Honors Students Receive Funding Awards

Alex Rovensky Thesis Project

Honors Students Receive Awards to Fund Research and Creative Projects This spring semester, 46 Honors students were recipients of competitive  awards to  fund for their research and creative projects. Thirty eight students were recipients of Honors awards to fund their thesis projects, while eight students received funding through the Syracuse Office of Undergraduate Research and…

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2021 Honors Thesis Prize Recipients

Alec Thompson

2021 Honors Thesis Prize Recipients The Honors Thesis Project is an outstanding piece of scholarly work. The threshold for receiving a prize is extraordinarily high, and the selection process is quite challenging. Faculty committees evaluated many outstanding projects, and determined prize recipients in five categories: creative, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences & engineering, and professional.…

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Honors Students are Named 2021-22 Remembrance Scholars

Picture of a past Remembrance scholar laying a rose on the Remembrance wall

Honors Students are 2021-22 Remembrance Scholars Eighteen Honors students are among the 35 students chosen by the Syracuse University’s Remembrance Scholar Selection Committee as the 2021-22 Remembrance Scholars. Remembrance Scholars are chosen in their junior year through a rigorous, competitive process. Applicants submitted an essay and a reflective response in multimedia, artistic, musical or written…

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Ellen Jorgensen is a 2021 NOAA-Hollings Scholar

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Ellen Jorgensen is a 2021 NOAA-Hollings Scholar Honors sophomore, Ellen Jorgensen, is a recipient of a 2021 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship, which will help support her studies. Ellen is a a double major in earth sciences and environment, sustainability and policy in the College of Arts and Sciences and…

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Alexander Metcalf is a 2021 Goldwater Scholar

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Alexander Metcalf is a 2021 Goldwater Scholar Honors junior, Alexander Metcalf ’22, is a recipient of the 2021 Goldwater Scholarship. Alexander is an aerospace engineering major in the College of Engineering and Computer Science. The Goldwater Scholarship is the most prestigious undergraduate scholarship awarded in the natural sciences, engineering and mathematics in the United States.…

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Honors alum Laura Marsolek ’13 featured on PBS Postcards Series

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Honors alum Laura Marsolek ’13 featured on PBS Postcards Series Laura Marsolek (BA, Fine Arts, 2013; MA, Italian Renaissance Art History, 2015; Luce Scholar, 2018-2019) shares her expertise in jewelry making and her knowledge of global art histories in the PBS Postcards series. Laura has studied the important contributions of jewelry to diverse cultures and has traveled to Florence (Italy), Kosovo,…

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Honors Students Receive Funding for Research and Creative Projects

Katelyn Bajorek at an anthropology research site

This fall semester, a number of Honors students were recipients of competitive  awards to  fund for their research and creative projects. Twenty nine students were recipients of Crown Honors awards to fund their thesis projects, while six students received funding through the Syracuse Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Projects (SOURCE) for their pre-thesis projects.…

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