June 13, 2022
Boren Awards names UGA a top-performing institution
With a record number of eight undergraduates selected as Boren Scholars this spring, the University of Georgia ranks third in the nation on the list of top-performing institutions for Boren Scholarships for 2022. These students will receive funding to study critical languages abroad in exchange for a year of federal service. UGA has had 89 […]
May 13, 2022
UGA’s Tejas Reddy named 2022 Udall Scholar
Tejas Reddy’s focus on coastal ecosystems has earned him a 2022 Udall Scholarship. The University of Georgia undergraduate is one of 55 students across the nation being recognized for leadership, public service and commitment to issues related to the environment. A third-year Honors student from Rome, Georgia, Reddy is majoring in ecology in the Odum […]
May 6, 2022
Student plans to change the world one policy at a time
Mennah Abdelwahab grew up in Bogart where she was one of the few Arab Americans in town. Her parents were raised in Egypt and her family is Muslim. She said that this, combined with growing up in a working-class family, gave her a unique perspective and made her want to help others and get involved […]
April 15, 2022
UGA’s Elise Karinshak named 2022 Goldwater Scholar
University of Georgia Honors student Elise Karinshak is among 417 undergraduates across the nation to be recognized as 2022 Barry Goldwater Scholars, earning the highest undergraduate award of its type for the fields of mathematics, engineering and the natural sciences. Karinshak, from Lawrenceville, is a third-year Foundation Fellow majoring in data science in the Franklin […]
March 9, 2022
R. Philip Bouchard: Oregon trailblazer, creating the classic 80s version of The Oregon Trail
If you played games on your grade school’s computer in the late ’80s and early ’90s, if you’ve ever traversed a river in an ox-drawn wagon, or if your avatar has ever died of dysentery, then there’s a good chance you’ve come across the work of R. Philip Bouchard. Bouchard BS ’76 is a lifelong […]
February 25, 2022
Foundation Fellow leads the way in research and policy
Priyanka Parikh wants to reimagine health care. The University of Georgia student is inspired, in part, by her work as national student coordinator for The Period Education Project, a physician-led organization that works to improve access to menstrual health education. “This is health care the way it should be done,” she said, explaining that one […]
February 18, 2022
An interest in AI led Nathan Safir to a job at Google
As Nathan Safir was finishing up his master’s in artificial intelligence at the University of Georgia, he had a big decision to make: Did he want to accept the Marshall Scholarship to pursue a Ph.D. in computer science in England or accept an offer to start work at Google this summer? Safir, a Foundation Fellow, […]
February 9, 2022
Claire Bunn named Gates Cambridge Scholar
University of Georgia senior Claire Bunn of Marion, Arkansas, will continue her studies in lung biology this fall as one of 23 Americans selected for the 2022 class of Gates Cambridge Scholars. The scholarship fully funds postgraduate study and research in any subject at the University of Cambridge in England. Bunn is UGA’s ninth Gates […]
October 1, 2021
Jere W. Morehead Honors College celebrates official naming
The dedication of the University of Georgia’s Jere W. Morehead Honors College was celebrated on Thursday, Sept. 30, with a ribbon-cutting on the steps of Moore Hall, facing Herty Field. The event was attended by current and emeriti trustees of the UGA Foundation, as well as the acting chancellor, former chancellor and several members of […]
