Welcome to Honors
The Renée Crown University Honors Program students begin with the First Year Experience, where they are paired with peers and a student mentor, 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 three-semester, independent 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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- Professional Development Grant: Receive $1,000 to attend a conference, professional training, or activity that enhances career development.
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- Internship Grant: Receive $3,500 to defray the cost of living or other expenses associated with taking on an internship.
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- Study Abroad Grant: Receive $1,500 to help defray travel costs associated with studying abroad.
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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
This past spring semester, a number of honors students received funding for their research and creative projects. Twenty six students received funding through the Syracuse Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Projects (SOURCE), while 20 students were recipients of Honors awards to fund their thesis research and creative projects. The Honors awards included 17 Crown…
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2020 Honors Thesis Prize Recipients The Honors Thesis Project is an outstanding piece of scholarly work. The threshold for receiving a prize, however, is extraordinarily high, and the choice is always difficult. Faculty committees evaluated many outstanding projects, and determined prize recipients in five different categories: creative, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences & engineering, and…
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Greetings from the Director To the Community of Honors Program Alumni, As Syracuse University, and other colleges and universities around the nation and the world transitioned to virtual classes early in the spring semester, we witnessed the monumental resilience of the SU community as we connected virtually, as we could no longer continue teaching and…
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We were greatly saddened that the students of the Class of 2020 did not get the opportunity to be recognized at the Honors Convocation in Hendricks Chapel, and to celebrate with their families, friends and well-wishers who convene from around the world, at the reception on the Quad. On May 7th, the Honors Program community…
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Laurel White, a junior physics major and mathematics minor in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named a 2020 Goldwater Scholar. The Goldwater Scholarship is the most prestigious undergraduate scholarship awarded in the natural sciences, engineering and mathematics in the United States. Link to full story by Kelly Homan Rodoski, April 22, 2020…