Kudos: Congratulations to spring 2025 First Honor Graduates; Research Conference student awardees; Reading education graduate student
Congratulations to the College’s 16 First Honor Graduates for spring 2025
Sixteen First Honor Graduates in the Mary Frances Early College of Education will be recognized at the University of Georgia’s spring 2025 undergraduate Commencement ceremony on Friday, May 9.
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. The College’s First Honor Graduates for spring 2025 are:
- Kinsey Bolling (B.S.Ed. ’25), social studies education
- Bladyn Bowman (B.S.Ed. ’25), exercise and sport science
- Lana Brown (B.S.Ed. ’25), middle grades education
- Elizabeth Crosland (B.S.Ed. ’25), communication sciences and disorders
- Elizabeth Dillman (B.S.Ed. ’25), exercise and sport science
- Lillian Hanesworth (B.S.Ed. ’25), communication sciences and disorders
- Katie Hassenboehler (B.S.Ed. ’25), exercise and sport science
- Amelia Hendricks (B.S.Ed. ’25), elementary education
- Erin Higgins (B.S.Ed. ’25), social studies education
- Mary Hobbs (B.S.Ed. ’25), special education
- Nicholas Keller (B.S.Ed. ’25), exercise and sport science
- Lily Medlock (B.S.Ed. ’25), elementary education
- Maria Murphy (B.S.Ed. ’25), communication sciences and disorders
- Anna Schukowski (B.S.Ed. ’25), elementary education
- Hadley Short (B.S.Ed. ’25), elementary education
- Lina Waldrop (B.S.Ed. ’25), health and physical education, exercise and sport science
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Congratulations to the College’s Research Conference student awardees
Congratulations to the 2025 Mary Frances Early College of Education Research Conference award winners for poster presentations and the 3MT-SOS®!
Poster awardees:
Administration, policy, and systems
- Thelron Pleas and T. C. Grantham, Department of Educational Psychology, for “A Study of Federal School Status,” “Access to Advanced Educational Opportunity,” and “Gifted Enrollment in Six Urban Georgia School Districts”
Health and wellness
- Tejaswi Tamilmani Saraswathi and Michael D Schmidt, Department of Kinesiology, for “Influence of Eating Behavior Traits on Changes in Unhealthy Snacking During a Brisk Walking Intervention”
Language, literacy, and digital literacies
- Nancy Heiss, Sarah Anne Hamner, and Shriya Kuchibhotla, Department of Language and Literacy Education, for “Writing Our Way In: Creative Ethnography as Collaborative Scholars”
Learning and teaching
- Ayse Hilal Avci, Shannon Sines Carter, and Sakhavat Mammadov, Department of Educational Psychology, for “Perceived Stigma of Giftedness: School Experiences of Gifted Adolescents and Their Peers”
Methodology, measurement, assessment, and evaluation
- Tamlyn Lahoud, Nohwon Park, Constanza Mardones-Segovia, Shiyu Wang, Allan Cohen, and Yasemin Copur-Gencturk, Department of Educational Psychology, for “Exploring Implicit Measures to Detect Math Teacher Bias Using Multivariate Assessment Data”
Social, diversity, and cultural studies
- Denise Hawkins, Department of Counseling and Human Development Services, for “Bringing Out the Brilliance in Black Girls”
3MT-SOS® awardees:
- First place: Corey Gray
- Second place Jernita Randolph
- Fan favorite: Corey Gray
Graduate student recognized for teaching excellence
The Georgia Department of Education and EL Language Programs recently recognized Darling Saavedra, an M.Ed. in reading education student in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, for her exemplary teaching and outstanding dedication to English learners. Congratulations for this achievement!