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
Smith Earns Top Honors in Business Plan Competition Congratulations to Amanda Smith, a senior Honors student majoring in Graphic Design and minoring in Information Technology, Design and Startups. Smith is one of three Syracuse LaunchPad teams winning top honors in the New York Business Plan Competition. Smith found Sus Bots, and placed third place in…
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Matt Cufari Named 22-23 Astronaut Scholar Founded by the Mercury 7 astronauts, the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation awards scholarships to students who are pursuing studies in science, technology, engineering or mathematics and plan to pursue research or advance their field. Honors student Matt Cufari, a senior physics major in the College of Arts and Sciences and…
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Enhancing Inclusion in Honors Courses Laurel Willingham-McLain, Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence, moderated a professional development workshop for Honors faculty in August. The workshop was based on the premise that the most innovative and impactful teachers constantly strive to improve their own teaching skills and to better connect with their students. The workshop focused on…
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Honors Students Present at Baseball Hall of Fame This story is written by Honors student MP Geiss and slightly edited by Honors. In June, four Honors students, Mira Berenbaum ’23, Caitlyn Pritchard ’23, MP Geiss ’23, and Philip Galati ‘24 presented their research at the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball & American Culture at the National…
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Tarley’s Research Leads her to Hopkins for MPH Honors alum Dorbor Tarley ’22, Human Development and Family Science graduate, utilized her thesis opportunity to explore inequity in maternal health care, with the intention that her findings would help improve care for Black women. Dorbor’s researched focused on the positive impact of community-oriented health centers. With…
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