University Honors

Sophomore Scholarships

The following scholarships are available to sophomores in the University Honors Program.  Deadlines for all scholarships are firm.

Class of 1954 Scholarship

The Class of 1954 Scholarship is awarded to an outstanding Honors sophomore based on a portfolio and two interviews.  The scholarship pays $10,000 to be applied to the design and implementation of a significant summer experience for the winner.  Scholarship money not used for the summer experience can be applied to tuition and fees. High academic potential, strong leadership, clear service to the community, and a broad understanding of the world are carefully considered.  The application process begins yearly each September.

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The Austin Michelle Cloyd Honors Scholarship

The Austin Michelle Cloyd Honors Scholarship enables outstanding Honors students to pursue a major extra-curricular activity aimed at promoting social justice.  The proposed activity must be service-oriented and may, but need not, involve international travel.  This scholarship provides total funding of up to $13,500 to fund an internship, service activities, tuition and fees.

Austin Michelle Cloyd was a freshman Honors student at Virginia Tech majoring in International Studies and Foreign Languages/French. She was passionate about social justice issues and felt great compassion for people, particularly children, who live in poverty.  She died on April 16, 2007, in Norris Hall on the Virginia Tech campus. 

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Gough Scholarship

The Gough Scholarship is a sophomore scholarship for premedical students. Applicants propose a travel experience that will enhance their understanding of medicine as a career. Please see Dr. Tom Sitz as applicants are required to have a pre-med folder.

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The Wayne and Claire Horton Scholarship

The Horton Scholarship provides $10,000 for students in the College of Engineering who are also pursuing a degree in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences.  Application occurs in the spring semester and is open to all sophomore engineering majors who finish the first semester with a 3.70 or above GPA.  The scholarship pays $10,000 to be applied to the design and implementation of a significant summer experience for the winner.  Scholarship money not used for the summer experience can be applied to tuition and fees. The application process begins yearly each September.  

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Pamplin Scholars

The Pamplin scholars are asked to design a three year project that develops leadership qualities in the scholar, while serving to meet the needs to the broader community.  First year students who have already been awarded the Pamplin Leader Scholarship are eligible to apply.  The scholarship provides full-tuition and fees for four years. 

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The Patricia C. Perna Scholarship

Attention Students Planning to Enter the Medical Profession

The family of Patricia C. Perna is delighted to announce a scholarship in the memory of their wife and mother. Patricia Perna succumbed to cancer after a long and difficult illness. The family honored her wishes to live at home during the final stages of life. They found the care they administered proved meaningful to Patricia and to the members of the family.

The family now offers an annual scholarship to Honors students with the purpose of improving medical care in general and particularly home health care. What the family seeks are students willing to work on the redesign of medical technologies and procedures to improve the care and the comfort of those facing terminal illness. They have created an endowment that will fund a $5,000 scholarship to students who make significant contributions to this mission.

The first Perna Scholarship is offered this academic year. They did discover several problems with the colostomy and waste removal in the latter stages of Patricia’s illness. The resulting difficulties caused discomfort, pain, and led to an infection, which disrupted cancer treatment. The first design competition concerns the development of a method of waste removal for a bedridden, terminally ill patient. The complete details will be discussed with students who apply, but the system must be designed so that lay people such as family members can maintain its operation with minimum discomfort – both physically and emotionally.

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