Over 20 students were recognized during the annual Omicorn Delta Kappa awards on May 1, 2025.
Elon University recognized the accomplishments of exceptional student leaders during the annual leadership awards ceremony hosted by Omicron Delta Kappa, the national leadership honor society.
Omicron Delta Kappa annually celebrates students who excel academically and demonstrate exemplary leadership across various disciplines. These include multicultural engagement, athletics, campus and community service, student government, the arts, journalism, public speaking and mass communication.
Among the esteemed faculty and staff to present awards were Rebecca Kohn, provost and vice president for academic affairs and John Dooley, vice president for Student Life.
2025 Omicron Delta Kappa Award Recipients
William Moseley Brown Leadership Award
Khairi Morrow ’25
Presented by Elon’s Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa, this award is given to the student who consistently demonstrates the highest ideals of Omicron Delta Kappa: scholarship, service, integrity, character and fellowship, including providing distinguished leadership to his or her peers. The award is named in honor of a former Elon faculty member and one of the original founders of the national chapter of Omicron Delta Kappa.
Student Media Award
Erin Martin ’25
The Student Media Award is presented to the student who has contributed the most to advancing communications on campus during the current academic year.
Leadership Studies Award
Robin Falkow ’25
The Leadership Studies Award is awarded annually to the senior Leadership Studies minor who has best exemplified the study of leadership as an academic discipline through excellence in related coursework, research and/or other scholarly contributions.
Hilaire Pickett ’08 Leadership Grant
Victoria Whetstone ’26 and Benjamin Hornsten Stern ’26
The endowed scholarship, the Hilaire Pickett ’08 Leadership Grant is an endowed scholarship presented to students participating in the Leadership Education and Development at Elon. Awards are granted to support students in their junior or senior years in pursuing leadership internships or legacy efforts. The students must demonstrate a significant commitment to their organizations and academics and actively contribute to the Elon community.
Katharine duPont Weymouth Scholarship
Corrin Line ’26
The Katharine duPont Weymouth Scholarship is awarded to outstanding juniors in the social sciences and given in honor of alumnus Frank Lyon ’71.
W.L. Monroe Christian Education and Personality Award
Alex Fleischmann ’26 and Julianna Clark L’26
Recipients of this award demonstrate citizenship and a strong desire to help others improve themselves. A trust created by the late W.L. Monroe Sr., who attended Elon in 1917, provides cash awards to the recipients.
Truitt Center Reconciliation Award
Morgan Williams ’25 and Ryan Gibbons ’25
This award is presented to a student who best exemplifies the vision of Douglas G. Noiles and Edna Truitt Noiles ’44, who endowed the program in the Vera Richardson Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life “to enable Elon students to learn about their own and other faiths and to live lives of reconciliation.”
Ella Brunk Smith Award
Natalie Schuver ’25 and Kiara Cronin ’25
In honor of Ella Brunk Smith, wife of former Elon President Dr. L.E. Smith, a cash award is presented to a female student in the senior class who has made significant contributions to the religious and moral life on campus.
Martha Smith Award for Women’s, Gender and Sexualities Studies
Mae Curington ’25
This award is given in honor of Martha Smith, one of the founding mothers of the women’s, gender and sexualities studies program at Elon University, to recognize the academic and activist achievements of a graduating senior Women’s, Gender and Sexualities Studies minor.
Iris Holt McEwen Community Service Award
Darian Myers ’26
This award is presented to a student whose service to Elon and the larger community exemplifies the generosity of spirit and dedication to the philanthropy of Iris Holt McEwen.
Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award
Nicholas Rugbart ’25 and Jasmine Walker ’25
The Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award is presented to graduating seniors, alumni and community members of selected colleges and universities in the Southern United States for excellence of character and service to humanity. At Elon, two graduating seniors and one faculty or staff member are recognized annually for their honesty, morality, ethics, integrity, responsibility, determination, courage and compassion.
John W. Barney Memorial Award
Mackenzie Smith ’25
This award recognizes the senior(s) with the highest cumulative GPA. Colleagues, former students, and friends of the late John W. Barney established this award in his honor. Mr. Barney graduated from Elon in 1910 and was a faculty member for over three decades.