ETSU will recognize 503 students for superior achievement during the annual Academic Excellence Convocation on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Millennium Centre ballroom.
The 34 Faculty Award winners, voted by the faculty in each college as the most outstanding students in their respective academic department, will be honored, along with all graduating students achieving a 3.5-4.0 grade point average, denoting cum laude, magna cum laude and summa cum laude academic standings.
Also recognized will be graduating students in the Fine and Performing Arts, Roan Leadership, Honors and Midway scholars programs.
The guest speaker is Dr. Robert Schoborg, associate professor of Microbiology at ETSU’s James H. Quillen College of Medicine.
He is director of the medical microbiology course for medical students and teaches in the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program (BSGP). He has also been active with the ETSU Honors College and the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program at the university.
Schoborg, who joined the Quillen faculty in 1994, earned ETSU’s Distinguished Faculty Award in Teaching in 2007 and has been honored by his students with numerous teaching awards, including the Caduceus Club’s “Professor of the Year” award, the BSGP’s “Course Director of the Year” and “Professor of the Year” honors.
He is also an active researcher, with projects funded by the National Institutes of Health and other organizations. Schoborg holds a B.S. degree in microbiology and pre-veterinary sciences from Oklahoma State University and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine.
The program is free and open to the public. Family and friends of the students being recognized are especially encouraged to attend the ceremony followed by a reception outside the ballroom. For more information or for special assistance for those with disabilities, call the Honors College office at 439-6076.

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