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Kassandra V. Martinez, a ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ Honors Scholar, and Tanika Santos, a member of the ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ Women?s Soccer Team have become the first winners of the Bonnie Spencer Awards for superior essays in history.† Spencer, an alumna of Northeast, and the leader of ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ?s first history club in 2003, established the fund that awards the prizes. She also read the submissions, and helped select the winners.

ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ held its ninth†annual McGraw-Hill Poster contest Friday, April 29. The event was held in the foyer of the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts and featured research by 20 of ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ?s most decorated scholars. The contest has become an annual test of creative research in Northeast Texas, funded in part by the McGraw-Hill Corporation, and judged by friends of the college, and Honors Northeast.

ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ student William Austin Jones was recently named the winner of the 2015-2016 Chitsey Award, granted annually to the student of Honors Northeast who most exceeded expectations. Jones has impressed all four of the first-year honors seminar professors for his proactive academic work, and commitment to excellence. He was the winner of the freshman-sophomore division of the Great Plains Honors Council poster contest in the Behavioral Sciences for his poster on quasi-criminality.

Honors Northeast, the honors program of ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ, recently continued its tradition of success among its peers in the Great Plains Honors Council with the poster awards of William Jones and Gabriela Quezada.†Jones won the behavioral science division of those with fewer than 60 hours of college completed, while the ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ sophomore, Gabriela Quezada, won in the professional division for those with more than 60 hours.††ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ won two of the six poster awards given at the meeting.†††Jones and Quezada both were awarded $50 prizes.

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ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ Presidential Scholar, Jessica Velazquez, was recently published in the 2016 issue of a statewide academic journal.†Touchstone, the annual publication of the Texas State Historical Society, chose Velazquez?s essay†?Farm Life in Transition? as one of the collegiate articles featured this year.

Her essay surveys agriculture in five counties in Texas from 1930 to 1960: Brazoria, Denton, Hidalgo, Lubbock, and Titus.† Even with each county representing a different section of Texas agriculture, Velazquez found some important similarities.

Northeast†Texas Community College Honors scholars†walked away from the 2016 March meeting of the Webb auxiliary of the Texas State Historical Association with a total of five cash prizes - more than ever before in the history of ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ.

The most unprecedented win was Presidential Scholar, Hector Zuniga?s first-place ($400) prize for his 15-page essay on former Texas Governor, William Hobby. Though ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ?s Carlos Mendez, and Noah Griffin have won first place Caldwells before on the state level, Zuniga won in the senior division, among those with 60 hours or more.

Dr. Andrew Yox, ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ's Honors Director, recently reached a climactic moment of his †twenty-year career in Northeast Texas.

On March 4 in Irving, The Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) awarded Yox the Mary Jon and J.P. Bryan Leadership in Education Award, a citation that came with a $5,000 prize.† It is the top financial award granted each year by the TSHA, open to university and college educators in history throughout the state.

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Two ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓƵӰԺ students were recently named to the 2016 Coca-Cola College Academic Team. Isaac Burris was named a Coca-Cola Gold Scholar and Morgan Capps was named a Coca-Cola Gold Silver Scholar.†The Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation sponsors the Coca-Cola Community College Academic Team program by recognizing 50 Gold, 50 Silver and 50 Bronze Scholars, and providing nearly $200,000 in scholarships annually.