Congratulations to the Spring 2024 Dean’s Excellence Award winners

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L to R: Stacy Alonso, Juan Morales, Julissa Martinez, Safoura Eskandari, Zureya Balmas, Sloan Bruan Lorenzini, Shelly Sinclair, Rodnesha Dover

Fourteen students from the FIU Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work were chosen as recipients of the Spring 2024 Dean’s Excellence Award. The award recognizes students who have demonstrated outstanding academic achievement—having achieved a minimum of 3.5 GPA—but also provided service to the college, FIU and the greater community.

Nominations are submitted by faculty and then voted and selected by Tomás R. Guilarte, the dean of Stempel College. The recipients will be honored at a reception held after commencement on May 1, 2024.

To learn more about this semester’s recipients, check out our Instagram.

Here are the recipients of this semester’s Dean’s Excellence Awards:  

  • Ariana Castro
    Program: Bachelor in Dietetics and Nutrition

  • Stacy Alonso
    Program: Master in Dietetics and Nutrition
  • Zureya Balmas
    Program: Bachelor of Science in Social Work

  • Rodnesha Dover
    Program:
    Master of Social Work


  • Orlando Lopez
    Program: Master in Disaster Management
  • Amanda Guilmette
    Program: Online MPH
  • Shelly Sinclair
    Program:
    Master of Public Health, concentration Biostatistics
  • Julissa Martinez
    Program: Master of Public Health, concentration Biostatistics

  • Safoura Eskandari
    Program: Master of Public Health, concentration Epidemiology
  • Bushra Syed
    Program: Master of Public Health, concentration Environmental Health Sciences
  • Erika Barraza
    Program: Master of Public Health, concentration Environmental Health Sciences 
  • Juan Morales
    Program: PhD in Environmental Health Sciences

  • Haley Fonseca
    Program: PhD in Dietetics and Nutrition

  • Sloan Bruan Lorenzini
    Program: PhD in Social Work