The College of Professional Studies Distinguished Scholar Awards recognize the undergraduate and graduate students who best demonstrate the college’s core competencies of strategic thinking, communication, collaboration, leadership, and ethics.
The 2024 Graduate Distinguished Scholar recipient, Casey Aimer, is a graduating student in the Publishing M.P.S. program. He also holds a master's degree in Poetry from Texas State University along with a bachelor’s degree in Prose from Texas A&M University. He works for Science Advances in D.C. publishing high-impact open-access science research articles focused on sociology, organic chemistry, and physical and material sciences. He founded Radon Journal, an award-winning progressive science fiction publisher of prose and poetry. An accomplished spoken word and page poet, he is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association and is completing his first full-length speculative poetry book.
For more information about his student journey in the Publishing program, check out his Alumni Profile on the G-Word Publishing blog.