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Student Employee of the Year awards announced

Honors were given to an undergraduate, a graduate student and a student employee team

Matthew Nyaaba is named 2024 recipient of the Saeeda Peermahomed Award

Matthew Nyaaba, a second-year Ph.D student in Teacher Education and Elementary Education in the Mary Frances Early College of Education is this year’s Saeeda Peermahomed Award recipient. The award is given annually by International Student Life to recognize outstanding international students.

Inaugural Women Lead student cohort concludes 

Engagement, Leadership, and Service (ELS), recently concluded the inaugural cohort experience of Women Lead—a group of third- and fourth-year students with demonstrated leadership on campus with an interest in engaging in continued leadership development within a community of women.
Six Minority Student Science Association students smile next to President Morehead

Minority Student Science Association at UGA receives top student organization award 

The Student Engagement Awards celebrate the accomplishments of student leaders and student organizations at the University of Georgia
Three students outside of Tate Plaza.

UGA Student Affairs selected as NASPA 2024 Excellence Award Category Bronze Honoree

The award highlights a continuing successful collaboration between the Office of Institutional Research and the Division of Student Affairs

UGA enhances residential belonging initiatives

Residential Belonging Assistants build a sense of belonging through mentorship, support

UGA again named among top Military Friendly institutions

The university has been in the top three for seven consecutive years, with three years at No. 1

Mentoring Clarke County students

A school-based program that pairs recommended students with mentors helps build community bonds
All five students who saved three lives.

UGA students honored after saving lives in Burke County car accident

The University of Georgia honored five students on Tuesday who heroically jumped into action to save a woman and two children after the woman’s car veered into a creek in rural Burke County.