Glendale native receives three awards from Marquette University

MILWAUKEE, WI (05/23/2013)(readMedia)-- MILWAUKEE – Alberto Rivero, son of Albert and Lisa Rivero, was honored with the Gold Medal Award from Marquette University's Helen Way Klingler College of Arts and Sciences. Rivero, of Glendale, Wis., graduated in May with a bachelor of arts in political science with a second major in classical languages.

The Gold Medal Award is given to the graduating senior or seniors with the highest cumulative grade point average. Of the many awards recognizing academic achievement by students in the College of Arts and Sciences, none speaks so clearly of the recipient's intelligence, commitment to studies, academic discipline and extraordinary passion to learn as the Gold Medal Award.

Rivero also received the Virgil C. Blum, S.J., Award from Marquette University's Department of Political Science, which recognizes outstanding academic achievement by a student in the department.

Rivero was also honored with the President's Latin Contest at the Advanced Level Award from Marquette University's Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. The National Classics Honorary Society, Eta Sigma Phi, honors students who have excelled in their study of Latin or ancient Greek at the university level and promotes local interest in the cultures and civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome. Marquette's Eta Sigma Phi chapter offers two prestigious cash awards every year to students who complete outstanding translations.

At Marquette, Rivero was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Sigma Nu, Relay for Life, Lutheran Campus Ministry and was a Hunger Clean-Up team leader. After graduation, Rivero plans on getting married this summer and then attending Harvard Law School.

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