{"id":266841,"date":"2025-05-21T09:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T13:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/?p=266841"},"modified":"2025-05-21T17:26:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T21:26:05","slug":"seven-umw-graduates-earn-perfect-4-0-gpas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2025\/05\/21\/seven-umw-graduates-earn-perfect-4-0-gpas\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven UMW Graduates Earn Perfect 4.0 GPAs"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the Class of 2025 graduates crossed the stage at the University of Mary Washington’s Commencement to the applause of faculty, staff, family and friends, seven students received top-of-class honors.<\/p>

Graduates Bonnie Butler, <\/span><\/span>Kathleen Conner, <\/span><\/span>Thomas Held, <\/span><\/span>Austin Moore, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Je<\/span>ssica <\/span>Oberlies, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Kelsey Payne and <\/span><\/span>Maria Werner <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>earned the Colgate W. Darden Jr. Award for Academic Achievement for completing their degrees with the highest grade-point average in the undergraduate program. All seven – the greatest number of grads earning this achievement in recent history – finished with a perfect 4.0 GPA, graduating summa cum laude, the highest academic distinction, and earning additional honors through their programs. Read their stories!<\/a><\/p>

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UMW Graduates (from L) Kelsey Payne, Maria Werner, Bonnie Butler, Jessica Oberlies, Thomas Held, Kathleen Conner and Austin Moore earned the Colgate W. Darden Jr. Award for Academic Achievement for completing their degrees with the highest grade-point average in the undergraduate program. Photo by Suzanne Carr Rossi. Click the photo to read their stories!<\/p><\/div>

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As the Class of 2025 graduates crossed the stage at the University of Mary Washington’s Commencement to the applause of faculty, staff, family and friends, seven students received top-of-class honors.Graduates Bonnie Butler, Kathleen Conner, Thomas Held, Austin Moore, Jessica Oberlies, Kelsey Payne and Maria Werner earned the Colgate W. Darden Jr. Award for Academic Achievement for completing their degrees with the highest grade-point average […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28638,"featured_media":266842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[26077,24222],"class_list":["post-266841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-whats-new-umw","tag-commencement-2025","tag-darden-award","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}