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When people become data points: A Ph.D. candidate’s call for ethical guardrails in biotech and AI

Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Ph.D. candidate Blessing Temitope Adewuyi has built her academic journey around perseverance and faith. Raised in southwestern Nigeria, she became the first in her family to earn a college degree. In May, she will again make family history as the first to earn a Ph.D. Adewuyi’s work sits at the intersection of ethics, religion, and biomedical science. Focusing on bioethics, she examines how advances in…
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Where you’re from in how you speak: Franklin Ph.D. candidate Keiko Bridwell’s research on language and place

Ph.D. candidate Keiko Bridwell’s path to commencement at UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences began with a fascination for words and grew into a study of how language shapes identity. As a Ph.D. candidate in linguistics, she focused her research on Athens and neighboring Oconee County, exploring how communities separated by a river and a county line express who they are through speech. By analyzing vowel patterns and interviewing Georgia…
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Franklin senior Kennedy Ingram breaks ground in ocean science graduation milestone

“It’s the mystery of it,” says Kennedy Ingram about the ocean. “Knowing that over 80% of the ocean is still unexplored makes me feel like there’s so much left to discover.” In May, Ingram will graduate from the UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences with a B.S. in ocean science and a minor in ecology. She is one of the first two Black women to graduate from the program, and her academic path reflects Franklin’s emphasis on experiential and…
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The ampersand at work: How Caroline Moore found meaning in the spaces between disciplines

At the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, the ampersand symbolizes the generative nature of multidisciplinary education, where knowledge meets experiential learning, studio practice connects with research, theory, and application work side-by-side, and local inquiry and global engagement converge. Graduating senior Caroline Moore, majoring in art history with minors in studio art and English, is grateful for her Franklin experience…
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Following curiosity: How one Franklin senior turned passion into research

This story is part of Franklin’s celebration of its Class of 2026 graduates at the University of Georgia. For Gavin Wright (AB ’26, English), undergraduate research grew naturally out of a passion first sparked in high school: a love of reading, writing, and thinking deeply about literature. At UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, that early interest evolved into a sustained intellectual pursuit. “Studying English has been a way to…
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Communicating research through art and creativity

As the timer counted down 4 minutes and 33 seconds, presenters took the stage to share their integrative arts investigations. The presentations that unfolded went beyond standard explanations of an abstract and utilized creativity to captivate the audience.  The 2025 4’33” Competition featured a variety of presentations from poetry readings to immersive visuals. First place winner Younghyun Kim, Ph.D. student in Learning, Leadership, and…
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The collaborative power of poetry and photography in Andrew Zawacki’s Endscape

UGA professor explores a distressed landscape in new interdisciplinary collection This November Andrew Zawacki, Distinguished Research Professor in the department of English, published Endscape, a collection of his poetry and photography. The work appears in the inaugural edition of the P5 Photo Poetry Pamphlet series, directed by Photoworks.    Endscape began around 2019, born out of an interest in the landscape surrounding…
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