Bluffton University will host its annual Academic Awards Forum at 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 26, in Yoder Recital Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

Students to be honored include graduating seniors in the Honors Program and Mallori Bontrager, from Wellman, Iowa, who has completed a departmental honors project. She will give a brief presentation on her project in English. Graduating C. Henry Smith Scholars and Pi Delta inductees will also be recognized.

Departmental award recipients, honored as distinguished senior scholars, include Sarah Diller of Bluffton, who will receive the Distinguished Performer in Music award and also give a vocal performance.

Among the other academic awards are: in business, the Financial Executive International Award; in chemistry, the CRC Press Chemistry Achievement Award; in education, the Elizabeth Hostetler Outstanding Educator Award; and in music, a choral and an instrumental award.

Also presented to students will be the John D. Unruh Award for the best research paper in the humanities and social sciences, the C. Henry Smith Peace Oratorical Contest awards, and the Jim Satterwhite Award in Peace Scholarship and Activism.