HONORS NEWS

 

Energy Secretary Chu Names Dr. William Dorland a Lawrence Award Winner
US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu has named William Dorland, professor of physics and director of the University of Maryland Honors College, as one of the six 2009 winners of the E.O. Lawrence Award, which is given for "exceptional contributions to the development, use, control, or production of energy in basic and applied research supporting the Department of Energy and its mission." Read More . . .

 

DCC Director Dr. Matt Kirschenbaum has won the Modern Language Association First Book Prize for Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination. This is a major book award, from the premier organization in literary studies. You may read the details about Dr. Kirschenbaum’s honor here.

 

Michelle Obama and Jamie Lee (2007 Honors graduate), who did an internship with the President’s advance team.

 

 

 

Honors College student, Sara Eckert, is the recipient of the Barbara L. Thorne Honors Study Abroad Scholarship to help support her study abroad in London in spring 2010. Sara plans to graduate in spring 2011 with an Honors degree in Biological Sciences with special emphasis in Ecology and Evolution and a minor in Leadership Studies.