51³Ô¹ÏÍø Hosts 55th Annual Honors Convocation
51³Ô¹ÏÍø President Stacy Volnick and Interim Provost Russell Ivy recently hosted the University’s 55th annual Honors Convocation
51³Ô¹ÏÍø President Stacy Volnick and Interim Provost Russell Ivy recently hosted the University’s 55th annual Honors Convocation at the University Theatre in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Boca Raton campus. The ceremony recognizes the University’s most outstanding 51³Ô¹ÏÍø and faculty.
Awards and recognition included eight University scholars; the Distinguished Student award; the University Club Merit award; the Hersker, Shaw, Gosser Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi scholar; the Stan and Renee Wimberly scholar; the Undergraduate Researchers awards; the Student-athletes of the Year awards; and the Fraternity and Sorority scholars. Faculty honors include the 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Alumni Association’s Degree of Difference Award; Researchers and Scholars of the Year awards; 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Online Faculty award; Teaching and Advising awards; as well as the Distinguished Mentor of the Year in Undergraduate Research award and the President’s Award for Career Achievement.
The winner of the Distinguished Teacher of the Year award is determined by 51³Ô¹ÏÍø 51³Ô¹ÏÍø. This year’s recipient is Stacy Rubin, M.D., FACP, from the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine. Rubin is the Schmidt College of Medicine’s director of the Foundations of Medicine curriculum and an associate director of 51³Ô¹ÏÍø’s Office of interprofessional Education and Practice. She teaches primarily first- and second-year medical 51³Ô¹ÏÍø, helping them translate what they learn in the classroom into patient care.
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