There are three awards given annually in the Honors Program, usually at the annual Honors banquet in the spring semester. The Honors director decides who wins these awards.
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Awarded to the student(s) who has made particularly significant contributions to the All-College Honors Program.
Dr. Robert J. Butler, a Professor of English, served for twenty-one years as director of the Canisius All-College Honors Program (1985-2006). During that pivotal period, he increased the size of the student body, raised admissions standards, and expanded the opportunities for cultural enrichment. He is a native of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and completed his formal education at St. Michael’s College and the University of Notre Dame. He is the author or coauthor of seven books on African American literature, and is an internationally known authority on the subject. A Kenneth L. Koessler Distinguished Professor, Butler is also renowned for his dedication to teaching, his unflagging commitment to a more just society, and his passions for bicycling and the Boston Red Sox baseball team.
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Awarded to the student who has written the best thesis that year.
Kristin M. Brady graduated from Canisius College summa cum laude in 1970 as an English major and a member of the All-College Honors Program. She then served as a teacher in AmeriCorps and subsequently earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of Toronto. She taught in the English department at the University of Western Ontario, becoming a distinguished professor who won teaching awards and published widely on 19th century English literature. Her book on novelist Thomas Hardy is regarded as a landmark study. While on sabbatical in France in 1998, she died tragically in an automobile crash. Kristin Brady represented the highest ideals at Jesuit education—intellectual excellence and service to others.
(c) Honors Professor of the Year
Awarded to the professor (past or present) who has made exceptional contributions to the Honors Program in teaching, scholarship, and/or service. Winners are ineligible for a second award.
Winners
Robert J. Butler Award for Leadership
2009 Joel Francia& Anne Marie Sweeney-Jones
2008 Colleen Hawkes
2007 Kristin Garcia, Adam Pendleton, Gabrielle Paoletti
2006 Jared Hojnacki & Nick Tober
2005 Jennifer Huer
2004 Ann Carapellotti, Laura Gellin, Michelle Kazmierczak
2003 Jennifer Schutte
Kristin M. Brady Award for Excellence in Senior Honors Thesis
2009 Chantel Bartels & Emily Caruana
2008 Lauren Fish, Rachael Morlock, Duyen Nguyen
2007 Karen Janiszewski, Katherine Liebner, Elizabeth Spavento
2006 Charles Hartney
2005 Victoria Kraft & Derek Weibel
2004 Julie Ann Golebiewski & Russell Sbriglia
2003 Shevaun Donelli & Kathy Riley
2002 Carlie Arnold & Lauren Koppmann
2001 Shannon Rohring & Jonathan Will
2000 Robert Haley & Marisa Loffredo
1999 Steven Seegel
Honors Professor of the Year
2009 David Costello
2008 Robert Butler