<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/honors-college-student-receives-national-pioneer-award.php" dsn="blogs"><pubDate>10/12/2026</pubDate><title>Honors College student receives national Pioneer Award</title><main-featured>true</main-featured><category-featured>true</category-featured><summary>Brantley Gray, Louisiana Tech Honors student, recently received a Pioneer Award worth $1,000 from the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. As the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society, Gray is one of 50 students nationwide to receive the award.</summary><image><img src="/news/_images/brantley-gray.jpg" alt="Brantley Gray"/></image><tags><tag>Students</tag></tags></item>