The National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition at the University of South Carolina selected Joshua Brown, a student assistant in First-Year and Transition Studies, as one of this year’s recipients of the Jordan Smith Undergraduate Fellowship Program.

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Brown was formally recognized on Feb. 13 at the 36th Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience in Atlanta. The fellowship program honors undergraduate students for their outstanding work on behalf of first-year students and for the impact their efforts have on the students and culture of their institutions. 

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Brown credits Nirmal Trivedi, director of First-Year Seminars and assistant professor of English, for this accomplishment. “Nirmal is a great person to be able to work with and learn from, and there's no way I would have been able to have received it without him,” said Brown.