The Honors College is offering a new scholarship this semester named after former Dean Dr. Karl Petruso.

The Karl M. Petruso Scholarship for Fieldwork in the Liberal Arts was created in an effort to attract more liberal arts students to the Honors College. All liberal arts students enrolled in the Honors College are eligible to apply.

“I thought this might be an opportunity to raise the visibility of the honors college among liberal arts students in all disciplines,” said Dr. Petruso. “The more we talked about it, the more we decided that it might be appropriate to target it to students who wanted to do field research toward their Honors Senior project.” Continue reading