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Celebrating Student, Faculty and Alumni Excellence at the Annual Scholarship & Awards Dinner

Celebrating Student, Faculty and Alumni Excellence at the Annual Scholarship & Awards Dinner

November 12, 2025

The UF College of Education hosted its 22nd annual Scholarship and Award Dinner, where Interim President Donald Landry and Dean Glenn Good celebrated the college’s statewide impact, rising rankings and research growth, and thanked the EduGator community. The evening honored Dean’s Excellence Award recipients Larry Kubiak and Allen and Delores Lastinger, recognized outstanding undergraduate and graduate students, awarded scholarships to 166 students and professorships to 19 faculty, and looked ahead with optimism to shaping Florida’s educational future.

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Fulbright-Hays award-winning doctoral candidate explores Côte d’Ivoire

Fulbright-Hays award-winning doctoral candidate explores Côte d’Ivoire

September 16, 2025

Ed.D. student, Jessica Ayer, earned a Fulbright‑Hays Group Project Abroad Award that let her spend her summer in Ivory Coast, learning Bambara and developing curricula for francophone Africa. This experience was enriched by deep relationships with local staff and students, and will inform her dissertation, teaching approach and eventual distribution of newly designed curricular units through the American Association of Teachers of French.

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Graduate Student Awarded for Excellence in Ed Tech

February 21, 2024

Instruction and Curriculum graduate student Gabriella Haire was awarded with the Fanchon F. Funk Scholars Award at the Florida Association of Teacher Educators (FATE) annual conference for her educational technology research.

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Takeshia Pierre Awarded CADRE STEM Fellowship

December 1, 2023

UF Graduate Research Assistant, Takeshia Pierre, is one of the 15 nationwide recipients of the highly regarded STEM Fellowship from the Community for Advancing Discovery Research in Education (CADRE).

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