Elizabethtown College Honors Program

Elizabethtown College Honors Program The Elizabethtown College Honors Program is supported through an endowed gift from The Hershey Company. Our program's motto is Learn, Serve, and Lead!

We are grateful and honored to have the help of The Hershey Company to ensure our outstanding students experience the program and thrive in the world. The Elizabethtown College Honors Program offers a close-knit community of well-rounded individuals from diverse backgrounds who not only embrace academic excellence and intellectual rigor, but who also have the desire to engage their local, national, and international communities and demonstrate leadership initiative. The Elizabethtown College Honors Program is sponsored by The Hershey Company.

Current Honors Students & Honors Alumni: Please plan to join us on Saturday, October 10th at 10 am in the Honors Center ...
09/24/2026

Current Honors Students & Honors Alumni: Please plan to join us on Saturday, October 10th at 10 am in the Honors Center for a meet and greet event. No RSVP needed. Looking forward to seeing you then!

The Elizabethtown College Honors Connections Alumni Board is happy to announce the Call for Applications for two Honors ...
08/13/2026

The Elizabethtown College Honors Connections Alumni Board is happy to announce the Call for Applications for two Honors Alumni Awards - The Outstanding Young Alumni Award (For recognizing the achievements of Elizabethtown College Honors Program Alumni that graduated within the past 10 years - May 2016 and onward) and The Honors Distinguished Alumni Award (For recognizing the achievements of Elizabethtown College Honors Program Alumni that graduated in January 2016 or before). Nominations and self-nominations are welcome. The nominations are due by August 31st, 2026. Please see the Call for Applications link, https://www.etown.edu/programs/honors/alumni.aspx, for more detail on the criteria.

06/24/2026

Great meeting with U.S. Gilman Scholar Mechelle Johnson-Reeves, an International Business student from Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania. The U.S. Department of State’s Gilman Program offers merit-based scholarships to outstanding American undergraduate students to pursue academic studies and internships abroad to build skills and networks that further their professional development. Mechelle spent February through June studying at the University of Malta, learning a more global perspective to drive her future in business and innovation. A shining example of student exchange in action!

06/02/2026

The Elizabethtown College Honors Program recently named Dr. Robert Northington, Assistant Professor of Biology and Environmental Science, as the recipient of the 2025-26 Outstanding Honors Professor Award!

Since joining the College in 2023, Northington has expanded learning opportunities beyond the classroom as advisor to Etown’s Tri-Beta Biological Honor Society chapter.

The Honors Council, a student-led governing body for the program, noted Northington’s ability to cultivate an engaging classroom environment in which students feel inspired to participate in meaningful discussion and raise thoughtful questions.

“I am humbled and honored to receive the Outstanding Honors Professor Award this year,” Northington said. “I always strive to provide every student I teach with meaningful learning experiences, but I applaud the willingness of my Honors students this year to challenge themselves beyond the classroom.”

Read more: https://bit.ly/49sWGqL.

The Honors Council is hosting a “Paint a Pot” event for Earth Day on Wednesday, April 22nd from 3:30-4:30 pm at the Hono...
04/20/2026

The Honors Council is hosting a “Paint a Pot” event for Earth Day on Wednesday, April 22nd from 3:30-4:30 pm at the Honors Center Patio where students can paint small pots in honor of Earth Day. We hope to see you there!

04/17/2026

Elizabethtown College is pleased to announce that Alysse Smith ’26 has been selected as the student speaker for the College’s 123rd Commencement Exercises on Saturday, May 9, at 10 a.m. in the Dell! 🎓

Recently named the 2025–26 Points of Distinction Award recipient, the highest Student Life honor at , Smith, a Biology major with a Health Professions concentration and minors in Spanish and Chemistry from Silver Spring, Md., was chosen from a competitive pool of seniors who submitted and presented draft speeches.

An engaged campus leader, she serves on the executive cabinets for the Gender-Sexuality Alliance (GSA) and the Honors Program. Smith is also actively involved as a Blue Jay Ambassador, Peer Mentor, Peer Tutor, and Ubuntu Mentor.

A Stamps Scholar, Smith completed a medical internship in Cusco, Peru, and earned a TriBeta Research Foundation grant to support her undergraduate research. Following graduation, she will continue her education at the Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/4ctrngd.

Please join us this evening, Monday, April 13 at 5:00 pm for our Spring 2026 Honors Alumni Panel will feature four estee...
04/13/2026

Please join us this evening, Monday, April 13 at 5:00 pm for our Spring 2026 Honors Alumni Panel will feature four esteemed Honors Alumni: Sarah Kleb ’22, Sagar Patel ‘23, and Matthew Smith ‘21. They will generously share their invaluable insights, experiences, and advice on topics such as applying for graduate schools, securing internships and jobs, cultivating a success-oriented mindset post-graduation, and developing essential transitional skills like networking. The panel will be conducted in a hybrid format, available both at the Honors Center (Myer Hall) and via Zoom. We will have pizza in the Honors Center for everyone joining us in person!

Please join us on Monday, April 13 at 5:00 pm for our Spring 2026 Honors Alumni Panel will feature four esteemed Honors ...
04/09/2026

Please join us on Monday, April 13 at 5:00 pm for our Spring 2026 Honors Alumni Panel will feature four esteemed Honors Alumni: Sarah Kleb ’22, Sagar Patel ‘23, and Matthew Smith ‘21. They will generously share their invaluable insights, experiences, and advice on topics such as applying for graduate schools, securing internships and jobs, cultivating a success-oriented mindset post-graduation, and developing essential transitional skills like networking. The panel will be conducted in a hybrid format, available both at the Honors Center (Myer Hall) and via Zoom. We will have pizza in the Honors Center for everyone joining us in person!

The annual Northeast Regional Honors Council’s conference was held this year in New Haven, Connecticut from March 26-29,...
03/30/2026

The annual Northeast Regional Honors Council’s conference was held this year in New Haven, Connecticut from March 26-29, 2026. The theme of this year’s conference was: “The Haven of Honors: Cultivating Innovative, Upstanding, and Impactful Leaders.” This year, two Honors seniors, Justin Cedeno and Kellie Simon attended the conference along with Assistant Director Luke Mackey.

Justin Cedeno presented a poster based on his engineering projects on Saturday, March 28 titled, “Effectively Leading: Where There is A Will, There is A Way: Improving Life for Disabled People Through Innovative Technology.” Kellie Simon presented a posted or Sunday, March 29 titled, “Investigation of the Role of AP-1 Transcription Factors in T1 Antigen Transformed Human Dermal Fibroblast Cells” which featured research done with Dr. Amy Defnet.

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