Former NCCU scholarship recipient Cops three award at this year’s University of the Virgin Island (UVI) Academic Awards and Dean’s List Ceremony.

Joseph Joshua Williams, NCCU’s 2009 scholarship recipient for merit, and Dominica’s GNAT island scholar, received the faculty of Science and Mathematics Outstanding Student Award for Mathematics, at this year’s University of the Virgin Island’sAcademic Awards and Dean’s List Ceremony. At that ceremony on April 8th, 2018, he was also bestowed with two Dean’s List Awards.

One week later, this aspiring young man was inducted into the prestigious Golden Key International Honour Society, the world’s largest Collegiate Honour Society for the top 15 % of Junior, Sophomore and Senior students. His professors describe him as being “intelligent, creative and thoughtful, with a passion for science and mathematics, and whose positive presence and attitude on campus, benefits all those around him”.

It has not been all work for Joshua and involvement in extracurricular activities provided needed experience and motivation. These included:

• Tutoring Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics at the Centre for Student Success, a service that earned him a certificate for being the most trustworthy (reliable, timely and loyal) tutor in the Mathematics and Science Department.
• Playing soccer for UVI team
• Vice President: National Society of Black Engineers
• Student Researcher: Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) Peer-Led Team Learning Leader
• Worship team member and guitarist

This focused, dedicated and spiritually charged young man completes his undergraduate degree in Applied Mathematics in May.

Parents Joseph and Paula Williams are proud of their son’s achievements and continue to pray for God’s everlasting and abundant blessings upon him.

Joshua expresses deepest gratitude to the Management of NCCU for their valuable investment in his secondary education.