Honors Program

A passion for bluegrass and an unexpected contact from a Hollywood star is helping an Elon grad find success in the music industry.

Seniors Jensen Suther and Shannalee Van Beek, and alumni Natalie Lampert and Hunter Gros, will travel overseas beginning this fall.

Senior Grace Foster’s honors thesis was selected as the best paper of the undergraduate sessions at the 2012 Midwest Economics Association annual meeting.

The award comes with guaranteed internships over the next two summers and up to $20,000 for expenses in her junior and senior years.

Amanda Bienz '12 and Chelsie Wagner '09 will each receive $30,000 annual stipends for three years while pursuing their doctorates.

Elon’s annual Spring Undergraduate Research Forum highlights some of the best recent scholarship by university students and professors.

Kiva Shiri Nice-Webb '11, a Religious Studies major and Honors Fellow, is the winner of the 2012 Albert Clark Award for the best essay in Religious Studies and Theology at the undergraduate level.

Tori Davis ’09 never imagined that her Honors Program thesis at Elon would lead her into a career in the field of counterterrorism.

Thesis Defenses
Monday, April 16 through Friday, April 27
ALL SENIORS (arranged by each senior in coordination with faculty mentor and committee)

Thesis Proposals Due by 9 a.m. in Lindner 200
Note: All juniors who did not submit a proposal in the fall must submit in spring.