HOLLAND, Mich. - Julie Robinson, a Hope College senior from Warsaw, received the Dean for the Arts and Humanities Award during the college's annual Honors Convocation held April 24.
The cash prize is awarded for the best papers read at the student sessions of the arts and humanities colloquium series.Robinson also was among 68 Hope College graduating seniors and recent graduates elected to the Zeta of Michigan chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's oldest scholastic honorary society.
For more than 200 years, election to Phi Beta Kappa has been a recognition of intellectual capacity well-employed, especially in acquiring an education in the liberal arts and sciences. The objectives of learning encouraged by Phi Beta Kappa include intellectual honesty and tolerance, range of intellectual interests and understanding, not merely knowledge.
Hope faculty who are members of Phi Beta Kappa have elected students in recognition of their high grade point average in liberal arts courses, their exceptional scholarly ability and their independent and creative scholarly activities.
A formal initiation ceremony and reception were held April 20, and the honorees also were recognized during the college's Honors Convocation April 24.
