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Alyssa Phillips: Accepted to Top-Ranked Doctoral Program
Apr 4, 2018

Honors senior biology major and chemistry minor Alyssa Phillips has accepted an offer to join the Plant Biology Graduate Group, a doctoral program at ...

Tolerance Kids Advocate for Holocaust Victims with Bandage Project
Mar 27, 2018

5th graders Melissa Gutierrez, and her classmates, Tolerance Kids from Ms. Liss’ class at Woodlake Elementary, in Sacramento, California, call the H...

Alumnus Grayson Bodenhiemer Fully Funded at Indiana
Mar 23, 2018

Honors Alumnus Grayson Bodenhiemer (Dec ‘ 17), has been accepted to Indiana University Bloomington’s graduate program in the Department of So...

Evie Giaconia Wins Albert Clark Award
Mar 21, 2018

Honors senior anthropology major and Chancellor’s Scholar Evie Giaconia won the Theta Alpha Kappa (National Honor Society for Religious Studies and ...

Staff "Shout Out" Goes to Ms. Jessica Yandow
Mar 21, 2018

Honors College Office Manager and Executive Assistant, Ms. Jessica Yandow has been awarded a staff Shout Out by the Staff Recognition Commit...

Honors Class of 2022 Facebook Group
Mar 16, 2018

Are you coming to Honors at App starting Fall 2018? Want to meet other incoming Freshmores? One of your cohort members, Cori Ferguson, has set up a ne...

MEMO: Southern Studies Minor
Mar 14, 2018

MEMOTo: All Honors StudentsFrom: Professor L.B. Gallien, Jr.Re: New Southern Studies MinorAs some of you know, I began a series of course under the wi...

Setting students up for success
Mar 9, 2018

Honors College student Nicholas Gilliam ’17 reflects on his Appalachian ExperienceBy Linda CoutantPosted Feb. 23, 2018 at 11:54 a.m.BOONE, N.C....

Dr. Ken Shull Fondly Remembered in Honors
Mar 9, 2018

Dr. Julian Kenneth Shull, Jr. (Ken) age 76, Associate Coordinator of the Heltzer Honors Program (2004-2006), passed away peacefully at home ...

Honors Student Athletes Honored
Feb 23, 2018

Congratulations to our Honors student athletes! They manage hectic lives, heavy responsibility, maintain high GPAs, and take additional Honors require...