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Aurora student-athlete receives academic award from American Rivers Conference
The spring sports American Rivers Conference all-academic teams were announced and 57 Central College student-athletes were honored for their academic and athletic excellence.
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Taylor Wyeth, Class of 2024 from Aurora, IL, is on the Softball team and earned a 3.72 GPA majoring in art.
To qualify for the distinction, a student-athlete must be at least a sophomore in academic standing with one year at his or her current school, achieve a 3.5 GPA or better and be on the team's eligibility list.
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Student from Aurora named to Ohio University's spring 2023 dean's list
Ohio University College of Fine Arts student Thomas Sondag of Aurora has been named to Ohio's Spring 2023 Dean's List.
The Dean's List recognizes undergraduate students who complete a particular semester with a GPA between 3.5 and 3.999 with a minimum of 12 credit hours attempted for letter grades that are used to calculate GPA.
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Monmouth College Spring 2023 Dean's List
The Monmouth College students on this list all earned a grade-point average of at least 3.5 for the Spring 2023 semester while maintaining at least 3.0 course credits.
- Luke Jachimiec of Aurora (60502)
- Lauren Peterson of Aurora (60503)
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Aurora student receives Presidential Scholarship from New York Tech
Mike Zhou from Aurora (60502) has been awarded the Presidential Scholarship at New York Institute of Technology. This is the university's highest scholarship awarded to incoming first-year students.
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Student from Aurora graduates from Campbellsville University
Salam Mohammed Abdul, of Aurora, IL graduated from Campbellsville University.
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Quinn Peterson graduates from Coe College
Congratulations to Quinn Peterson, who was among a group of truly exceptional graduates this past year at Coe College.
Peterson, of Aurora, IL was awarded a bachelor's degree in Creative Writing.
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Local students named to the Coe College Spring 2023 Dean's List
115 Coe College students have been named to the Spring 2023 Dean's List. To be named to the Dean's List, a student must earn at least a 3.5 grade point average for the term and rank in the top 10% of the student body. Area students who made the List include:
- Quinn Peterson of Aurora
- Valerie Plesha of Aurora
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Georgia Tech spring 2023 graduates announced
The Georgia Institute of Technology presented degrees to more than 5,300 undergraduate and graduate students during the Institute's 264th Commencement exercises May 5-6, 2023, at Bobby Dodd Stadium.
- Shoale Badr of Aurora (60502)
- Chandra Sekhar Kanuri Venkata of Aurora (60502)
- Rohit Tuteja of Aurora (60504)
- Gowtham Venkatachalam of Aurora (60504)
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Aurora student graduates from UA Little Rock
Biswaranjan Senapati, of Aurora, graduated from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock during the spring 2023 semester.
Senapati graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer and Information Sciences as well as a Graduate Certificate in Data Science.
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