International Balfour Award Winner Announced
AUGUST 2, 2011
Odion Kalaci, WINDSOR 2011, was named Sigma Chi's International Balfour Award winner on July 30 at the Balfour Leadership Training Workshop at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. The annual award, which has been presented since 1930, recognizes the Fraternity's most outstanding graduating senior, based on the criteria of scholarship, character, Sigma Chi service and campus leadership.
Kalaci is a biological sciences major who graduated with a 3.96 GPA. He was named to his university's Presidents Honor Roll for four consecutive years, and was awarded the Undergraduate Student Research Award by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada for studying the risks of vessel hull fouling to the Canadian ports of Halifax and Vancouver. Vessel hull fouling is the introduction of organism-laden water, carried by ships, from one body of water to another.
Kalaci is the only Canadian Representative on the Golden Key International Honor Society and has served as his Sigma Chi chapter's president, recruitment chairman, Ritual chairman and scholarship chairman. He is a research lab assistant for the Great Lakes Institute for Environment Research and will begin his first year of medical school in September.
Awarded annually since 1930, selection of the International Balfour Award winner is based on the criteria of scholarship, character, Fraternity service and campus leadership.
