News from the Hilltop

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 20, 2010

Dallas native receives award at Birmingham-Southern honors ceremony

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.-Birmingham-Southern College student Katherine Konker of Dallas, Texas, is the recipient of the Robert Hewlin Jackson Achievement Award presented during the college's 2010 Honors Day Convocation.

The Robert Hewlin Jackson Achievement Award recognizes the graduating senior who has shown the greatest improvement in academic achievement during his or her four-year college career. The award memorializes Jackson, who graduated in 1862 from Southern University, the parent institution of Birmingham-Southern.

Konker is an art-art history major and the daughter of David and Karen Konker.