Hege Emerging Scholars Award

H. Curt '56 and Patricia S. '57 Hege Emerging Scholars Award

The Hege Academic Commons, with the generous support of the Hege Family, is delighted to continue its support of the H. Curt '56 and Patricia S. '57 Hege Emerging Scholars Award. Each year, two awards recognize exemplary efforts in research and writing in Historical Perspectives (HP) classes.

Each awardee will receive $500 and the opportunity to present their work at the Guilford Undergraduate Symposium (GUS). At GUS 2025, each presentation will consist of two parts: a short introduction to your project and reading a passage from it. For a full list of deadlines and requirements, please see below.

The Hege Emerging Scholars Award is co-sponsored by Library and Learning Technologies and the Learning and Writing Center.

2025 award committee

The committee members for the 2025 Hege Emerging Scholars Award are:

• Suzanne Bartels, Director of Hege Library and Learning Technologies
• Parag Budhecha, Director of the Writing Program
• Melissa Daniel, Director of the Learning and Writing Center
• William Kelly, Digital Pedagogy and Scholarship Librarian
• Selena Wolf Berkley, Associate Director of the Learning and Writing Center

2025 award criteria and deadlines

To be eligible for the 2025 H. Curt '56 and Patricia S. '57 Hege Emerging Scholars Award, you must meet all of the following criteria:

• Been enrolled in a Historical Perspectives (HP) class in either Spring 2024 or Fall 2024
• Been a first- or second-year student in Spring 2024 or Fall 2024 (Note: The Emerging Scholars Award is strictly limited to first- and second-year students.)

The deadline for submission is 10 March 2025 at 11.59pm. Please submit all of the following materials:

• Your essay or other assignment that demonstrates exemplary efforts in research and writing
• A 300-word (maximum) abstract

A note on eligibility

Some transfer students will be eligible for the Emerging Scholars Award. If, upon transferring to Guilford College, a student is classified as a first- or second-year student, they will be eligible for the Award. However, if a student transfers to Guilford College and is classified as a third- or fourth-year student, they will not be eligible for the Award.

All ECG students taking Guilford College classes are eligible for the Award.

Important links

• Project submission form (link coming soon)