FACULTY SPOTLIGHT
HONORS PROGRAM
Viking Voyage Fund MVC’s Honors Program serves more than 70 ambitious, high-achieving students from majors across campus. Students in the Honors Program challenge themselves through study abroad, interdisciplinary seminars, and independent research. The Viking Voyage Fund supports Honors student research, travel, and service. Funds come from donations and fundraisers. Students elected to the Honors Student Advisory Board oversee applications. Endurance Toro was the first student awarded funding from the Viking Voyage Fund for her Honors thesis, “Analysis of Microbial Composition Differences between Rhizosphere and Non-Rhizosphere: Biphenyl Degradation, Polymerase Chain Reaction, and Agarose Gel Electrophoresis,” which won the Excellence in Student Research award at the Student Research Symposium. Toro is a researcher at MD Anderson Cancer Center. Honors students use Viking Voyage support to share their work. Madelyn Deigan (below) presented her research at the National Collegiate Honors Council Conference in Boston. Deigan attends medical school at Flinders University in Australia. Participating in conferences builds connections. Jan Jedlička, Kimberley Ndlovu, Kayleigh Barnes, and Dr. Chris Libby attended the 2019 National Collegiate Honors Council Conference (below). Ndlovu (center) received funding for her research and will begin Ph.D. work in microbiology at the Ohio State University in August . Jedlička (left), chair of the Honors Student Advisory Board and winner of the 2020 Loren C. Gruber Honors Thesis Award, starts work on his M.Ed. at Goucher College’s Education Program Leadership and Administration Program this fall. Kayleigh Barnes (right) is MVC’s Assistant to the Registrar and Study Abroad Coordinator. Honors students make their world better. The Domestic Violence Awareness committee has used Viking Voyage funding to raise awareness of campus dating violence (below). Honors students have baked and donated bread, rolls, pitas, and other baked goods to the Hoot Resource Center, the Lighthouse Shelter, and Campus Ministry.
Assistant Professor of Education DR.LISA RICE
"I am truly living the dream...I've always wanted to teach at the college level since I was an undergraduate student."
When did you join the MVC faculty? Fall 2017
What degree(s) do you hold, and from where? I earned my B.S.E in special education from Northeast Missouri State, or Truman as it is called today, in Kirksville, Missouri. I then earned my Masters, Specialist, and Doctorate in Educational Administration from Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri. What is something that people may not know about you? I spent 30 years teaching and being an administrator at the K-12 level and am a certified challenge course facilitator. I also love all genres of music and am a Grandma, aka Noni, with 8 grandchildren; my husband and I have 6 children. What is a hobby you enjoy outside of teaching? I enjoy any outdoor activities such as fishing, hiking and kayaking. I make time daily to read and spend time with family. What do you teach at MVC and what other areas of campus are you involved in? I teach Introduction to Teaching, Math for Elementary Students, Classroom Assessment, Middle School Organization and Curriculum and various courses in the Master of Education Administration program that began last year at Valley. I also supervise student teachers for our department. I am on the Honors and IRB committees and cosponsor the S-MSTA organization on campus.
Your donation to the Viking Voyage Fund is an investment that will pay back for decades to come, and it will help launch Honors Vikings on their next voyage! Visit www.movalgiving.com (select “Other ” and type Honors as the “Designation”) to donate.
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