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Kennesaw State University's Honors College celebrated its first- and second-year students in the President's Emerging Global Scholars (PEGS) program at a banquet on Feb. 19. PEGS is an elite cohort within the Honors College that challenges its students to grow as leaders and accelerates their personal, professional and academic development. The students were honored for their academic accomplishments and community service, with the second-year students receiving pins recognizing their completion of the program.

Oglethorpe University congratulates the following undergraduates named to the Fall 2017 Dean's List honoring students who achieved at least a 3.50 term grade-point average while earning 12 or more semester hours.

The CarMax Auto Finance Analytics Scholarship, established in 2014, provides two-year scholarships for students in business and statistics. The merit-based scholarship has served 36 undergraduate and graduate students with financial support. Each academic year, 12 students - six from the Coles College of Business and six from the College of Science and Mathematics - are awarded the scholarship. Student scholars were recently recognized by CarMax Auto Finance and the University during an on-campus luncheon.

Georgia Southern University recently recognized approximately 2,900 students for excellence in academics on the Fall 2017 Dean's List. To be eligible for the Dean's List, a student must have at least a 3.5 grade point average and carry a minimum of 12 hours for the semester.

To be eligible for the President's List, students must earn a 4.0 GPA for the semester and complete at least nine semester hours of academic credit with no incompletes.

To be eligible for the Dean's List, students must earn a 3.50 GPA for the semester and complete at least nine semester hours of academic credit with no incompletes.

Kennesaw State University recently welcomed its newest class of graduates. Nearly 2,300 students earned bachelor's, master's or doctoral degrees during Fall 2017 commencement ceremonies in December.

The University of Alabama will award some 2,077 degrees during winter commencement Dec. 16. With a beautiful campus, dozens of challenging academic programs, expert faculty and numerous opportunities for service and growth, The University of Alabama is a place where legends are made. UA offers its students a premier educational, cultural and social experience with more than 200 undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. The campus gives students the opportunity to interact with nationally renowned faculty performing cutting-edge research.

More than 3,000 students graduated from Georgia State University during the Fall 2017 semester.

A total of 12,594 students enrolled during the 2017 fall semester at The University of Alabama were named to the Dean's List with an academic record of 3.5 or above or the President's List with an academic record of 4.0 (all A's). The UA Dean's and President's lists recognize full-time undergraduate students. The lists do not apply to graduate students or undergraduate students who take less than a full course load.

The University of Alabama's Division of Student Life has named two students as recipients of the Spring 2018 UA Away scholarships. The UA Away scholarship initiative supports learning opportunities for students to work, serve, or study away from campus. William Hanlin, a graduate student pursing a master's degree in social work, will work away as a social worker in Cuernavaca Morelos, Mexico with an agency called VAMOS! Riley O'Neill, a junior majoring in Spanish, will study away in Buenos Aires, Argentina at the Universidad de Belgrano. The main goal of the UA Away scholarship initiative is to provide students with unique learning opportunities to study in different environments, serve others and experience on-the-job training. To learn more about the Division of Student Life and UA Away scholarships, visit sl.ua.edu.

Nearly 600 students were awarded degrees at Jacksonville State University's winter commencement on Dec. 15.

One-hundred and fifty one Georgia State College of Law students received scholarships for the 2017-18 academic year.

The University of South Carolina Aiken congratulates those students who made the Dean's List for Fall 2017. To earn this distinction, students must be enrolled full-time and maintain a GPA of at least 3.5.

Kennesaw State University congratulates the more than 6,200 students named to the Fall 2017 Dean's List. Students enrolled at least 9 credit hours and with a grade point average of at least 3.5 were named to the list.

Kennesaw State University recently named students to the President's List, in recognition of their academic excellence in the Fall 2017 semester. The Kennesaw State students were honored by President Sam Olens for earning top marks.

The University of North Georgia announces degrees and certificates awarded for the fall 2017 semester, including hundreds awarded in commencement exercises held December 15 & 16 at the university.

The deans of each of UNG's five colleges - the College of Arts & Letters, the College of Education, the College of Health Sciences & Professions, the Mike Cottrell College of Business, and the College of Science & Mathematics - announced the names of those students who made their respective lists for fall 2017. Dean's List recognition is achieved by having at least a 3.5 grade point average, carrying 12 or more credit hours in one semester and having no grade lower than B.

Students have been named to the University of Delaware Dean's List for the Fall 2017 semester.

To be named to the dean's list, students must have a grade-point average of 3.0 or better and rank in the top 20 percent of their class in their respective college or school.

The following students completed courses with exemplary marks and made the 2017 fall President's List at Georgia College in Milledgeville, Ga.

The following students earned a position on the University of Evansville Dean's List for academic achievements during the Fall Semester 2017.

The following local residents made the Fall 2017 President's List at Georgia Southwestern State University and were among 600 students recognized for scholastic achievement.

Kennesaw State University hosted a mini-conference as part of its fifth annual KSU R Day, a regional meeting for the analytics and "R" community that links the statistics program at KSU with businesses and organizations that use analytics and statistics. "R" refers to the popular open-source statistical software used by many organizations around the world. More than 240 people, including guests from 45 companies and four other universities, attended the popular event that showcased the projects of 45 undergraduate and graduate statistics students, and honored 11 of those students for academic achievement.

More than 140 students from 10 departments in the College of Arts and Sciences participated in the Fall 2017 Undergraduate STEM Research Conference on Oct. 27, 2017, presenting research, research proposals, or literature on topics of interest.

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.

To be eligible for the President's List during the summer semester, students must earn a 4.0 GPA for the semester and complete at least 6 semester hours of academic credit with no incompletes.

More than 900 students earned their bachelor's degrees from Georgia State University during the summer semester of 2017.

Congratulations to the 2017 Global Ambassador Program cohort for successfully completing the program with outstanding leadership and service. The Global Ambassador Program participants demonstrate intercultural communication and leadership skills through conversations, interactions, and acculturation with visiting international students at Georgia State University.

The University of Alabama awarded approximately 1,300 degrees during summer commencement Aug. 5. With a beautiful campus, hundreds of rigorous academic programs, world-renowned faculty and numerous opportunities for service and growth, The University of Alabama is a place where legends are made. UA offers its students a premier educational, cultural and social experience with more than 200 undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. The campus gives students the opportunity to interact with nationally renowned faculty performing cutting-edge research. In addition, UA offers students more than 500 student organizations, and UA students perform more than 1 million hours of service for the community.