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Jaylon Lockett of Missouri City, a sophomore physics major at Angelo State University, has been awarded a $10,000 scholarship for the 2023-24 academic year through the TEAM-UP Together Scholarship Program (TUTSP) that is administered by the national Society of Physics Students.

Dr. Drew A. Curtis of the Department of Psychology, Dr. Nicholas Negovetich of the Department of Biology, and Dr. Gayle L. Randall of the Department of Management and Marketing are the winners of Angelo State University’s 2023 President’s Awards for Faculty Excellence.

Emily Maxey of Phoenix, Ariz., has been selected to receive Angelo State University’s 2023 Presidential Award as the top graduate in her class, while five other ASU graduating seniors have been selected for 2022-23 Distinguished Student Awards from their respective academic colleges.

Cameron Poole, a senior animal science major at Angelo State University, was selected to represent ASU and present her research project at the recent 2023 Texas Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol event in Austin.

Angelo State University hosted former U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison for a special ceremony today (April 27) to announce the re-naming of the Kay Bailey Hutchison Center for Security Studies on campus as the Kay Bailey Hutchison Center for Cyber Intelligence, Innovation, and Security Studies.

Angelo State University’s Small Business Development Center (SBDC) and Norris-Vincent College of Business have announced the winners of the 2023 BizPitch student entrepreneurship competition following the recent live finals event in the LeGrand Alumni and Visitors Center.

Angelo State University’s Epsilon Sigma chapter of the Beta Beta Beta (Tri-Beta) national biological honor society was named the Outstanding Chapter in District 2 for the 2022-23 academic year and also garnered several other prestigious awards at the recent Tri-Beta South Central Regional Convention in Cedar Hill.

Angelo State University undergraduate science majors Garath Vetters of Kingsland, Emily Maxey of Heber, Arizona, and Doyeon Kwon of South Korea all won top prizes for their research presentations at the recent annual meeting of the Texas Academy of Science hosted on the ASU campus.