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.
By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director
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 ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ 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.
PIctured: Daingerfield Mayor, Wade Kerley, and ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Professor, Dr. Will McWhorter
By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director
The ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ 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, ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Honors Director, Wlliam Stevenson, David A. Stevenson, David L. Stevenson, and Dr. Ron Clinton, ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ President.
By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director
The Gladys Winkle Family has empowered six ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ 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.
Pictured: The cast and crew that Initiated Film Week: Sarah Dierflinger, Tristan Dierflinger, Skylar Hodson, Luke McCraw, Dr. Andrew Yox—Honors and Webb Society Director, Isabel Tresidder, Andrew Perez, Noah Pettey, Kaden Groda, and Remington Covey. Photo by Hudson Old and the East Texas Journal.
By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director
Pictured: Student Winners in 2023: Michelle Calderon, Maddy Smith, Morgan Thrapp, and Odalys Adame. Photo courtesy of the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Eagle and Mandy Smith.
By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director
Honors Northeast, the honors program of ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ announces a call for poems and images that can accent or enliven our sense of the surroundings, people, the culture, and/or the history of Northeast Texas.
Pictured: Avery Woods, Ariana Tagg, Isabel Tresidder, Rebeca Martinez, and Title V Director, Athena Hayes outside the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin.
By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director
