Awards

The winner of the Outstanding Contract Award is named each spring. The award is given to the honors student who completed an honors contract that exemplifies the creative pursuit of one's academic goals, professional goals, and life-long learning.

2016: Brynn Miller and Katelynne Seager
2017: Madeline Johann and Lizzy Kunde
2018: Matthew Cibak and Fiona Scruggs
2019: Claire Dundon, Tayler Lewis, and Haley Mullins
2020: Alyssa Foster
2021: Anna Shewchuk
2022 Caitlin Hampton
2023 Meridythe Witt

Honors College Outstanding Citizen Award

The winner of the Outstanding Citizen Award goes to the graduating senior who demonstrated passion and leadership in support of the Honors College.

2021: Maci Keaton and Matthew Shuma
2022: Alayna Johnson and Brianna Litton
2023: Brandi Clemons and Stephanie Sheline

Award for Faculty Excellence in Honors

The winner of the Award for Faculty Excellence in honors is announced at Honors Convocation. This award given to an honors faculty member who set a standard for excellence in teaching or mentorship of honors students. The faculty member may have demonstrated a commitment to assisting students achieve an honors education through honors coursework, honors contracts, or honors capstones. Current members of the Honors Advisory Committee (director, associate director, and honors faculty fellows) are not eligible for this award. Faculty are nominated by students and recommendations are made by Honors Student Council.

2018: Dr. Sara O'Brien, Biology
2019: Prof. Deborah McLaughlin, Dance
2020: Dr. Moira Baker, English
2021: Dr. Elizabeth Altieri, Teacher Education & Leadership
2022: Dr. Lauren Flora, Communication Sciences and Disorders
2023: Dr. Roby Page, Sociology

King Award for Scholarly Excellence in Honors

The King Award for Scholarly Excellence in Honors is named for Dr. Joe King, who was director of the then named "Honors Academy" from 2003-2015. The inspriration for this award came from Dr. King's passion for the successful mentorship of scholarly honors capstones. This award does not go to the "best" honors student, but rather the student whose capstone and academic career exemplifies the integration of a novel idea into the existing scholarly work of the discipline.

2023 Victoria Pate
Capstone: "Evaluation of Blunt Force Trauma Mechanism Interpretations Inferred From Skeletal Fracture Morphology and Patterning”
Major: Anthropological Sciences
Mentor: Donna Boyd

2022 Courtney Streeby
Capstone: "What’s in Your Wallet? A Survey of Federal Prosecution of Credit Card Schemes in Virginia and How Businesses Respond to the Challenge”
Major: Accounting
Mentor: Robert Warren

2021 Hannah White
Capstone: “Engaging for Donations: How Nonprofit Organizations Survive in the Political Arena”
Major: Communication
Mentor: John Brummette and Lisa Baker-Webster

2020 Rachel Steffen
Capstone: “Marimba and the Body: An Objectivist Self-Study”
Major: Music Therapy
Mentor: Lauren DiMaio

2019 McKenzie Schrank
Capstone: “Leishmaniasis Through the Lens of the Host”
Major: Anthropological Sciences and Biology
Mentor: Jason Davis

2018 Nicole Diambra
Capstone: "How Dance Travels: A Study of Dance, Culture and Tourism"
Major: Dance and Recreation, Parks, & Tourism
Mentor: Amy VanKirk and Jason Davis

2017 Rachel Jones
Capstone: "Waking Up With A Nightmare: A Literature Review of Emergence Delirium in Military Personnel with Preexisting Post Traumatic Stress Disorder"
Major: Nursing
Mentor: Suellen Miller

2016 Zachary King
Capstone: "Analysis of the Operational Efficiency of Attendance Tracking at the Tyson Foods Inc. Glen Allen Poultry Processing Facility"
Major: Management
Mentor: Hooshang M. Beheshti

2015 Ashley Light
Capstone: "Telling Stories: Phonological Awareness Intervention, Final Consonant Deletion and Past Tense Marking"
Majors: Communication Science and Disorders, Psychology
Mentor: Karen Arndt

Honors College Outstanding Contract Award

Honors College Outstanding Citizen Award

Award for Faculty Excellence in Honors

King Award for Scholarly Excellence in Honors