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CONTENTS news and highlights
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Letter from the Dean
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Cover Story Bryan Davis
Newly minted accountant Bryan Davis is a multitasking violinist, choreographer and world traveler. Now he’s taking to a different stage as he works on a powerful financial ethics committee.
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Scholars for Tomorrow Jessica and Drew: Wormsloe
UGA’s first Wormsloe Fellows unearth information concerning Wormsloe, a pre-Revolutionary historic site and Georgia’s oldest tidewater plantation.
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Scholars Worth Watching Tyson Turner
A third-year medical student and UGA public health graduate student sheds new light on tuberculosis in Georgia.
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Where Are They Now? Bernice Cooper
She was the first woman to earn a doctorate at UGA in the 1950s. Bernice Cooper shares her story.
"Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. " — Samuel Johnson
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David Foster
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In Memoriam: Michael Johnson
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Harriet Fulbright
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Terry Coffey: Why I Give
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In Brief
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Last Word
Harvard Forest is a grand-scale experiment in land conservation. David Foster met with UGA graduate students to discuss his vision.
Graduate School news and notes
Caesar Dawgustus
Front Cover: The Accountant, a photo illustration of student Bryan Davis created in the style of Surrealist artist René Magritte, by Nancy Evelyn.
Graduate School Magazine
SUMMER 2009
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