Welcome to Honors
The Renée Crown University Honors Program students begin with orientation, where they engage in a semester of shared activities, and gain awareness of campus life. Honors students excel in attaining scholarships, awards, fellowships, recognition at professional conferences, publication, internships, and entrance to graduate school and service organizations.
At graduation, Honors students have completed a rigorous curriculum that represents breadth, collaborative capacity, global awareness, command of language, and depth. Each student completes a thesis and has contributed to community and campus civic engagement.
Funding Opportunities
In the Honors Program we are dedicated to supporting our students in their research endeavors, study abroad, and their overall professional development. Through our generous donors and supporters, we have the privilege of extending these opportunities to students in the Renée Crown University Honors Program.
Honors can fund the following activities for Honors students:
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- Academic Enhancement Awards: Receive up to $2,000 toward study abroad, research and professional development experiences.
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- Thesis Funding Support: Receive up to $5,000 toward research costs for the Honors Thesis project.
Funding Recipient Stories
Latest News
Honors student Tahira Abdul-Qadir Congressional Gold Medal The Honors program celebrates and congratulates Tahira Abdul-Qadir for accomplishing her goal to earn a Congressional Gold Medal. Tahira, a first-year student, is majoring in Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, and in Management at Whitman. To requirements for earning a Congressional Medal of Honor are…
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Knowing Through Making Join artist and Watson Professor Rina Banerjee for a hands-on master class. The event will begin with a tour of the exhibition “Take Me to the Palace on Love”, focusing on the artist’s process and engagement with a wide range of materials. Then you’ll create your own artwork inspired by Banerjee’s version…
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Lifting Every Voice at 38th Annual MLK Celebration Honors student Gabrielle Pinkney, ’24 (VPA, Music Industry) recently directed the Community Choir at the 38th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration held in the JMA Dome. Pinkney led the Community Choir, including members of local church choirs and the Black Celestial Choral Ensemble (BBCE), in singing…
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Create a Comic Book iDare you to create a comic book using artificial intelligence… Calling all students for a new iSchool challenge. *Learn more at the information session.* Thursday, March 2, 5-6pm Hinds Hall – iCafe
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Retrograde: A Film by Matthew Heineman Retrograde captures the final nine months of the United State’s 20-year war in Afghanistan from multiple perspectives: one of the last U.S. Special Forces units deployed there, a young Afghan general and his corps fighting to defend their homeland against all odds, and the civilians desperately attempting to flee…
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