Student Laurels

These education students have the moxie, that rare “it” factor, to make a meaningful difference in our lives and in the education world, from applying social networking in teacher education to gauging the influence of race on students’ learning opportunities.The [...]

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — For the second year in a row, a teacher who receives training from the University of Florida Master Teacher Initiative has been named teacher of the year in Pinellas County. Pinellas County Schools recently chose UF Lastinger [...]

Kacy Mixon, a third-year doctoral fellow in UF’s counselor education and supervision program, has been selected as a Chi Sigma Iota international leadership fellow. CSI is the worldwide academic and professional honor society for the counseling field. Mixon was selected [...]

Ann-Marie Orlando, a University of Florida doctoral candidate in special education, recently received the 2011 Alice H. Hayden Emerging Researcher Award from TASH, a leading international advocacy group for people with disabilities. The annual award honors doctoral students in education [...]

Sebnem Cilesiz, a 2006 UF doctoral graduate in education technology, presented her award-winning research recently at the annual meeting of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) in Jacksonville. She previously received the 2010 Young Scholar Award from AECT [...]

Ann-Marie Orlando, a University of Florida doctoral candidate in special education, recently received the 2011 Alice H. Hayden Emerging Researcher Award from TASH, a leading international advocacy group for people with disabilities. The annual award honors doctoral students in education [...]

Christina Wan, an M.Ed. student in UF’s Student Personnel in Higher Education program, has been named Graduate Student of the Year by the Florida chapter of Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education—called NASPA-FL for short. NASPA is considered the nation’s [...]

UF’s College of Education has selected doctoral students Jungah Bae (special education) and Dadria Lewis (mental health counseling) as its 2011 Outstanding International Students. The award recognizes deserving students from other countries who demonstrate strong academics, innovative research activity and [...]

Julia Carpenter, a recent UF doctoral (Ed.D.) graduate in educational technology, has been awarded the Online Learning Innovator Award for Outstanding Research from iNACOL, the International Association for K-12 Online Learning, for her dissertation study on increasing student motivation and [...]

The American Academy of School Psychology has selected Carmelo Callueng, a UF doctoral candidate in school psychology, to receive its Hyman-Lambert Memorial Scholarship. The AASP awards the $1,000 scholarship annually to two to four deserving doctoral students in the field. [...]