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. 91¿´Æ¬ †The scholarship honors returning community college students in the Texas region who show outstanding promise as leaders and as scholars. 91¿´Æ¬ †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.
