ECSU Magazine 2.1.pmd - Elizabeth City State University

StudentnewsStudents with distinctionHonors Convocation 2003Two students from Portsmouth, VA earned topawards in numerous categories during this year’sHonors Convocation.Vincent Davis, Jr.,a senior whograduated spring2003, won theRochelle CleanersExcellence inChemistry/PhysicsAward which isgiven to a junior orsenior majoring inChemistry orPhysics with thehighest grade point average (GPA). Other awardsDavis received included the Evans-Patterson ScienceAward for Biology, which is awarded to thegraduating senior with the highest GPA in Biology;the Challenger Award from the Ronald E. McNairPostbaccalaureate Achievement Program; an Office ofNaval Research Scholars Award; a Certificate ofAcademic Excellence in Chemistry and Physics; thePhysics Students Award for Seniors; and a Society ofPhysics Students Award for OutstandingAchievement in Physics.Carl Seward, ajunior, won the EagleAward reserved foroutstandingparticipation in theRonald E. McNairPostbaccalaureateAchievement Program. Recipients of the award are ingood academic standing and have a cumulative GPAbetween 3.0 and 3.69. Seward was also the recipientof The Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, IncorporatedAward, the Charles A. Bryant Scholarship, and anOffice of Naval Research Scholars Award.Special honors were also extended to recipients ofthe Chancellor’s Distinguished Emblem Awardswho received “Scholars Blazers” for their superioracademic performance. The 2002-03 recipients wereNatasha Coley, Vincent Davis, Crystal Foust, BillieMalatesta and Amy Morgan for superior academicperformance.briefs20 ECSU MAGAZINE FALL 2003