Three º£½ÇÂÛ̳ College of Business Administration students are among eight recipients of the 2020-2021 Julie A. Ard Undergraduate Award given by the Accounting and Financial Women's Alliance -º£½ÇÂÛ̳ Chapter.
The scholarship is awarded to students who are majoring in accounting or finance, have earned at least 60 semester hours, and have a cumulative college grade point average of at least 3.0 on a 4.0 scale. The scholarship is named for Ard, who died in office while serving as president of the º£½ÇÂÛ̳ chapter of the Accounting and Financial Women’s Alliance from 1982 to 1983.
The UNO scholarship winners are:
• Yasameen Mohsin, a junior from Jordan majoring in accounting.
• Olivia Pelias, a junior from Metairie, Louisiana majoring in finance.
• Jinjiao Wang, a senior from Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China majoring in accounting.
In 1970, Miriam G. Berdou, CPA, Dorothy M. Doose and Margaret E. Lauer, CPA established the Scholarship Trust of the º£½ÇÂÛ̳ chapter of the Accounting and Financial Women’s Alliance. The scholarship trust has been awarding scholarships to college students for over 40 years.