Skylar Hodson wins Russell-Mowery Perpetual Honors Scholarship

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

Skylar Hodson, the recent winner of the most prestigious award of Phi Theta Kappa in Texas, the Dr. Mary Hood Award, has also become the fourth winner of the Russell-Mowery Perpetual Honors Scholarship. This annual $500 award goes to an honors student who has made significant contributions to Northeast Texas culture and life.

Cypress Bank donates laptop for Honors student

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

For the seventeenth-straight year in a row, Cypress Bank has presented a high-end laptop for the use of ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓÆµÓ°Ôº honors students.  This year’s Cypress Bank Scholar is Yahir Garcia, who is also serving as the producer of the program’s yearly film project. Garcia is a computer-science major.

Honors Northeast receives $10,000 donation to support film projects

The ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓÆµÓ°Ôº Foundation recently received a donation of $10,000 from the Stevenson family of Gilmer. These funds will help the Honors Northeast program continue its legacy of unique special projects, specifically their annual feature-length film. Pictured at the check presentation is (from left): Dr. Andrew Yox, ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓÆµÓ°Ôº Honors Director, Wlliam Stevenson, David A. Stevenson, David L. Stevenson, and Dr. Ron Clinton, ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓÆµÓ°Ôº President. 

Mary-Faith Wilson wins 7th Gladys Winkle Humanities Scholarship in Honors

By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director

The Gladys Winkle Family has empowered six ÂÒÉ«ÎÞÂëÈËÆÞÊÓÆµÓ°Ôº honors students through the years with a special scholarship for excellence in the Humanities that comes in addition to an institutional honors scholarship.  This year’s winner is Mary-Faith Wilson, a star of the HuMusic Seminar last fall before she even entered honors, and this year, one of the top-tier Presidential Scholars of Honors Northeast.