By the numbers
Here’s a look at the 2021 Honors Convocation academic prize and award winners, by the numbers:
17 National Merit Scholarships and Fellowships honorees are recognized
9 Fulbright Scholarship semi-finalists, nominees or alternates
1 Goldwater Scholarship recipient — Heather Ricker ’22
3 Goldwater Scholarship nominees
2 Rhodes Scholarship nominees
1 Truman Scholarship nominee
1 honorable mention in The National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship
Program
7 department and program prizes and opportunity awards are going to a total of 12 students
These awards are given for papers, competitions, field and laboratory research, artistic projects and other creative endeavors, and they build on close faculty-student collaborative work.
69 academic awards and prizes
The awards and prizes are being presented across all disciplines, from economics, mathematics, arts and the sciences to gender and religious studies, political science and world languages, and everything in between.
22 senior class members of the National Honor Society of Phi Beta Kappa
The society exists to encourage and recognize outstanding achievements in liberal arts education. Skidmore was granted a charter in 1970.
30 senior class members of the Periclean Honors Forum
Through honors-designated courses, planned co-curricular activities and participation in community service, the forum strengthens intellectual life at Skidmore and provides positive leadership on and off campus.
270 memberships in national and international honor societies
Some students are members of more than one national and international honor societies.