Undergraduate Highlights

September 2009:

Jason Kelly, a junior at UCF, majoring in Psychology and Journalism is this fall’s winner of the India Program Fellowship. Kelly has served on the executive boards of the Caribbean Students Association and the Dutch Caribbean Student Association at UCF, and he remains active in the leadership of Central Florida’s growing Caribbean-American community. Upon graduation, he plans to pursue a Ph.D. in psychology. He intends to focus his research on the psychology behind European colonialism and imperialism. Established in connection with The India Program at UCF, the India Program Fellowship is sponsored by The Anil and Chitra Deshpande India Program Endowed Fund, the UCF Global Perspectives Office and the Global Connections Foundation.

March 2009:

Stephanie Rash has been awarded the upper-division Information Fluency student Award for 2009.  The award is cosponsored by The Burnett Honors College and the UCF Libraries for a research paper written for Dr. Wilsons’s Politics of the Developing World in the fall semester of 2008.

March 2008:

The following students were Inducted to Order of Pegasus, the most prestigious student award given by the university. Stephanie Kyla Tan is a Political Science major in the College of Sciences. Tabatha L. Calabrese is a Political Science and Legal Studies double major in the colleges of Health and Public Affairs and Sciences. Megan A. Policastro is a Legal Studies major in the College of Health and Public Affairs with a minor in Political Science. Maria V. Pecoraro is a Political Science major in the College of Sciences with a minor in Spanish. Ashley E. Conyers is a Liberal Studies major with a minor in Interpersonal Communication in Undergraduate Studies. Congratulations to all!

April 2006: Daniel White was a recipient of the department's Bledsoe-Young Award, given out annually to a graduating senior with outstanding accomplishments, especially in the area of writing and creative activities.