{"id":26883,"date":"2019-10-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.tarleton.edu\/news\/tarleton-grad-earns-prestigious-alpha-chi-fellowship\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T09:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T14:52:12","slug":"tarleton-grad-earns-prestigious-alpha-chi-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/tarleton-grad-earns-prestigious-alpha-chi-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarleton grad earns prestigious Alpha Chi fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, October 1, 2019<\/p>\n<p>STEPHENVILLE, Texas &mdash;&nbsp;Recent Tarleton State University graduate Etasha Smith has been awarded a fellowship from Alpha Chi National Collegiate Honor Society.<\/p>\n<p>Smith, who earned her bachelor&rsquo;s degree in animal science in December 2018, was the sole national recipient of the $4,000 Joseph E. Pryor Graduate Master&rsquo;s Fellowship.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are extremely proud of Etasha for receiving the Pryor Fellowship,&rdquo; said Dr. Thomas Faulkenberry, assistant head of Tarleton&rsquo;s Department of Psychological Sciences and sponsor of the Tarleton chapter of Alpha Chi.&nbsp;&ldquo;Her award is a great representation of what is possible for students to achieve at Tarleton State University.&nbsp;We expect that she will do great things in the future.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Alpha Chi has been invested in scholarly pursuits since 1922 and now annually awards 26 scholarships and fellowships totaling $74,000 to student members who submit their work to a rigorous, national competition.<\/p>\n<p>Smith was inducted into the Tarleton Alpha Chi chapter in November 2018.&nbsp;Potential inductees are invited from the top 10 percent of the junior\/senior student body.<\/p>\n<p>More information about Alpha Chi and the fellowship competitions\/winners can be found at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/alphachihonor.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/PressReleases\/Schol_Fell_Winners_2019.pdf\">https:\/\/alphachihonor.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/PressReleases\/Schol_Fell_Winners_2019.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tarleton, founding member of The Texas A&amp;M University System, provides a student-focused, value-driven education marked by academic innovation and a dedication to transform today&rsquo;s scholars into tomorrow&rsquo;s leaders. It offers degree programs to more than 13,000 students at Stephenville, Fort Worth, Waco, Midlothian, RELLIS Academic Alliance in Bryan, and online, emphasizing real-world learning experiences that address societal needs while maintaining its core values of tradition, integrity, civility, excellence, leadership and service.<\/p>\n<p>Contact: Phil Riddle, News and Information Specialist<br \/>817-484-4415<br \/><a href=\"mailto:priddle@tarleton.edu\">priddle@tarleton.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent Tarleton State University graduate Etasha Smith has been awarded a fellowship from Alpha Chi National Collegiate Honor Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-research"],"acf":{"image":null},"author_meta":{"display_name":"keegan","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/author\/keegan-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2021\/11\/image-624-300x200.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/category\/academics-research\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Academics &amp; Research<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Academics &amp; Research<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":0,"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 7 years ago","modified":"Updated 6 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on October 1, 2019","modified":"Updated on October 7, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on October 1, 2019 12:00 am","modified":"Updated on October 7, 2025 9:52 am"},"featured_img_caption":"Graduate in cap and gown with Tarleton State University logo.","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54303,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26883\/revisions\/54303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}