Outstanding Trio Chosen for Dean’s Honor Award
Provost Rosemary Allen, right, had the difficult task of narrowing down an
outstanding list of nominees for the annual Dean’s Honor Award – but, somehow
she managed to choose these three, who were recognized April 22 at Academic
Honors Day. Branden Blankenship, left, Abby Riddle, Chris Cronin will all attend
graduate school this fall. Here’s more:
Braden Blankenship was captain of Georgetown’s Academic Team that won the Kentucky College Quick Recall League for the third straight year, won Region 5 for the first time and just returned from St. Paul, MN, where they placed 8th nationally in the College Bowl.
A Biology major and Chemistry/History double minor, he will attend University of Louisville Medical School in the fall. He’s the son of Peggy Blankenship of Pikeville.
Abby Riddle, a Biology major and Chemistry/Spanish double minor, won a $5,000 Phi Kappa Phi fellowship that will she will use this fall at Vanderbilt University as she begins pursuit of a doctorate in Molecular Biology. The past four summers the Campbell County native has done research at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
At Georgetown, she is a Brown Scholar, Dean’s List student, president of the Georgetown Biology Club, and student vice president of both Phi Kappa Phi and the American Chemical Society chapter. She’s the daughter of Paul and Deborah Riddle of Southgate, KY.
Georgetown native Chris Cronin, a double major in Mathematics and Economics, will begin work on a Ph.D. this fall in the latter at the University of North Carolina.
While at Georgetown, he has been a President’s Ambassador, an assistant football coach, a Chapel Team Leader, and a member of the Investment Team, Alpha Lambda Delta and Phi Kappa Phi honorary society. He is the son of Bill Cronin, the Tigers head football coach, and Ellen, a physical education teacher at Anne Mason Elementary.