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Three student entrepreneurs won top honors in the 2019 Hofstra-Digital Remedy Venture Challenge. The winning start-ups include a company that makes high-performance track spikes for female sprinters, the inventor of an organic eyebrow gel and a low-cost, accessible mobile platform to fight addiction. The contest, in its seventh year, awarded total prizes valued at $75,000 to help student entrepreneurs bankroll their start-ups. The Venture Challenge is sponsored by Digital Remedy, a digital marketing company, and run by Hofstra's Center for Entrepreneurship.

Four students have won national Gracie Awards for excellence in news programming for their work on campus radio station WRHU 88.7 FM, part of the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication. The prestigious honor, given annually by the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation, recognizes work by, for, or about women in television, radio, and online media on the national, local, and student level.

Bianca Nicole Saraniero, Class of 2019, was honored as Outstanding Senior Scholar at Hofstra University's Celebration of Scholarly Excellence on Friday, May 17. Bianca is a biology major who maintained a perfect grade point average of 4.0. throughout her studies at Hofstra.

Computer science major Kelly Rose '20 took second place in the Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) Student Poster competition at the 2019 WiCyS Conference in Pittsburgh.

Eleven students were named recipients of the 2019 Phi Beta Kappa Book (PBK) Awards, sponsored by the Provost's office and the Hofstra University Bookstore. Every fall, Hofstra's Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, one of only 286 in the nation, honors a small number of promising sophomores, juniors, and seniors who have attained a 4.0 GPA while taking a broad and rigorous coursework in the liberal arts and sciences.

Fourteen computer science students from Hofstra University received travel scholarships from Facebook to attend the Enigma '19 conference in California and participate in a one-day cybersecurity workshop at Facebook headquarters.

About 600 students earned their undergraduate, graduate, or law degrees at Hofstra University's midyear commencement ceremony on December 19, 2018 at the David S. Mack Sports and Exhibition Complex. Watch videos or check out photos from the ceremony at hofstra.edu/commencement.

Hofstra University congratulates the students named to the Fall 2018 Dean's List for their outstanding academic achievement. Students must earn a grade point average of at least 3.5 during the semester to make the Dean's List.

Hofstra University is proud to announce the Fall 2018 Provost's List, which recognizes students who have earned a perfect 4.0 grade point average.

Five students, representing the arts, social sciences and the natural sciences, are the inaugural recipients of the Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Transformative Learning Grant. The financial support that these students receive will subsidize the expense of research projects, commuting to New York City for internships and community service experiences, and the cost of study abroad programs.

Rishab Bhatnagar, a senior majoring in Japanese and pre-health studies, was one of nine students from around the country to advance to the finals of the recent J.LIVE Talk competition at George Washington University in Washington, DC. J.LIVE - Japanese Learning Inspired Vision and Engagement - is a national college-level language speech competition that emphasizes a comprehensive range of communication skills. Bhatnagar gave a presentation similar to a TED talk on cultural appropriation as it pertains to kimonos, and under what circumstances it is appropriate public attire for people outside of Japanese society.

Gurkamal Dadra '21, an anthropology major from Bellmore, NY, is one of 844 American undergraduate students from 335 colleges and universities across the United States selected to receive the prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to study or intern abroad during the spring of 2019. The Congressionally-funded scholarship will allow Dadra to study in Kyrgyzstan through a University of Montana program during the summer of 2019.

Seniors from 23 departments and a variety of interdisciplinary programs were recognized for outstanding achievement Academic Excellence Awards presented by Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (HCLAS. Nominated by their chairpersons and professors, 35 of the 42 student honorees were present to receive their award, which included a certificate and a $100 gift. After the ceremony in the Student Center Theater, the celebration moved to the Multipurpose Room.

Two Hofstra University computer science students were on a team that took first place in the JPMorgan Chase Code for Good competition hosted in Tampa, Florida this month. The competition is an opportunity for students to work in teams alongside JP Morgan's coders to solve a technical challenge faced by one of two non-profit clients at the event.

The Advanced Summer Program in Research (ASPiRe) at Hofstra University offers undergraduate engineering and computer science students the opportunity to work for ten weeks over the summer with faculty mentors on research related to their major.

Hofstra University's Honors College aims to enrich the college experience of its students and looks forward to the many ways they will contribute as HU World Changers. Welcome to the HUHC community!

Hofstra University is excited to welcome the newest members of the Pride. We look forward to seeing how they will make a positive impact in their communities as HU World Changers!

About 2,000 Hofstra University students earned their undergraduate, graduate, or law degrees during commencement ceremonies on May 20-21, 2018 at the David S. Mack Sports and Exhibition Complex. Watch videos or check out photos from the various ceremonies at hofstra.edu/commencement.

The spectacular work of the Hofstra student-athletes in the classroom continued during the spring semester as not only did the group of more than 300 Pride athletes compile a school-record 3.27 grade point average but 116 of them were named to either the Provost's or Dean's List for their extraordinary work.

Hofstra University's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa inducted 40 students on May 2, 2018. Phi Beta Kappa is considered an emblem of high achievement and strong potential. The society celebrates and advocates excellence in the liberal arts and sciences. Its campus chapters invite for induction the most outstanding arts and sciences students at America's leading colleges and universities.

Three students from the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication have won a total of four national Gracie Awards for excellence in news programming for their work on campus radio station WRHU 88.7 FM .

A group of 23 Hofstra University students were inducted into the Mu Kappa Chapter of Gamma Theta Upsilon (GTU), the international honor society for geography students.

Hofstra University congratulates the students named to the Spring 2018 Dean's List for their outstanding academic achievement. Students must earn a grade point average of at least 3.5 during the semester to make the Dean's List.

Hofstra University is proud to announce the Spring 2018 Provost's List, which recognizes students who have earned a perfect 4.0 grade point average.

Two Hofstra students were commissioned by Facebook to design a cyberdefense computer platform that was used for a national competition to test the skills of high school and middle school students interested in cybersecurity.

Hofstra mathematics faculty and students welcomed close to 200 peers from across the region and showed off research and presentation skills when they hosted the annual meeting of the Metropolitan New York Section of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA).

The History Department honored student achievement when it inducted 15 students into Phi Alpha Theta on May 2.

A team of Hofstra University chemistry students placed first at the 18th annual Chemistry Challenge on April 27 at Queensborough Community College (QCC).

The Philosophy Department inducted 19 students into Phi Sigma Tau, the philosophy student honor society and held its annual Philosophy Student Conference. Philosophy students at all levels of study made presentations.

Tia Di Salvo, a junior public relations major in the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication, was awarded a 2018 New York Women in Communications, Inc. scholarship, which was given on the basis of academic excellence, leadership qualities, need, and a demonstrated commitment to the communication industry.