{"id":127072,"date":"2022-03-23T10:56:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T14:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=127072"},"modified":"2025-03-21T10:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T14:20:08","slug":"26-exemplary-students-awarded-2022-order-of-pegasus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/26-exemplary-students-awarded-2022-order-of-pegasus\/","title":{"rendered":"26 Exemplary Students Awarded 2022 Order of Pegasus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twenty-six students \u2014 ranging in disciplines from engineering to biology to education and others across the institution \u2014 have been named as 2021-22 recipients of the Order of Pegasus, UCF\u2019s most prestigious student award for those who display incredible academic achievement, university involvement, leadership and community service.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s honorees joined UCF already having accomplished incredible feats \u2014 as

While at UCF, they helped secure patents, started nonprofits, coached and mentored other students, won athletics championships, taught as teaching assistants and advised university leadership. They worked to develop their own leadership skills within honor societies, the President\u2019s Leadership Council, Student Government, the President\u2019s Student Advisory Council, LEAD Scholars and a variety of other organizations and programs \u2014 including some they founded themselves. They also conducted, presented and published research on a wide range of subjects, including contributing toward advances in the research of Type 1 diabetes; the impacts of tourism; brain, colon and other cancers; mental health and suicide prevention; and solving the opioid crisis.<\/p>\n

They are among our brightest students \u2014 with collective GPA of 3.82 \u2014 and they are also some of our most compassionate. In addition to their roles and impact on our campuses, they have volunteered extensively within our community and beyond at food banks, shelters, clinics, schools, fire stations and other service organizations.<\/p>\n

They graduate UCF with plans for continued impact \u2014 as educators, researchers, health care providers, foreign policy analysts and, above all, humanitarians with the desire to make their communities and our world better.<\/p>\n

These students and their families will be honored during the Order of Pegasus induction ceremony, taking place during the Student Honors Convocation on April 6 in the Pegasus Ballroom of the UCF Student Union. Inductees receive commemorative medals and scholarships from Student Government. In addition, all honorees, past and present, are recognized on the Order of Pegasus wall in the Student Union.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s recipients are:<\/p>\n