Adelphi Names Outstanding First-Year Student for 2017-18

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. - April 20, 2018 - PRLog -- arissa Giuliano of Levittown, N.Y., is the recipient of the 2017–2018 Outstanding First-Year Student Award. Interim Provost and Executive Vice President Sam L Grogg, Ph.D., presented Carissa with the award, which included a plaque and a Barnes & Noble gift card.

A member of Adelphi's First-Year Living-Learning Community, Carissa has excelled as a physics major during her time at Adelphi. She hopes to become a physics teacher and supports this goal through her studies, as social media coordinator on the Physics Club's executive board -- where she created the club's first Twitter account -- and as a member of the Future Teachers Association Club.

Carissa also plays flute and piccolo in the Adelphi band and enjoys her part-time campus work as a theater technician. She is a graduate of MacArthur High School in Levittown.

Each spring, Adelphi's First-Year Experience Committee sponsors the Outstanding First-Year Student Award, which honors a student who has shown exceptional academic achievement, campus and/or community involvement and leadership strength. Carissa is one of more than 1,100 first-year students in the Class of 2021.

MacKenzie Banks, a political science major from Lubbock, Texas, received Honorable Mention honors. She is involved in the Gender and Sexuality Alliance and Black Students United groups on campus, and also is an e-board member on the Eddy Hall Council and the Resident Student Association. On hall council, she holds the role of public relations officer. Banks is a graduate of Lubbock High School.

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