Georgia Perimeter alumnus Walter Crawford has been named the Finance Student of the Year Award at the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business. “I couldn’t have done it without my foundation at GPC,” he said. Crawford received the 2011 “Emerging Leader” award from the GPC Alumni Association while a student at GPC.

GPC student Tiffany Trivett has won a $1,000 scholarship from the Atlanta Writers Club. The presentation was made by club president Valerie Connors at the April 24 awards ceremony for the Townsend Prize for Fiction. Georgia Perimeter and its literary magazine, The Chattahoochee Review, hosts the Townsend; and the Atlanta Writers Club is a major sponsor.

Michael Kartawinata was awarded first prize in Higher One's national Money on My Mind video contest, which asked college students to share advice for overcoming money management challenges. The award included a $1000 prize. Kartawinata is a film major interested in animation. His winning video featured money-saving tips and financial management advice for new college students. Higher One’s Mary Johnson said the selection committee was impressed with the creative and humorous format of Karawinata’s video and the financial advice he offered. “Michael’s video ‘sketches’ you through his financial transition from high school to college and provides great tips to other students about how to stay on solid financial footing,” Johnson said. “Our goal with Money on My Mind is to help students develop and share positive financial attitudes and behaviors through social engagement with their peers—Michael’s video successfully accomplished this.” Higher One partners with more than 1,600 colleges to provide financial services.

Forty-two GPC math students were inducted into Mu Alpha Theta, the Math Honor Society, during a special ceremony April 11 on  the Dunwoody Campus.They are Alpharetta: Annaleigh Jackson, Jesse Johns, Danna Okeson, Ryan Smith; Clarkston: Surafel Argaw, Travis Crawford, Djenabou Diawara, Fatima Islam, Maurice Jones, Francine Njika  Elle, Mohammad Suwoto, Thomas Teichmann, Deepa Singh Thakuri, Nhi Tran; Decatur: Ernest Anim, Nettie Brown, Daniel Daugherty, Brice Nisangani, Lashana Parker, Jolanda Strughill; Dunwoody: Adnan Al-Atassi, Pourya Bakhtiyar, Sara Bitarafan, Charles Brite, Alexandre Dos Santos, Rachel Feldman, Tyre Johnson-King, Ardalan Karbasyoun, Akissi Kouame, Yunho Lee, Misagh Mastali, Aimee Moise, Jasmin Mossavi, Hamed Amokrane Ould Hamou, Emmanuel  Perez-Reyes; Susan Rosen and  Karankumar Sutaria; Newton: Jeremy Borger, Sara Lane, Parker Leach, Tristin Spriggs; and Online, Michael Drew.

GPC student Ann Marie Hormeku received recognition recently as one of 12 Outstanding GPC Women honorees, in part, for her role in launching the Students with Children organization earlier this year. Other honorees include students Maria Annunziata, Nicole King, Suzanne Bentz, Diana Prada, Susan Hughes Isley, Ysamara Sosa, Aghogho Ekoko and Joo Yeon Yoo; staff members Debbie Henderson and Cole Thomas (also a student) and faculty member Marissa McNamara. The Dunwoody Campus Student Life and Student Government associations presented the honors in recognition of the women's exemplary involvement in campus activities and volunteerism. Faculty, staff and students nominated the finalists.

Six Georgia Perimeter College students presented papers based on their academic work in Honors courses at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Georgia Collegiate Honors Council at Middle Georgia State College in Macon. They included Barry Switay, “Death and the Emergence of Guilt in Victor Hugo’s ‘The Last Day of a Condemned Man’”; Nhi Tran, “Witch Hunting in History: A Study of Arthur Miller’s ‘The Crucible’ and the Second Red Scare”; Ellaree Yeagley, “Making Peace with the Past: Grappling with Inherited Trauma in Art Spiegelman’s ‘Maus’”; Ann Marie Hormeku, “Service Learning and Filmmaking in Honors American Government”; Farhin Lilywala, “Dodging a Bullet: McDonald’s Advertising Strategies”; and Tevin Delph, “The Relationship between the Hebrews and the Divine.” The six were among 12 GPC Honors Program students attending the conference. They were accompanied by English professors Dr. Rosemary Cox and Dr. Jeff Portnoy, who is also director of the Honors Program. The two professors moderated the panels on which their students participated.