UGA students, alumni receive 13 NSF Fellowships
Seven graduate students, six alumni receive competitive national award that recognizes emerging scientists and engineers.
Roberts-Galbraith receives McKnight Scholar Award
Roberts-Galbraith is the first UGA faculty member to receive the award
UGA faculty, alumni are 2019 ESA Fellows
Four UGA faculty members and alumni were among the Fellows chosen
Fausto Sarmiento receives 2019 Barry Bishop Career Award
Sarmiento has helped to reevaluate disciplinary and institutional approaches to sustainable development in mountain environments
James Affolter named to UGA’s Larry R. Beuchat Professorship
Affolter joined the CAES faculty in 1993
History professor awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
Georgia Athletic Association Professor in Humanities awarded John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
Ecological Society of America elects Beasley 2019 Fellow
Beasley is one of eight selected for the honor
Research Awards presented during Honors Week
40th annual Research Awards Banquet will be held Thursday, April 4
Ronald Pegg wakes up students with coffee, antioxidant research
Professor Ron Pegg awarded a 2019 UGA Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professorship
Ronald Simons receives SEC Faculty Achievement Award
Distinguished Research Professor Ronald L. Simons receives 2018 SEC Faculty Achievement Award
UGA programs move up in U.S. News rankings
Six UGA schools and colleges rose in U.S. News & World Report’s latest rankings
Graduate student’s research wins prize at conference
A science education graduate student recently won first prize for his research investigating the role race, gender and status play in classroom discussions.
Mallory Harris named UGA’s first Knight-Hennessy Scholar
Knight-Hennessy Scholars program funds graduate studies ranging from medicine to law to doctoral programs as well as joint- and dual-degrees.
Mallory Harris named UGA’s first Knight-Hennessy Scholar
Knight-Hennessy Scholars program funds graduate studies ranging from medicine to law to doctoral programs as well as joint- and dual-degrees.
UGA sea turtle research wins international recognition
UGA researchers have been recognized for their work that has spanned more than a thousand kilometers of coastline every nesting season.
Two UGA CAES faculty receive National Science Foundation CAREER grants
Two University of Georgia researchers have been awarded Faculty Early Career Development Program grants from the National Science Foundation.
UGA student joins new class of young science leaders
UGA ecology doctoral student David Vasquez was one of 40 science leaders chosen to be a fellow of the Yale Ciencia Academy for Career Development.
UGA professor recognized for early career work
UGA faculty member Katie Ehrlich is a recipient of the 2019 Association for Psychological Science Janet Taylor Spence Award.
UGA has strong showing at Georgia Bio Awards
UGA receives three awards recognizing people and programs either at or affiliated with the university.
Four faculty members named UGA Athletic Association Professors
The four endowments brings the total number of Athletic Association professorships to 37
UGA’s Swapnil Agrawal named a Schwarzman Scholar
Grad fellowship teaches next gen leaders about China’s role in global trends
Center for Food Safety faculty member receives Young Researcher Award
Award recognizes a researcher who demonstrates excellence in food safety in the early years of his or her career
SREL director receives wildlife research award
Award recognizes those who have distinguished themselves in applied research
Microscopic blue marble
Photo by Eric Formo
Eric Formo’s “Planet #1” won the grand prize in the 2017 Image Contest sponsored by Thermo Fisher Scientific. Formo, manager of UGA’s Georgia Electron Microscopy Lab, gathered micrometeorites—extraterrestrial dust particles, including fragments of comets and asteroids—from building rooftops in Athens. He identified micrometeorites in the 5-to-500-micron range via high-resolution imaging and elemental analysis, then verified authenticity based on their morphologies and elemental compositions. In “Planet #1,” the central microsphere has been colored to resemble an inhabited planet like Earth, although the surrounding smaller materials are the actual micrometeorites.
UGA recognizes 11 new CURO Honors Scholars
By Stephanie Schupska
The University of Georgia awarded 11 undergraduates from the incoming class of 2018-2019 with its CURO Honors Scholarship, the university’s top undergraduate research scholarship.
UGA’s Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities promotes faculty-mentored research opportunities for UGA’s undergraduates. Working closely with UGA faculty members, CURO Honors Scholars are able to conduct research in any field of study at the university.
CURO Honors Scholars receive $3,000 in annual funding renewable for up to four years; mentoring and community support; and special seminars, workshops, events and activities.
In addition to the CURO Honors Scholarship, the Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities offers a variety of research opportunities to all UGA undergraduate students without regard to major, discipline, GPA or Honors status. These offerings include the CURO Research Assistantship and the CURO Summer Fellowship as well as CURO research courses. All CURO students have the opportunity to present their research findings at the annual CURO Symposium.
Since the inception of CURO in the late 1990s, every UGA recipient of a nationally competitive major scholarship—such as the Rhodes, Marshall, Truman, Udall and Goldwater—has participated in CURO in some fashion.
The 11 new CURO Honors Scholars, listed below with their high school, hometown and majors, bring the current number on campus to 36.
- Ayah Abdelwahab; Georgia Cyber Academy; Bogart; international affairs.
- Mennah Abdelwahab; Georgia Cyber Academy; Bogart; international affairs and journalism.
- HaeYeun “Rachel” Byun; Duluth High School; Lawrenceville; biochemistry and molecular biology.
- Amber Combs; Chamblee Charter High School; Atlanta; film studies and computer science.
- Anthony Elengickal; Alpharetta High School; Alpharetta; biochemistry and molecular biology.
- Mary Kitchens; North Springs Charter High School; Atlanta; economics and international business.
- Megh Mehta; Oconee County High School; Bishop; genetics.
- Bianca Patel; Northview High School; Duluth; economics and psychology.
- Sydney Phillips; Chapel Hill High School; Douglasville; public relations and political science.
- Vanessa Sachs; Centennial High School; Roswell; biology and psychology.
- Olivia Silva; Woodward Academy; Peachtree City; cognitive science and music.
The CURO Honors Scholars are enrolled in the UGA Honors Program, which welcomed 745 new students this fall. Overall, these new Honors students had an average high school GPA of 4.11, an average SAT of 1510 and an average ACT of 33.7.
UGA researcher receives NIH New Innovator Award
Her new project explores whether stressful life experiences can have an immediate effect on children’s health