Priyanka Deo, a 21-year-old student at the University of Illinois Springfield who is studying pre-law and sociology, knows the importance of hard work.
And on Saturday, she got reinforcement of the payback for such work.
She was one of 50 Illinois college students who received a Lincoln Academy Student Laureate Award for their outstanding curricular and extracurricular work. The award is given to only one student at each of Illinois’ four-year, degree-granting colleges and universities, and Deo got the extra honor of addressing the crowd of dignitaries and students during the ceremony at the Old State Capitol.
Deo was featured in an November 8, 2009 article in the State Journal-Register.
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20091108-SJR-UIS-student-addresses.pdf
