The Honors Program sponsors an annual Convocation Dinner for all students, faculty, and alumni of the program. At the Convocation the "Thomson Scholar Award" is given to the student voted by the faculty as the most outstanding student in his or her class to complete the Honors Development of Western Civilization course sequence. A distinguished alumnus or alumna is also invited to the Convocation to give an address.
2006 Thomson Scholar: Katherine Mattaini '08
Distinguished Alumnus: Michael Woody ’77, President of International Marketing Advantages, Inc
2005 Thomson Scholars: Deanna Cioppa '07 and Christopher Berard '07
Distinguished Alumnus: Rev. Brian Shanley ‘80, O.P., Ph.D, (Univ. of Toronto), President of Providence College
2004 Thomson Scholar: James Michael Bennet '06
Distinguished Alumnus: Charles J. Goetz '61, Ph.D. (University of Virginia), Joseph M. Hartfield Professor of Law, University of Virginia
2003 Thomson Scholar: David Scholl '05
Distinguished Alumnus: Gerard Mulligan '64, M.A. ( Univ. of North Carolina), Senior Writer, David Letterman Show
2002 Thomson Scholar: Erin Beck '04
Distinguished Alumnus: Peter Conn '64, Ph.D. (Yale), Professor of English, Deputy Provost at the University of Pennsylvania
2001 Thomson Scholar: Neisha McGuckin '03
Distinguished Alumnus: Austin Sarat, '69, Ph.D. (Wisconsin); J.D. (Yale), Professor of Political Science and Jurisprudence at Amherst College
2000 Thomson Scholars: Marianne Grace '02 and James Kabala '02
Distinguished Alumnus: Roy Peter Clark '69, Ph.D. (SUNY at Stony Brook), Poynter Institute of Journalistic Studies, St. Petersburg, FL
1999 Thomson Scholars: Talia Danesi '01 and Brendan Lefebvre '01
Distinguished Alumna: Karen Ignagni '75, CEO and President, National Association of Health Maintenance Organizations
1998 Thomson Scholar: Karen Witiw '00
Distinguished Alumnus: Robert Walsh '64, J.D. (Harvard), Dean, Wake Forest University Law School
1997 Thomson Scholar: Gretchen Murray '99
Distinguished Alumnus: Lindsay Waters '69, Ph.D. (Chicago), Executive Director, Harvard University Press
1996 Thomson Scholar: Timothy Daniel Murray '98
Distinguished Alumnus: John Partridge '61, J.D. (Harvard), Partridge Snow & Hahn Law Offices, Providence, RI
1995 Thomson Scholar: Emily Byers '97
Distinguished Alumnus: Richard Grace '61, Ph.D. (Fordham), Professor of History, Providence College