Atanas Angelov Recognized at Lafayette's All-College Honors Convocation

2014 Jun 11

Atanas Angelov of Plovdiv was honored by Lafayette College for academic excellence at the annual All-College Honors Convocation. Awards and prizes were presented to 114 students in all four of Lafayette's academic divisions -- engineering, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences.

Atanas, Class of 2016, a graduate of Plovdiv Language School, received the William G. McLean Tau Beta Pi Prize, awarded annually to sophomore engineering students based on academic performance, campus citizenship, and professional orientation ; and the Eugene P. Chase Phi Beta Kappa Prize, awarded to sophomores who have demonstrated scholarship as a first-year student .

Brent Glass '69, director emeritus of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, a national leader and public historian, author, television presence, and international speaker on public memory and museum management, served as the event's keynote speaker.

Read more about the students, awards and program presented Sunday, May 6 at Lafayette's All-College Honors Convocation.

Lafayette is a highly selective, national liberal arts college in Easton, Pa. with 2,400 students and 215 full-time faculty, offering a wide variety of undergraduate degree programs including engineering and Division I sports.