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In honor of Graduation Appreciation Week, UNM’s Graduate and Professional Students Association will be recognizing graduate students for their work at the university. Jee Hwang Jee Hwang is a Ph.D candidate in economics with a focus on environmental & natural resource economics and econometrics. His dissertation looks at wildlife watchers and their preferences, and at different ways to estimate the benefits of recreation. Jee grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and received his B.S. and M.S. from East Carolina University. He works as a graduate consultant at the UNM Graduate Resource Center and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center on Health Policy, to provide graduate students support on academic writing and statistical analysis. Jee also serves as GPSA Court of Review Associate Justice and has previously served as a GPSA representative. Jee has also worked with the Project for New Mexico Graduates of Color as a peer mentor and continues to volunteer in other ways on campus. Timothy Jacori Greer Timothy Jacori Greer is originally from Dallas, Texas, but has lived in Albuquerque for five years. Greer said that as a child he had a calling with people, whether it was helping a friend achieve success in sports and school, or just donating his time to the less fortunate. “I always knew that in the career that I would choose, I would be a giver and a helper,” Greer said. As a college football player here for the University, Greer said that he has learned and seen the importance of teamwork and how important it is to persevere through challenges. He is currently in the sports administration program where he said he hopes to achieve a masters degree and help educate the youth. “It is my belief that sports can directly help a child learn concepts and lessons that cannot be replicated otherwise,” Greer said. Greer is a graduate assistant for the Lobos football team. He is also the vice president of student athlete affairs. He said that his overall goal is, after a long and successful coaching career, to retire and become a principal to help young people, like so many people have helped him.