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A career of investigation and groundbreaking discovery in maize genetics has helped Kelly Dawe, Distinguished Research Professor in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, reshape how researchers understand—and improve—a vital crop. Through the rich genetic diversity of corn, Dawe has unlocked pathways to long-sought breakthroughs with cross-scale impacts in genetics, cell biology and genome evolution. Our colleagues in Research…
Turner Clay Thompson is not your average college student. A fourth-year at the University of Georgia, Thompson is pursuing an ambitious academic trifecta: a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.S. in Mathematics with an emphasis in financial mathematics from Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and also a B.B.A. in Finance from Terry College of Business. Embodying the Franklin Spark—ambitious, curious, creative, and an innovative leader—Thompson…
This January, the Hugh Hodgson School of Music welcomes back one of its own. Caroline Leigh Halleck graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2017 with a Bachelor of Music in saxophone performance. Her time at UGA, including the Italy Music Study Abroad program, changed her direction toward where she is today.
Halleck described her study abroad experience as “So much fun; a bit messy. But also, that’s Italy! I had the opportunity to balance the saxophone…
Casey Nelson has been a Georgia Bulldog since birth.
Growing up a self-professed die-hard UGA fan, he attended home football games every weekend and has fond childhood memories of tailgating and running through North Campus throwing a frisbee. When the time came for college, it was a dream come true for him to accept a track and field scholarship at the school he’d always loved.
Fittingly, it was in Athens that another…
Liza Stepanova’s story begins with a find at a Russian antique store. The find was an antique 19th-century piano, complete with built-in candleholders and engravings of famous composers. The finder was Stepanova’s grandmother, a World War II survivor who loved piano but whose circumstances had not allowed her to pursue music.
Stepanova was instantly taken with the piano as a young child, and her family arranged for her to have lessons near…