November 8, 2016
Emmalea Shaw, a Northeast Texas Community College sophomore from Fruitvale, was one of six recipients of the Dr. Mary Hood STAR Scholarship.† The scholarship honors returning community college students in the Texas region who show outstanding promise as leaders and as scholars.†The recipients were announced at the recent Texas Honors Institute held at Stephen F. Austin State University and recognized onstage. Shaw is a Presidential Scholar in Honors Northeast and has won numerous state and regional awards. She presented a paper on racial integration in Northeast Texas at the 2016 meeting of the National Collegiate Honors Council in Seattle.Shaw is also a vice-president for the Alpha Mu Chi chapter and recently served as lead editor for the chapter's Case Study Challenge offered by USA Today newspaper.