Hadiya Haq, of Atlanta has earned the Wayne S. Kell Award for Academic Achievement from Georgia State University. The award is given to the senior who has achieved the highest scholastic average for all course work taken at Georgia State.

Provost Nicolle Parsons-Pollard presented the award to Ms. Haq at the university’s 108th commencement exercises, held during May 2023.

Born and raised in Atlanta, Ms. Haq has always embodied a passion for knowledge and service. As a student in the Honors College, she worked in the lab of Dr. Timothy Denning at the Institute for Biomedical Sciences, gaining valuable research experience related to inflammatory bowel disease.

Throughout her college years, Ms. Haq remained actively involved in community service and served as the president of the American Chemical Society’s student-affiliated Chemistry Club, where she focused on university outreach. She also worked as a science communication intern in the Department of Biology.

Ms. Haq expresses immense appreciation for the unwavering support provided by her parents, two fellow Panther siblings (Haris and Khadija), lab colleagues and her mentor, Dr. Denning.

After graduation, she will be starting medical school at the Morehouse School of Medicine. She aspires to leverage her career as a physician to address health disparities within the state of Georgia.