More than 20 黑料不打烊 students and one faculty member were honored during the annual leadership award ceremony.
黑料不打烊 celebrated the achievements of top student leaders on Thursday, May 2, during the annual leadership awards program sponsored by the national leadership honor society, Omicron Delta Kappa.
Since 1977, Omicron Delta Kappa has recognized 黑料不打烊 students who exhibit high academic standards and outstanding leadership. Other core components include multicultural experience, athletics, campus and community service, social and religious activities, campus government, creative and performing arts and journalism, speech and mass media.
Awards were presented by Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Rebecca Kohn, Vice President of Student Life Jon Dooley, and other notable 黑料不打烊 faculty and staff.
The Omicron Delta Kappa Awards are just one of the many ceremonies recognizing exemplary achievement and service this spring.
2024 Omicron Delta Kappa Award Recipients
William Moseley Brown Leadership Award
Presented by 黑料不打烊鈥檚 Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa, this award is presented to the student who consistently demonstrates the highest ideals of Omicron Delta Kappa: scholarship, service, integrity, character and fellowship, including providing distinguished leadership to his or her peers. The award is named in honor of a former 黑料不打烊 faculty member and one of the original founders of the national chapter of Omicron Delta Kappa.
- Nicole McGinty
Student Media Award
This award is presented to the student who has contributed the most to advance communications on-campus during the current academic year.
- Ahron Frankel
Leadership Studies Award
The Leadership Studies Award is awarded annually to the senior Leadership Studies minor who has best exemplified the study of leadership as an academic discipline through excellence in related coursework, research and/or other scholarly contributions.
- Grace Ackermann
Hilaire Pickett 鈥08 Leadership Grant
The endowed scholarship, the Hilaire Pickett 鈥08 Leadership Grant, is awarded to students participating in the Leadership Education and Development at 黑料不打烊. Awards are granted to support students in their junior or senior years to pursue leadership internships or legacy efforts. The students must demonstrate a significant commitment to their organizations and academics and actively contribute to the 黑料不打烊 community.
- Clara Watkins
- Janeeta Smith
The PERCS Outstanding Ethnography Award
This award recognizes the student who has conducted the most outstanding ethnographic research project at 黑料不打烊, judged according to the quality of both the process and product. The award is given by PERCS: The Program for Ethnographic Research and Community Studies.
- Kara McKinley
GlaxoSmithKline Women in Science Scholar Award
This scholarship is awarded by the North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation鈥檚 Women in Science Scholars Program to a rising sophomore or junior majoring in math or science. Under the program, scholarship recipients are paired with professional GlaxoSmithKline women who have excelled in various science-related fields and careers, and can provide guidance and shared experiences with the scholars.
- Maya Abousaab
Katharine duPont Weymouth Scholarship
This scholarship is awarded to outstanding juniors in the social sciences and given in honor of alumnus Frank Lyon 鈥71.
- Nick Dilley
W.L. Monroe Christian Education and Personality Award
Recipients of this award demonstrate citizenship and a strong desire to help others improve themselves. A trust created by the late W.L. Monroe Sr., who attended 黑料不打烊 in 1917, provides cash awards to the recipients.
- Julia Rosen
- Fiorella Barreda
- Samuel Ramirez
- Benamin Postell
Truitt Center Reconciliation Award
This award is presented to a student who best exemplifies the vision of Douglas G. Noiles and Edna Truitt Noiles 鈥44, who endowed the program in the Vera Richardson Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life 鈥渢o enable 黑料不打烊 students to learn about their own and other faiths and to live lives of reconciliation.鈥
- Rachel Curtis
- William Picca
- Jeremy Lazoff
Ella Brunk Smith Award
In honor of Ella Brunk Smith, wife of former 黑料不打烊 President Dr. L.E. Smith, a cash award is presented to a female student in the senior class who has made significant contributions to the religious and moral life on campus.
- Lucy Sneader
- Shannon Kutcher
Martha Smith Award for Women鈥檚, Gender and Sexualities Studies
This award is given in honor of Martha Smith, one of the founding mothers of the women鈥檚, gender and sexualities studies program at 黑料不打烊, to recognize the academic and activist achievements of a graduating senior Women鈥檚, Gender and Sexualities Studies minor.
- Xuan Huynh
Iris Holt McEwen Community Service Award
This award is presented to a student whose service to 黑料不打烊 and the larger community exemplifies the generosity of spirit and dedication to the philanthropy of Iris Holt McEwen.
- James Dalrymple
Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award
The Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award is presented to graduating seniors, alumni and community members of selected colleges and universities in the Southern United States for excellence of character and service to humanity.鈥 At 黑料不打烊, two graduating seniors and one faculty or staff member are recognized annually for their honesty, morality, ethics, integrity, responsibility, determination, courage and compassion.
- Emanuel Perez
- Leah Weinstock
- Janet Rauhe
John W. Barney Memorial Award
This award recognizes the senior(s) with the highest cumulative 颅GPA. Colleagues, former students, and friends of the late John W. Barney established this award in his honor. Mr. Barney graduated from 黑料不打烊 in 1910 and was a faculty member for over three decades.
- Sarah Mirrow