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Two College
of Business Students Win Successful Latino(a)
Student Award
for 2007 |
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Two
undergraduate students in the College of Business, each with
a 3.9 GPA, have been awarded the USF’s Successful Latina/o
Student Award for 2007. The students were two of only ten
students campus-wide to win the highly competitive award.
Jose Hernandez, USF’s director of
diversity and inclusion, said “the awards are selective as
the lowest GPA for consideration for the award is 3.5.”
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Yoelly Figueroa, is a 21-year-old
accounting major, who is an also Honors College
student and has been on the College of Business Dean’s List
of Scholars for four semesters.
She has managed her coursework while also working part-time,
performing community service, and tackling leadership roles
in various campus organizations and activities.
Figueroa’s accounting professors
believe her to be a superior business scholar. “As a
student, she has demonstrated not only an impressive set of
quantitative skills, but also the ability to perform
decision-making tasks that require careful and meaningful
analytical thinking,” said Lisa Gaynor, who teaches
accounting. “In class, she is always attentive,
communicative by asking thoughtful questions, and
well-prepared for lectures. Outside of class, she assists
her fellow classmates by giving help and support throughout
the semester,” said Professor Andrea Kelton.
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Figueroa is a member of Beta
Alpha Psi honors accounting fraternity, the Bulls Business
Network, Beta Gamma Sigma International Honor Society, and
numerous other campus organizations. In addition, she chairs
the minority recruitment committee for Beta Alpha Psi.
Her extracurricular activities
extend outside the university as well. She served as a
volunteer for “Impact Now” in San Antonio, Texas, and
volunteered for another non-profit group called Castillo Del
Rey in El Salvador.
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Like
Figueroa, David Klinowski is also a member the Honors
College. The Venezuelan-born economics major is pursuing a
degree in physics as well as his business degree. His avid
interest in economics earned him an opportunity to be a
research assistant for the head of the College’s economics
department, Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong, who was very impressed
with the student’s academic ability.
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“David is
one of the best students I have had the chance to work with
in my 28-year teaching career,” said Gyimah-Brempong. “He is
very intelligent, intellectually curious, and highly
motivated to work on his own,” he added.
Klinowski
is a tutor in the Honors College, assisting recipients of
the prestigious Jenkins Scholarship. He was previously a
research assistant at USF’s Clean Energy Research Center as
well as the Center for Wireless and Microwave Information
System, and an intern at Lee County Electric Cooperative.
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Aside from his academic
and professional activities, Klinowski participates in
several extra-curricular activities. He is the president of
the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) and a
senator in the USF Student Government Senate. He spent this
summer as an intern at USF’s Patel Center for Global
Solutions and recently, served as the corporate chair of
SHPE. Klinowski volunteers at Trinity Café serving food to
homeless people. He was also a volunteer in Venezuela at the
Book Bank and the Sports Center Los Naranjos.
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Figueroa and Klinowski were
honored at an awards ceremony at the Hispanic Heritage
Celebration on October 4 where they received a framed
certificate of their achievement as well as a $50 gift
certificate for the campus bookstore. |
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