one of 30 individuals under the age of 40 making a difference in Iowa. While a member of GSB, Groh has created and organized legislative receptions, lobbied at the state capitol and developed ISU Ambassadors, an organization representing every Iowa county.
  
  The political science major has developed "TAP into the Future" and currently serves as that organization's executive director. "TAP into the Future" is a national non-profit organization for teens teaching senior citizens computer use. She has also been actively involved in 4-H, serving as a program assistant at both the state and national levels.
  
  While Emily Puhl is a double major in history and Spanish, that hasn't stopped her from pursuing her love of music. A piccolo player in both the ISU Concert Band and Cyclone Marching Band, Puhl has also served as a section leader for the marching band and was honored with the ISU Alumni Band Marcher of the Year award. Puhl has appeared on the Dean's List every semester she has been enrolled at Iowa State and received the President's Award for Competitive Excellence.
  
  Puhl's off-campus activities include cooking meals for the Emergency Residence Project, teaching English as a Second Language to immigrants and serving as a language interpreter for a medical mission to Honduras.
  
  International activities have been an important part of Ramsey Tesdell's experience at Iowa State. He has participated in the Palestine and Arabic Studies program at Birseit and studies at the American University of Cairo in Egypt. He has recently been named a Rotary Scholar to study Hebrew and Arabic in Israel after he graduates from Iowa State this spring.
  
  Tesdell's leadership on campus is evident through his work with "A Time for Peace" and as an editorial page writer and member of the editorial board of the Iowa State Daily. He is a dual major in technical communication and sociology.

Angela Groh, Ramsey Tesdell, Tony Borich and Emily Puhl.

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