Medaille College Scholars Program
An Honors Scholarship Program
The Medaille College Scholars Program is an innovative honors program in which students with strong academic credentials and high school records of active extracurricular participation can develop the skills needed to engage challenging issues. The Program combines honors-level General Education Core courses with a suite of mentoring opportunities that aim to encourage vigorous intellectual inquiry, effective leadership ability, and solid social and moral commitment.
Students participating in the Program register for special honors sections of nine interdisciplinary liberal arts and sciences courses that link together to reinforce fundamental skills and concepts. Mentoring opportunities include a variety of co-curricular activities that bring honors faculty, administrators, staff, and students together outside of the classroom.
Scholars Program Capstone Series: 2009
Public presentations of student capstone papers
Monday, December 7, 2009
- 12:30-1:30 p.m., Lecture Hall
- Adriea Crosdale, “Animal Assisted Therapy and the Human-Animal Bond”
- Laura Mauger, “Sleep and College Students”
- Lisa Stolfa- “The Bilingual Brain”
- 2:50-3:50 p.m., Lecture Hall
- Shawn Arrajj, “Changing Information: Where the Internet is Taking our Brains”
- Lisa Faxlanger, “You've Got Mail: Interpersonal Relationships in a Technological World”
- Brian Yanni, “The Psychology of Defense Spending”
Wednesday December 9, 2009
- 2:50-4:15 p.m., Lecture Hall
- Megan Fitzgerald, “Media Violence and Desensitization”
- Amanda Kraft, “Retention: The Effects on Students”
- Melissa Schwab, “Children of Divorce”
- Amanda Westling, “Thimerosal and the Autism Epidemic”
Benefits to students participating in the Program include:
- Special honors scholarship awards;
- A challenging and richly integrated honors curriculum in which courses are carefully designed to interconnect, reinforcing important critical thinking tools, communication skills, and scholarly ideas;
- Unique opportunities for mentoring from honors faculty, administrators, and staff and special honors receptions, presentations, and other events;
- Flexible advisement and registration procedures to ensure enrollment in honors courses on schedule and in sequence;
- Official recognition at commencement.
Furthermore, because the College Scholars Program is built around honors-level sections of Medaille's General Education Core courses, talented and committed full-time day students pursuing any of the College's baccalaureate degree programs are eligible to participate.
