Student News
Angela Allen (Senior, Consumer Economics) has been awarded the Outstanding Senior Award by Gamma Sigma Delta.
Amber Brewer, Michele Parker, and Luciana Silva (PhD Students, Child and Family Development) all received Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards for the 2007-08 academic year.
Won Jee Cho (PhD Student, Child and Family Development) and Desiree Seponski (PhD Student, Child and Family Development) have been recognized by the Southern Gerontological Society for their research. Cho’s research focuses on how the meaning of time affects Korean adults’ views of themselves as they age. Seponski has studied the relationships of grandmothers and granddaughters.
Caree Jackson (PhD Student, Foods and Nutrition) has been awarded a two-year fellowship in the Kellogg Health Scholars Program at Morgan State University of Public Health and Policy in Baltimore, Md.
Mary-Kerstin Lindqvist (Sophomore, Fashion Merchandising) has been awarded the Outstanding Sophomore Award by Gamma Sigma Delta.
Ruthie Neustifter (PhD Student, Child and Family Development) has been awarded the Trailblazer Award by the Domestic Violence Task Force of Clarke and Oconee counties for her innovative and new work with survivors of domestic violence in the Athens area. Neustifter and Luciana Silva (PhD Student, Child and Family Development), also has been awarded a Graduate School Dean’s Award, which provides $1,000 of funding for dissertation research.
Lauren Elizabeth Nutt (BSFCS ’07, Fashion Merchandising) was recognized as the Outstanding Senior at the December 2007 convocation.
Norman Pollack (PhD Student, Foods and Nutrition) and Hamida Jinnah (PhD Student, Child and Family Development) are the recipients of the 2008 Endsley-Peifer Student Research Award for their publication record and significant contributions to advancing knowledge in a specialty area in family and consumer sciences.
Luciana Silva (PhD Student, Child and Family Development) has been accepted into the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists minority fellowship program.
Xialing Wu (PhD Student, Textiles, Merchandising, and Interiors) won second place in the student paper competition at the International Conference and Exhibition of the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists. Her paper, titled “Flame Retardant Finishing of Cotton Fleece Using Maleic Acid/Sodium Hypophosphite” represents the third time during the past four years that a TMI graduate student has won either first or second place.