Kudos: Congratulations to students recognized by UGA this spring, Research Conference graduate student winners, and teacher education doctoral student
Congratulations to the College’s three 2024 Presidential Award of Excellence honorees
Three students in the College recently received UGA’s 2024 Presidential Award of Excellence for their outstanding undergraduate careers.
The award recognizes students in their final year of study who demonstrate exceptional achievements in academics, extracurricular activities, or service to UGA or their College. This year, the University honored three College of Education students:
- Claire Hauf (B.S.Ed. ’24), exercise and sport science
- Casey Jokay (B.S.Ed. ’24), English education
- Caroline Reedy (B.S.Ed. ’24), special education
Read the full story on our website.
Congratulations to the College’s 23 First Honor Graduates for spring 2024
A record-breaking number of First Honor Graduates in the College will be recognized at UGA’s spring 2024 Undergraduate Commencement ceremony on Friday, May 10.
To be a First Honor Graduate, a student must maintain a perfect 4.0 cumulative grade point average throughout their undergraduate studies, as well as in all college-level transfer work before or after enrolling at UGA.
Read the full story on our website.
Congratulations to the College’s Research Conference graduate student winners
The Mary Frances Early College of Education congratulates the following graduate students for awards received in the 3MT™ Selling Our Scholarship and Graduate Student Poster competitions during the 2024 Research Conference.
3MT™ Selling Our Scholarship
- First place: Xiao-Yin Chen
- Second place: Lei Huang
- Fan favorite: Danielle Charlemagne
Graduate student posters
- Joe Deluca: Administration, policy, and systems
- Sadona Thompson: Health and wellness
- Shannon Clark: Learning and teaching
- Aida Alibek: Methodology, measurement, assessment, and evaluation
- Madison Rodriquez: Social, diversity, and cultural studies
Thank you to all faculty and students who attended this year. It was a great event, and we appreciate your participation.
Doctoral student receives 2024 Saeeda Peermahomed Award
Matthew Nyaaba, a second-year Ph.D. student in teacher education and elementary education, is this year’s Saeeda Peermahomed Award recipient. The award is given annually by International Student Life to recognize outstanding international students.
This award was created in memory of Saeeda Peermahomed, an international student from India who was studying to obtain a master’s degree in journalism when she was killed in a tragic automobile accident in North Georgia in 1979.
Read the full story on the UGA Student Affairs website.
Celebrating graduation, future opportunities
Trent Nesbit didn’t get a typical high school graduation. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there was no in-person ceremony, and the occasion passed without the traditional fanfare.
Now, four years later, he is making the most out of his college graduation. As UGA’s undergraduate student speaker, Nesbit will help his peers to close out their college careers. Nesbit, an economics major in the Terry College of Business and sport management minor in the Mary Frances Early College of Education, appreciates the broad scope of opportunities ahead of him.