Dear GEMELA Members,

With great excitement and pleasure, the Executive Board of GEMELA would like to announce the

winners of the GEMELA Awards 2022. This is the first time our Association has extended this recognition

to the top scholarship amongst our members. We received numerous excellent entries for each

category, and the jurors enthusiastically decided in favor of the winners and honorable mentions here

announced. It is an honor to formally acknowledge the outstanding scholarship of all those that were

nominated, and especially of those named here. The Executive Board would also like to thank the jurors

who diligently took the task at hand and arduously worked to reach their deliberations. Just as a note,

the selection of honorable mentions was left to the discretion of each jury committee. We will hold an

awards ceremony with the distribution of certificates during our GEMELA 2022 Biennial Conference in

Valencia, Spain.

Thank you to all who nominated or self-nominated their work. This is the first of what we hope will be a

biennial event for the Association. Congratulations to the winners!

Best wishes,

Rosilie Hernández

GEMELA, President

Associate Dean for Student Academic Affairs

University of Illinois, Chicago