Academic Achievement Awards

These awards recognize outstanding students from the undergraduate classes – junior, sophomore, and freshmen. Award recipients have achieved the highest cumulative GPA in their respective classes.

Outstanding Senior Awards

Recipients are graduating seniors who have at least a 3.50 GPA and who meet other criteria specified by the departments in which they study. Discipline faculty should select one outstanding senior for each undergraduate program major. To be eligible for an Outstanding Senior Award, a Student must be graduating by May and have a minimum GPA of 3.5

Sister Rosaleen Gilroy, CSJ Award

This award honors the graduating senior carrying the highest cumulative GPA in the History-Political Science major.

Honorable Loretta A. Preska ’70 Endowed Award

Presented to a student who meets the following criteria: First preference given to an undergraduate student planning to attend law school, who demonstrates outstanding academic achievement. Second preference will be given to an undergraduate student majoring in the sciences, who demonstrates outstanding academic achievement.

Burton-Biagiotti Service Award

This award, established by the family of Domenico Biagiotti in honor of his teacher, Sister Agnes Rose Burton, recognizes the senior History and Political Science major who, over the years, has sustained an exemplary record of public service in support of the department, student affairs, the college, and the community at large.

Service Award

This award acknowledges the energetic and enthusiastic commitment of junior History and Political Science majors to service in support of the department, student affairs, and campus-wide community.

SHEAR Mellon Undergraduate Fellowship Recipient 2011

The History and Political Science Department is pleased to announce that Elana Krischer (History, Class of 2012) has won the prestigious 2011 SHEAR/Mellon Undergraduate Research fellowship, one of ten offered nationally each year.

The SHEAR/Mellon Undergraduate Fellowship Program, founded in 2005, is dedicated to providing talented, motivated undergraduate scholars the opportunity to pursue original primary source research in some of the finest archival collections relevant to early American history.

Ten highly competitive fellowships are awarded annually to rising seniors preparing to undertake thesis projects at the nation’s best liberal arts colleges. Undergraduate fellows receive stipends for travel, housing and other living expenses for the duration of the seminar in Philadelphia as they complete two weeks of intensive seminar sessions in historiography and critique and individual archival research.

Students are welcomed into the community of historians at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and mentored by outstanding teacher-scholars dedicated to assisting undergraduate fellows achieve their scholarly potential.

Elana, whose research interest is Native American history, is the second College of Saint Rose student to be so honored in the SHEAR/Mellon program’s six-year history. Elana plans to complete the study she begins in Philadelphia under the direction of Professor Bridgett Williams-Searle.