UGA Graduate School Honors 2019 Alumni of Distinction

Athens, Ga. – The University of Georgia Graduate School has honored ten graduates with the 2019 Alumni of Distinction Award for achieving exceptional success in their professional careers and in service to their community.

The Graduate School Alumni of Distinction Award was established in 2012 by the University of Georgia’s Graduate Education Advancement Board; the first recipients were named in 2013. Recipients have accomplished meritorious achievement and success in their professional field, exemplify themselves as a mentor and a role model in their profession, and have made substantive contributions to their professional field at the regional and national levels as evidenced … read more

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Ph.D. Candidate and NSF GRFP Fellow Maite Ghazaleh Bucher Shares Research in iBiology Research Talk

Maite Ghazaleh Bucher’s research on coral is helping us understand & monitor the health of coral. Healthy coral means support for marine life & protection for our shores from erosion. Listen to Maite’s presentation and learn what you can do to help these vital organisms survive!

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Doctoral Student Yang Liu receives Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Fellowship by NIH

Liu is in the College of Engineering and the first student in the College to win the competitive award. The fellowship provides $117,000 over three years to support Liu’s development of a microscope capable of revealing the most fundamental biological processes occurring inside living organisms. Read More

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UGA alumnus has one of the most cited research papers on record.

In a lab on the 7th floor of the Boyd Graduate Studies Research Center at UGA in the 1970s, Alumnus Marion Bradford created his legacy. A theory he pursued because he thought it would save scientists time in the laboratory turned part of his doctoral dissertation into one of the most cited scientific papers in history—and invented an analytic process that revolutionized biochemical research. Read more about this Georgia Groundbreaker.

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