KSU announces spring honors

More than 1,700 students earned semester honors from Kansas State University for their academic performance during the spring semester. In addition, 329 students have received May graduation honors to recognize their outstanding academic performance as undergraduates.

Students earning semester and/or graduation honors receive commendations from their deans, with the honors recorded on their permanent academic records.

Students receiving semester honors rank in the top 10 percent of their class within their respective colleges and were enrolled in at least 12 semester hours of graded course work.

The following are local and area students making honors, listed either by graduating high school or hometown:

Semester honors

• Whitewater: Aaron Scott Thiessen.

• Berean Academy in Elbing: Aubrie Grace Adams, Brian Busenitz and Gregory K. Regier.

• Frederic Remington High School: Jennifer Lee Gardner.

• Burrton: Jeffery Dwayne Janzen.

• Halstead: Glenda Lee Branch, Kaywin R. Bryant III, Megan Ruth Holmes and Samantha Dee Scharff.

• Hesston: Lindsey Janzen.

• Newton: Aubrie Grace Adams, Brian Busenitz, Jennifer Lee Gardner, Gregory K. Regier and Brandon Christopher Schmidt.

• Sedgwick: Stephanie Donna Loyd, Meliah A. McDaniel.

• Halstead High School: Ellen Naomi Kuckelman and John Oehlert

• Newton High School: Catherine Suzanne Funk, Jennie Leigh Skibbe and Aaron Jantzi Yoder.

• Hillsboro: Matthew James Tippin.

• Marion: Paul Hodson and Travis Shockley.

• Peabody: Lindsay Wiebe.

• Moundridge: Kyle Neufeld and Cole Richard Schroeder.

• Moundridge High School: Matthew Ryan Begnoche.

Graduation honors

• Whitewater: Aaron Scott Thiessen, summa cum laude with a bachelor of science in agriculture.

• Halstead: Kaywin R Bryant III, summa cum laude with a bachelor of science in construction science management; and Mary Beth Gleason, cum laude with a bachelor of science in milling science and management.

• Hesston: Maria Katherine O’Halloran, summa cum laude with a bachelor of science in education.

• Newton: Kevin John Hamilton, magna cum laude with a bachelor of science in agriculture; Gregory K. Regier, magna cum laude with a bachelor of science in agriculture.

• Burns: Leann Spinden, magna cum laude with a bachelor of science in agriculture.

• Hillsboro: Matthew James Tippin, magna cum laude with a bachelor of science in food science and industry.

• Marion: Briana Marie Vogel, magna cum laude with a bachelor of fine arts.