Betty J. Japinga of Manchester Honored for Academic Achievement at McDaniel College

2014 May 8

Betty J. Japinga of Manchester, MD, was honored for academic achievement during the April 27 Spring Awards ceremony held at McDaniel College. More than 25 honors for academic achievement and leadership were awarded to juniors, sophomores and first-year students.

Japinga received The Wasyl Palijczuk Art Award.

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McDaniel College, recognized nationally among 40 "Colleges That Change Lives" and U.S. News top-tier liberal arts colleges, is a four-year private college of the liberal arts and sciences offering more than 70 undergraduate programs of study, including dual and student-designed majors, plus 25 highly regarded graduate programs. Its hallmark faculty-student collaborations in research,teaching and mentoring plus hundreds of leadership and service opportunities enrich a lively learning experience that is rooted in a personalized interdisciplinary and global curriculum. Innovative January courses take students to points all over the world while McDaniel's degree-granting European campus offers a unique opportunity for international study at the only American university in Budapest, Hungary. A diverse and close-knit community of 1,600 undergraduates and 1,560 part-time graduate students, McDaniel also boasts a spectacular 160-acre hilltop campus in Westminster, Md., an hour or less from Baltimore, D.C., the Chesapeake Bay, an Amtrak station and BWI international airport.