Comprehensive Honors candidate awarded national scholarship to continue inventive historical research
The L&S Honors Program would like to congratulate Axell Boomer on receiving the nationally competitive Beinecke Scholarship, which provides $35,000 for graduate study in the arts, humanities or social sciences. We encourage you to read more about Axell, his research, and this award.
Axell is a Comprehensive Honors student and in the process of completing a senior Honors thesis in history. His exceptional thesis proposal was recognized with the Honors Program’s most prestigious senior Honors thesis award, the Mark Mensink Honors Research Grant. Again, congratulations, Axell!
Axell Boomer, a senior from South Beloit, Illinois, is one of 19 college undergraduates nationwide to receive a Beinecke Scholarship this year. He is majoring in history and religious studies with honors in the liberal arts and honors in history. He anticipates graduating in the spring of 2025 and intends to pursue a doctorate in history.