who's next 6/16/11

SCHOLARSHIPS

* Lisa Henderson of Delta FFA received a $1,000 Cargill Community Scholarship, awarded by the National FFA Organization.

* Heidi L. Dodson, a 1992 Sikeston High School graduate and a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been designated an Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities-Nicholson Fellow. The graduate fellowship will facilitate research on her dissertation. Dodson is a 1996 graduate of Southeast Missouri State University.

* Greenville College and Lewis and Clark Community College, both in Illinois, have signed on to accept students from neighboring Midwest states through a reduced tuition program. The Midwest Student Exchange Program, a program of the Midwestern Higher Education Compact, enables residents of Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Wisconsin and now Illinois, beginning in fall 2011, to enroll in designated institutions and programs at reduced tuition levels. For more information, contact Amber Cameron at 612-625-4368 or amberc@mhec.org.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Lisa Henderson

* Three Southeast Missouri high school seniors are among the 100 students selected to participate in the University of Missouri School of Medicine's High School Mini Medical School.

Kenneth Tiffany and Cory Novak of Notre Dame Regional High School and Elliott Berry of Cape Girardeau Central High School will each take part in a summer session this month; Tiffany will attend from June 19 to 23. The program, now in its 13th year, is designed to give high school seniors who are already interested in medical careers a preview of medical school. Students will participate in sessions with clinical and research specialists; gain hands-on experience in anatomy, microbiology and clinical skills; interact with medical school students, faculty and staff; and attend seminars on college and medical school life.

n Elliott Berry, a senior at Cape Girardeau Central High School, is attending the 72nd session of the American Legion Boys State of Missouri at the University of Central Missouri this week. He was selected based on his leadership and citizenship skills. Boys State is designed to educate and train Missouri's young leaders in functional citizenship, leadership and government. Nearly 1,000 student leaders will build an entire state government in a single week.

GRADUATES

* Keisha Panagos, the K-12 curriculum director and A+ coordinator for the Scott City School District, graduated with her Ph.D .in educational studies from St. Louis University.

Cory Novak

* Seth Hudson of Cape Girardeau earned his doctor of chiropractic degree from Logan College of Chiropractic in St. Louis.

-- From staff reports