Huong Vu, left, and Kadiata Sy. (Photo by Bill Roa)

Kadiata Sy and Huong Vu are two of 60 winners nationwide of the Jack Kent Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship, which awards up to $90,000 to community college students transferring to four-year colleges. Vu is studying industrial engineering at Georgia Tech; and Sy, who hopes to become a human rights lawyer, is attending Emory University.

Six Georgia Perimeter students were named to the Phi Theta Kappa 2012 All-Georgia Academic Team: Alvina Atmadja, Maya-Ann Collins, Anna Fulmer, Stephania Guthrie, Jeffrey Stephens and Zauditu Kaza-Amlek, who also played soccer for GPC. Phi Theta Kappa is the official honor society for two-year colleges.

English major and self-published author Julian Traas is GPC’s 2012 Outstanding Regents Scholar.

Four faculty members were named 2012 NISOD Excellence Award winners by the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development. They are Kyle Barbieri, political science; Carole Creekmore, English; Mark Hillier, biology; and Debra Moon, business.

The college’s In The Loop newsletter won the Online Newsletter bronze award from the National Council of Marketing and Public Relations.

For the second year in a row, GPC has been recognized “with distinction” on the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll by the Corporation for National and Community Service and the U.S. Department of Education.