{"id":1421,"date":"2014-08-19T10:11:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T14:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/2014\/08\/transylvania-graduate-receives-top-national-leadership-honor\/"},"modified":"2020-07-14T13:56:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T17:56:02","slug":"transylvania-graduate-receives-top-national-leadership-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/2014\/08\/transylvania-graduate-receives-top-national-leadership-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"Transylvania graduate receives top national leadership honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"imgBordersRight\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/news\/images\/illustrations\/tikhtman_inside.jpg\" alt=\"tikhtman\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/>LEXINGTON, Ky. \u2014 The national leadership society Omicron Delta Kappa has recognized recent Transylvania University graduate Raisa Tikhtman as a Leader of the Year in the area of campus or community service.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe prestigious award honors students who have demonstrated the greatest dedication to one of five phases of campus life celebrated by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/odk.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ODK<\/a>: athletics, campus or community service, creative and performing arts, journalism, speech and mass media, and scholarship.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cRaisa Tikhtman is a natural leader in every sense,\u201d said Tiffany Wheeler, who is the ODK faculty advisor at Transylvania and an education professor and program director. \u201cShe is poised, decisive, and highly organized. Raisa possesses a collaborative spirit and is adept at enabling others to utilize their strengths while working together for a common purpose. She is also extremely versatile and has been very successful in leading a variety of organizations, which include serving as president of her sorority and ODK, an August term scholar, and a site leader for Transylvania Alternative Spring Break.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"..\/programs\/foreign\/french\/tikhtman.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tikhtman\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0leadership qualities match her strengths as a scholar, Wheeler said, noting that she graduated with a 4.0 GPA in both of her majors: biochemistry and French. In fact, the combination became her passport to study nanotechnology in France and traditional medicine in Madagascar. \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThe balance between natural science and a humanities-based education is really important to me,\u201d Tikhtman explained. \u201cIt\u2019s been essential to my mental stability as a student, and it\u2019s forced me to think in different ways.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs a recipient of the award, Tikhtman receives a $1,000 scholarship to support her graduate studies, and a $300 grant in her honor is provided to the Transylvania University Omicron Delta Kappa circle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEXINGTON, Ky. \u2014 The national leadership society Omicron Delta Kappa has recognized recent Transylvania University graduate Raisa Tikhtman as a Leader of the Year in the area of campus or community service. The prestigious award honors students who have demonstrated the greatest dedication to one of five phases of campus life celebrated by\u00a0ODK: athletics, campus or community service, creative and performing arts, journalism, speech and mass media, and scholarship. \u201cRaisa Tikhtman is a natural leader in every sense,\u201d said Tiffany Wheeler, who is the ODK faculty advisor at Transylvania and an education professor and program director. \u201cShe is poised, decisive, and highly organized. Raisa possesses a collaborative spirit and is adept at enabling others to utilize their strengths while working together for a common purpose. She is also extremely versatile and has been very successful in leading a variety of organizations, which include serving as president of her sorority and ODK, an August term scholar, and a site leader for Transylvania Alternative Spring Break.\u201d Tikhtman\u2019s\u00a0leadership qualities match her strengths as a scholar, Wheeler said, noting that she graduated with a 4.0 GPA in both of her majors: biochemistry and French. In fact, the combination became her passport to study nanotechnology in France and traditional medicine in Madagascar. \u00a0 \u201cThe balance between natural science and a humanities-based education is really important to me,\u201d Tikhtman explained. \u201cIt\u2019s been essential to my mental stability as a student, and it\u2019s forced me to think<\/p>\n<p class=\"continueLink\"><a class=\"btn btn-info\" href=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/2014\/08\/transylvania-graduate-receives-top-national-leadership-honor\/\">Read &ldquo;Transylvania graduate receives top national leadership honor&rdquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"feeds":[],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - 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