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Mequeil Howard Spotlight

  • Wednesday, February 19th, 2020
Mequeil Howard Spotlight

Mequeil Howard (MHC ‘20) has recently been accepted into the Occupational Therapy Doctoral Program at The Ohio State University. While at WKU, Mequeil studied psychological sciences and American sign language. She has received two Honors Development Grants and a FUSE Grant to support her Honors thesis project, “Infant Temperament and Cardiac Physiology as Predictors of Infants’ Locomotion”. She has also served as an Honors Peer Mentor since the Spring of 2018.
Mequeil gives a big shout out to the Mahurin Honors College for “the opportunities to network and build relationships among Faculty members and students.”
You make us blush. Way to go, Mequeil! We can’t wait to see all those Big Dreams come true.

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