Valdosta State University

Lea Jaklen is a recipient of Valdosta State University's 2016 Academic Athlete Award.

Valdosta State University is proud to offer scholarships to 303 currently enrolled, incoming first-year, and transfer students for the 2016-2017 academic year. These scholarships were established by private donors and are awarded each year by VSU Foundation Inc. to students with excellent academic achievement and/or students with financial need. Each recipient represents the high standards of the university.

Taylor Holder of Chicago, Illinois, is a recipient of Valdosta State University's 2016 Academic Athlete Award.

Hunter Pope is the recipient of Valdosta State University's 2016 Outstanding Student in the Arts Award and 2016 Bartram Award for Intellectual Exploration.

Two Valdosta State University students - Elyssa Whidby Tompkins and Lucy Butler-Sands - were awarded a 2015-2016 Carson and Philena T. McLane Caregivers Scholarship in the amount of $2,500.

Gloria de la Garza is the recipient of Valdosta State University's 2016 Annie Powe Hopper Award and 2016 Outstanding Student in Arts and Sciences Award.

The Honors Student Association at Valdosta State University recently recognized several members for outstanding service to the organization during the 2015-2016 academic year.

Twenty-seven Valdosta State University students from Air Force Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) Detachment 172 were recognized for outstanding achievement during the 2015-2016 academic year.

Thomas Wright of Leesburg is a recipient of Valdosta State University's 2016 Academic Athlete Award. This is the second consecutive year he has earned this honor.

Erinika R. Taliaferro is a recipient of Valdosta State University's 2016 American Association of University Women Award.

Kyle Bragg of Bonaire is the recipient of Valdosta State University's 2016 Most Outstanding AS300 Cadet Award.

Hannah Pittman is Valdosta State University's 2016 Alpha Lambda Delta Freshman Honor Society Leonard Senior Book Award recipient.

Landis Johnson of Hinesville is the recipient of Valdosta State University's 2016 Sigma Alpha Chi Mac Award.

Tochukwu Madueke of Nigeria is the recipient of Valdosta State University's 2016 Marga Award.

Valdosta State University students from the Honors College were invited to present research at the 2016 Southern Regional Honors Council Conference, which was held at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Orlando, Florida, and hosted by the University of West Florida. Inspired by The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, the theme was "The Magic of Honors."

Alisha Duncan Burdett of Adel is the recipient of Valdosta State University's 2016 College of Education and Human Services Highest Academic Achievement Award.

Hunter Pope's "Fetish Series" won third place in the juried art competition at the 44th annual Southern Regional Honors Council Conference. The award-winning photographs were captured on black and white film, in studio and on location, using a manual Pentax K1000 camera with a 50-millimeter (f/2.0) lens.

Ashlie Prain is a recipient of Valdosta State University's 2016 American Association of University Women Award.

Elizabeth Melton is Valdosta State University's 2016 Clare Philips Martin Scholarship recipient.

Mara Charles is a recipient of Valdosta State University's 2016 American Association of University Women Award.

Valdosta State University won first place at the 2016 Georgia Speech-Language-Hearing Association Annual Convention's inaugural Praxis Bowl.

Katherine Younker is Valdosta State University's 2016 College of Nursing and Health Sciences Outstanding Senior Sciences Award recipient.

Summer Goff is Valdosta State University's 2016 Outstanding Harley Langdale Jr. College of Business Administration Senior Award recipient.

William "Austin" Haney is Valdosta State University's 2015-2016 Graduate Assistant of the Year.

Sydney Beckmann is Valdosta State University's 2016 University System of Georgia Academic Recognition Day Award recipient.

Valdosta State University has recognized 29 graduate assistants for the contributions they have made to the promotion of research, teaching, and service while pursuing their advanced degrees.These students were chosen based on their reliability, quality of work, initiative, professionalism, and uniqueness of contribution.

Valdosta State University students from the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders were invited to present research at the 2016 Georgia Speech-Language-Hearing Association Annual Convention in Savannah, Georgia. The theme was "We are the Difference: Building Clinical Skills to Change Lives."

Valdosta State University Enactus is one of 144 teams who will compete at the 2016 Enactus United States National Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, May 15-17.

The Spectator, Valdosta State University's independent student newspaper, earned nine awards from the Georgia College Press Association 2015 Better Newspaper Contest.

Amanda Barlow, Mara Charles, and April Ward's "Readability and its Effects on Standardized Assessment Outcomes" won first place in the undergraduate research student poster competition at the 2016 Georgia Speech-Language-Hearing Association Annual Convention.