Gen. Trainor's military decorations included the Navy Distinguished Service Medal, two Legion of Merit honors and the Bronze Star.
To be awarded departmental honors, the student must satisfy all the requirements for the major, maintain a 3.6 GPA in the major (the calculation of which includes non-POLS courses required for economics-political science or political science-statistics majors); and complete a thesis of sufficiently high quality to merit honors.
The Order of Merit honors significant contributions made by international scholars to Turkish civilization, language, and culture.
The decision as to whether a given independent study project does or does not merit award of honors is made jointly by the student's honors adviser and the second reader for the written thesis.
After Mr. Droga was selected as one of the best and brightest for 2006 by Esquire magazine, the editors asked him to prove why his talent merited honoring.
Dr. Sanders is the recipient of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Civilian Honor Award; three State Department Superior Honor Awards; four State Department Meritorious Honor Awards; the "Presidential Merit of Honor Award" from the Republic of Congo, and several citations in Who's Who of America, and a member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars for her academic, public service, and leadership.
* John Zaragoza of Santa Fe Springs is the first recipient of the Lorenzo Sandoval Merit Award, named in honor of the Santa Fe Springs councilman who died last year.
When Guo Shizhong, a family planning official in an outlying area of the city, died of a brain hemorrhage on Feb. 27, local officials posthumously recognized him as an "excellent party member," presented him with a merit award for dying with "honor on post" and began a propaganda campaign extolling ordinary people to learn from his example.
He was posthumously awarded a merit award for dying "with honor".
A recipient of the 1990 USC "Alumni Merit Award," Dr. House was honored as "Outstanding Teacher" at USC from 1989-91, and was named "Teacher of the Year" by the Family Practice Department at USC in 1987.
