Students graduating with the highest grade point averages from each of the six academic colleges were honored at the Midwestern State University commencement ceremony held Dec. 16. The President's Medal for Excellence winners received their medals from President Suzanne Shipley.

Clay Cameron Morgan, finance major, earned summa cum laude honors from the Dillard College of Business Administration.

Bethany Hannah Bennett graduated summa cum laude with a major in special education from the Gordon T. and Ellen West College of Education.

Sharon Rose Mucker, music major, graduated summa cum laude from the Lamar D. Fain College of Fine Arts.

Earning magna cum laude honors from the Robert D. and Carol Gunn College of Health Sciences and Human Services was Victoria Rose Pollack, a nursing major.

Dominique Grace Presson, an English major, graduated summa cum laude from the Prothro-Yeager College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Biology major Diana Torres earned magna cum laude honors from the College of Science and Mathematics.

Summa cum laude graduates must have a minimum of a 3.9 grade point average and magna cum laude graduates must have a 3.7-3.89.