Scholar Holler Award
Each month the Center for Student Achievement recognizes an outstanding student for academic excellence. The student is highlighted on our website as a way to encourage other students to achieve their academic potential.
Faculty and staff are invited to nominate students for Scholar Holler. The nomination form should describe the student's academic accomplishments.
- Please fill out the brief Scholar Holler Form and e-mail nominations to hwholmes@salisbury.edu.
Scholar Holler Winners
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April 2025 - Ian Clancy-Mallue
Major: Environmental Biology
Hometown: Asbury, NJ
Words of wisdom: Initiative opens doors. Don't always wait to be told what to do. Sometimes, the best opportunities come from just asking the question and starting, even if you don't know where you'll end up.
Dr. Chelsea Berns said, "I would like to nominate an exceptional student, Ian Clancy-Mallue, for recognition of his efforts, especially for this month. In my years teaching, I have only had three students that I have felt should be so highly acknowledged, and Ian is one of those three. I had Ian in BIOL375, and he has been researching with me this spring. I continue to be impressed by his maturity, passion, and drive. Ian has been the lead student on a project with me this semester about hummingbird beak morphology. While 3 other students are also working with me, Ian took the lead and is the student that ensured we had a poster to present at SUSRC. He found and summarized countless scholarly articles and did the majority of writing in addition to making, formatting, and printing the poster. Ian and one other student formed the ideas and topics for the project and in doing so, I have seen Ian be a great leader and team player. He helped motivate the other students in the lab and kept morale up when we had to change our questions based on the data available to us. In just one month while working on putting the poster together, he created a summer research project completely on his own. Ian applied for the Student Summer Research Program and completed his proposal on his own, with very little assistance from me. I am stunned by the quality of his proposal, which is beyond the expectations of a senior undergraduate. As he was doing all of the activities listed above, he has also been mentoring another student on our summer project and has very little college experience. Recently we added a third student to the team and as always, Ian has been welcoming and helpful in every way possible. The amount of time, persistence, and dedication that he has forth in this month is astounding and I fully believe that he can, and will, do anything that he sets out to accomplish. It is my honor to give Ian my highest recommendations with no reservations."
- March 2025 - Mac Clingerman
- February 2025 - Megan Brown
- December 2024 - Delaney Bartosz
- November 2024 - Tori Applestein
- October 2024 - Stephora Cesar Alberi
- September 2024 - Colleen McCann
- April 2024 - Austen Cave
- March 2024 - Abigail Potter
- February 2024 - LaMaree James
- November 2023 - Jamie Kost
- October 2023 - Kaiu Ricketts
- September 2023 - James Montebell
- May 2023 - Jessica Tyler
- April 2023 - Grace DePanise
- March 2023 - Vicky Vazquez
- February 2023 - Joshua Killen
- Past Recipients