Recognized for their exemplary world accomplishment and extracurricular involvement, Matthew Hudson, Giana Loretta, Sonia-Frida Ndifon, Trevor Swiger and Callyn Zeigler have been named the West Virginia University 2022 Mountaineers of Distinction, a Mountaineer Week tradition.
The honorees, representing a scope of disciplines portion sharing awesome world achievements and work to their communities, were chosen by an interrogation enactment sheet from a excavation of astir 80 students who were nominated crossed campus.
The 5 seniors, each members of the WVU Honors College, were announced arsenic this year’s honorees during halftime of the WVU vs. Oklahoma shot crippled contiguous (Nov. 12) astatine Milan Puskar Stadium.
Hudson, from Scott Depot, is an immunology and aesculapian microbiology large who has maintained a cumulative 4.0 people constituent average. He serves arsenic a Presidential Student Ambassador, wellness sciences assemblage legislator with the Student Government Association and a pupil ambassador for the School of Medicine Immunology and Medical Microbiology Program.
Hudson besides serves arsenic president of WVU Global Medical, a subordinate of the WVU Dental Brigades and volunteers his clip facilitating mobile nutrient pantries for the nonprofit Pantry Plus More.
He has been accepted into the School of Medicine Early Decision Program and presented his probe connected antibody effect to Pseudomonas aeruginosa germ infections successful cystic fibrosis patients astatine the 2022 West Virginia Undergraduate Research Day astatine the Capitol.
Loretta, from Shinnston, is simply a political science, philosophy and communication studies large who has maintained a 4.0 people constituent average. She serves arsenic a Presidential Student Ambassador, an intern with the College of Law West Virginia Innocence Project and pupil ambassador for Admissions. Loretta is simply a 2022 Newman Civic Fellow, 2019 Neil S. Bucklew Scholar and two-year Eberly College Scholar.
She has volunteered much than 300 work hours to organizations that code acquisition inequity successful the state, specified arsenic Girls connected the Run of North Central West Virginia and Literacy Volunteers of Monongalia and Preston Counties.
As a subordinate of the Honors College EXCEL Program, Loretta is spearheading an autarkic probe task to measure charter schools successful the state.
Ndifon, a autochthonal of Cameroon who present calls Elkridge, Maryland, home, is simply a biomedical engineering major. She serves arsenic the president of the African Students Association, a pupil ambassador for Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources and a nonmigratory assistant. She is besides a subordinate of the National Society of Black Engineers and the Black Student Union and works arsenic a MindFit tutor.
Ndifon is the recipient of the Black Excellence Award, Undergraduate Student Award for Excellence successful Community Service and the Office of Global Affairs Merit Award.
She serves her assemblage done medicine with WVU Medicine, Amedisys Hospice Care and Mon Health Medical Center.
Swiger, a first-generation assemblage pupil from Grafton, is simply a communication studies and interdisciplinary studies large who has maintained a 4.0 people constituent average. He serves arsenic a societal media and selling intern for Vantage Ventures and president and seat of the National Chapter Nominating Committee for the WVU Mortar Board.
Swiger is simply a 2020-21 National FFA campaigner finalist and an inductee of Lambda Pi Eta and Chimes Junior Honorary.
He volunteers his clip to mentoring younker successful enactment and vocation occurrence done the National FFA Organization, American Legion Mountaineer Boys State and the Mountaineer Mentors Program.
Zeigler, from Charleston, is simply a computer engineering and computer science major. She serves arsenic a Presidential Student Ambassador and teaching adjunct and pupil ambassador for the Statler College. Zeigler is simply a Neil S. Bucklew Scholar and a subordinate of the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society.
She volunteers her clip with outreach initiatives crossed the authorities that foster involvement successful engineering careers among young pistillate students arsenic a mentor for the Society of Women Engineers,
She besides volunteers her clip to the Appalachian Prison Book Project, Empty Bowls Monongalia and WVU Medicine Children’s Hospital.
Other Mountaineers of Distinction finalists were: Aubrey Cumberledge, a biology large from Wallace; Samuel Cyphert, a mechanical and aerospace engineering large from Morgantown; Michael DiBacco, a biology and English large from Elkins; Lydia Knutsen, an concern engineering large from Glen Dale; and Elizabeth Sexton, an accounting and concern large from Williamstown.
In summation to the Mountaineers of Distinction presentation, the University’s “Most Loyals” were honored during the halftime ceremonies. The 2022 honorees are Harvey and Jennifer Peyton, Most Loyal West Virginians; Lloyd Jackson, Most Loyal Alumni Mountaineer; Jennifer Williams, Most Loyal Faculty/Professional Staff Mountaineer; and Cathy Martin, Most Loyal Staff Mountaineer.
The Most Loyal awards recipients are chosen by a associated committee representing the WVU Foundation, Alumni Association, Staff Council, Faculty Senate and the Mountaineer Week organizing committee.
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