Mary Baldwin University

Awarded to an MBU Baldwin Online and Adult student for outstanding work.

This award recognizes high academic standing and exceptional leadership and citizenship.

Students, faculty, staff, and friends of Mary Baldwin University gathered inside Francis Auditorium on March 30, 2017 for Honors Convocation, a ceremony to recognize student academic achievement.

Awarded to a Baldwin Online and Adult Program student for his or her academic achievements, service to the university, and service to their community.

Students were reconized at the undergraduate honors convocation ceremony as Global Honor Scholars on March 30.

Awarded through the Mary Baldwin University Spencer Center for Civic and Global Engagment.

This award is given to students in the health care administration program.

Awarded to students in VWIL at Mary Baldwin University.

Awarded to an outstanding student in the Mary Baldwin sociology department.

Awarded to Mary Baldwin students studying social work.

Awarded to the most outstanding student in the physics department at Mary Baldwin University.

The Margarett Kable Russell Award is given in memory of Margarett Kable Russell, editor of the 1902 Bluestocking and the first woman member of the Mary Baldwin Board of Trustees. The award is presented annually by the Mary Baldwin Alumnae/i Association and the Board of Trustees. The recipient, selected by a vote of the faculty, is a rising senior outstanding in academic achievement, character, and service. The person honored is known as the Russell Scholar and works on a special research project in her field. A paper written on the research is bound and kept on permanent file in the university library. The award includes funds for a research project designed by the student with a faculty advisor.

Given to the top student in the Criminal Justice department at Mary Baldwin University.

This award acknowledges the outstanding work, accomplishments, and growth of a selected art history major and a studio art major. It also signifies the capacity of the recipients to carry forward a high level of quality within her studio practice and/or art history scholarship beyond Mary Baldwin University.

Two Pre-Ministry Carpenter Awards of $2500 each are awarded annually to Ministry minors and/or Religion majors or minors who demonstrate an overall commitment to a post-graduate career or life-long avocation of ministry. Both scholarships are awarded on the basis of merit and financial need. All students engaged in the Carpenter Preparation for Ministry program are invited to express interest in these awards. Philosophy and Religion faculty, working with representatives of the financial aid office, and the registrar's office, collect the pertinent information necessary to make appropriate decisions. Decisions as to scholarship winners are made late in the spring semester of each academic year.

As the student-athlete with the highest GPA, Lindsay Sopko received the Mary Jane Donnalley award at MBU.

Mary Baldwin University student awarded Amy M. Rupe Award for Excellence in Asian Studies.

The award was established by classmates of Alice McCaa, a 1976 Mary Baldwin University Biology major whose early death from cancer led to her fellow students establishing the annual award as a memorial to her.

The Outstanding Biology Student Awards are unique because winners are selected by their student colleagues, who define outstanding achievement from the valuable peer perspective.

This award is based on grade point average and faculty recommendation for a Baldwin Online and Adult Degree Program student.

Professor Gordon Hammock was a deeply loved and well-respected member of the business faculty who passed away a number of years ago. One of his greatest gifts was his ability to mentor students. To honor him, the college created an endowed fund that carries a cash award for the recipient. The student who receives this award "exemplifies Gordon's focus on teaching and mentoring students to be ethical leaders in business."

The Outstanding Business Student award is given to the student that best exemplifies the effective practices in today's world with special focus on "business for a sustainable future." Mary Baldwin business students look at the triple bottom line - achieving benefits that are economic, social, and environmental. With a strong foundation that includes marketing, management, finance, and economics, students will learn first-hand how successful business practices are enhanced with responsible, ethical, and sustainable decisions. The award winners exhibit these practices in and out of the classroom.

This annual award is presented to an African-American senior for distinguished achievement in scholarship, devoted service to the community, and beyond the Mary Baldwin campus and incomparable active support and affirmation of diversity in the sisterhood promoted by Mary Baldwin.

The Benn Award for Creative Writing was established in 1969 by the late Mrs. Clyde Myers Lambert of Waynesboro in memory of her parents, Dr. and Mrs. R. L. Benn. The award is presented by the English faculty in recognition of a return?ing Mary Baldwin student who has distinguished herself in the literary arts.

This award is given to a psychology student who has demonstrated academic excellence in the field of psychology.

This award is given to a freshman with the highest grade in the Introduction to Calculus and Analytic Geometry I and II courses. The award is funded by the mathematics department to celebrate and encourage women into mathematics.

This award is funded by the DuLac family in honor of their daughter Ashley DuLac, class of 1989. Each year this award is given to an outstanding graduating senior in the mathematics department.

Social work student LaShae Wade earned this award, named in honor of Jane Addams, the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize and a charter member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

The Carrie Douglass Award for Excellence in Anthropology honors one student, an anthropology/sociology major or anthropology minor, for his or her work in and contribution to the anthropology program at Mary Baldwin University. The award is determined by major GPA, career GPA, and contributions to the anthropology program through campus organizations, civic and/or global engagement, and excellence in research. The award is named in honor of former Mary Baldwin University Professor of Anthropology Carrie Douglass.

Mary Baldwin University students have chosen the slate of Student Government Association (SGA) officers who will lead them in the coming academic year.