Awards and Honors | Honors College | Ball State University

Arlesha Moore, Fulbright Award recipient

At Ball State, great work gets rewarded. Each year, the university recognizes outstanding students and faculty members not only for their academic achievements but also for their contributions to the Honors College. These students and professors have distinguished themselves in the classroom, in their research and in their service to the Honors College. Recognized by their peers, they are the embodiment of the Honors mission.

Students
Faculty Recognition

Students

Joe and Carol Trimmer Awards for Outstanding Senior Honors Thesis or Project

The winners of the Joe and Carol Trimmer Awards for Outstanding Senior Honors Thesis or Project are recognized at the annual Honors College senior recognition ceremony in April. Winners receive a certificate from the Trimmers commemorating the award.

Joe Trimmer is a long-standing Honors College faculty member and was the founding director of Ball State’s Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry. Carol Trimmer was outreach coordinator for Indiana Public Radio WBST 92.1 at Ball State.

A maximum of two scholarships of $1,000 each have been provided for the most outstanding Honors College theses project. One award is given for a research thesis, one is given for a creative project.

Criteria

The nominated student must be an Honors College student on track to complete the Honor College requirements and earn the Honors College Diploma or a recent December Honors College graduate.

Students who graduated prior to December are not eligible for nomination.

A thesis completed before a student's final year may be submitted when complete or nearly complete, but the thesis may not be re-submitted in a subsequent year.

Faculty Recognition

C. Warren Vander Hill Award for Outstanding Honors Faculty

Since 1994, the Vander Hill Award has been presented annually by Honors College students—under the auspices of the Student Honors Council—to the most outstanding honors faculty member of the academic year.

The recipient is chosen entirely by the Student Honors Council, receives an honorary engraved plaque, is honored at a luncheon sponsored by the Honors College, and is the guest of the Honors College at the next meeting of the National Collegiate Honors Council.

Criteria

Faculty members are nominated by the Honors College student body and the final recipient is chosen by a selection committee comprised of members of Student Honors Council and led by the SHC Director of Awards and Engagement.

Bruce F. and Ildiko B. Meyer Honors Memorial Lecturer

Sponsored by the Meyer family and other donors, the Bruce F. and Ildiko B. Meyer Endowed Lecture Fund provides financial support for the Honors College to host a lecture series in memory of the late Professor Bruce Meyer and his wife, Ildiko.

Whitinger Lecturer

Ball State’s Whitinger Lecturer is chosen annually by the fourth-year Whitinger Scholars to speak at the spring Whitinger banquet.

Honors College

Ball Honors House (BA), room 104
Muncie, IN 47306

8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday
Summer: 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

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