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      Alumni award, scholarship honor memory of Cpl. Bryon Dickson II

      Penn State junior Harrison Collins, left, from Severna Park, Maryland, stands next to Tiffany Dickson, who is holding the 2016 Honorary Young Alumni Award presented posthumously to her husband, the late Cpl. Bryon Dickson II, by the Department of Sociology and Criminology. Cpl. Dickson, a 2003 administration of justice graduate, was a Pennsylvania state trooper who was killed Sept. 12, 2014, leaving the Troop R Dunmore Barracks where he was stationed. In honor of his service to, and sacrifice for, his country and the citizens of Pennsylvania, the department and its Alumni Board of Visitors created the Trooper Dickson Memorial Scholarship in 2015. Collins was honored as the the first recipient of the scholarship during the awards ceremony. Credit: Photo: Casey Fenton, Penn State . All Rights Reserved.

      Harrison Collins, a junior criminology major from Severna Park, Maryland, is the inaugural recipient of the Trooper Dickson Memorial Scholarship.

      Collins received the award during the Department of Sociology and Criminology’s annual Student and Alumni Awards Ceremony, which took place April 8 at the Nittany Lion Inn on the University Park campus. 

      The endowed scholarship, established by the department and its Alumni Board of Visitors in 2015, was created in memory of Cpl. Bryon Dickson II, who graduated with honors from Penn State with a bachelor’s degree in administration of justice in 2003. Dickson, a Pennsylvania state trooper, was killed in the line of duty on Sept. 12, 2014, leaving the Troop R Dunmore Barracks where he was stationed.

      The department also presented its Honorary Young Alumni Award posthumously during the awards ceremony.  Dickson’s wife, Tiffany, accepted the award; other family members and a contingent of Pennsylvania state troopers were also in attendance.

      Last Updated April 15, 2016

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