Meredith Barrs (Senior, Dietetics and Consumer Foods), Erin Fields (Nutrition Science), Luci Reilly (Fashion Merchandising and Consumer Journalism), and Keane Johnson (Intended Consumer Economics) have been selected to participate in the Arch Society in 2003-04.

Liz Buck (Master's Student, Foods and Nutrition) has received the Outstanding Dietetic Intern Award from the Georgia Dietetic Association. This is the third year in a row that the awardee has been from the FACS Foods and Nutrition Department.

Laura Ann Knowles, (Master's Student, FACS Education) has received the Georgia Association of Family and Consumer Sciences Graduate Scholarship. She graduated as a First Honor Graduate in May and is now pursuing a master's degree.

FACS graduate students inducted into Gamma Sigma Delta include: Cady Berkel (PhD Student, Child and Family Development), Elizabeth Buck (Master's Student, Foods and Nutrition), Cheryl Neale (Master's Student, Child and Family Development), Roshni Patel (Master's Student, Foods and Nutrition), Dawn Penn (MS '03, Foods and Nutrition), Venessa Tymes (Ph.D. Student, Child and Family Development), Genise Vertus (MS Student, Child and Family Development), and Lisa White-Rodgers (Ph.D. Student, Child and Family Development).

Knowles and Michelle Santilli (Junior, Child and Family Development) were named the 2002-03 Outstanding Senior and Outstanding Sophomore, respectively, by Gamma Sigma Delta.

Emma Monkhouse Laing, (PhD '03. Foods and Nutrition), and Julie Askew, (Ph.D. Student, Child and Family Development) received the Endsley-Peifer Award at FACS Honors Day. This award, created to honor the late Dr. Richard Endsley and Professor Emeritus Jim Peifer, is given to students in physical sciences and social sciences to recognize their publication of research while still in their graduate programs.

Christie Smith (Sophomore, Fashion Merchandising) received a Regents Work and Study Abroad stipend to work with Dr. Patricia Hunt-Hurst in preparation for the 2003 Study Abroad program in London.

Karol Travis (BSFCS '03, Consumer Foods) and Emma Monkhouse Laing (PhD '03, Foods and Nutrition) were tapped for Blue Key Honor Society in spring 2003.