Meghan Clancy (AS, Social Science) was selected as the Virginia Collegiate Honors Council’s Emerging
Scholar of the Year. This is a unique honor bestowed on a student who has
demonstrated extraordinary potential as an emerging scholar, and who
embodies the scholarship, character, and ambition associated historically with
honors students and the Virginia Collegiate Honors Council (VCHC). She
will receive a $500 cash award/scholarship and complimentary conference
registration to the Southern Regional Honors Council
Conference in Northern Virginia where she will speak and accept
her award at the VCHC dinner. Meghan has also received a National Collegiate
Honors Council scholarship to fund her application for a summer Partners in the
Parks trip, which will take her on a NCHC faculty-led trip to National
Historical sites in New York City. The Partners program is an
interdisciplinary exploration of various sites. Meghan will travel with other Honors students
from 4-year programs across the country.
Michael Pittman (AS, Science) is one of only 10 students
selected for a paid summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)
internship at the New York State Department of Heath’s prestigious Wadsworth Center.
Michael will live in Albany, New York for ten weeks and pair with a PhD mentor in a
biomedical research lab to help conduct a project focused on genetic research
and in cooperation with Albany Medical Center. This internship offers
invaluable lab and research experience, as well as a chance to present in a
student symposium at the end of the summer.
