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Great Grads: Spring 2020

Each spring, thousands of University of North Texas students earn their degrees and become UNT alumni. Every one of them should be tremendously proud of everything they've accomplished in their time in Denton.

In celebration of our Spring 2020 graduates, below are the stories of a few of those freshly-minted alumni who overcame adversity and achieved great things on their way to becoming this semester's Great Grads.

Jennifer Washam

Jennifer Washam

Interdisciplinary Studies EC-6 & ESL

In spring 2004, Jennifer Washam was a community college student when she received a phone call that changed her life.

Her boyfriend, U.S. Army Sergeant Joe Washam, had been badly burned in an explosion while on duty in Iraq. She finished her finals, but then put her education on hold while he recovered in San Antonio.

Joonyoung Lee

Joonyoung Lee

Sport Pedagogy and Motor Behavior

Joonyoung Lee is known as a leader, a mentor and an inspiration by his peers and faculty alike.

Nicole Ochotnicki

Julia Trotter

Julia Trotter

Interdisciplinary Studies EC-6 with ESL

Julia Trotter admits that not being able to have a graduation ceremony due to the COVID-19 pandemic was a blow.

“I wanted to walk across that stage and hear my family cheer my on,” Julia said.

Despite that, Julia said her time at UNT was meaningful to her.

Marianna Oller

Marianna L. Oller

Counseling

As a non-traditional student starting a Ph.D. program in her late 30s and coming from out of state, Marianna L. Oller said the sense of community fostered in the College of Education’s Counseling Program helped her find her “Texas family” at the University of North Texas.

Texas HIPPY COVID-19 Planning Grant

The COVID-19 pandemic has create a context in which both delivery of HIPPY home visits, support of families, support of home visitors, and work with the 11 HIPPY sites has changed. The pandemic response provides opportunity to examine what the Texas HIPPY State Office can do to support AmeriCorp members during times of disasters. This grant proposal responds to OneStar's COVID-19 Planning Grant call for proposals. In response to the current disaster and to support sites in response to other potential disasters, this proposal requests support for three planning activities.

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