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Hahn
Cole
Samford Students Earn
Top National Honors
Spring 2016 brought an exceptional collection of honors
to Samford University students and recent graduates.
Bradberry
Senior classics major, University Fellows
honors student and 2016 valedictorian
Samuel Hahn of Siloam Springs, Arkansas, is
one of 10 students in the nation accepted to
the ninth cohort of the Lilly Graduate
Fellows Program (LFP). The prestigious
fellowship, part of the Lilly Fellows Program
in Humanities, supports three years of
graduate education for exceptionally
well-qualified young graduates of LFP
Network Schools who seek to become
teacher-scholars at church-related colleges
and universities in the United States.
Hahn, who was a Rhodes Scholar
finalist in 2015, will continue his study of
ancient Greek culture as he pursues a Ph.D.
in classics at the University of Colorado–
Boulder, where he earned a Thomas Edwin
Devaney Fellowship in addition to the Lilly
honor. Hahn is the third Samford graduate
selected as a Lilly Graduate Fellow.
McWhorter School of Pharmacy
student Caitlyn Cleghorn, and Howard
College of Arts and Sciences alumni Frances
Isbell ’15, David Osula ’15 and Rachel
Stokes ’14 were named Albert Schweitzer
Fellows. They will spend the next year
developing and implementing service
projects that address the root causes of health
disparities in under-resourced communities.
Senior biology major Jeff Cole of
Cedartown, Georgia, earned a National
Science Foundation Graduate Research
Fellowship. The fellowship will pay for three
of five years of Cole’s graduate education at
East Carolina University, where he will study
spider venom.
May graduate David Bayless received a
prestigious graduate fellowship from Phi
Kappa Phi national philosophy honor
society. Nominated by the Samford chapter,
Bayless was one of 51 Phi Kappa Phi
members nationally to receive a fellowship
for the first year of graduate study.
The Samford University team of Emily
Duval of Nashville, Tennessee, Allie
Haywood of Vestavia Hills, Alabama, Lauren
Hutchens and Kathleen Sharp of Boca
Raton, Florida, and Paige Shelby of Franklin,
Tennessee, finished third nationally among
70 teams in the Public Relations Student
Society of America’s (PRSSA) 2016 Bateman
Case Study Competition. The competition
challenges teams of college students on their
ability to develop and present a comprehensive
public relations campaign. The team
presented their campaign to professional
judges at the international headquarters of
Edleman Public Relations in Chicago.
James Bradberry ’15 was selected in the
second round of the National Football
League’s 2016 draft by the Carolina
Panthers. He is the second-highest Samford
player ever drafted. ◗
Additional stories about these accomplishments
are available at samford.edu/news.
16 • Seasons • Summer 2016