The Georgia Institute of Technology presented degrees to approximately 5,620 undergraduate and graduate students during the Institute’s 263rd Commencement Dec. 16–17, 2022.

Among the graduates were five students from Scottsdale: Timothy Fye, Vijay Nambi, Brian Suarez, Suhas Vittal and Jing Yu.

The Georgia Institute of Technology, or Georgia Tech, is one of the top public research universities in the United States, developing leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition.

The institute offers business, computing, design, engineering, liberal arts and sciences degrees. Its more than 45,000 undergraduate and graduate students, representing 50 states and more than 148 countries, study at the main campus in Atlanta, at campuses in France and China, and through distance and online learning.

Abby McDonald and Skyler Goodman, students from Scottsdale, were named to the 2022 fall semester dean’s list at Simmons University in Boston.

To qualify for dean’s list status, undergraduate students must obtain a grade point average of 3.5 or higher, based on 12 or more credit hours of work in classes using the letter grade system.

Located in the heart of Boston, Simmons is a private university offering more than 50 majors and programs for undergraduate women and graduate programs open to all on campus, in blended formats, or entirely online in nursing and health sciences, liberal arts, business, communications, social work, public health, and library and information science.