On November 8, 2022, the Student Veterans Resource Center (SVRC) hosted its annual Veterans Week Scholarship Ceremony sponsored in part by the Reynolds Veterans Association. Over 100 scholarships were awarded to UGA student veterans with a combined value of $88,000— the most scholarships on record to be awarded at SVRC’s annual ceremony thanks to the generosity of both individual and corporate donors.
Third-year engineering major Brennen Sanders recently won prestigious scholarship In 2017, Brennen Sanders was assigned to the USS Illinois, which at the time was the newest, fastest submarine in the U.S. Navy. He and his shipmates were to prepare for a 7-month long deployment to the Western Pacific. Sanders had just completed the Navy’s nuclear…
The University of Georgia is once again named a Military Friendly Tier I Research Institution for academic year 2022-2023; a designation earned each year since 2014 according to Victory Media. Since 2017, UGA has been recognized as a Gold Award winner for placing within 20 percent of the top ranked institutions in each category and this year finished in the top 16 percent of the 665 schools earning Military Friendly. Additionally, according to Military Times, UGA is made its Best For Vets: Colleges list this year.
Caleb Ray, a Financial Planning 4th-year UGA student veteran and last year’s Student Veteran Association (SVA) President was recognized this week in G.I. Jobs magazine as a recipient of the Student Veteran Leadership Award. Ray was one of thirty-three nationally recognized students for his outstanding leadership and commitment to serving the UGA veteran community. An…
The University of Georgia Alumni Association has unveiled the 40 Under 40 Class of 2022. Veterans David Dy (2021) and Matt Fowler (2022) were named among recent classes. 40 Under 40 celebrates the personal, professional and philanthropic achievements of successful UGA graduates under the age of 40. Air Force Commander, David Dy, was the 2019…
On May 4, 2022, the Student Veterans Resource Center hosted the first in-person Honor Cord Ceremony since 2019 for the 79 student veterans eligible to graduate this calendar year. The Honor Cord serves as a symbol of gratitude for the student veteran’s unique life experience, maturity and perspective that student veterans bring to classroom discussions and…
The University of Georgia’s Student Veterans Resource Center (SVRC) proudly dedicated a new display – a waist-length wool jacket spangled with World War II combat medals. The Eisenhower jacket perfectly fit UGA alumnus Dr. Harold Berkman (BBA ’49) from 1945 until the day he passed away in 2020 at age 94. Read More……
Sixty-five scholarships totaling $48,000 were awarded to UGA’s student veterans during the annual Veterans Week Reception on Nov. 9 at the Tate Student Center. The annual ceremony is hosted by UGA’s Student Veterans Resource Center (SVRC) and sponsored in part by the Reynolds Veterans Association (RVA). Students receiving scholarships and their areas of study are…
Caleb Ray slides into the cockpit of an F-16 at the Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas. He pulls his helmet down and adjusts the GoPro mount facing him—one that he helped engineer in his first year as an aircraft technician and welder for the United States Air Force Thunderbirds.