Georgia State University

This annual award, sponsored by the RMI Alumni Club, recognizes a senior-level student majoring in risk management and insurance who has demonstrated academic excellence in coursework related to managing risk.

Nicolas Ardila was awarded the 2015 Outstanding Risk Management and Insurance Graduate Student of the Year Award at the 2015 Honors Day Celebration.

The Margaret Lupo Scholarship in Restaurant Management is in memory of Margaret Lupo, founder and owner of Mary Mac's Tea Room. Margaret Lupo was a leading restaurant entrepreneur and known for her southern hospitality. It is awarded to a student who is majoring in hospitality with a restaurant management focus. Selection is also based on academic achievement, work experience and restaurant industry involvement.

This annual award recognizes a graduating mathematical risk management student who has demonstrated academic excellence in graduate-level coursework and whose efforts have enhanced the quality of education for other students in the mathematical risk management program.

Friends and colleagues at KPMG, LLP established this scholarship to honor John "Jay" Thomas Zellner, Sr., who passed away in 2013. Mr. Zellner was a Director of KPMG in the Atlanta office, and held a BBA from GSU.

The late Dr. Floyd S. Harper joined Georgia State's faculty in 1958 and was instrumental in the creation of the Department of Risk Management and Insurance's Actuarial Science Program. This award is presented annually to a graduating senior in actuarial science in recognition of outstanding scholastic achievement and character-qualities that Dr. Harper strove to develop in his students.

The late Dr. Eli A. Zubay co-founded Georgia State University's Actuarial Science Program in 1958. This award recognizes academic excellence and is presented annually to the undergraduate actuarial science major with the highest overall grade-point average.

The GTA Teaching Excellence Awards are awarded for outstanding teaching performance by doctoral-level teaching assistants during the preceding calendar year (spring, summer and fall terms).

To be eligible for the President's List during the summer semester, degree-seeking students with a minimum Georgia State University cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 2.00 must earn a 4.0 GPA for the semester and complete at least 6 semester hours of academic credit with no incompletes.

To be eligible for the Dean's List during the summer semester, degree-seeking students with a minimum Georgia State cumulative GPA of 2.00 must earn a 3.50 GPA for the semester and complete at least 6 semester hours of academic credit with no incompletes.

Among the most prestigious student organizations at Georgia State University, ambassadors with The 1913 Society, named for the year the university was founded, serve as hosts for high-profile events and ceremonies. Members maintain excellent grades and carry themselves with poise and professionalism at all times.

Students with The 1913 Society at Georgia State University were recognized for excellence during the 2018-19 academic year. Among the most prestigious student organizations at Georgia State, ambassadors with The 1913 Society, named for the year the university was founded, serve as hosts for high-profile events and ceremonies. Members maintain excellent grades and carry themselves with poise and professionalism at all times.

Perimeter College students in 21 disciplines are eligible for student academic honors. While each discipline has its own appropriate criteria by which nominees are consider and selected, all academic honors recipients represent a decision by faculty that the student's academic results and progress, activities and pursuits and overall attitude and engagement are truly outstanding in that specific discipline.

A Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree is intended for individuals who have already earned degrees in law to gain more specialized knowledge about specific areas of the legal profession. The university honored students for their achievements this past May, and officially conferred LL.M. degrees in late June 2019.

More than 150 students from the Georgia State University College of Law earned law (Juris Doctor) degrees during the spring 2019 semester. The university honored students for their achievements this past May, and officially conferred law degrees in late June 2019.

Georgia State University student Katia Vanderbilt, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Linguistics, has received a grant from the Adult Literacy Research Center for her project entitled, "Developing and Testing Alternative Benchmarks of Lexical Sophistication: L2 Lexical Frequency, Semantic Context, and Word Recognition Indices."

Georgia State University student Rurik Tywoniw, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Linguistics, has received a grant from the Adult Literacy Research Center for a project entitled, "Investigating Reading Behavior and Inference-Making in Advanced L2 Reading Comprehension Assessment Tasks."

The Brains & Behavior Summer Scholars Program provides summer fellowships to selected Georgia State undergraduates to support their research efforts in faculty laboratories.

The Generation Google Scholarship was established to help aspiring computer scientists excel in technology and become leaders in the field. Each year an extremely selective group of undergraduate students are chosen from the applicant pool, and scholarships are awarded based on the strength of each candidate's impact on diversity, demonstrated leadership and academic background.

Students from the Byrdine F. Lewis College of Nursing and Health Professions at Georgia State University earned Occupational Therapy Master's (OTM) degrees durign the Spring 2019 semester

Georgia State University conferred Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees during ceremonies held this spring at the Rialto Center for the Arts.

Georgia State University conferred Specialist in Education degrees to students from the university's College of Education and Human Development during the Spring 2019 semester.

More than 2,000 students earned bachelor's degrees from Georgia State University during the Spring 2019 semester.

Students from Georgia State University's College of Education and Human Development earned Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) degrees during the Spring 2019 semester.

Georgia State University conferred Executive Doctorate in Business degrees to students from the J. Mack Robinson College of Business.

Georgia State University conferred Doctor of Physical Therapy degrees to students during the Spring 2019 semester.

Georgia State University conferred Doctor of Nursing Practice degrees to students during the university's 104th commencement exercises during the Spring 2019 semester.

More than 800 students earned associate's degrees from Georgia State University's Perimeter College during the Spring 2019 semester.

Georgia State University conferred master's degrees to graduate students across disciplines during the Spring 2019 semester.

To be eligible for the Dean's List, degree-seeking students must have earned a GPA of at least 3.5 for a minimum of nine semester hours of academic credit taken at Georgia State during the fall or spring term with no incompletes for the semester. Eligible students must have a minimum GPA of 2.0 for all classes taken at Georgia State.