McCrone Award Winners Honored for Research & Creative Scholarship

April 27, 2016

Three distinguished faculty members—Tim Bean, Jeffrey Kane, and Meredith Williams—have been selected as recipients of the 2016 McCrone Promising Faculty Scholars Award.

Selected for exhibiting potential in a specific field, each faculty member will receive $1,500 to assist his or her program of creative activity, scholarship, or research. This year’s recipients will be formally honored at a reception where they’ll deliver short presentations of their research.

This year’s recipient of the Alistair & Judith McCrone Graduate Fellowship Award is Alex Bippus, who is pursuing a master’s degree in Biological Sciences. Bippus has been selected for demonstrating potential to succeed in his chosen field, and will have $3,000 applied to his tuition for the upcoming academic year.

All of this year’s recipients will be honored at a reception Thursday, April 28th 2016 where they’ll deliver short presentations of their research. The reception, open to the campus community, will be held in the Great Hall, College Creek starting at 4:00pm. To read brief biographies of each off the awardees click here.