Senior John “Newby” Parton has been named a co-recipient of the University’s 2018 Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the highest general distinction conferred on an undergraduate.
A concentrator in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Parton is a recent student in two of the courses taught by Ferris Professor of Journalism in Residence Joe Stephens: “The Media in America” and “Investigative Journalism.” He credits a project he completed in the latter as the foundation of his senior thesis on recusal failure among district court judges.
Parton shares this year’s Pyne Honor Prize with Maggie Pescok, a member of the Behrman Undergraduate Society of Fellows.
