Bethany DeGrand Receives Award on Honors Day at Rockford College

2012 May 18

Bethany DeGrand of Marengo, IL received the Chemical Rubber Co. Award for Achievement in Freshman Chemistry at the 2012 Honors Day Convocation at Rockford College.

A photo of DeGrand is available at: http://www.rockford.edu/?HonorsDay.

Rockford College is a four-year, co-educational institution founded in 1847 offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in traditional liberal arts and professional fields. The College offers approximately 80 majors, minors and concentrations, including the adult accelerated degree completion program for a B.S. in Management Studies. Through its Graduate Studies department, degrees are extended to include the Master of Arts in Business Administration (MBA) and Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT). Rockford College is home to one of only 11 Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) chapters in Illinois, the most prestigious honor society in the United States. Named by The Princeton Review as a Best Midwestern College and one of only 81 colleges in the nation as a "College with a Conscience," Rockford College currently serves approximately 1,350 full-and part-time students.