FULBRIGHT COLLEGE SELECTS COMMENCEMENT 2001 SPEAKERS

Korienne Barnes, an Arkansas native from Benton, is an Honors Scholar majoring in history. She has received a variety of awards in her department, including the Georgia Victoria Gwynllian Saunders Award for the Outstanding Senior Majoring in History. Ms. Barnes, a University Scholar, was one of only 13 undergraduates nationwide selected as a James Madison Scholar for the 2001-2002 academic year. Junior Fellowships are awarded to students who are about to complete, or have recently completed, their undergraduate course of study and plan to begin graduate work full time.

The James Madison Fellowship is the leading award for those who plan to be secondary-level teachers and whose graduate study will focus on the Constitution. As part of the fellowship program, Ms. Barnes will attend a four-week Summer Institute on the Constitution this summer held at Georgetown University. Ms. Barnes is a member of the Association of Honors Students, Phi Alpha Theta, the history honors society and Phi Beta Kappa.

Adam DeLisse, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and raised in Richardson, Texas, came to the University of Arkansas in 1996 as a Sturgis Fellow. While pursuing an honors degree in mathematical sciences, Mr. DeLisse has received several prestigious awards for his research, including two SILO Undergraduate Research Fellowships and the nationally competitive Barry Goldwater Scholarship, given in recognition of outstanding undergraduate research in science and mathematics. Adam DeLisse’s research efforts have been in the field of aperiodic tilings under the instruction of Dr. Chaim Goodman-Strauss and Dr. Janet Woodland. This spring, Mr. DeLisse completed his thesis on "Intractability and Undecidability in Small Sets of Wang Tiles."

He was the co-president of the Association of Honors Students and the vice president of Pi Mu Epsilon, the honors mathematics association. In addition, Mr. DeLisse spent eight months in Dallas working for Hewlett-Packard as part of the UA cooperative education program. His wife Eka is a 2001 graduate from the University of Arkansas School of Architecture. Adam DeLisse is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and is graduating summa cum laude.