2016 Goldwater Scholar – Cali Callaway (Fellows Class of 2017) Two Foundation Fellows received 2016 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships, the premier undergraduate scholarship in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences, and engineering. Since 1995, 51 UGA students have received the award. Cali Callaway is majoring in biology with a concentration in neuroscience and pursuing a combined master’s degree in artificial intelligence. After graduation, she aims to earn a medical degree and to pursue a career conducting research in regenerative bioscience. She has spent extensive time in a laboratory through UGA’s Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities, working with Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar Steven Stice, director of the UGA Regenerative Bioscience Center, as well as during an intensive summer research experience at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology. Cali also interned at Hocoma AG, the world’s largest producer of robotic rehabilitation devices located in Zurich, Switzerland, and at the Shepherd Spinal Center’s Spinal Cord Injury Lab in Atlanta. She serves as president of UGA Mathcounts, a student organization that mentors middle school students in math skills, and vice president of the Blue Key Honor Society, among other activities.
2016 Goldwater Scholar – Morrison Nolan (Fellows Class of 2017) Morrison Nolan is majoring in geology and chemistry and plans to pursue a PhD in invertebrate paleontology on a path to a career teaching and researching as a professor or museum curator. He also has conducted research through CURO, studying alongside Sally Walker, a professor of geology and marine sciences. In addition, he participated in paleontology field studies of Cretaceous deposits in Hell Creek, Montana, through the University of Washington’s paleontological field methods course and interned at a fiber optic company through the Technology Association of Georgia. Morrison co-founded UGA’s Science Olympiad Outreach and is secretary of the UGA Geology Club, a student affiliate of the American Chemical Society and a member of the Geological Society of America and the Georgia Mineral Society
Foundation Fellows & R a m se y Honor s S chol ar s A nnual R ep ort
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