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SOCIOLOGY NEWSLETTER | Issue #4 17 Undergraduate Student Awards Kiera Jackson (Richard Dodder Award winner), Kristen Ball and Elizabeth Rodman (O.D. Duncan Award winners), and Carol Kennedy (Benjamin Gregory Wood Award winner) celebrate at the CAS Awards Banquet with Interim Dean Jeanette Mendez. O.D. Duncan Award  Elizabeth Rodman & Kristen Ball  Richard Dodder Award  Kiera Jackson  Mabel Dixon Looper Award   Leigh Welch  Benjamin Gregory Wood Award  Carol Kennedy & Chloe Cavins  Outstanding Senior Award  Katherine Henry Sociology and Geography major Katherine Henry received the 2019 Outstanding Senior Award, the most prestigious award given by the Department of Sociology. She previously received the O.D. Dun- can Award (2018), the Mabel Dixon Looper Award (2017), and several other OSU awards and scholarships. Katherine completed intern- ships at the OSU Museum of Art (pictured above), the Stillwater History Museum at the Sheerar, and at the mining company Freeport-McMoran. She also spent two months in Muscat, Oman studying Arabic on a state department scholarship. O.D. Duncan Award winner, Kristen Ball (back row, second from the left) was also named one of the Top 10 Seniors at the annual College of Arts and Sciences Awards Banquet. Leigh Welch accepts the Mabel Dixon Looper Award from Department Head, Sharon Bird.