Foundation Fellows Annual Report, 2017-2018

University of Georgia

Foundation Fellows & Ramsey Honors Scholars

2017-2018 Annual Report

Hoda Kotb, co-anchor of NBC News’ TODAY, welcomes firstyear Foundation Fellows to New York in March during a segment of the TODAY show.

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CONTENTS Endowed and Named Fellows . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Letters from the President, Chairperson, and Director . . . 3 Overview of the Scholarships . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 National and International Recognition . . . . . . . . . 8 Faculty Mentors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Academic Enrichment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Experiential Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 > Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 > Conference and Research Grants . . . . . . . . . 28 > Research Presentations and Publications . . . . . . 30 > Internships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 > Civic Engagement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Global Outlook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 > Individual Travel-Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 > Group Travel-Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 • Costa Rica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 • Morocco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 • Vietnam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 • New York and Washington, D.C. . . . . . . . . . 66 • University of Oxford Maymester . . . . . . . . 68 • Ramsey Service Trip to San Francisco . . . . . . 72 Lisa Ann Coole Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Foundation Fellows Class of 2018 . . . . . . . . . . 79 Foundation Fellows by Class Year . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Ramsey Honors Scholars Class of 2018 . . . . . . . . 100 Ramsey Honors Scholars by Class Year . . . . . . . . 102 Foundation Fellows Alumni . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Ramsey Honors Scholars Alumni . . . . . . . . . . 113

Endowed and Named Fellowships Philip Alston Fellows Jessica Zeling Ho ’19 Jon Mallory McRae III ’20 Eugene Black Fellows Manav Cherian Mathews ’21 Stephanie Alexandra Stewart ’19 Carlyle Fraser Fellows Rebecca L. Buechler ’20 Laurel Hiatt ’19 Brian Jay Woolfolk ’21 Vera Milner Fellows Mackenzie Rose Joy ’20 Divine Chukwumelie Ogbuefi ’19 Winship Nunnally Fellows Dwain Paul Chambers ’19 Joshua Edward Kenway ’18 Martha Nunnally Fellow Kalvis Erik Golde ’18 Bernard Ramsey Endowed Fellows Swapnil Agrawal ’19 Asim Ahmed ’21 Avni Sheel Ahuja ’20 Rachael Folakemi Akinola ’19 Ashley Uchenna Amukamara ’19 Kerri Ellen Andre ’18 Zoë Lorene Andrews ’21 Nitin Sai Prasad Ankisetty ’21 McKenna Aliya Barney ’20 Phaidra S. Buchanan ’21 Michael Logan Campbell ’18 Maria Isabella Ceron ’19 Katherine Fredrica Christie ’21 Trisha Dalapati ’19 Tarun Daniel ’19 Brianna Renee English ’18 Arden Anne Farr ’21 Steven W. Feng ’19 Montgomery Lloyd Fischer ’20 Shreya Ganeshan ’18 Nicole Marie Googe ’20 John Miles Hall ’18 Mallory Jessica Harris ’18 Nina Grace Howard ’21 Nirav Ilango ’19 Satya Amritsai Jella ’21 Rachel Ann Kelley ’18 Anderson Kunho Kim ’21 John Gabriel Kolb ’20 Zoe Yan Li ’19 Mallika Madhusudan ’18 Emily Kathleen Maloney ’18

Samia Montese McEachin ’18 Reilly Ayres Megee ’18 Isabel Bailey Palmer ’18 Jessica K. Pasquarello ’19 Kyle Pishunjay Patel ’21 John Michael Rawlings ’19 Nina P. Reddy ’20 Fiachra Eileen Rottinghaus ’21 Margaret Grace Russo ’20 Ruth Anne Schade ’19 Andrew Dunivin Schmitt ’20 Caroline Laura Shearer ’19 Mollie Rose Simon ’18 Taylor Bradley Smith ’18 Angela Lily Tsao ’21 Emma Grace Tucker ’21 Anthony J. VanDieren ’21 Avery Elise Warner ’21 Abigail Elizabeth West ’19 Matthias Stephen Wilder ’18 Elizabeth Francina Wilkes ’18 Ashley Henehan Willard ’19 Victoria Ayse Yonter ’18 Rachel Janeyee Yuan ’21 Lilian Lin Zhu ’18 John White Ramsey Fellow Aditya Krishnaswamy ’20

Penny W. and E. Roe Stamps IV Foundation Fellows Lorin Janae Crear ’18 Thomas Andrew Desoutter ’18 Madison Caroline Dill ’18 Claire Martha Drosos ’20 Zakiyya Nzinga Ellington ’21 Guy Darrell Eroh ’19 Victoria Christine Fonzi ’21 Divya Ghoshal ’21 Emma Marie Goldsmith ’20 Griffin Scott Hamstead ’20 Hammad Ahmed Khalid ’17 Christina Corrine Lee ’19 Nicolas Leis ’20 Jessica Yan Ma ’20 Kavi Pandian ’19 Tarun Neel Ramesh ’21 Isabelle Olivia Riddle ’21 Ashley Elizabeth Reed ’19 Sierra K. Runnels ’18 Elijah Hunter Scott ’18 Aditya Sood ’19 Samuel Jackson Tingle ’18 Charlotte and Claude Williams Fellow Carver Lowell Harris Goodhue ’18

OUR MISSION:

The Foundation Fellows program fosters a community of scholars and leaders by providing intellectual, cultural, and service opportunities in an environment conducive to learning and personal growth through shared knowledge and experiences.

FOUNDATION FELLOWS TRUSTEE COMMITTEE MEMBERS Kathryn L. Ash, Chair

Charlotte, North Carolina

Allison Ausband Atlanta, Georgia

Christopher W. Brown Washington, D.C.

Elizabeth W. Camp Atlanta, Georgia

Victor E. Corrigan Atlanta, Georgia

Richard W. Courts IV Atlanta, Georgia

Emily Dunlap Lawson Gainesville, Georgia

Stanley W. Shelton

Boston, Massachusetts

Stephen W. Smith Atlanta, Georgia

Larry D. Thompson Sea Island, Georgia

Scott D. Pegan, Ex-Officio, Voting Watkinsville, Georgia

Bonney S. Shuman, Ex-Officio, Voting Saint Simons Island, Georgia

John Michael Lewis, Ex-Officio, Non-Voting Athens, Georgia

Pamela Whitten, Ex-Officio, Non-Voting Athens, Georgia

Charles E. Knox, Advisory Augusta, Georgia

FOUNDATION FELLOWS PROGRAM STAFF David S. Williams

Associate Provost & Director

Jessica B. Hunt

Major Scholarships Coordinator

Emily L. Myers Shirley Program Administrator

Margaret O. Middleton Graduate Assistant

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Letters FROM THE PRESIDENT As one of the leading public research institutions in the nation, the University of Georgia provides students access to world-renowned faculty who are breaking new ground in a wide range of fields, from bioinformatics to international affairs. Our students engage in learning experiences both inside and outside of the classroom that challenge them academically and equip them to make a tangible difference in the world. The Foundation Fellows Program combines these universal qualities of a UGA education with additional resources that enable students to pursue their passions in even deeper, more impactful ways. As the reputation of the program has grown nationally, Foundation Fellows and Ramsey Scholars continue to share in common an intellectual curiosity and a spirit of camaraderie that make this scholarship program unique. I have enjoyed working closely with these exceptional students during my career, and I remain a strong supporter of the Foundation Fellowship as President.

Jere W. Morehead, President University of Georgia

FROM THE CHAIRPERSON As we welcome a new class of Foundation Fellows and Ramsey Scholars, we are reminded of the incredible capacity of these tremendously talented and diverse students. Whatever their interests, past history tells us that after making significant contributions at UGA, these scholars will move on to earn the country’s most prestigious scholarships, be admitted to top graduate programs, and become leaders in local, national, and global forums addressing the most critical needs of our time. The University of Georgia Foundation is proud to support these outstanding students and is convinced that the Foundation Fellowship is the best program of its kind in the country.

Kathryn L. Ash, Chairperson Foundation Fellows Committee, University of Georgia Foundation

FROM THE DIRECTOR Foundation Fellows and Ramsey Scholars are truly extraordinary individuals with an exciting array of talents and abilities. Collectively, their sustained commitment to service and concern for others makes a very positive impact both on and well beyond our campus.

I consider it a privilege to know these exceptional students and to work with them on a daily basis. As a program, we are grateful that these students annually receive such strong support from our administration, the University of Georgia Foundation, the dedicated staff and faculty members of the University of Georgia, our alumni, and our many friends and supporters.

David S. Williams, Associate Provost and Director Honors and Foundation Fellows Programs

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CULTIVATING EXCELLENCE 6 Scholarship Overview 7 Estimated Attendance Costs 8 International Recognition 9 National Recognition 14 Faculty Mentors

Zoe Li, Swapnil Agrawal, Mallika Madhusudan, Griffin Hamstead, and Logan Campbell gather in front of Moore College before a Foundation Fellows dinner.

Overview

Foundation Fellowship and Ramsey Honors Scholarship T

he UGA Honors Program administers the university’s top academic scholarships—the Foundation Fellowship, UGA’s premier academic scholarship, and the Ramsey Honors Scholarship, one of the highest merit-based awards.

The Foundation Fellowship was created in 1972 by UGA Foundation trustees to enrich the educational experience of outstanding undergraduates. Fellows receive an annual stipend, research and academic conference grants, and individual travelstudy grants. Fellows participate in a post first-year Maymester at the University of Oxford, and spring group travel-study.

The Ramsey Honors Scholarship was created in 2000 by UGA Foundation trustees under the name of the university’s most generous individual benefactor, the late Bernard Ramsey (BS ’37). Ramsey Scholars are selected through the Foundation Fellowship application process and receive an annual stipend and travel-study grants and participate in domestic spring break service trips.

Fellows and Ramseys enjoy mentoring from professors who have matched interests, peer mentoring, dinner seminars and book discussions with faculty, cultural events, group travel, the Fellows Library in Moore College, and off-campus retreats that promote a sense of community.

2017-2018 statistics

In the 2017-2018 academic year, 23 first-year Foundation Fellows, 14 Ramsey Scholars, and four Mid-Term Foundation Fellows joined the program, bringing the total numbers to 92 Fellows and 35 Ramsey Scholars.

New Foundation Fellows for 2017-2018 had an average SAT of 1513 (math and verbal only) and an average ACT of 34.8.

Their high school grade point average was 4.33 on a 4.0 scale, which indicates extra points for Advanced Placement courses.

New Ramsey Scholars for 2017-2018 had an average SAT of 1538 (math and verbal only) and an average ACT of 35.1. Their high school grade point average was 4.35 on a 4.0 scale.

Benefits of both scholarships

• Special seminars and book discussions with UGA and visiting professors • Faculty, peer, and alumni mentoring • Twice-a-year off-campus retreats • Participation in a community of scholars who stimulate each other’s intellectual and personal development

Foundation Fellowship benefits

2017-2018 Program Overview

23 first-year Fellows

average scores:

1538 SAT 35.1 ACT 4.35 GPA 6

average scores:

1513 SAT 34.8 ACT 4.33 GPA

14 first-year Ramseys

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• Annual stipend for in-state students: $12,000 plus the Zell Miller Scholarship (currently $9,552 per year) • Annual stipend for out-of-state students: $19,760 plus an outof-state tuition waiver (currently $18,574 per year) • First-year housing supplement of $600 • Three fully funded spring travel-study programs (first through third years, valued at $9,900). Recently, Fellows have traveled to Morocco, South Korea, Bali, Japan, Tanzania, Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Vietnam • Fully funded summer study abroad program to Oxford immediately following the first year (valued at $8,500) • Individual travel-study grants up to a cumulative total of $9,000 (related to academic and professional goals, can be combined with semester stipends for travel-study for semester or academic year) • Research and academic conference grants up to a cumulative total of $1,750 * See page 7 for 2018-2019 stipend amounts

Ramsey Scholar benefits

• Annual stipend for in-state Ramseys: $6,000 plus the Zell Miller Scholarship (currently $9,552 per year) • Annual stipend for out-of-state Ramseys: $9,880 plus an outof-state tuition waiver (worth $18,574 per year) • A separate travel-study grant of $3,000 (related to academic and professional goals, can be combined with semester stipends for study overseas for a full semester or academic year) • First-year housing supplement of $600 • Four funded spring service-learning trips. In recent years, Ramseys have traveled to San Francisco, Seattle, Austin, New Orleans, Miami, Charleston, and Asheville * See page 7 for 2018-2019 stipend amounts

2017-2018 Estimated Cost of Attendance • Full Academic Year u

Georgia Resident

Fellows

Ramseys

Non-FFR

Myers Hall rent (double room)

$6,264

$6,264

$6,264

7-day Meal Plan

$3,956

$3,956

$3,956

Tuition & Fees

$11,818

$11,818

$11,818

Zell Miller Tuition Scholarship

-$9,552

-$9,552

-$9,552

-$12,000

-$6,000

$—

First-Year FFR Housing Supplement

-$600

-$600

$—

Balance to be paid by student:

-$114

$5,886

$12,486

Fellows

Ramseys

Non-FFR

Myers Hall rent (double room)

$6,264

$6,264

$6,264

7-day Meal Plan

$3,956

$3,956

$3,956

$30,286

$30,286

$30,286

Out-of-State Tuition Waver

-$18,574

-$18,574

$—

FFR Stipend

-$19,760

-$9,880

$—

-$600

-$600

$—

$1,572

$11,452

$40,506

FFR Stipend

u

Non-Georgia Resident

Tuition & Fees

First-Year FFR Housing Supplement Balance to be paid by student:

u Fellows and Ramseys can bring in external scholarships (for example, National Merit, Coca-Cola, Rotary) on top of their FFR and Zell Miller stipends. uu For 2018-2019, the stipend amounts are as follows:

• In-State Foundation Fellow: $12,300 (plus Zell Miller Scholarship)

• Out-of-State Foundation Fellow: $20,300 (plus out-of-state tuition waiver)

• In-State Ramsey Scholar: $6,160 (plus Zell Miller Scholarship)

• Out-of-State Ramsey Scholar: $10,160 (plus out-of-state tuition waiver)

• First-year FFR receive a housing supplement ($614 for in-state students, $1,228 for out-of-state students).

Sources: Myers Hall dorm rates, UGA meal plan rates, UGA tuition and fees.

Fellow Sebastian Puerta and Ramseys Grant Mercer and Vineet Raman study for finals in the Fellows Library.

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International Recognition

Schwarzman Scholar

Gabrielle Pierre F

oundation Fellow alumna Gaby Pierre is transitioning from being a UGA graduate student living among the 123,371 residents of Athens-Clarke County to being a Schwarzman Scholar tucked into the middle of the 21.7 million people living in Beijing.

At 6,490 square miles—528 in its urban center—and three millennia of history, Beijing holds the title as the world’s most populous capital city. There, the creators of the Schwarzman Scholars program work to prepare the next generation of global leaders. In their words, “the success of future leaders around the world will depend upon an understanding of China’s role in global trends.”

Gaby—along with CURO Honors Scholar Elizabeth Hardister—is among the 142 students hoping to gain a deeper understanding of China as the third cohort of Schwarzman Scholars (Foundation Fellow alumna Torre Lavelle was a Schwarzman Scholar in the inaugural 2016 class). Each group is selected to maximize the international component. This year, scholars hail from 39 countries and 97 universities and were selected from a pool of 4,042 international candidates.

Scholars live in and attend classes taught in English in Schwarzman College and complete a fully funded yearlong Master in Global Affairs, specializing in public policy, economics and business, or international studies.

Gaby will enter Tsinghua University as a Double Dawg— she earned a bachelor’s in environmental engineering in May 2017 and just completed her master’s in environmental planning and design. She will learn more about city growth, development, and public policy in China.

She is working toward becoming an international city planner specialized in developing countries and emerging economies and is wading into new territory: Gaby’s career as an international city planner “doesn’t really exist in a very structured manner,” she said. Her desire to gain a fuller understanding of her field led her to apply for the Schwarzman Scholars program.

“I knew that I wanted to be an international city planner,” Gaby said, “and what I realized was that I am not fluent in being able to defend policy ideas. Schwarzman has this interesting degree in public policy, and the more I looked into it, the more I thought it would be really complementary to what I had already done academically and professionally.”

Gaby has been studying abroad her entire college career.

Originally from Kingston, Jamaica, she applied to UGA on the recommendation of friends and with the assistance of the Foundation Fellowship. During college, she also worked abroad, first as a design intern for the Kalu Yala Institute in Tres Brazos Valley, Panama, and then as an urban planning consultant for the municipality of Taşköprü, Turkey.

“What I’m most excited about is seeing firsthand how China goes about building and populating cities,” Gaby said.

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National Recognition

Truman Scholar

Laurel Hiatt T

he University of Georgia’s Laurel Hiatt was one of 59 undergraduates from across the nation to be named a 2018 Truman Scholar, a highly competitive graduate scholarship program for aspiring public service leaders in the U.S. Truman Scholars receive $30,000 toward graduate school and have the opportunity to participate in professional development to help prepare them for careers in public service leadership.

Laurel is UGA’s 21st Truman Scholar. A third-year Honors student and Foundation Fellow from Dahlonega majoring in biochemistry and molecular biology and Spanish, Laurel plans to obtain an MD/ PhD in medical genetics and biochemistry and pursue a career at the forefront of clinical research, with a focus on transgender healthcare.

Laurel’s public service and civic activities include training a service dog through the Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind, creating new training modules as director of the Lambda Alliance Speakers’ Bureau, writing and editing content for financial advocacy nonprofit Wealthy Habits, tutoring middle schoolers through UGA MATHCOUNTS, and participating in Free the Girls at UGA, which provides jobs for survivors of human trafficking.

“Laurel is certainly among the brightest students I have ever met and is very successful academically,” said David S. Williams, associate provost and director of UGA’s Honors Program and UGA’s faculty representative for the Truman Scholarship. “But what really stands out to me is how Laurel seems also to be always busy giving back through a wide range of service activities. Laurel is destined to continue making a very positive difference in the lives of others.”

In addition to public service, Laurel is an undergraduate researcher in public health and biochemistry; has served in leadership roles for the National Alliance on Mental Illness on Campus UGA, Dungeons and Dragons at UGA, and Science Olympiad Outreach; and works with the UGA LGBT Resource Center and

Active Minds at UGA. This year, Laurel also presented at the Georgia Public Health Association’s annual conference and judged at the state Georgia Science and Engineering Fair.

Laurel is currently managing editor for Ampersand Magazine and was assistant culture editor and a staff writer for the Red & Black. Laurel’s other accolades include being named to the Dean William Tate Honor Society, presenting at the UGA Connect Conference, participating in Camp Pride, and being named to Sigma Delta Pi. Fluent in Spanish, Laurel also

participated in a study abroad homestay in Costa Rica.

The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation was created by Congress in 1975 to be the nation’s living memorial to President Harry S. Truman. Annually, candidates for the Truman Scholarship go through a rigorous, multi-stage selection process. This year, 756 candidates were nominated by 311 colleges and universities, yielding 194 finalists. The 59 Truman Scholars were selected in early April and received their awards at the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum in May.

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National Recognition

Three named 2018 Goldwater Scholars U ndergraduates Trisha Dalapati, Guy Eroh, and Stephan George were among 211 students from across the nation to be recognized as Barry Goldwater Scholars, earning the highest undergraduate award of its type for the fields of the natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering.

Georgia institutions had a total of six Goldwater Scholars.

UGA had the highest number with three and was joined by Berry College, Emory University, and Spelman College, which had one scholar each.

Trisha, a junior from Roswell, is majoring in anthropology and biochemistry and molecular biology and working toward a master’s degree in comparative biomedical sciences. Guy, a junior from Portland, Oregon, is majoring in ecology and earning a master’s degree in forest resources (read more about Guy, also a 2018 Udall Scholar, on page 12). Stephan, a sophomore from Lawrenceville, is majoring in biochemistry and

Trisha Dalapati Trisha plans to obtain an MD/PhD in infectious diseases after graduating from UGA. As a translational medicine researcher, she intends to investigate disease pathogenesis to create diagnostic tools for vulnerable groups such as pregnant women and children.

She currently conducts cell and tissue culture work with Julie Moore, formerly a professor of infectious diseases and associate vice president for research at UGA, in Moore’s placental malaria lab (Moore recently moved to the University of Florida). Trisha also analyzes data remotely with Moses Batwala of the University of Oxford Nuffield Department of Women’s & Reproductive Health.

Trisha is a Foundation Fellow, director of the Lunchbox Garden Project, a committee chair for Model UN, and a member of the Honors Program Student Council, Palladia Women’s Honor Society, and Omicron Delta Kappa.

Trisha received the best poster award at the Emory STEM Symposium in 2017 and is a senior dancer in the Bharatanatyam style of Indian classical dance.

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molecular biology, genetics, and biology with a concentration in neuroscience.

Since 1995, 56 UGA students have received the Goldwater Scholarship, all members of the Honors Program, and this year, all Foundation Fellows.

The scholarship recognizes exceptional sophomores and juniors across the nation. This year, awardees were selected from a field of 1,280 undergraduates and were nominated by campus representatives from among 2,000 colleges and universities. They will receive up to $7,500 toward the cost of tuition, fees, books, room, and board.

The scholarship honoring Sen. Barry Goldwater was designed to encourage outstanding students to pursue careers in the fields of mathematics, natural sciences, and engineering.

Since its first award in 1989, the Foundation has bestowed 8,132 scholarships worth approximately $65 million.

Stephan George After earning a doctorate in biochemistry, Stephan plans to devote his career to uncovering the link between genetic abnormalities and the development of neurological disorders to improve therapeutic outcomes for children with hereditary neurological disorders.

He works with professor and Georgia Cancer Coalition Scholar Lance Wells’ laboratory, focusing on the causal linkages between aberrant glycosylation patterns and hereditary disorders. He also conducts research on aflatoxin B1 with assistant professor Brian Kvitko.

Stephan is a Foundation Fellow, was a CURO Honors Scholar, president of UGA’s iGEM Research Team and the Biochemistry Undergraduate Society, co-president of the UGA STEM Research Alliance, exam director for Science Olympiad Outreach, founding member and treasurer of the pre-health group HOSA at UGA, and a member of the Dean William Tate Honor Society. He has received the Red Cross Service Award and helped refurbish an HIV/ AIDS clinic during an IMPACT Service Break in Memphis, Tennessee.

Ruth Schade, Goldwater Honorable Mention Ruth Schade, a Foundation Fellow from Marlborough, Massachusetts, was among 281 Goldwater nominees named as honorable mentions. She is working toward combined bachelor’s and master’s degrees in nutritional sciences and plans to pursue a PhD in immunology.

Ruth is a researcher in Claire de La Serre’s gastrointestinal neurophysiology lab, which studies the effects of the gut microbiome on the gastrointestinal tract and nervous, immune, and endocrine systems as part of the UGA Department of Foods and Nutrition. She spent 10 weeks in summer 2017 working in the Ölschläger enterobacteria lab as a DAAD RISE intern in Germany. She has presented locally, nationally, and internationally. This past summer, she conducted research in Uganda (photo at right) with Fellow alumna Christina Faust.

Her UGA involvement includes treasurer of the Graduate Student Organization, head of the nutrition curriculum committee for Health for Kids, cellist in three string quartets for the Chamber Music Society, writer for Spoon University, community service coordinator and member of the student leadership board for Christus Victor Lutheran Church.

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National Recognition

Goldwater & Udall Scholar

Guy Eroh Guy Eroh has a particular passion for fish, and his focus on the sustainability of these aquatic animals has earned him national recognition as a 2018 Udall Scholar.

He was one of 50 undergraduates from across the nation and U.S. territories selected for the scholarship awarded to sophomores and juniors on the basis of their commitment to careers in the environment, Native healthcare, or Tribal public policy.

UGA has had 17 Udall Scholars—all Honors students—since the scholarship was first awarded in 1996.

Guy, from Portland, Oregon, is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in ecology and a master’s degree in forest resources. He intends to earn a doctorate in biological science with an emphasis in molecular genetics and fisheries science, with the long-term goal of improving the recovery and sustainability of the world’s fish populations and their habitats. Through the application of novel, relevant scientific information and technologies, Guy hopes to revolutionize the way fish populations and their ecosystems are managed. He is preparing for a career specific to fish conservation as a researcher for a university or government agency.

Guy is president of 5 Rivers UGA and has been a member of Trout Unlimited, Upper Oconee Watershed Network, UGA Ocean Initiative, Georgia chapter of the Society for Conservation Biology, and Georgia and Oregon chapters of the American Fisheries Society.

He conducts research with UGA faculty Cecil Jennings, Robert Bringolf, and Jean Williams-Woodward to maximize hatch success of walleye eggs. Guy also interned for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources and the Center for Environment, Fisheries, and Aquaculture Science in the UK. His awards include the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Wildlife Leadership Award, Stamps Foundation Scholarship, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, and Xi Sigma Pi Forestry Honor Society. Guy runs competitively with the UGA Club Cross Country Team and is a SCUBAcertified diver. He studied abroad through UGA programs in Costa Rica and Oxford, England.

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Abigail West, Udall Honorable Mention UGA junior Abigail West was one of 50 students nationwide to receive an honorable mention from the Udall Foundation. A Foundation Fellow from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, she eventually plans to pursue a master’s degree in fine arts after working at artist-in-residency programs focused on sustainability, specifically regarding waste, consumption, and consumerism.

Abigail is the executive director of Bag the Bag, a campus organization that aims to reduce single-use plastics and promote sustainable alternatives. Over the past year, she wrote a proposal supporting a plastic bag ban in AthensClarke County, which has since been adopted by local organization Athens for Everyone. She spent three months in summer 2017 working in the Lingara Photography Community in Bali as an intern. During her time there, she researched the Balinese waste management system and learned how local artists reacted to the ongoing plastic crisis of the island.

Her UGA involvement includes president of Bag the Bag, material reuse intern for the UGA Office of Sustainability, environmental initiative co-founder of the Athens for Everyone Green Athens initiative, featured artist in the Athens Home for Discarded Objects, and organizer of Athens area highway and river cleanups.

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Fulbright U.S. Student Program

Rachel Kelley (South Korea) & Lilian Zhu (Brazil) Rachel Kelley has developed an appreciation for world cultures through studying abroad in Oxford, Paris, Bali, and South Korea.

She graduated in May with a degree in international affairs and minors in French and Korean. In July, she returned to South Korea as an English teaching assistant through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. In addition to teaching in South Korea, Rachel is conducting research on foreign policy toward North Korea with contacts she has made within the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other agencies.

Before leaving for South Korea, Rachel worked at South Carolina-based Girlology and completed her TEFL certification.

Rachel has conducted research on South Korean nuclear policy at KAIST, a public research facility in Daejeon, South Korea. In 2017, she collaborated with the International Center at the Carl Vinson Institute of Government on a research project about U.S.-North Korea policy.

Rachel plans to attend graduate school for international affairs, focusing on policy administration and East Asia affairs. Her career plans include working with businesses and organizations to establish new divisions abroad or working as a government analyst or Foreign Service officer.

Lilian Zhu is spending her Fulbright year in Brazil, teaching English at a federal university. She plans to volunteer with a women’s rights group.

She graduated in May with degrees in Romance languages and Latin American and Caribbean studies.

While at UGA, Lilian was a liaison to Pamela Whitten, former UGA Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost. Lilian was also a volunteer project coordinator for a Brazilian childcare center; tutored for the nonprofit Paper Airplanes, which provides language instruction to university-eligible students displaced by the Syrian refugee crisis; and worked with her Brazilian language partner on his English.

While studying abroad last fall in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Lilian— along with Fellow Samia McEachin—joined the local Ultimate Frisbee team 12 Monos, which qualified for the 2017 Pan American Ultimate Club Championships, held in Cañuelas, Argentina (read more about Lilian’s Ultimate adventure on page 89). She also spent a summer in an immersive language program in Brazil, polishing her Portuguese.

Sponsored by the Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lilian researched the country’s role in East Asia this past summer. She then interned with Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottom’s Office of Immigrant Affairs. She plans to attend graduate school for international affairs and is considering a career as a Foreign Service officer.

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Emily Maloney Conducting research using mathematical and computational methods has been the hallmark of Emily Maloney’s four years at UGA. This spring, she was one of 2,000 students chosen from 12,000 applicants for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, which supports graduate study in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Emily graduated with degrees in sociology and cognitive science in May. During her freshman and sophomore years, Emily investigated how Head Start shapes outcomes for the children and families enrolled in the preschool program. She conducted a number of policy programs through the Roosevelt Institute and Carl Vinson Institute of Government on the topics of sex education, teacher turnover rates, and enrollment at Georgia’s rural colleges and universities. She also studied in Antarctica and at the University of Oxford.

Emily then worked in the Laboratory for the Study of Social Interaction, coding thermal imaging data and studying experimental methods. She developed a research project using status characteristics theory to argue the practice of tracking in school sorts students into status groups that motivates cheating behavior. This year, she researched the effect of sexual harassment policies on gender beliefs.

Her Honors thesis was an analysis of committee assignments in the Georgia House of Representatives to determine if polarization drives assignments on the basis of representative partisanship levels. Emily also worked on a University of Notre Dame project probing the relationship between extracurricular participation and cognitive and socio-emotional outcomes in elementary school.

Emily started her PhD in sociology at Duke University this fall. Her planned NSF project will use organization and social psychological theories to determine how science, technology, engineering, and math magnet programs assign STEM identities to students and the effects this could have on the racial and gender gaps observed in STEM fields.

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Faculty Mentors

Mallory Harris and Aditya Krishnaswamy discuss their research with Dr. John Drake, right, in front of the Odum School of Ecology.

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Mentoring the future

Faculty provide motivation, guidance

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rom the moment Fellows and Ramseys arrive at UGA, they build meaningful relationships with professors and administrators across campus and across disciplines, contributing to their development as scholars, researchers, and global citizens.

Sierra Runnels ’18 “I first got to know Dr. Maryann Gallagher (Department of International Affairs) when, in her Women in World Politics course, she helped me craft my first piece of independent research on the sexual violence used in three recent West African civil wars. I was proud of what I had produced and eager to work with her again, so she recommended I take a CURO research course with her in which we would collaborate to complete a thorough review of the literature on sexual violence in war. Dr. Gallagher struck the perfect balance between allowing me the freedom of conducting an independent research project while still providing consistent guidance and expertise on both the content and research process itself. Above all, Dr. Gallagher engages with her students as adults and intellectual peers in a way

that is uncommonly rewarding. I came away from each of our meetings with a renewed sense of excitement about our work and the validation that comes from feeling supported and valued in genuine academic effort.”

Christina Lee ’19 “I met Jacquelyn Kibbe (Department of Dance) through a Foundation Fellow alumnus who took an interest in my career aspirations.

I had struggled to find a place on campus—whether in class, student jobs, or extracurriculars—where I could learn and develop the niche skills I wanted. I needed independence but also guidance.

Upon first meeting Jacquelyn, I knew I had found someone willing to offer me both. As the sole technical director for the Dance Department, she keeps an extremely busy schedule, but she never fails to make time for me. When I discussed the possibility of designing and producing my own interactive experience in the New Dance Theatre, one of the most technically advanced student spaces on campus, she did not hesitate. Despite the plethora of expensive equipment in the theatre, she gives me free reign to learn and try new things with her simple

philosophy in mind: ‘I won’t be mad if you break something. This is all here so students like you can learn.’ She never fails to make herself available to answer questions and help me work through the various problems I face as I develop my interactive experience. She has provided me with invaluable practical knowledge and the hands-on learning I had been searching for.”

Reilly Megee ’18 “Working with John Weatherford (New Media Institute) in photography, digital literacy, and capstone courses showed me at his core he believed in two things: technological innovation and advancement of his students. Constantly pushing us to think outside of predetermined boundaries, he is the first to ask, “What next?” I met John in my second year of college and began working with him on projects during my third. From launching an app in the Apple Store for Georgia Football—an app downloaded by one in every two UGA students—to diving into the professional journeys of designers, to creating an academic journal from the ground up, John has always been there motivating and advocating for me.”

Drake Lab: Fellows get early start in disease outbreak modeling

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oundation Fellows Aditya Krishnaswamy and Mallory Harris are part of the team at the forefront of the disease ecology discussion, thanks to their involvement in John Drake’s lab.

Drake, a distinguished research professor and associate dean for academic affairs in the Odum School of Ecology, also directs UGA’s Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases. The center seeks a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding the causes for the emergence and spread of infectious diseases, and the best ways to manage those disorders. Aditya sums up the center’s pursuits as “research at the intersection of public health, infectious diseases, and mathematical modeling.”

Mallory, who graduated in May with degrees in computational biology and mathematics and is a 2017 Goldwater Scholar, found her research focus as a sophomore when she began working on a project in the Drake Lab to obtain CURO credit.

“With three projects and more than two years, Dr. Drake’s mentorship has been central to my time at UGA,” Mallory said.

Like Mallory, Aditya came to UGA with ambitious research plans but no clear path directing how to best use his interests in mathematics, statistics, and public health. After taking part in a dinner seminar led by Drake, Aditya found his academic home.

“Within a week of attending the dinner seminar, I had dropped my pre-med intention and joined the Drake Lab,” he

said. Aditya, who’s majoring in mathematics and statistics, has been entrenched in the lab for the last several semesters, learning how to make predictions about future infectious disease risks through algorithms that provide the best calculations for the emergence of an outbreak event.

“While the research is fairly complex, Dr. Drake encourages us to understand the mechanisms underlying our research and stresses the importance of communication and collaboration among lab members and people in general,” Aditya said.

The interdisciplinary collaborations Drake stresses have helped Aditya, who has connected with other professors, most notably Grace Bagwell-Adams in the College of Public Health.

“I am thankful to have met mentors who have invested in my education and introduced me to the opportunities available at the intersection of science data and public health,” he said.

Mallory concluded that, “Even as he achieves national recognition for his research work, Dr. Drake continues efforts to pull underrepresented groups into the sciences through his REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) program and tries to make science more accessible to all audiences. His boundless enthusiasm for science, along with the positive and supportive environment of his lab, made me confident about my decision to pursue a research career.”

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Steven Feng, left, and Zoe Li promote the UGA Chamber Music Society at a tabling event outside of the Tate Student Center.

Both are pianists and serve on the executive board.

Divya Ghoshal plays in the snow that blanketed campus in mid-January.

ACADEMIC ENRICHMENT 18 Honors Program 19 CURO 20 Dual Degrees 21 Seminars and Socials Lilian Zhu plays in an Ultimate Frisbee match at the intramural fields.

First-year Fellows Brian Woolfolk and Rachel Yuan gather in Jessica Hunt’s office for a chat.

Jessica Ma dances at the Botanical Gardens.

Honors Program

Highlights of the UGA Honors Program

Fellows and Ramseys find variety of benefits in Honors Program

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mong the on-campus benefits provided to Fellows and Ramseys is access to Honors Program staff members, among which is the major scholarships coordinator, who provides important counsel for a variety of pursuits, including drafting personal statements, resumes, and cover letters for job, scholarship, and postgraduate study applications.

The UGA Honors Program is one of the oldest and most respected in the country. It provides its 2,500 undergraduates with the resources to make the most of their higher education experience—including 300 Honors classes a year with an average class size of 17 students, expert advice from Honors and faculty advisors, independent research opportunities, mentoring, internships, lunchbox lectures and book discussions with faculty, and the Myers Hall residential community.

The Honors Program affords numerous opportunities for local, national, and global civic engagement and career development, including internship placements in Washington, D.C., New York, and Savannah; the Corsair Society, which mentors undergraduates pursuing banking and finance careers; the Honors Program Student Council; UGA MATHCOUNTS; the Association of Women in Science; and the Thomas Lay After School Tutoring Program.

Through the Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities (CURO), students work with faculty on projects that reach beyond classroom learning, giving them important research-related experience needed for graduate or professional schools. Housed in the Honors Program, CURO is open to all UGA undergraduates interested in pursuing research ranging from the humanities to social sciences to traditional STEM disciplines.

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Through CURO, the Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities, students work with faculty on projects that allow them to reach beyond classroom learning and give them important research-related experience to demonstrate their passion to admissions staff at graduate or professional schools. Undergraduate research opportunities abound across the curriculum, from laboratory and social sciences to humanities and fine arts.

Ashley Amukamara researches burying beetles—specifically the species Nicrophorus orbicollis and N. vespilloides—with Dr. Allen Moore, associate dean for research and professor of entomology in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

Dual Degrees

Sierra Runnels chose degrees in international affairs and public health (with a concentration in disaster management) and is finishing her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in four-and-a-half years.

From undergrad to graduate school

Fellows fast-track degrees through Double Dawgs

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oint bachelor’s and master’s degree programs allow UGA students to both diversify and specialize their training and knowledge. In the past, these joint programs were open only to Honors students, allowing them to pursue a curriculum leading to combined bachelor’s/master’s degrees in four to five years. Now, through UGA’s Double Dawgs program, all undergraduates at the University of Georgia have the opportunity to earn both a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in five years or less.

Sierra Runnels ’18 — Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs, Master of Public Health in Disaster Management “Throughout my four years at UGA, I have been both a devoted SPIA major (School of Public and International Affairs) and determinedly pre-med. At every juncture, I tried to use my studies to bridge the gap between the social and natural sciences, taking courses such as multicultural healthcare, literature and medicine, and biomedical ethics. But it wasn’t until the summer before my third year that I found what felt like that critical connection between policy creation and clinical practice: public health.

“When I first began to explore the idea of adding public health to my studies, I was halfway through college with semesters to fill and a desire to fill them with something

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meaningful and relevant. I poked around the College of Public Health’s website until all my demands coalesced in the emerging field of disaster management. I fiddled with my four-year plan until I was sure I could do it, and I decided to go all in for the master’s. In fall 2016, I took my first course in disaster management, and I’ve never looked back.

“The field of public health fundamentally captures the multidisciplinarity I have always sought, combining scientific disciplines from nuclear physics to organizational sociology.

But more than that, entering the field of disaster management has become a truly immersive experience. Because the field is so new—and because disasters aren’t—there is incredible demand for trained disaster management professionals and equally incredible energy to meet it. Through UGA’s MPH in disaster management, I have accumulated many of the field’s core training experiences from FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) and the National Disaster Life Support Foundation. I earned my Amateur Radio Technician license and am interning with the Athens-Clarke County Fire Department to draft their continuity of operations plan to maintain their essential functions in case of a disaster or other disruption to the county’s fire services. The field’s energy has been infectious, and thanks to the ability to pursue a dual degree, I am well on my way to helping meet its needs.”

Seminars and Socials

The art of connecting

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he Foundation Fellowship sponsors attendance at campus conferences and lectures and a wide range of cultural and social events throughout the year—including improv and pottery workshops; movie nights at Athens Ciné; productions at UGA’s Performing Arts Center, Town & Gown Theatre, and Canopy Aerial Dance Studio; UGA Ballroom Magic; dinner at the UGA Press; Big/Little mentoring dinners; and class breakfasts. Faculty from departments across campus, industry leaders, visiting scholars, and alumni lead dinner seminars, book discussions, networking events, and workshops for Fellows and Ramseys.

Top photo: Fellows and Ramseys attend a dinner at UGA President Jere W. Morehead’s house.

Left column, top to bottom: 1) Guy Eroh prepares to strike again; 2) Maddie Dill, center, is crowned UGA’s 2018 homecoming queen while her father Don and UGA President Jere W. Morehead look on; 3) Brianna English performs with the UGA Red Hotz dance team at a basketball game; and 4) first-year Fellows and Ramseys Tarun Ramesh, Teddy Vincent, Emma Tucker, and Arden Farr explain the UGA Transit system.

Right column, top to bottom: 1) Fola Akinola practices weaving; 2) second-year Fellows and Ramseys gather for breakfast at Big City Bread; and 3) Ramsey Hannah Huang and Fellow Zakiyya Ellington run for the roses.

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Katie Luedecke checks for chemical reactions for a research project she is working on with Dr. Greg Robinson, right, a UGA Foundation professor in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.

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Matthias Wilder finishes an assignment during finals week in the Fellows Library.

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Seniors highlight impact of research experiences

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s a major research institution, the University of Georgia encourages undergraduates to participate in research with faculty in all academic disciplines. From their first moments on campus, Foundation Fellows and Ramsey Scholars are introduced to top-tier faculty who can direct them to people and projects that complement their interests. With funding from the Fellowship, many students also pursue research opportunities off campus at institutions in the U.S. and abroad.

These experiences bring classroom subjects to life, confer practical skills, and guide students toward the next steps in their academic and professional careers.

Matthias Wilder, FF ’18—Computer Science, English, Mathematics “As a student of computer science, English, and mathematics, I am caught at an intersection of disciplines thought too disparate to be reconciled. When I was pointed in the direction of Prof.

Pablo Gervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and his work in automated story generation, I reached out to ask if I might work with him. Two months later, I was in Madrid, Spain, working on an independent research project on character evolution modeling.

“I spent my time at la Universidad Complutense tracking discrete characterization shifts in Shakespearean plays, developing and revising potential computational models, and talking with Prof. Gervás and his colleagues about their work on various aspects of story generation. Prof. Gervás allowed me to control the progression of my investigation while providing inspiration and insight into promising directions of study. Following my initial interest in the problem of character evolution, he introduced me to the belief-desire-intention model of intelligent agents and Stanislavsky’s Method of Actions for dramatic performance, which became the twin backbones of my theoretical framework. I eventually proposed a model of characters as sets of interdependent beliefs and desires and a Stanislavsky-inspired system for how changes to those elements might be effected computationally and reflected textually for a story generation system.

“The project eventually led me to further insights into artificial intelligence and literary theory. My paper was accepted for the C3GI conference hosted that year in Madrid. A small conference, I presented my paper to a mix of European researchers all in some way related to the field of computational creativity. There I discovered interdisciplinary projects that combined computation and science with every art form imaginable from music to film.

While I am not certain of my long-term future in research, I am continuing my investigations independently at UGA and planning to build a generator that works with my model. In whatever future I end up in, I hope to be able to demonstrate the strange beauty of computer-generated literature.”

Victoria Yonter, FF ’18—Economics, Mathematics “I came into college loving math and debate, but it wasn’t until I got involved in economics research that I saw these two passions come together as something I wanted to do as a career.

Through CURO, I was able to further explore the disparities in education, specifically those that rural areas face, a topic I am both interested in academically and personally affected by.

Hearing the experiences of older Fellows and having the support of the Fellowship empowered me to take on an independent research project. With the guidance of my research mentor,

Dr. Josh Kinsler (associate professor, Department of Economics), a prolific publisher in the economics of education, I learned how to navigate the census bureau site and state-level and federal-level departments of education sites. The data collection and coding skills I developed will follow me for years.

“As a student also interested in poverty policy, I worked with Dr. Travis Smith (assistant professor, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics) to examine variations in SNAP program implementation across different states. Building upon methods I learned from an econometrics class and the techniques I had used previously in research, I studied the effects of SNAP implementation on educational outcomes by utilizing fixedeffects models and exploiting border counties. Because of these experiences, I have found a new love for economics and am excited about pursuing a PhD in the field.”

Evan Knox, RS ’18—Mathematics, Physics, Psychology, Statistics “Not so dissimilarly from past Foundation Fellows and Ramsey Scholars, I’ve had both the onus and the privilege of being able to change my mind as to my future path an effectively uncountable number of times. When I entered the University of Georgia, I intended to major in psychology and physics and focus on quantitative ways of doing psychology and neuropsychology research. I am fortunate to have chosen a university that, despite being in my hometown, has allowed for bountiful opportunities to experience otherwise unlikely situations and has been key to my altered and then rediscovered purposes in a career, in my education, and in life.

“A high school research experience at UGA with Dr. Alan Stewart (professor, Department of Counseling and Human Development Services) trained me in interview-based social science research methodologies, gave me experience in the writing and revision process for research articles, and ultimately led to my becoming published. I discovered both that I enjoyed the social sciences enough to study them as a primary focus and that I would be most interested in something more biologically based—neuroscience.

“I joined Dr. L. Stephen Miller’s lab for two years, completing an Honors thesis and leading individual research projects concerning education’s protective effects on cognitive function in older adults. Beyond individual projects, Dr. Miller (professor and department head, Department of Psychology) specifically pushed for undergraduates to be involved in critiques of the lab’s conference presentations and encouraged mentoring relationships with graduate students, which collectively created a model for how to operate in lab environments as a graduate student and (hopefully) professor.

“This past semester, my group from a quality assurance statistics class was given the opportunity to study and attempt to optimize food collection procedures at a campus-run soup kitchen. Since statistics’ best traits come out in the myriad ways in which difficult situations may be corrected for and modeled, such real-world situations are ideal whetstones for our classacquired skills. In fact, the statistics department takes this idea one step further by requiring a capstone course wherein all participants assist in data analysis of ongoing research projects inside or outside the university.

“Thanks to the openings into experiential learning provided at UGA, I’ll know when I receive my PhD that being a Bulldawg is what walked me up to that stage.”

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Bailey Palmer hikes in Kenya during a research trip focused on rural development economics.

Bailey Palmer, FF ’18—Arabic, Economics “I did not enter college wanting to be an economist, but getting involved with economics professors at UGA convinced me to make economic research my career.

After gaining experience in foreign policy and intelligence, I wanted to work to address issues affecting developing countries more directly. Development economics seemed like the perfect combination of my interests.

“As a research assistant with Dr. Laura Zimmermann (assistant professor, Department of Economics), I studied tax reform in India. Wanting more experience in the field, I worked with Dr. Nicholas Magnan (associate professor, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics), who focuses on rural development economics, as a research assistant and later a field assistant on a randomized control trial studying demand for index-based drought insurance in Kenya. I created a data-based game that simulates index insurance to help farmers understand how drought insurance works, and I traveled to Kenya to determine whether an experiential learning intervention increases demand for the insurance product. The research team conducting the study partnered with an organization called the World Agroforestry Centre, an NGO that studies and supports advances in farming and agroforestry in developing countries.

“Returning from Kenya, I wanted to combine my new experience in rural development and agricultural markets with my previous background in conflict and security studies. I wrote a senior thesis, advised by Dr. Zimmermann, examining the effect of droughts on the tempo and

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severity of al Shabaab attacks in Somalia.

This was the first time I conducted my own research from start to finish. It was hard work, but it convinced me that I would be happy doing economic research for a lifetime. Toward this goal, I plan to earn a PhD in economics, and before I apply to graduate programs, I’ll be a paid research assistant working for an economics professor at Princeton University.”

Emily Maloney, FF ’18—Cognitive Science, Sociology “The cornerstone of my undergraduate career has been the research I have done in the areas of education, policy, sociology, and network analysis, through which I have integrated my interests and found an intellectual home to situate myself within academia. Many of these research projects would not have been feasible without the institutional and financial support of the Fellowship and the invaluable mentorship and unending patience of UGA professors.

“I approached my First Year Odyssey Seminar professor, Dr. Stacey NeuharthPritchett (professor and associate dean for academic programs, College of Education), because I was interested in conducting research on the subject of the class: federal programs intended to alleviate the educational achievement gap in early childhood. Spring semester that year was punctuated with visits to her office and the Athens Early Learning Center, where the local Head Start program is based, working on a project that investigated how the bureaucratic practices of Head Start shape outcomes for the families and children enrolled in the preschool program. We presented our results to the local Head Start center and at a few conferences

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for home engagement specialists, communicating the implications to the actors it implicates.

“The following year, I delved into education policy research through the Roosevelt Institute at UGA and the Carl Vinson Institute of Government. Under the guidance of Dr. Linda Renzulli (now a professor and head of the Department of Sociology at Purdue University), I conducted policy analysis on the issue of teacher turnover in Georgia public schools serving underprivileged and minority communities. Additionally, I worked with Mathew Hauer (applied demographer, Carl Vinson Institute of Government) analyzing data on declining enrollment at rural Georgia universities and developing policy suggestions for the University System of Georgia’s Board of Regents.

“After adding a sociology major, I joined the Laboratory for the Study of Social Interaction and have worked on and off as an undergraduate researcher in the lab, running experiments and coding data on projects investigating status, emotions, and identity. With the support of Dr. Justine Tinkler (associate professor, Department of Sociology), I designed an experiment piloted in the lab earlier this year that uses status characteristics theory to argue that the practice of tracking in schools sorts students into status groups that incentivize cheating behavior. I took a class with Dr. Dawn Robinson (professor, Department of Sociology) on social network analysis, through which I designed and executed a research project using network methods to investigate the effect of polarization on committee assignment in state Houses of Representatives. This project is the basis for my Honors thesis, and I presented it at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in Montreal this past summer as part of the ASA Honors Program.

“Most recently, I used the research grant from the Foundation Fellowship to spend the summer at the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Research in Educational Opportunity. I worked with Dr. William Carbonaro on a project studying the relationship between extracurricular participation and cognitive and socioemotional outcomes in elementary school. We are preparing a manuscript to submit to journals and conferences.

“Through these research projects at UGA, I have asked the questions most important to me and begun to find answers that may ultimately change policy.

Thanks to these experiences, I embarked on a PhD in sociology to continue asking questions about interactions and institutions that result in inequality.”

Caroline Shearer cradles a North Island brown kiwi during an ornithology travel-study trip to New Zealand. Kiwis, she said, are notable for many reasons, but “one interesting fact is that they are the only bird in the world with nostrils at the end of their bill! Their feathers also have a unique shape which almost resembles hair.”

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Chip Chambers dissects DNA in the darkroom as part of his research in the Terns Lab in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Fellows and Ramseys further their research interests through presentations, publications, and conferences

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omestic and international conferences introduce Fellows and Ramseys to academic communities near and far and add to their professional development. Guided by their research mentors, students learn to communicate their research findings through presentations and publications. Fellows attend professional and academic conferences and extra-university courses with funding from the Fellowship.

Research and Conference Grants, 2017-2018 Ashley Amukamara American Psychological Association Conference, San Francisco, California; United States Conference on AIDS, Washington, D.C.; Connect Conference, Athens, Georgia; Reacting to the Past Winter Conference, Athens, Georgia; Georgia Public Health Association Annual Conference, Jekyll Island, Georgia; Reacting to the Past Annual Faculty Institute, New York, New York Zoë Andrews Georgia Real Estate PreLicense Course, Atlanta, Georgia

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Rebecca Buechler King Arthur Flour Baking Class, Norwich, Vermont Lorin Crear Annual State of the Public’s Health Conference, Athens, Georgia Trisha Dalapati Experimental Biology, San Diego, California; Emory STEM Research and Career Symposium, Atlanta, Georgia; Southeastern Medical Scientist Symposium, Atlanta, Georgia Arden Farr Working in Public Interest Law

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Conference, Athens, Georgia; American Mock World Health Organization International Conference, Atlanta, Georgia Shreya Ganeshan Second ASHRAE Developing Economies Conference, India; MIT Energy Conference, Boston, Massachusetts Jack Hall Annual SEC CFO Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri; College Sport Research Institute Conference, Columbia, South Carolina Griffin Hamstead Citizens’ Climate Lobby Conference, Washington, D.C.

Mallory Harris Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease Meeting at the University of CaliforniaSanta Barbara, Santa Barbara, California; Population Biology of Vector-Borne Disease Conference, Athens, Georgia Laurel Hiatt Connect Conference, Athens, Georgia; UGA Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Symposium, Athens, Georgia; Georgia Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Conference, Jekyll Island, Georgia; LGBT Health Workforce Conference, New York, New York

Emma Hope Western Medical Research Conference, Carmel, California Nirav Ilango American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado Mackenzie Joy American Astronomical Society 232nd Meeting, Denver, Colorado; American Physical Society Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics, Jacksonville, Florida; NASA Laboratory Astrophysics Workshop, Athens, Georgia Rachel Kelley International Conference on Nuclear Nonproliferation, South Korea Josh Kenway MIT Energy Conference, Boston, Massachusetts Aditya Krishnaswamy Citizens Climate Lobby Advanced Climate Policy Bootcamp, Washington, D.C.; Southern Data Science Conference, Atlanta, Georgia;

Hyde Park Leadership Summit, New York, New York; Greenville Community Health Summit, Greenville, South Carolina

Sierra Runnels Association of Health Care Journalists Conference, Phoenix, Arizona

Hayes Way MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, Boston, Massachusetts

Zoe Li Georgia Drone Summit, Athens, Georgia

Margaret Schrayer ThinkChicago: Chicago Ideas Week, Chicago, Illinois

Jessica Ma Institute for Women’s Studies Student Research Symposium, Athens, Georgia; Women and Girls in Georgia Conference, Athens, Georgia; Emory Reproductive Health and Policy Conference, Atlanta, Georgia

Mollie Simon Society of American Business Editors and Writers Conference, New York, New York; 33rd Annual National Conference on Ethics in America—Moral Courage: Finding the Strength to Act, West Point, New York

Ashley Willard American Psychological Association Conference, San Francisco, California; Reacting to the Past Conference, Athens, Georgia; Reacting to the Past Annual Faculty Institute, New York, New York

Manav Mathews CodeX FutureLaw Conference at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California

Taylor Smith Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Long Beach, California; StanCon, Pacific Grove, California

Bailey Palmer Pacific Conference for Development Economics, Davis, California Kavi Pandian YP4 Fellowship National Summit, Baltimore, Maryland

Aditya Sood Xola Cooper Dermatology Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana Benjamin Starks MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, Boston, Massachusetts

Victoria Yonter AACU Diversity, Equity, and Inclusive Democracy Conference, San Diego, California; Eastern Economics Association Annual Conference, Boston, Massachusetts; AACU General Education and Assessment: Foundations of Democracy Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Lilian Zhu Latin American Business Conference, New York, New York

As a CURO Summer Fellow, Ramsey Margaret Schrayer, in navy blue shirt, did a lot of coding as she studied sensorimotor integration using virtual reality reaching through a project with Dr. Tarkeshwar Singh, assistant professor in the Department of Kinesiology.

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Mollie Simon explored cacao cultivation and post-harvest processes in Hawaii.

Mackenzie Joy presented the astrophysics research she did through CURO at the American Astronomical Society annual meeting in Maryland.

Publications and Presentations, 2017-2018 Fola Akinola “Alleviating Food Insecurity in Athens-Clarke County through Public Transportation,” CURO 2018 Symposium Trisha Dalapati “Effects of Plasmodium falciparum on Placental Expression of Inflammatory and Coagulation Factors,” CURO 2018 Symposium; Emory STEM Research Career Symposium, Atlanta, Georgia; Southeastern Medical Scientist Symposium, Atlanta, Georgia; Experimental Biology 2018, San Diego, California Guy Eroh “Effects of Hydrogen Peroxide Treatment Modifications on Saprolegnia Growth and Hatch Success Rate of Walleye Eggs,” CURO 2018 Symposium Arden Farr “Point Mutations in Kelch 13 and Artemisinin Resistance in Malaria Parasites,” CURO 2018 Symposium; “Prevalence of Student Mental Health Issues: Implementing Awareness Training,” CURO 2018 Symposium Monte Fischer “Investigating Additive Combinatorics through Freiman’s Theorem and Plünnecke’s Inequality,” CURO 2018 Symposium Shreya Ganeshan “Climate and Built Environment Resilience Frameworks and Digital Tools for Indian

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Cities,” Second ASHRAE Developing Economies Conference, Delhi, India • Ganeshan, S., Lawrence, T. M., Boudreau, M. C., & Watson, R. T. (2018). “Energy Resiliency and Sustainability for Smart Cities in Developing Economies.” ISHRAE Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Journal, June Edition.

• Ganeshan, S. (2017). “Updated and Upgraded: Leaving Athens-Clarke County More Energy Efficient than We Found It.” Roosevelt Institute.

• Rice, J. L., & Ganeshan, S. (2017).

“The Contradictions of Low Carbon Urbanization: An Urban Political Ecology of Affordable Housing and Democracy in Seattle, Washington.” Under review for publication in Urban Studies.

Ben Giebelhausen “Analysis of the Prevalence of Task- and Relational-Oriented Leadership Behaviors in a Small Group Context,” CURO 2018 Symposium Nicole Googe “Pack Up Your Things and Go: Photoreceptor Packing in the Anolis sagrei Lizard,” CURO 2018 Symposium Mallory Harris “Spatial Early Warning Signals of Malaria Elimination in Haiti,” CURO 2018 Symposium; “Forecasting Malaria Resurgence in Kericho, Kenya,” Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease Meeting, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California

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Laurel Hiatt “University Health Center Engagement and Outcomes for Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Students,” CURO 2018 Symposium • Hiatt, L., Hansen, N., Truszczynski, N. (2018, May). “Transforming Transgender Care: The Perspective of Providers,” LGBT Health Workforce Conference, New York, New York.

• Hiatt, L., Hansen, N., Truszczynski, N. (2018, March). “Changing the Cistem: Healthcare as a Predictor for Transgender Students Feeling Supported

by Universities,” Georgia Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Conference, Jekyll Island, GA. • Hiatt, L. (2018, Feb.). “Queering Care,” Connect Conference, Athens, GA. • Hiatt, L., Klaver, E. (2017, April).

“Protein Implications of STT3A and STT3B Congenital Disorders of N-linked Glycosylation,” UGA Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Spring Symposium, Athens, GA. Jessica Ho “TERT Promoter Mutations in Primary Central Nervous System Tumors,” CURO 2018 Symposium; “Genotype-Phenotype Correlations for Protein O-Linked Mannose N-Acetylglucosaminyltransferase 1 (POMGnT1) in Congenital Muscular Dystrophy,” CURO 2018 Symposium

Christina Lee furthered her research in interactive show design and production at the NETHERWORLD Haunted House in Stone Mountain.

Teddy Vincent chats with research mentor Dr. James Hamilton, department head of Entertainment and Media Studies, after his CURO 2018 Symposium presentation.

Mackenzie Joy “A Study of Formaldehyde in MBM40,” CURO 2018 Symposium Manasa Kadiyala “Mitochondrial Capacity and Muscle Endurance in Older Adults with Type 1 Diabetes,” CURO 2018 Symposium Rachel Kelley “Public Opinion of Nuclear Energy,” 2017 International Conference on Nuclear Nonproliferation, Daejeon, South Korea Aditya Krishnaswamy “Outbreak Spreading: Using Gradient Boosting Machines to Predict the Chance an Incipient Outbreak Will Spread,” CURO 2018 Symposium; “Reducing Insurance Illiteracy: Teaching Health Insurance in Georgia Health Classes,” CURO 2018 Symposium; “Mental Health Training in the Georgia Police Force,” CURO 2018 Symposium Christina Lee “Interactive Show Design and Production,” CURO 2018 Symposium

Jessica Ma “Crisis Pregnancy Centers: Establishing Accuracy and Transparency in Georgia’s Family Planning Services,” CURO 2018 Symposium and Institute for Women’s Studies Student Research Symposium, Athens, GA Reilly Megee “JODD: The Creation of the Journal of Digital Design,” CURO 2018 Symposium Grant Mercer “The Effect of Mechanical Signals on Mitochondria Structure and Function,” CURO 2018 Symposium Prabhjot Minhas “Acculturation and Refugee Health: A Scholarship Review,” CURO 2018 Symposium Bailey Palmer “When Famine is an Opportunity: Examining the Effects of Drought on al Shabaab Attack Patterns in East Africa,” CURO 2018 Symposium Kavi Pandian “A Confluence of Science, Philosophy, and Religion: Perspectives on Wellbeing,

Happiness, Fulfillment, and Altruism,” CURO 2018 Symposium Karan Pol “Mental Health Training in the Georgia Police Force,” CURO 2018 Symposium Tarun Ramesh “The Deadliest Catch: Testing and Treating Sexually Transmitted Infections in Methadone Rehabilitation Facilities,” CURO 2018 Symposium Nina Reddy “Reducing Recidivism through Family Contact: Cutting Costs of Prison Phone Calls in Georgia,” CURO 2018 Symposium Margaret Schrayer “Effects of Parkinson’s Disease on Neural Network Interactions and Motor Activity,” CURO 2018 Symposium Aditya Sood “The Effects of Personality on Group Performance and Satisfaction,” CURO 2018 Symposium; “Ectopic Extramammary Paget’s Disease Presenting on the Face—An

Extraordinary Case”; “The Lesser Known CD8+ Cutaneous T-cell Lymphomas: What Are They and Why Should We Know About Them?” Cooper Dermatology Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana Emma Tucker “Mapping Lunatic, Manic, and Radical Fringe Modifications on Delta-Like Ligands,” CURO 2018 Symposium; “The Deadliest Catch: Testing and Treating Sexually Transmitted Infections in Methadone Rehabilitation Facilities,” CURO 2018 Symposium Teddy Vincent “Climate Fiction as a Response to Climate Change: A Genre Analysis,” CURO 2018 Symposium Trey Walker “Using Incremental Stable Nitrogen Isotope Analysis to Evaluate the Effects of Weaning on Infectious Disease Mortality in 19th Century Italy,” CURO 2018 Symposium Avery Warner “Prevalence of Student Mental Health Issues: Implementing Awareness Training,” CURO 2018 Symposium

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Internships

With assistance from the Honors in Washington internship program, Mallika Madhusudan interned at Freedman Consulting in 2016.

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Working for the future

Fellows and Ramseys find careers through internships

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Reilly Megee, FF ’18—Brand Bureau, New York, New York; Paragraph Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Community Connection, Athens, Georgia “As someone with an intense passion for branding, an incredible love for design, and a healthy disdain for bad font choices, I knew that working with Brand Bureau in New York City was an amazing opportunity for me. Brand Bureau, a division of AvroKO, is a strategy-led, hospitality-driven design firm, Mallika Madhusudan, FF ’18—Bain & Company, Atlanta, Georgia; focusing on creating innovative and beautiful brand identities.

Freedman Consulting, Washington, D.C. As a graphic design intern, I worked directly with the agency’s “When people hear that I pursued a double-major and art director and creative director, designing collateral for hotels double-minor in four different fields, their first question is and restaurants, naming famous retail locations, crafting mood always, “So, what do you want to do with all that?” This was a boards for client presentations, constructing murals for mixedquestion I struggled to answer until a mentor of mine suggested use markets, and creating websites for restaurant openings.

I look into consulting.

I even got to assist with the opening of a company-owned “My first formal internship restaurant in my time there, was the summer after designing interior signage and sophomore year, with sorting through vintage photos “I am so thankful to the support from the Honors to feature. in Washington internship “This paid three-month Fellowship for giving me the program, which provided internship, along with previous housing and alumni internships with Paragraph Inc. opportunity to follow my networking opportunities. in Philadelphia and Community dreams, no matter the city, and I interned at Freedman Connection/United Way of Consulting, a political, Northeast Georgia in Athens, playing a part in helping me strategic, and communications solidified my goals to enter the find the area in which I wish to firm, for 10 weeks. My work branding world, equipping me ranged from simple research with new skills and a refined spend my life creating.” to strategy development. As eye for design. After graduation, one of two interns, I helped I moved to New York to join Reilly Megee, FF ’18 on almost every case the firm Brand Bureau’s staff as a fullnow working as a graphic designer for Brand Bureau in New York was working on, becoming time graphic designer. I am so familiar with net neutrality thankful to the Fellowship for advocacy, foundation grantgiving me the opportunity to making, criminal justice follow my dreams, no matter reform, and political platform development. The work on the city, and playing a part in helping me find the area in which I technology policy that I did with Freedman actually inspired wish to spend my life creating.” future initiatives I later developed as chair of the Student Board of Advisors for the Roosevelt Institute, a national think tank.

Davis Coleman, RS ’18—The Home Depot, Atlanta, Georgia; Colliers “My involvement in the Corsair Society, an Honors-sponsored International, Atlanta, Georgia financial organization, proved to be an invaluable resource in “One of the many great aspects of the University of Georgia preparing me for strategy and management consulting internship is the amount of opportunities students receive for personal interviews, and I eventually accepted an internship at Bain & exploration. Very few people know what they want in life when Company in Atlanta. they are 18, and this was certainly the case for me entering “At Bain, I was assigned to a case team of four individuals college. UGA, the Honors Program, and the Ramsey Scholarship working on one portion of a massive complexity reduction allowed me to comfortably grow and expand my horizons, and project for a Fortune 500 company. Specifically, my supervisor through their encouragement I have done things that I certainly and I were tasked with optimizing the company’s global real never expected to do. estate portfolio. To complete this project, I used numerous tools “In addition to studying at the London School of Economics, such as Alteryx, Tableau, and JIRA (which I then taught to others walking across Spain on El Camino de Santiago, and serving on the case team) and received training in Agile methodology. as the executive director of Whatever It Takes, an after-school To my surprise, I was also included in weekly meetings with the mentoring program in Athens, the courses and curriculum I client and was expected not just to take notes but to present my have taken at UGA have made me competitive for multiple own thoughts and findings—something I never thought I would internships, and through my last internship I accepted a fulldo as an undergraduate. Aside from the unparalleled experience time position working at the Home Depot corporate office. The I gained, I appreciated the opportunity to tackle a wide variety of greatest thing about this process is that I still don’t necessarily tasks alongside such a diverse, intelligent, and exciting group of know what I want to do for the rest of my life, but through all of people. I returned to Bain’s Atlanta office in the fall as a full-time my experiences, I have generated a skill set that I will be able to associate consultant.” take to any job in the future.” nternships give students hands-on experience and professional connections they can build on for years to come.

As undergraduates, Fellows and Ramseys hold internship positions in for-profit, non-profit, academic, and governmental organizations throughout the U.S. and around the world. They gain valuable skills and test out possible career paths, often while earning credit toward graduation.

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Mollie Simon, FF ’18—Voice of America, Washington, D.C.; Cox Institute, Athens, Georgia; National Public Radio, Washington, D.C. “When I first walked into the Grady College building, I remember seeing the words ‘Democracy’s Next Generation’ etched above the doors and thinking, ‘YES! This is my place!’ I dove headfirst into journalism, writing for the Red & Black student newspaper. But I am a natural introvert, and as much as I loved hearing and telling people’s stories, I found interviews could be stressful.

Looking for a change of pace, my roommate, Ramsey Scholar Zoe Schneider, and I decided to share our love of dormroom baking by bringing a chapter of Spoon University to UGA. I went from writing about university administration to how to make the best dining hall ice cream sandwich. It was fun and exciting, but it also felt like some of the substance was missing—the hard-hitting, democracy-aiding part of journalism.

“After sophomore year, I worked for

Voice of America with the support of the Foundation Fellowship and the Honors in Washington internship program and learned about the world of television as I helped produce a show airing across Africa. From there I got to work as an Innovation Fellow at Grady’s Cox Institute, a job that connected me with investigative journalist Ian Urbina, with whom I worked as a staff researcher for his Outlaw Ocean project. I started finding my groove in research and fact-checking.

“I circled back to the Red & Black, this time creating my own project working to pull interesting clips from the paper’s archive for daily #redandback posts on social media. I also worked as an intern with NPR’s business desk, focusing on financial conflicts of interest in the Trump administration—a role that let me dive into documents and databases. Although my journey in journalism has been far more meandering than I ever imagined, I still walk through that Grady College entrance with the same goal of telling interesting and important stories.”

Through the Honors in New York internship program, Kerri Andre, left, and Samia McEachin worked for the Greater New York Hospital Association in 2017.

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Kerri Andre, FF ’18—Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa; Greater New York Hospital Association, New York, New York; Gwinnett Clinic, Lawrenceville, Georgia “Wanting to examine health disparities in a global setting, I traveled to Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, and for 10 weeks was a research intern for a physician on his clinical trial evaluating the efficacy of two different mechanical mitral valves. In addition to data capture and organization, I shadowed surgeons during rounds, surgery, and clinic visits. I observed the difficulties that came with balancing patients’ lack of health literacy with their rights when it came to medical decisions. In addition to observing the obstacles to healthcare resulting from education challenges and systemic poverty, I witnessed the impact of the absence of concerted, widespread public health initiatives. This motivated me to learn more about combining the personal aspects of patient care with public health policies that use medicine as a lens to examine social issues leading to unequal health outcomes.

“I later interned at the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA) and worked on projects addressing childhood obesity, workplace violence, and quality improvement. Working at GNYHA encouraged me to pursue a dual MD/MPH degree in order to continue to examine how care informs policy, and how policy informs care.

“I sought a chance to work at the direct intersection of public health policy and patient care and spent two semesters working with at Gwinnett Clinic in Lawrenceville, implementing a pilot chronic care management program. CCM provides valuable care coordination to at-risk, dual eligible (Medicare/Medicaid) patients with two or more chronic conditions. The CCM program provides compensation for physicians and staff to perform 20 minutes of additional care each month. I became involved in care coordination, contacting patients’ specialists, performing medication reconciliation with pharmacists, and conducting supervised patient follow-ups.

This opportunity confirmed how valuable public health policy is in improving health outcomes and strengthened my desire to become a physician with a dual role: focusing on both individual patient care and population health policy. My mentor, Dr. Deep Shah, a Fellow alumnus, provided not only excellent mentorship while working on the CCM program but also served as a constant source of support throughout the medical school admissions process.”

Internships

Internships, 2017-2018 Swapnil Agrawal Amara Legal Center, Washington, D.C.; ACLU of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia; ACLU Conference, Washington, D.C. Avni Ahuja Child Family Health International, La Paz, Bolivia; American Public Health Association, Washington, D.C. Fola Akinola Human Rights Watch, Arms Division, Washington, D.C.

1) Angela Tsao, main photo, clears away bracken with a scythe in Scotland; 2) Kavi Pandian, top right, and his research mentor and Fellow alumnus David Fu enjoy sushi in Johannesburg, South Africa; 3) Kat Christie was a conservation intern at the St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park; 4) Jessica Ma and Chip Chambers spent the summer at the Greater New York Hospital Association through Honors in New York; and 5) Arden Farr was a research fellow at the Nuclear Nonproliferation Education and Research Center at KAIST University in South Korea.

McKenna Barney CARE International, Kigali, Rwanda Erica Bressner Knudsen&Co, Shanghai, China Logan Campbell ACLU National Prison Project, Washington, D.C.

Izzy Ceron National Hispanic Leadership Agenda, Washington, D.C.; Camp DIVE, Athens, Georgia

Guy Eroh U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Directorate Fellows Program, Anchorage, Alaska

Chip Chambers Greater New York Hospital Association, New York, New York

Arden Farr KAIST Nuclear Nonproliferation Education and Research Center, Daejeon, South Korea

Katherine Christie St. Augustine Alligator Farm, St. Augustine, Florida Claire Drosos Centro de Atenciรณn, Integral para la Inclusiรณn, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Small Business Development Center, Athens, Georgia Brianna English Foundation for International Medical Relief of Children, Managua, Nicaragua

Stephen Feng Bain & Company, Atlanta, Georgia Monte Fischer Worcester Polytechnic Institute REU in Industrial Mathematics and Statistics, Worcester, Massachusetts Victoria Fonzi Motol University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic Divya Ghoshal Schwarzer Cardiotek, Heilbronn, Germany

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Emily Giambalvo U.S. Olympic Committee, PyeongChang, South Korea; Washington Post, Washington, D.C. Emma Goldsmith Park Place Outreach, Inc, Savannah, Georgia Laurel Hiatt AU/UGA Medical Partnership, Athens, Georgia; Emory Marcus Autism Center, Atlanta, Georgia; Humanity in Action John Lewis Fellowship, Atlanta, Georgia; Nemeth, Middleton, & Fey, Marietta, Georgia Griffin Hamstead WWOOF, Figuig, Morocco; Avid Bookshop, Athens, Georgia Hannah Huang Solvay Advanced Polymers, Augusta, Georgia Nirav Ilango Esri, Los Angeles, California Mackenzie Joy UC Davis Theoretical Astrophysics REU, Davis, California

Manasa Kadiyala Harvard Orthopedic Trauma Service, Boston, Massachusetts Joshua Kenway Nanka School Project, Nanka, Nigeria Aditya Krishnaswamy PipeCandy, Chennai, India; Center for American Progress, Washington, D.C.; Carl Vinson Institute of Government, Athens, Georgia; Roosevelt Summer Fellowship, New York, New York Christina Lee Walt Disney Company, Orlando, Florida; NETHERWORLD Haunted House, Stone Mountain, Georgia Zoe Li New America, U.S. Department of State, National LGBT Chamber of Commerce, and ACLU Conference, all in Washington, D.C. Jessica Ma Greater New York Hospital Association, New York, New York; Child Family Health International, La Paz, Bolivia

Samia McEachin Hospital de Clínicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Nina Reddy Litvin Legales, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Jack McRae Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

Ashley Reed Columbia University Global Mental Health Program, New York, New York

Kavi Pandian Scuola Media Cavour, Modena, Italy; Streetlight Schools, Johannesburg, South Africa; Carl Vinson Institute of Government International Center, Athens, Georgia

Isabelle Riddle Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, New York

Jessica Pasquarello Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity, and Welfare, Malmö, Sweden Sebastian Puerta Instituto Interdisciplinario de Economia Política de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina Vineet Raman U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Office of Business Management & Transformation, Washington, D.C.; Lazos Hispanos, Athens, Georgia

Maggie Russo UGA Press, Athens, Georgia; Shipley Communications, LLC, Kansas City, Missouri Drew Schmitt U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Financial Research, Washington, D.C. Aditya Sood Emory SUPPER Program, Atlanta, Georgia Ben Starks Los Angeles Clippers, Los Angeles, California; Game Point Capital, Athens, Georgia Stephanie Stewart Tawasul Think Tank, Muscat, Oman

Grant Mercer spent his summer doing travel-study through UGA’s campus in Monteverde, Costa Rica.

Samuel Tingle UN Development Programme Crisis Response Unit, New York, New York; Active International Consulting, Brussels, Belgium; NATAN International Humanitarian Aid, Lesvos, Greece; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Emergency Response and Recovery Branch, Atlanta, Georgia Meredith Van De Velde Learning Leaders, Shanghai, China Trey Walker University of Vermont Neuroscience REU, Burlington, Vermont Abigail West Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts Printmaking Workshop, Gatlinburg, Tennessee; UGA Office of Sustainability, Athens, Georgia; UGA Facilities Management Division, Athens, Georgia Matthias Wilder Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Landis + Gyr, Atlanta, Georgia Ashley Willard Montgomery County State Attorney’s Office, Rockville, Maryland Victoria Yonter University of Michigan Debate Camp, Ann Arbor, Michigan Lilian Zhu National Hispanic Leadership Agenda, Washington, D.C.; City of Atlanta Executive Office of Immigrant Affairs, Atlanta, Georgia

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From journalism to analytics,

Fellows and Ramseys follow sports aspirations The feature stories on these four students originally appeared in the spring 2018 edition of Honors magazine.

Emily Giambalvo, sports journalism

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n the span of a few months, Emily Giambalvo went from covering Georgia’s milestone win against Notre Dame and its almost national championship in Atlanta for the Red & Black to writing about the 2018 Winter Olympics in Peyong Chang, South Korea, for TeamUSA.org (photo above).

Emily went from football to curling.

From the football-driven South to a snowcovered South Korea. From taking classes to graduating from a university that gave her the opportunity to learn how to both code and write about sports.

Emily topped off a college career that included covering the Paralympics in Brazil for the Associated Press, internships at the Seattle Times and USA Track & Field, and stories picked up by ESPN and the New York Times with an internship at the Washington Post this past summer.

That internship earned her a full-time position as a Washington Post sports reporter. She now covers University of Maryland athletics, particularly football and men’s basketball.

A former high school gymnast who does handstands at each new locale she

travels to, Emily likes numbers, which is why she majored in management information systems. She minored in anthropology and received a certificate in sports media.

Originally from Easley, South Carolina, she “thought maybe as a hobby, I’d try to be the video person for the gymnastics team,” she said. Before arriving at UGA, Emily messaged the Red & Black’s gymnastics beat writer on Facebook. “She said, ‘Well, you should write. Start writing.

That’s where everyone starts.’”

With that encouragement, Emily attended an information session at the Red & Black during the first week of her freshman year.

“I really thought it was going to be a semester thing, and then, the short version is, I went and never left,” she said.

Toward the end of her freshman year, Emily started reading “some really good journalism,” she said, and something clicked. “I read a story on Johnny Manziel

by Wright Thompson, and when it ended, I was like, wait, that’s not just words. That’s actually something that makes you feel a different way.”

Her sophomore year, Emily wrote her first 1,000-word story on Dwayne Gilbert, a Bulldog fan in his 80s who had attended 500 consecutive UGA football games.

“That story made me realize I want to do this as a job,” she said.

At UGA, she worked primarily with Vicki Michaelis, the John Huland Carmical Chair in Sports Journalism & Society, who created a community of writers who “all do a really good job of pushing each other,” Emily said.

“When you have that type of program, everyone makes everyone better. And it’s the best kind of competitiveness.”

An Honors student, Ramsey Honors Scholar, and McGill Scholar, Emily’s list of accomplishments includes studying abroad in Russia and tutoring middle school students through UGA MATHCOUNTS and a Syrian refugee through the group Paper Airplanes. Her accolades include Best Sports Story of 2015, 2016, and 2017 from the Georgia College Press Association and winning the nationwide Associated Press Sports Editors student portfolio contest.

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Jack Hall, risk management

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he day after graduation, Jack Hall moved to Charleston. The next Monday, he started working full time at Game Point Capital, a specialty sports finance firm he and his brother Will co-founded and that he directs.

In a very Southern city, Game Point Capital specializes in sports-related risk management products for a very Southern sport—college football. Their goal is to make financial liabilities like performance-based bonuses and contract buyouts easier for teams to manage.

“We focus on contractual bonus insurance and do a variety of creative risk financing,” said Jack, an Honors student and Foundation Fellow who majored in international business, risk management, and economics.

Their main product is an insurance policy that focuses on performance-based bonuses, which are now included in many coaching contracts. Called contractual bonus coverage, this type of policy pays out in the event of a positive outcome, allowing teams to give bonuses while using insurance to offset the risk.

The money at stake for a head coach in college football who makes it to the offseason—and for the team funding it—ranges from about $75,000 to more than $1 million.

Jack grew up in Maine, where college basketball is king. When he decided to head south for school—thanks in part to the Foundation Fellowship—he gave college football a shot. “It was the second or third week of school, and UGA had its home opener in Sanford Stadium against Clemson,” he said. “Todd Gurley was running for touchdowns, and it was amazing. I fell in love with it.”

Jack’s interest in sports risk management started with a different type of football. His sophomore year, he was looking for summer internships in London, where his brother lived at the time. He found one at RISQ Capital, a 15-person firm that specializes in sports finance for Premier League soccer, tennis, and golf.

“They were doing structured risk management products for sponsors and for the teams themselves,” he said. “The bonuses linked to players’ contracts can represent some big liabilities. Through mathematical models, companies will determine the likelihood of a team, player, etc., triggering a bonus. It functions like a standard insurance model.”

Using what he learned in London, Jack worked on setting up a similar type of insurance model and started Game Point Capital.

“Between last fall and the end of 2017, we were on a fact-finding mission,” Jack said. “We were developing relationships. We are beginning to see real traction and are getting positive feedback from the market. ”

Taylor Smith, baseball analytics

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aylor Smith loves baseball—the data, the analysis, the research, the competition. And then there’s the game that happens on the field.

“A baseball executive recently said of running a baseball team that ‘we’re all a part of some meta theater that’s somewhat loosely attached to dudes playing on a field,’” he said. “Every year, two teams of 25 players square off in the World Series where they play to determine who the world champion is, but in some sense this is just a final dice roll. Much of the game has already been played before the regular season even begins.

“Getting to be a competitor in this ‘meta theater’ is to me the most engaging part of getting to work in baseball.”

In June, the Foundation Fellow from Canton started work with the Tampa Bay Rays as an analyst in their research and development department, a position they recruited him for in mid-October 2017. The Honors student graduated with three degrees—a joint bachelor’s/master’s degree in statistics and a bachelor’s in mathematics—and a certificate in data science.

His job as an R&D analyst is to use techniques from statistics, machine learning, and data science to find advantages that the franchise can then use to create the best team possible.

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Ben Starks, basketball analytics

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en Starks is just steps into his career path in sports. A junior from Celebration, Florida, he interned this summer in the L.A. Clippers’ IT department, edging closer to what he really wants to do—basketball analytics.

It was about three years ago, right before he headed off to college, that he started considering “how to get into sports without playing sports,” he said. A family friend who is now a coach with the Brooklyn Nets suggested analytics.

“I looked at the UGA majors and typed in analytics, and management information systems came up,” he said. With a major decided, he added a minor in sport management.

He is also learning the crucial skill of networking. For the past two years, he has attended the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, where meeting famous basketball personalities (like Shane Battier, former NBA player and current Miami Heat director of analytics) also includes a chance for a photo and a business card.

Ben explained his love for analytics like this: “I always have a ton of numbers in my head.”

For an analyst focused on basketball, those numbers break down into two key categories—first, performance on the court and, second, prospects and scouting.

“For performance, you’re looking at raw numbers and manipulating them so you can see with Player X, for example, 80 percent of the time when he takes that first jab step to the right, this is the move he’s going to do,” Ben said. “On the reverse, you can figure out where your player skills are and home in on that.”

Prospects and scouting involves comparisons and figuring out how to best fill roles within an organization.

“About three years ago, the Portland Trailblazers lost four of their starters in one season,” he said. “They didn’t just go out and get four players. They tried to get a whole team that would combine to give similar statistics to those four players.”

During his two years as a Ramsey Honors Scholar—and now a Foundation Fellow—Ben conducted research on amateurism rules within NCAA sports under the mentorship of Thomas Baker, an associate professor in the kinesiology department, and presented on ways UGA’s athletic department can better use business and sport analytics under the supervision of Greg McGarity, UGA’s athletic director. He also works as a business development intern for Game Point Capital.

His goal is to work for “a rebuilding team first,” he said. “I would really want to make my own changes and use what I know the good teams—like the Rockets and Warriors—are using. I want to transform a team.”

“We’re the people making all of the moves necessary to get that team on the field with the most competitive product,” Taylor said.

Despite job offers at more established franchises, he chose to work for the Rays because “they have one of the strongest R&D departments in baseball and a reputation within the industry as one of the most intelligently run front offices,” he said. Because the Rays don’t have the payroll of more well-established teams, “you know you did something right” if the team wins.

Taylor’s preparation for his analyst position started with academics and extended to internships and fellowships. He conducted research with the machine learning group at the Big Data Summer Institute at the University of Michigan and interned with the L.A. Dodgers.

“The thing I am most excited about my job is the work itself,” he said. “The problems I get to work on are incredibly interesting both from a statistical and baseball perspective.”

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Civic Engagement

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Maddie Dill spent her senior year at UGA as executive director of UGA Miracle, the largest of the university’s many philanthropic organizations.

With its six-person council and 140-person leadership team overseeing 14 committees, UGA Miracle is run solely by students and raises money and awareness for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. “UGA Miracle is so much more than just money or raising it. It’s the relationships,” Maddie said.

Being executive director “was such a unique experience. Not many 21- or 22-year-olds can say they were in charge of over 1,000 students raising over $1 million. It was definitely such a cool opportunity to have.”

Seniors highlight service and leadership experiences Shreya Ganeshan, FF ’18—AthensClarke County Unified Government, UGA Department of Geography, Roosevelt @ UGA, UGAvotes “As an energy analyst for Athens-Clarke County Unified Government (ACCUG), I worked to create energy consumption profiles for county buildings based on utilities and cost data. I also collaborated with local stakeholders on executing energy efficiency and solar installation projects in ACCUG facilities. In conjunction with UGA’s Department of Management Information Systems in the Terry College of Business, I used information systems to develop climate resilience frameworks for the Rockefeller Foundation’s “100 Resilient Cities” cohort, in attempt to build immunity to floods, earthquakes, and storms across urban infrastructure and delivery systems.

“Through research with UGA’s Department of Geography, I helped disentangle conflicting narratives of environmental achievement and unaffordable housing in Seattle. By correlating emissions inventories with census and municipal data via multiple regression and spatial analysis in R, I found the Seattle tech boom is accompanied by an influx of high-earners who demand ‘green’ lifestyles. Our work revealed that tech employees live near downtown Seattle and utilize low-carbon modes of work commute, while lowerincome families have been forced out of their homes and are unable to access to the city’s premier electric light rail system.

In an article under review for publication in Urban Studies, we highlight how the benefits of ‘green cities’ are reserved often for wealthy populations. Independently, I have presented this work at conferences hosted by UGA, the EPA, Association of American Geographers, Harvard College, and Stanford University.

“During a policy fellowship with the Roosevelt Institute Network, I explored opportunities to use data analysis to inform local policy. I developed a policy proposal recommending that ACCUG retrofit energy-inefficient public buildings identified using existing data. The proposal also suggested that ACCUG reorganize its budget to allow monetary savings accrued through building upgrades to replenish an Energy Conservation Fund. These monies would then be reinvested in future building

Shreya Ganeshan discusses her energy analysis research with stakeholders at the Carl Vinson Institute of Government.

retrofits. Over time, ACCUG would reduce its utilities expenditures and better use taxpayer dollars while acting on longoverdue energy efficiency improvements and fostering a healthier community.

The project has gained support from the mayor, manager, 70% of the commission, and ACCUG administrators—guaranteeing long-term implementation.

“Last year at the chapter level, I served as Roosevelt @ UGA’s executive director.

In this role, I worked on initiatives to foster interdisciplinary conversations on policy issues, including establishing biannual Jeffersonian Dinners.

“On UGA’s campus from AprilNovember 2016, I founded a coalition of student and administrative organizations in a nonpartisan voter registration and education initiative called UGAvotes.

The campaign was supported by a coalition of 71 student and administrative organizations. Together, we committed ourselves to reminding young people that

their voices and votes matter. Along with the Student Government Association, we lobbied the Athens Board of Elections to acquire the first on-campus early voting location in Athens and UGA history. And in November 2016, 2,648 people voted early at the Tate Student Center.”

Kal Golde, FF ’18—Georgia Political Review, Center for American Progress, Student Government Association “The Georgia Political Review (GPR) served as my springboard to a college journey focused on policy, writing, and service. As a staff writer, I authored articles on the U.S. Supreme Court as well as local politics, an endeavor so enjoyable I quickly expanded my commitment to the organization by working on the editorial board. The culmination of my time with GPR—serving as editor-in-chief—shaped the way I approach leadership and transformed my writing abilities and my desire to help others develop their own.

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Fellow Kal Golde, left, served as SGA treasurer in 2017-2018, along with Roya Naghepour (vice president) and Cameron Keen (president).

“If GPR allowed me to test the waters, I really dove headfirst into the chaotic world of politics and advocacy as an intern at the Center for American Progress (CAP) in Washington, D.C. Funded by the Honors in Washington internship program, I lived at UGA’s Delta Hall and spent a summer immersed in the 2016 presidential campaign amidst the massive research and communications effort spearheaded by CAP. The tangible, electric energy coursing through Washington hooked me. That summer sparked and cemented my plan to return after graduation.

“Driven by my time with GPR and CAP, I chose to run for student body treasurer and was able to spend the year after the election representing the UGA student body and managing the organization’s finances. Serving in the Student Government Association (SGA) engendered in me a deep love and respect for the institution. I was thoroughly humbled by SGA’s successes, as well as its failures, as we worked to improve safety, affordability, and everyday life for UGA’s students.”

Elizabeth Wilkes, FF ’18—Real Food Challenge, Coweeta Listening Project, Food & Water Watch, Food For All “I started college with drive and vision for my generation to set a new standard for sustainability, particularly in food and agricultural sectors. I started learning how to merge research and civic engagement through UGA’s Roosevelt Institute chapter, where peers mentored me through policy research based on my experiences volunteering with the local Young Urban Farmers program. I continued my research through CURO with Dr. Susannah Chapman, studying anthropological approaches to food waste policies, and I studied food policy in the Netherlands

with preeminent experts and rapidly expanded my knowledge alongside students hailing from five continents.

“While abroad, I was also planning Real Food Generation: National Food Justice Summit, held in Athens in September 2016.

For the first time, the national Real Food Challenge network gathered in the South, where the legacy of the plantation is palpable. We trained young leaders with tools to build coalitions and win Real Food procurement campaigns on their respective campuses.

“Starting January 2015, I studied fracking governance and resistance in western North Carolina, directed by Dr. Jennifer Rice (associate professor, Department of Geography) through the Coweeta Listening Project. Two years later as a research intern at Food & Water Watch in Washington, D.C., I supported the final weeks of a multi-year campaign to successfully ban fracking in Maryland.

“I am grateful to graduate with the Odum School of Ecology’s new Bachelor of Arts degree, which trains students to apply ecology to real-world contexts. During the inaugural Ecological Problem Solving course, we spent May 2016 discovering how folks ranging from city council members in coastal towns to mediators in the Flint River water wars are crafting effective environmental policies, from banning plastic bags to establishing land trusts.

“This spring, I enrolled in Dr. Krista Capps’ Urban Ecology service-learning course, where we engaged with extraordinary residents of urban watersheds in Atlanta and built a website, Watershed Learning Network, to meet stakeholders’ needs.

“I concluded my time at UGA with an Honors thesis project based on Sapelo Island, where I have witnessed the myriad issues faced by marginalized coastal communities. I worked with my advisor Dr. Nik Heynen (professor, Department of Geography) and auxiliaries alongside of Geechee residents committed to community development, cultivation of heritage crops, and land retention for collective benefit.

“Most recently, I am proud that Real Food collaborated with Fight Against Youth Obesity and SGA to collect chefs, activists, city planners, community supported agriculture managers, and food and nutrition educators from across Northeast Georgia to discuss with six dozen students how we might ensure food for all in Athens. Within this lively space, we (re-)laid the groundwork to form a local food policy council.

“Steadily, gregariously, the work continues. Here in Athens, on the coast, and in communities everywhere, we are witnessing a regime shift, and I have only the highest hopes.”

Elizabeth Wilkes discusses her research at the Miller Learning Center.

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Izzy Ceron leads a performance of “When I Grow Up” from Matilda the Musical at the end of camp celebration for Camp DIVE, a summer enrichment program for students in kindergarten through eighth grade held this year at Clarke Middle School.

Samia McEachin, FF ’18—UGA Office of Institutional Diversity Leaders Engaged in Affirming Diversity (LEAD) Fellowship, Hospital de Clínicas, Greater New York Hospital Association (Honors in New York) “As a member of the inaugural class of LEAD Fellows, I worked with students and administrators to discuss diversity on UGA’s campus. The fellowship gave me a better understanding of what inclusivity truly means and the actions the university is taking to promote institutional diversity. As a cohort, we launched a social media initiative to encourage a dialogue across campus, sharing stories from students, faculty, and staff to illuminate the distinct backgrounds represented on campus while emphasizing a united community environment.

“With the support of the Fellowship, I was also able to travel to Buenos Aires, Argentina, for a semester to volunteer in a local hospital. While working at Hospital de Clínicas, I served a supportive role, assisting other volunteers and interacting with patients in the palliative care and pediatric departments. With the support of the UGA Honors Program, I had the wonderful opportunity to work at the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA) with Susan Waltman, executive vice president for legal, regulatory, and professional affairs. Having access to such qualified and respected professionals working in an array of areas within public health was truly invaluable. During my time in New York, I found my passion for emergency and disaster management, which has shaped my future plans and career goals. I’m currently still working with GNYHA on a Mass Casualty Incident Response Toolkit, which will serve as a guidebook for hospitals in their effort to develop and improve MCI response planning.”

Josh Kenway, FF ’18—Federal & Interstate Relations Office of the New York Governor (Honors in Washington internship program), the Ark UMOC “My experience in Washington, D.C., in the office of New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, under the guidance of UGA alumnus Alexander Cochran, the governor’s special counsel, was one of the most transformative of my college career.

Going into the summer, I was disillusioned with the state of national U.S. politics and yet immediately found myself in an

environment full of compassionate, informed, and experienced public servants who have inspired me to continue pursuing a role in the public sector. In my role as staff assistant, I was able to help drive policy development through analysis and development of environmental protection, energy, infrastructure, and transportation policy. I played a key role drafting the initial framework for the U.S. Climate Alliance and developed solutions to a variety of environmental issues related to the Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence Seaway, a critical trade route for Canadian provinces and U.S. states governed by a complex international legal system.

“In addition, from junior year onwards, I have had the opportunity to learn more about a side of the local community that students far too often fail to interact with. The Ark United Ministry Outreach Center does fantastic work helping provide financial relief for Athens residents fighting to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table. Working at the Ark was a revelatory experience. Being so abruptly thrust into a world of title loans, rock-bottom credit scores, and uncertain employment—and their devastating consequences for people’s lives—caused a fundamental shift in the way that I think about the world. Because of this experience, the equalization of opportunity and reduction of social and economic inequality are now absolutely central to my future ambitions in the world of public policy.

“Before heading off to graduate school, I traveled—making use of my Foundation Fellows travel-study stipend—to Nigeria with the Nanka School Project to deliver medical supplies, assist in putting on events at a local high school, and learn about the challenges of delivering healthcare in rural areas. Following that, I spent two weeks in Tanzania fulfilling my dream of summiting Mount Kilimanjaro and visiting Zanzibar to view coral reefs and better understand the effects of global climate change on these critical underwater ecosystems.”

Mallory Harris, FF ’18—UGA MATHCOUNTS, Stem Pump, Girlology & Guyology, Bayshore Tutoring Group, Students for Gun Safety “I come from a long line of educators and have benefited greatly from the guidance of fantastic teachers, which is why I got involved with several educational outreach programs in UGA FOUNDATION FELLOWS & RAMSEY HONORS SCHOLARS ANNUAL REPORT 2018

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Civic Engagement Athens. Starting freshman year, I began volunteering with UGA MATHCOUNTS, one of only two college groups that partner with the national MATHCOUNTS organization. Volunteers are assigned to 10 schools across the county, where they lead practice for about an hour a week.

Meetings can vary in structure— from enrichment games to homework help to preparation for tournaments that cover topics that often require creative and advanced mathematical thinking.

I’ve volunteered at various schools and have led practice as a head coach.

“I also volunteered with Barrow Elementary School’s reading intervention program, aimed at bringing kindergartners to grade level, and helped pilot a similar program for math. Simultaneously, I got involved with Stem Pump, an all-girls math team that builds elementary school girls’ confidence in their mathematical abilities by exposing them to advanced topics outside of class, thus combating the gender disparity in math that tends to start in middle school.

“Last summer, I lived in Palo Alto while conducting research through a Stanford REU. In a magnificent twist of fate, I found an apartment that doubled as a tutoring center. Twice a week, the neighborhood kids, most of whom were from non-English speaking immigrant families, would file into our living room and grab their binders from the shelf. I coordinated a summer book club.

Each session, we’d read a chapter of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and then do a related activity. Some of the highlights were charades of the characters (with lickable wallpaper for the winner), making Willy Wonka top hats out of construction paper, and an oompa loompa mad libs competition. Working with students of varying educational backgrounds connected me to the communities where I’ve lived through college and allowed me to play a small part in helping prepare the next generation of (hopefully UGA) students.”

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his past fall, eight Honors students—including Ramsey Honors Scholars Prabhjot Minhas and Vineet Raman—were recognized for their exemplary leadership efforts as recipients of the William Moore Crane Leadership Scholarship. The $1,000 scholarship, awarded to third-year students in the Honors Program, recognizes leadership in extracurricular activities and/or involvement with civic or community organizations.

Administered by the Honors Program and the UGA Center for Leadership and Service, the scholarship is named in honor of a 1921 UGA graduate who was influential in the founding of the UGA Alumni Society.

Prabhjot Minhas Hometown: Richmond Hill Majors: Genetics, Anthropology

Prabhjot is president of Refugee Outreach (RefUGA), travels yearly with UGA IMPACT service breaks, serves as a public relations co-chair for the Lunchbox Garden Project, and volunteers at Mercy Health Center.

She studied refugee and migrant nutrition and health with Susan Tanner.

Prabhjot now works in the Center for Tropical Emerging and Global Diseases studying the var2csa gene and placental malaria with David Peterson. She has studied abroad in Tanzania, where she learned about sustainable service and shadowed malaria researchers, and also in Ecuador, where she shadowed rural healthcare professionals and took medical Spanish classes.

Prabhjot plans to attend medical school and hopes to facilitate more culturally competent care for minority and underserved communities.

Vineet Raman Hometown: Marietta Majors: Biology, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Spanish

Vineet is executive director of Roosevelt @ UGA, serves on the executive board of RefUGA and as an Honors Teaching Assistant, and is a member of Chamber Music Society and Leadership UGA. Vineet’s research includes language services regulation, low-income healthcare access, and cultural competency. He assisted with implementation of bilingual mental health services with the BIEN Research Group.

He interned at the Indian Council for Medical Research in Chennai, India, and Washington University’s Institute for Public Health in St. Louis, Missouri, and while there, volunteered as an interpreter at Casa de Salud, a clinic serving undocumented and uninsured residents.

Off campus, Vineet volunteers as an interpreter at Mercy Health Center. He plans to pursue degrees in medicine and public health.

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Ramsey Manasa Kadiyala and Fellows Jack McRae and Kavi Pandian plan for a fall of tutoring inmates housed in Athens-Clarke County correctional facilities.

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n early 2016, Foundation Fellow Kavi Pandian and Ramsey Scholar Manasa Kadiyala co-founded Athens Prison Tutorial, with the intent of serving the interests of the incarcerated in Athens-Clarke County through consistent educational programming. Whether it’s GED tutoring, SAT/ACT preparation, or other pursuits, Athens Prison Tutorial provides college students who then teach and work with inmates and learn how to more effectively aid these incarcerated students in their future goals.

The weekly tutorial started with nonviolent and minimumsecurity inmates from the Athens-Clarke County Diversion/ Release Center. By fall 2016, they were able to bring the program to the Athens-Clarke County Correctional Institution, located about two miles east of the UGA campus.

Manasa and Kavi started small, and their pursuit almost immediately began producing results. Two years later, the initiative is thriving and fully staffed with volunteers.

“At first, it was just the both of us tutoring about three to four students every week,” said Manasa, who will graduate in May 2019 with a degree in biochemistry and molecular biology.

“Toward the end of the semester, our numbers started climbing with more than 10 inmates per class. Due to this rise in interest, we began recruiting more UGA students to help us out.

“As of spring 2018, we have had 12 inmates successfully pass the exam and obtain their GED, and our club, Athens Prison Tutorial, has over 20 undergraduate students and faculty members committed to improving the lives and careers of this underserved population.”

As the tutorial program has grown, the prison has committed more resources to supporting its development—

establishing multiple tutorial days per week, allowing inmates more flexibility in their daily schedules to participate, and collaborating with a local technical school to facilitate continued education for those who have earned high school equivalency.

Kavi said as the spring 2018 semester came to a close, Athens Prison Tutorial was well set to continue to flourish after he and Manasa graduate.

“We already have students who are getting prepared and ready to take over,” said Kavi, who will graduate in May 2019 with degrees in sociology and economics. “They’ve been coming every day, and we’ve been introducing them to prison staff, so there’s a transition that will take place primarily this fall.”

In April, Athens Prison Tutorial was honored as the Outstanding New Organization at the 17th annual H. Gordon and Francis S. Davis Student Organization Achievement and Recognition Awards (SOAR), an event that recognizes the accomplishments of registered student organizations at UGA. “The fact that we were awarded best new organization shows that UGA agrees we’re doing really important work and is proud of the efforts we’ve been making,” Kavi said.

While Kavi and Manasa have put a lot into the education initiative, they’ve gotten a lot more out of it.

“Honestly, nothing compares to how it feels to go in every week,” Kavi said. “Manasa and I have talked about this. There will be days we’re exhausted or we have tests and it’s like, ‘Now we have to go tutor.’ But without fail, every time we get through, we’re invigorated and encouraged. It’s always the highlight of our day—there’s nothing else I do that is as rewarding.”

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GLOBAL OUTLOOK 48 Individual Travel-Study Group Trips:

54 Costa Rica 58 Morocco 62 Vietnam 66 New York and

Washington, D.C.

68 Oxford Maymester 72 Ramsey Service Trip to San Francisco

Meredith Van De Velde spent her summer working at LearningLeaders, a debate and public speaking education company in Shanghai, China, coaching two of their summer camps for robotics and coding.

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omestic and international travel-study is an integral part of the Foundation Fellowship. Fellows and Ramseys enjoy unique, immersive learning opportunities around the world through individual travel grants and spring break group sojourns led by faculty.

Fellows also study abroad at the University of Oxford after their first year at UGA. Sam Tingle, FF ’18—Australia, Bali, Canada, England, Fiji, Greece, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Vietnam, U.S. “While studying sustainable development in the South Pacific countries of New Zealand, Australia, and Fiji, I witnessed the impact of disasters and how varying response capacities translate into lives saved or livelihoods lost. The disparity between the coordinated response to the Christchurch Earthquake in New Zealand and the ineffective measures taken after Cyclone Winston in Fiji was stunning. These experiences sparked a curiosity for disaster management that was solidified after spending time in Nepal later that summer. After trekking through the country and volunteering in an orphanage just one year after the devastating 2015 Ghorka Earthquake, I realized the current model for disaster management had room for improvement and that innovations in technology could be a possible solution.

“I explored the intersection of technology with crisis management and gained competencies in skills I believe can address some of the problems I had witnessed. At a coding academy in Malaysia, I learned web development and how to code online applications. At the University of Twente in the Netherlands, I received a certification in using spatial data for disaster management. Through Harvard University’s Humanitarian Initiative, I trained to use remotely sensed data for humanitarian programs.

While conducting research with NASA, I learned how to analyze satellite imagery and apply findings from space to local issues.

“The Fellowship supported participation in multiple conferences—the UNISDR Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in Mexico, International i-Rec Conference on Reconstruction and Recovery for Displaced Populations and Refugees in Canada, and Annual Cartographic Conference in D.C.—where I networked with practitioners

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in the field and gained valuable exposure to the current frameworks of disaster management.

“Through internships I have applied my experiences toward solving real-world problems. While interning for the U.S. Agency for International Development, I made maps from crowd-sourced data to be used by on-theground development partners. Last summer, I worked at a refugee community center on the Greek island of Lesvos where I applied my geospatial skills to create a map of food donors that can be used by organizations distributing food. Last fall, I interned at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Working with the Crisis Response Unit, I helped build a tool called the Global Crisis Risk Dashboard that will be used to understand political and natural disaster risk by UN offices around the world.

“The incredible support of the Fellowship has allowed me to dive deep into my interests and provided me a period of intense learning unrestricted by a field of study or continental boundary. This international and interdisciplinary education will prove invaluable in addressing the complex issues our current global disaster management framework faces.”

Brianna English, FF ’18—Bali, Nicaragua, Thailand “The Foundation for the International Medical Relief of Children’s Project Limón in Nicaragua offered the only pediatrician and OB/GYN in the area and also had a program for children with disabilities. As a weekly volunteer with disabled kids and adults in Athens and an aspiring pediatrician, I knew that supporting this work would be right up my alley. I lived in a homestay, and none of my family spoke English, and I only knew the bare minimum of Spanish. This was a huge adjustment as well as a great learning process for me. As a volunteer, every day was a new experience. I went on prenatal house visits, took vitals at the clinic, sat in on consultations by the pediatrician, developed activities for kids in the disabilities program, went on house visits of children deemed malnourished, and created a presentation for patients with diabetes. Because of this trip, I am currently in the process of trying to learn Spanish, and I plan to go back to Nicaragua to complete one of my medical school rotations through FIMRC.”

Sam Tingle worked at the UN headquarters in New York in fall 2017 on the Global Crisis Risk Dashboard.

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Lorin Crear spent her travel-study time “exploring the different aspects of human health.”

Lorin Crear, FF ’18—England, Japan, Morocco, Peru, South Africa, U.S. “What stood out most to me about the Foundation Fellowship was the sheer potential for travel-study. I dreamed of graduating from the University of Georgia with a diploma in one hand and a wellstamped passport in the other. As a student on the pre-med track, semesters abroad were difficult to reconcile with the rigorous curriculum, so I resolved to make the most of my summers by exploring different aspects of human health.

“Shortly after completing finals at the end of freshman year, I navigated the biomedical ethics course at Oxford University. Under the tutelage of All Souls College fellow Hanna Pickard, my peers and I practiced articulating and defending positions on such abstract concepts as decision-making capacity and the nature of addiction that have applications for the practice of medicine. While a stark contrast from the usual course load of hard sciences, the class provided a valuable window into the principles underlying every life-or-death decision healthcare providers make.

“The following summer, I traveled to Peru to shadow physicians in obstetrics, pediatrics, and emergency medicine.

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medical vocabulary, visited Machu Picchu, discovered a love of salsa dance, grasped the basics of sandboarding, and sparked an interest in comparative health systems and global health.

“Further exploration of global health interests led me to an eight-week internship with Sisters Incorporated, a shelter for female victims of domestic violence and their children in Cape Town, South Africa. There I worked with staff to develop sexual health and nutrition programs for residents according to national policy and budgetary constraints.

The experience introduced me to the hectic environment of nonprofit work and the importance of cultural sensitivity as it pertains to health promotion.”

Logan Campbell, FF ’18—Bali, China, Ecuador, England, Malaysia, South Africa, Tanzania, U.S. “The Foundation Fellowship provided me with the adventure of a lifetime.

Courtesy of this program, I spent over a year of my collegiate career abroad, traveling and studying across five continents. I was challenged by numerous opportunities to experience and interact with a wide range of cultures and people, and I also came to appreciate the global impact U.S. domestic decisions can have.

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“After going to Oxford and backpacking Europe with my best friends, I received a Freeman-Asia grant to teach English to primary school children in Kunming, China. The next summer I flew to Beijing to study Chinese in the morning at Beijing Foreign Studies University and then intern in the afternoon with the International Green Economics Association, an NGO that works closely with the Chinese government. There, I was able to work on China’s ‘One Belt, One Road’ initiative, which focuses on integrating China with the rest of Asia, Northern Africa, and Europe. I was then selected for a Chinese Government scholarship to attend one of the most prestigious universities in mainland China, Tsinghua University.

While at Tsinghua, I interacted with some of the brightest minds in China and improved my language skills and my understanding of China’s history and culture.

“I had some time between these two adventures in China, so instead of flying home, I traveled to a remote island off the coast of East Malaysia and worked on a coral reef restoration and sea turtle conservation project. I was working for the Tropical Research and Conservation Centre, an eclectic mix of expats and the Sama-Bajau people, a

local, stateless population. It was this experience—working with, leading dives amongst, sleeping in tents alongside, and collaborating with the Bajau people to restore the coral reefs they had destroyed by the practice of blast fishing due to a lack of economic alternatives—that served as my most insightful experience into the pervasive flaws in our global system.

“Following my second stint in China, I flew to South Africa to study at Stellenbosch University. South Africa introduced me to the most chaotic political atmosphere I have ever known and showed me levels of economic inequality I had never seen before, but it also provided me with some of the most thought-provoking classes I have ever taken and introduced me to incredible natural sights. During the Stellenbosch spring break, I flew to Tanzania and climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, the tallest mountain in Africa.

“I returned to the U.S. and accepted an internship with the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia, where I saw how to utilize the complementary nature of law and public policy to find ways to shape the domestic, and subsequently global, system. The next semester I accepted an internship with the ACLU’s National Prison Project in Washington, D.C., where I fought to ensure prisoners’ human rights were protected.

“Though it was far from a linear journey, it was one that helped me find and understand what I hope to do with my future, working at the intersection of public interest law and public policy.”

Rachel Kelley, FF ’18—Bali, Canada, England, France, South Korea, U.S. “Coming to UGA, I knew I wanted to combine my French and Korean language skills with study abroad and research experiences. My first time abroad in South Korea was with Dr. Yi, during the Fellows spring break trip. Due to her close relationship with Buddhist nuns, we were able to stay in a secluded monastery tucked away in the beautiful Korean countryside. I woke up at four in the morning to pray and meditate with the nuns, and shared meals, tea, and chores in the afternoon.

“After this trip, I was eager to continue expanding my language skills and build upon my knowledge of Korean and French culture. The following summer I went to Korea again, this time teaching English in a high school, through an internship program started by Dr. Yi. Soon thereafter, I left to complete a semester exchange program at Sciences Po in Paris.

I took classes in French and managed to convince the local boulangerie that I was fluent—probably the most difficult task of all.

“The summer after junior year I returned for the third time to South Korea, where I researched nuclear nonproliferation and foreign policy at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. Through this program, I visited think tanks and policy institutions, meeting people in the field that would otherwise be out of reach, and I continued my research with the Carl Vinson Institute in Athens during the fall of my senior year, focusing on North Korean policy.”

Tommy Desoutter, FF ’18—Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, England, France, Japan, U.S. “After a summer course in Costa Rica studying surf culture and political ecology, I flew to France to spend a semester studying law and political science at the Université de Lyon III. This experience was one of the most exciting of my life, requiring rapid maturation and an adaptation to a very different social environment. I began lasting friendships with people from a variety of countries and explored the beautiful city of Lyon while enjoying the interesting coursework. I also learned how to live alone, cook basic meals, perfect my use of transit, and find the secret gems of a city that is much more than it seems. French law, which is based on the Continental ideas of legal positivism, is very different from the American system that derives from the British tradition of natural law, so it was an entirely foreign experience for me to learn about its foundations and doctrines.”

Jenny Alpaugh, RS ’18—Costa Rica, England “The advanced Spanish and creative writing Maymester course in Costa Rica was so much more than just a way to earn six credit hours; it was a way to explore the world and deepen my understanding of other people. It is easy to fall into a cycle of only considering your immediate surroundings and forgetting there are billions of other people in the world who are affected by the choices you make every day. Traveling to a new place and stepping outside familiar surroundings helped to bring these considerations to the front of my mind, and my experience in Costa Rica helped solidify a passion for sharing science with the world. Being away from my home for three weeks was a good practice run for the threemonth study abroad in Oxford, England, I completed the following fall, taking

courses in biomedical ethics, common law, microbiology, and physiology with Oxford tutors.”

Lilian Zhu, FF ’18—Argentina, Bali, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, England, Taiwan, U.S. “Sophomore year, I traveled to Ecuador with the Fellows spring break trip and spent a week in the Amazon Rainforest.

Between meeting people from the local indigenous community, eating giant bugs, and rope swinging from trees that seemed to touch the sky, I decided my future career would include my love for Latin America. Three months later, I received the U.S. Department of Education’s Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship and studied and volunteered in Florianópolis, Brazil, for a summer. Being there while Brazil was getting ready to host the Rio Olympics was formative—I was privy to conversations surrounding Brazil’s emergence as a global power, and that sparked an interest in foreign diplomacy and international relations.

“I carried that interest with me to Washington, D.C., where I interned with the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda advocating for and against policies that affect the Latino community here in the U.S. From there, I flew to Buenos Aires, Argentina, to spend another five months studying North and Latin American relations. On a separate note, the timing was perfect. Because I had temporary residency in Argentina, I was able to join a team and play in the 2017 Pan-American Ultimate Frisbee Championships against teams from 11 other countries around the Americas. I’ve been playing Ultimate on UGA’s team since freshman year, and it was an amazing experience getting to meet players from around the continent.

“I also attended Latin American business conferences in Los Angeles and New York and networked with professionals from around the world. In Athens, I continued to examine U.S.-Latin American relations through a CURO Honors research course. After graduation, I traveled fully funded to study Taiwan’s role in East Asian relations, and now I am continuing my language studies in Brazil as a 2018-2019 Fulbright Scholar.

I cannot imagine a more incredible undergraduate experience for myself, and the options I have moving forward into the future are thanks to the Foundation Fellowship. There are simply no words for the amount of counsel, support, smiles, and hugs that this community has given me over the past years, and I feel so fortunate to have chosen UGA.”

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Nico Leis took ecology, geology, and anthropology courses during the UGA Interdisciplinary Field Studies Program this past summer. He spent eight weeks on a road trip across the country, camping, hiking, and learning. “At Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument (seen in this photo), we climbed all the way to the top, observing the predominately felsic, silica rich ash, rocks, and boulders that came out of the magma chamber in the eruption of 1980,” he said. “From the top, we were able to peer into the crater and see the result of the lateral eruption which blew sideways and created a massive landslide.”

Individual Travel Grants, 2017-2018 Swapnil Agrawal—Tanzania; Washington, D.C. Fola Akinola—Washington, D.C. Zoë Andrews—Atlanta, Georgia Avni Ahuja—Bolivia; Washington, D.C. McKenna Barney—Rwanda; South Africa Rebecca Buechler—Russia Izzy Ceron—United Kingdom; Athens, Georgia Chip Chambers—United Kingdom; New York, New York Kat Christie—St. Augustine, Florida Branham Culpepper—Germany Sam Daly—Tanzania Claire Drosos—Argentina Brianna English—Nicaragua Guy Eroh—Anchorage, Alaska Arden Farr—South Korea Steven Feng—Atlanta, Georgia Victoria Fonzi—Czech Republic Shreya Ganeshan—Crater Lake National Park, Oregon; Glacier National Park, Montana; Mount Rainier, Washington Divya Ghoshal—Germany Kal Golde—St. George, Utah Nicole Googe—Australia Griffin Hamstead—Morocco Mallory Harris—Uruguay Laurel Hiatt—Atlanta, Georgia Emma Hope—Carmel, California Hannah Huang—Amsterdam Mackenzie Joy—Davis, California Manasa Kadiyala—Boston, Massachusetts

Rachel Kelley—Canada Josh Kenway—Nigeria; Tanzania Aditya Krishnaswamy—India; Washington, D.C. Nico Leis—Interdisciplinary Field Studies Program, Western U.S. Jessica Ma—Bolivia; New York, New York Mallika Madhusudan–Tanzania Emily Maloney—United Kingdom Samia McEachin—Argentina; Chile Jack McRae—Cambridge, Massachusetts Trey Miller—United Kingdom Kavi Pandian—Italy; South Africa Jessica Pasquarello—Sweden Nina Reddy—Argentina Ashley Reed—Nepal Isabelle Riddle—Denmark; Iceland; Norway; Sweden; New York, New York Margaret Schrayer—Chicago, Illinois Caroline Shearer—New Zealand Mollie Simon—Lahaina, Hawaii; San Francisco, California Benjamin Starks—Boston, Massachusetts Stephanie Stewart—Oman Meredith Van De Velde—China; Boston, Massachusetts Teddy Vincent—Germany Hayes Way—Boston, Massachusetts Ashley Willard—Washington, D.C. Matthias Wilder—Spain Victoria Yonter—Morocco; Ann Arbor, Michigan Lilian Zhu—Argentina; Chile

Claire Drosos, Sebastian Puerta, and Nina Reddy traveled to Argentina this past summer to participate in various travelstudy and internship programs.

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Spring Travel: Costa Rica

Costa Rica Trip Leaders: Dr. Ron Carroll and Dr. Carol Hoffman, professors emeritus of ecology; and Emily Myers Shirley, program administrator, Foundation Fellowship Academic Focus: Biodiversity and sustainability practices in Costa Rica

Chip Chambers, FF ’19, left, “Somewhere between zip lining over a rainforest, watching shooting stars on the beach, and shouting ‘Pura Vida!’ as I raced two other Fellows on horseback through the rainforest back to a river, I had the time of my life. But it wasn’t just the fresh-cut Costa Rican pineapple or fried plantains that left such a sweet taste in my mouth. It was undoubtedly the people experiencing it next to me. The other Fellows were engaged, fun, and thoughtful, noting every discussion on biodiversity, sustainability, and ecology and milking the experience for all it was worth (quite literally one morning on the farm). They know how to hang on tight to a rafting paddle and let loose on a zipline. Like those trees underneath my feet, the trip flew by. But the memories will last a lifetime.”

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Clockwise from top: The Costa Rica group trekked through the Monteverde Cloud Forest, hoping to catch a glimpse of native birds. Below, right: Nicole Googe and Nina Reddy cross the Cloud Forest’s hanging bridge. Below, bottom left: Monte Fischer and Chip Chambers learn to milk a cow at the UGA Costa Rica campus. Below, top left: John Kolb and Maggie Russo sniff the difference between fresh and roasted coffee beans.

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Spring Travel: Costa Rica

Clockwise from top left: Emma Goldsmith hikes through the Cloud Forest; Aditya Krishnaswamy, Monte Fischer, Nicole Googe, Nina Reddy, and Jack McRae pause at the end of a suspension bridge; Fellows learn a few dance moves on the UGA Costa Rica campus; Monte Fischer and Chip Chambers take a study break; Avni Ahuja shows off Costa Rican flora; the guys gear up for ziplining; Fellows enjoy a dinner in the on-site cafeteria.

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Top photo: Nicole Googe, Chip Chambers, Nina Reddy, Jessica Ma, and Monte Fischer ride horses near the Arenal Volcano while, middle photo: John Kolb, Maggie Russo, Aditya Krishnaswamy, and Avni Ahuja go kayaking in the Arenal River nearby. Below: Fellows gather to hear a talk from Dr. Ron Carroll, far right, a professor emeritus of ecology.

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Spring Travel: Morocco

Morocco Trip Leaders: Dr. Kenneth Honerkamp, professor of religion; and Maria de Rocher, assistant director and programming coordinator, Honors Program Academic Focus: North African Islamic culture and tradition

Christina Lee, FF ’19, right, “From an unexpected visit to an authentic hammam; incredible tours that highlighted some of the finest architecture in the Western Islamic world; irrefutably delicious honey, cheese, and bread; camel rides through a Saharan sand storm to camping out underneath the clear, desert sky, the Morocco we experienced with Dr. Honerkamp was beautiful, intricate, and fascinating.”

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Top photo: Fellows cross a stream to Ait-Ben-Haddou.

Middle left: Jessica Ho travels through the market in Marrakech.

Middle right: Dr. Kenneth Honerkamp leads a discussion on Islamic culture. Below: Fellows wait for instructions as they prepare for an overnight stay in the Sahara Desert.

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Clockwise from top left: Abigail West and other Fellows look forward to a Moroccan dinner; Ashley Reed hikes through a stream; Jessica Ho observes yarn dyeing; Divine Ogbuefi, left, and Swapnil Agrawal overlook ruins; and Izzy Ceron walks through tunnels in Tamegroute.

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Top: The Fellows group in Morocco gathers with tour guides; middle (left to right): Ashley Willard and Ruth Schade stop for a photo; Ashley Amukamara and Laurel Hiatt gather with their homestay families in Marrakech; and Fola Akinola takes in the sights; below: Tarun Daniel watches the sun set in the Sahara.

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Spring Travel: Vietnam

Vietnam Program Leader: Dr. Hyangsoon Yi, professor of comparative literature, director of Center for Asian Studies, and director of Korean and Vietnamese language and literature; and Jessica Hunt, major scholarships coordinator, Honors Program Academic Focus: Religion, history, and culture of Vietnam

Nirav Ilango, FF ’19, right, “Spending a week in Vietnam with my classmates and Dr. Hyangsoon Yi was, without a doubt, one of the coolest things I’ve done since getting to UGA. While the hiking and kayaking at the worldrenowned Ha Long Bay (which looks even better in person than it does in pictures), trying out the local banh mi and pho, going on boat rides along the Mekong, and morning trips to the beach were great in their own right, I enjoyed the trip’s cultural focus, as both Dr. Yi and our local guides shed light on critical Buddhist and Cao Dai beliefs. At one Cao Dai temple outside of Ho Chi Minh City, I joined many of my classmates in quiet contemplation; in that moment, I couldn’t help but feel a profound sense of gratitude for the adventures provided to me by the Fellowship.”

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Above, left: Claire Drosos amid the lanterns of Hoi An; above, right: Jessica Pasquarello pauses for reflection in a Cao Dai temple in Ho Chi Minh City; and, at right: Fellows gather in Hoi An.

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Kavi Pandian takes in the sights of Ho Chi Minh City.

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Above, right: Dr. Hyangsoon Yi talks to Caroline Shearer in Hanoi; and, in Ha Long Bay, above, left: Mackenzie Joy represents UGA; at left: Nico Leis kayaks with other Fellows; and, in this photo: Jessica Pasquarello watches the waves from a ferry boat.

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Spring Travel: New York and Washington, D.C.

New York and Washington, D.C. Program Leader: Dr. David S. Williams, associate provost and director, Honors Program Academic Focus: Public health, the arts, law, and politics

Divya Ghoshal walks through Central Park.

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Victoria Fonzi, FF ’21 “When we left for New York and D.C., I never expected to wave to my mom on the TODAY show, chat with Justice Clarence Thomas in his office, or find the world’s best chocolate crepes while wandering around Greenwich Village.

What really took me by surprise was how close I got to the other Fellows in my class.”

Rachel Yuan, FF ’21 “We toured amazing places like NBC, The New York Times, and the State Department; met incredible people like CNN commentator and former Clinton advisor Paul Begala, GNYHA general counsel Susan Waltman, and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas; and bonded as a class. We braved the snow, subways, and miles of walking to learn from experts across many fields, opening our eyes to endless opportunities for the future!”

Left: Fellows pose with the Albert Einstein Memorial in New York; below, right: UGA President Jere W. Morehead with first-year Fellows in Washington, D.C.; below, top left: Zakiyya Ellington stops in Central Park; and, below, bottom left: Anthony VanDieren, Nitin Ankisetty, and Kunho Kim enjoy nighttime in Times Square.

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Maymester: University of Oxford

Maymester in England ‘a profound experience’ Angela Tsao, FF ’21, left, “Contemplating morality in as charming and richly storied a city as Oxford was a profound experience. There’s a vibrant energy thrumming throughout the city and university. My development hero, Jeffrey Sachs, came to give a talk on artificial intelligence. In attendance was Oxford’s own Carl Frey, coauthor of the seminal 2013 economics paper on automation-based unemployment. I actually cited that very article the next week as I worked on a dream assignment for our Computing Ethics seminar, a paper in which I got to argue with all my heart that automation justifies wealth redistribution. This was just extra fun on top of the relevant discussions we had on security in the surveillance age, virtual virtue, and artificial morality. The debates would continue over family-style dinners, through 2 a.m. baking sessions, or latenight Solomon’s chips and cheese.

“There were afternoon picnics in the Oxford parks, playing word games and soccer, or trying out punting as the locals spectated in open amusement. There were also after-class visits to MooMoo’s and excursions to London, Windsor (the royal wedding!), Bletchley Park, Blenheim Palace, and Stratford.

“I fell in love with Cornwall! It was breathtakingly beautiful and surpassed all my storybook dreams. There is a certain magic to the land, in the rolling emerald hills—where the grass really is greener—dotted with puffballs of sheep. Even the buildings seem so much more in harmony with the environment, with their weathered gray stones and humble silhouettes. Staying on a farm and WWOOFing after the Maymester, I feel that visceral, English connection to the land every day!”

Kat Christie, FF ’21 “The Oxford Maymester was an amazing way to start the summer after freshman year. It was challenging but allowed for so much freedom to experience the culture and history of Britain and the university itself. I took advantage of this opportunity to study something outside of my field of interest and traded chemistry labs for close readings of Shakespeare plays.”

Kunho Kim, FF ’21 “Cooking meals with your friends, getting caught up in debates about ethical issues, staying up late and stressing over essays, and exploring a very beautiful city is what the Maymester program at Oxford is all about.”

Kyle Patel, FF ’21 “Studying at Oxford was a magical experience.

You can spend hours wandering the streets and into museums and colleges to journey through hundreds of years of history. The class I took was one of the best things I have ever done. I learned so much about what I think and the direction in which the world is progressing. It challenged me to think deeply in order to defend my convictions and relinquish them when I found they were logically inconsistent (which is harder than it sounds).”

Courses • Biomedical Ethics—David Birks, Kellogg College • Computing, Ethics, and Society—Ian Carroll, Brasenose College • Environmental Economics—George Bitsakakis, St. Benet’s Hall • Shakespeare in Performance—Ben Morgan, St. Catherine’s College

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Top: Fellows gather for the annual first-year photo on Glastonbury Tor; below, right, Anthony VanDieren and Kyle Patel have a go at punting the Thames; below, top left: Fellows at the Cornwall cliffs; and below, bottom left: Victoria Fonzi hikes in Cornwall from Tintagel Castle to Boscastle harbour.

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Top: Rachel Yuan, Phaidra Buchanan, Angela Tsao, Kunho Kim, and Manav Mathews queue to swear the Bodleian Library oath; below, right: Brian Woolfolk, Isabelle Riddle, and Kyle Patel stand near Tower Bridge, which spans the River Thames; below, left: Emma Tucker hikes in Cornwall.

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Clockwise from top: Fellows picnic in the University of Oxford Parks; Arden Farr, right, and Fiachra Rottinghaus enjoy a British tea; Kat Christie, Avery Warner, and Zakiyya Ellington visit a town in Croatia; Nitin Ankisetty treks near the Cornwall cliffs; Fellows gather along the parade route of the royal wedding.

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Spring Service: San Francisco

Ramsey Scholars pulled weeds and installed new plants at the Presidio’s historic gardens in San Francisco, including, top, Hayley Rutchow and Aven Jones; below, left, Hayes Way and Erica Bressner; and below, right, Sam Daly. Bottom photo: Trey Walker, Sam Daly, Aven Jones, Emma Hope, Meredith Van De Velde, Ben Giebelhausen, and David Bekore relax after their service project.

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Ashley Martin tours Google.

San Francisco Program Leader: Dorothé Otemann, coordinator of external affairs, Honors Program Service Focus: Volunteering at Presidio Park and the Exploratorium Museum of Science, Art, and Human Perception Professional Focus: Touring Google with UGA alumni

Zane Placie, RS ’21 “I was happy to volunteer at the Exploratorium to help children learn more about scientific principles. It was also fascinating to learn about the ecology of Presidio Park and to help preserve it for years to come.”

Teddy Vincent, RS ’21 “San Francisco was an awesome experience for the RamFam, especially for those of us like me who had never been before. We toured Google, saw sea lions at Pier 39, ate the spiciest sauce I’ve ever encountered at the Pepper Palace, and visited Alcatraz.

On top of all that, we spruced up the Presidio with fresh plants and volunteered at the Exploratorium. Thirteen of us then continued on to Yosemite National Park and hiked through fresh snow and incredible views.”

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Ramsey Scholars also did cleanup at the Exploratorium, including, left photo, Aven Jones and Emma Hope; top photo, Ben Giebelhausen and Hayley Rutchow; and middle photo, Erica Bressner. This photo: Emma Hope walks across the Golden Gate Bridge.

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A Google tour with UGA alumni included a group photo, above; Teddy Vincent and Karan Pol testing their skills on Dance Dance Revolution; and, left, Hannah Huang in front of the building.

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Sam Tingle, Emily Maloney, Samia McEachin, Lilian Zhu, and Logan Campbell celebrate their upcoming graduation at the Herty Field fountain.

FELLOWS & RAMSEYS BY CLASS YEAR 78 Lisa Ann Coole Award 79 Fellows Class of 2018 89 ‘Ultimate’ Senior Year 92 Fellows by Class Year 100 Ramseys Class of 2018 103 Ramseys by Class Year

Mollie Simon, left, and Emily Maloney receive the Lisa Ann Coole Award from Dr. David S. Williams, associate provost and director of the Honors Program.

Emily Maloney, Mollie Simon receive Lisa Ann Coole Award

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he Foundation Fellows Class of 2018 chose Emily Maloney and Mollie Simon as this year’s recipients of the Lisa Ann Coole Award. The award was established in 1999 to honor Lisa Ann Coole’s memory and to inspire Foundation Fellows to translate into their lives the compassion, joy, courage, and excellence that defined Lisa’s presence in the Fellowship, at UGA, and in her communities both in Georgia and in Illinois.

Lisa was an extraordinary young woman and a model Foundation Fellow. She graduated from UGA magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in biology in 1997. She was a 19-time All-American swimmer, won two NCAA titles, and was selected as the 1997 NCAA Woman of the Year. Lisa had just completed her first year of veterinary medicine at the University of Illinois-Champaign when she died as a result of injuries received in an automobile accident. In 1999, she was inducted into the UGA Athletic Association Circle of Honor, the highest tribute paid to former Bulldog athletes and coaches.

Of this year’s recipients, Emily graduated with bachelor’s degrees in cognitive science and sociology and is now pursuing a PhD in sociology at Duke University with funding from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

Mollie earned bachelor’s degrees in journalism and political science—with certificates in local food systems and new media.

After interning with the Atlanta Business Chronicle through the Dow Jones News Fund, she is now a reporter for the Greenville News and Anderson Independent.

Emily and Mollie’s classmates share their appreciation below.

Emily Maloney “Emily Maloney is the kind of person whose presence and spirit make you feel good about who you are and also desire to be better—to be kinder, more patient, a better listener.”

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“Maloney is someone who inspires me on a daily basis through the selflessness and generosity that she shows as equally to her many friends as she does to complete strangers.

She is an academic powerhouse who does not feel the need to prove it; any discussion with her is insightful, challenging, and, most of all, enjoyable. She champions the growth of others with a patient ear, a willingness to put aside her own needs, and a humility that asks for nothing in return.”

Mollie Simon “Often the first to offer words of encouragement, condolences, or congratulations, Mollie is a source of warmth and kindness within our class. She continually sacrifices her time and energy for others without complaint. We are all better for having known her these past four years. Despite being one of the most academically distinguished people we know, Mollie constantly champions others’ achievements and endeavors without ever asking for reciprocal support.”

“Mollie has been the one who keeps us connected even in the busiest of times. She is kind beyond measure, looking out for those who can get lost in the shuffle. Mollie makes everyone she encounters feel valued and special.”

Previous recipients are Moira Fennell (2017), Kirstie Hostetter and Chris Lewitzke (2016), Eilidh Geddes (2015), Jesse Chan (2014), Sara De La Torre Berón (2013), Hank Schwartz (2012), Mir Inaamullah and Alex Squires (2011), Betsy Allen (2010), Elizabeth Godbey (2009), Anant Mandawat (2008), Helen Smith (2007), Chloe Thompson (2006), Krisda Chaiyachati (2005), Vanessa Reynolds (2004), Chris Gibson (2003), Cathy Lee and Tina Rakkit (2002), Laquesha Sanders & Kyle Wingfield (2001), Bronson Lee (2000), and Lacy Feldman and Torre Mills (1999).

Fellows Class of 2018

Michael Logan Campbell Kerri Ellen Andre Major: Environmental Health Hometown: Destin, Florida Research: Controlled Linoleic Acid Release in a Hydrogel-Based Mammary Adipose Tissue Model; Evaluating Prospective Mitral Valve Replacement Trials Travel-Study & Internships: Bali; England; Morocco; South Africa; Washington, D.C.; Lawrenceville, Georgia; New York, New York Activities: UGA Visitors Center tour leader, Greater New York Hospital Association intern, Regenerative Bioscience Center undergraduate research Fellow, CURO Research Assistantship, Pack-to-Plate volunteer team captain, UGA Office of Sustainability intern, Whatever It Takes lead tutor, Groote Schuur Hospital cardiothoracic surgery research intern, Gwinnett Clinic intern Honors & Awards: Blue Key Honor Society, UGA Honors in New York, Dean Tate Honor Society, Epsilon Nu Eta, Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Society, summa cum laude with Honors Post-Graduation: Kerri is pursuing a joint MD/MPH at Emory University School of Medicine.

Lorin Janae Crear

Majors: Economics, International Affairs Hometown: Saint Marys, Georgia

Major: Biology Minors: Global Health, Spanish Hometown: Johns Creek, Georgia

Research: Impact of Clarke County Mentorship Program on Student Behavior, Literacy, and Numeracy; Sub-National Analysis of Repression Project Travel-Study & Internships: Bali; China; Ecuador; England; Malaysia; South Africa; Tanzania; Washington, D.C.; New York, New York Activities: American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) National Prison Project Washington intern, ACLU of Georgia intern, Athens Area Humane Society foster parent, International Green Economics Association, Minds Abroad English teacher, Tropical Research and Conservation Centre diver Honors & Awards: Chinese Government Scholarship, Freeman Asia Grant, Beta Gamma Sigma, Blue Key Honor Society, Dean’s List, Presidential Scholar, PwC Case Competition First Place, Terry College of Business Excellence Award for Outstanding Achievement in Economics, Washington Semester Program Scholar, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude with Honors Post-Graduation: Logan is a project coordinator with the New York City Bar Association’s Veterans Assistance Project.

Research: Determinants of Breastfeeding and Sleep Practices Among White and AfricanAmerican Infants in Athens-Clarke County; Inhibitory Eye Tracking Tasks in the Study of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Travel-Study & Internships: England; Japan; Morocco; Peru; South Africa; Washington, D.C.; New York, New York Activities: Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity, Piedmont Athens Regional Medical Center student volunteer, Ballroom Performance Group principal member, Black Affairs Council cultural & social programming committee chair; Mercy Health Center student volunteer; Sisters Incorporated: Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence student intern; Shop with a Bulldog mentor Honors & Awards: National Achievement Award, Presidential Scholar, Stamps Leadership Scholar, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude with Honors Post-Graduation: Lorin is pursuing an MD/MPH at Baylor University College of Medicine.

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Thomas Andrew Desoutter Major: History Minor: French Hometown: Dunwoody, Georgia Research: The Anti-Nuclear Movement in Western Europe, 1975-85 Travel-Study & Internships: Brazil; Costa Rica; Ecuador; England; France; Japan; Washington, D.C.; New York, New York Activities: Georgia Political Review assistant senior editor and staff writer, Kyle House Group legislative intern, TradeSecure research intern, Storyful intern Honors & Awards: American Founding Group, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude with Honors Post-Graduation: Tommy is teaching English classes at Outside the Box English in São Paulo, Brazil, for a year before attending law school.

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Madison Caroline Dill Majors: Anthropology, International Affairs, Spanish Certificate: Global Studies Hometown: Dunwoody, Georgia Research: Examining the Feasibility of Providing Dental Care in Georgia Schools; Possible Policy Solutions to the State of Mental Health on College Campus Travel-Study & Internships: Australia; England; Bali; New Zealand; South Africa; South Korea; Spain; Washington, D.C.; New York, New York Activities: UGA Miracle executive director, Carl Vinson Institute of Government Fellow, Franklin College ambassador, Honors Program teaching assistant, Mercy Health Center translator, Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Society vice president, Student Government Association director of philanthropy outreach, UGA Division of Student Affairs Student Advisory Board, Whatever It Takes tutor Honors & Awards: Coca-Cola Scholar, Dean’s List, Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Society, Order of Omega, Presidential Scholar, Roosevelt Public Policy Scholar, Sphinx Society, Stamps Leadership Scholar, UGA Homecoming queen, UGA Honors in Washington, UGA Outstanding Senior Leader, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude with Honors Post-Graduation: Maddie is a business analyst with McKinsey & Company in Atlanta.

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Brianna Renee English Majors: Biology, Psychology Hometown: Atlanta, Georgia Research: Genetic Mapping of the Chromosome Variant K10-L2 in Maize Travel-Study & Internships: Bali; Nicaragua; Thailand Activities: Biology lab teaching intern, Black Education Support Team mentor; Dawe Lab researcher, Extra Special People volunteer, Franklin College ambassador, Honors Program teaching assistant, UGA Dance Dawgs, UGA Red Hotz, Office of STEM Education peer learning assistant Honors & Awards: CURO Research Assistantship, Dean’s List, Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation General Scholar, Presidential Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude with Highest Honors Post-Graduation: Brianna is pursuing an MD at Morehouse University School of Medicine.

Fellows Class of 2018 Majors: Economics, Statistics Hometown: Johns Creek, Georgia

Shreya Ganeshan

Research: Consequences of “Green” Urban Development in Seattle, WA; Developing Urban Digitization Systems for Weather and Climate Resiliency; Energy Informatics and Data Visualization; iDREEM Project and Uncertainty in Life Cycle Assessments; Recommending Lighting Retrofits in Commercial Buildings; Remediating Superfund Hazardous Waste Sites Travel-Study & Internships: Australia; Germany; India; Netherlands; Thailand; Palo Alto and San Francisco, California; Washington, D.C.; Atlanta, Georgia; New Orleans, Louisiana; Cambridge, Massachusetts; New York, New York; Austin, Texas; Seattle, Washington Activities: UGAvotes campaign director, Roosevelt Institute executive director, U.S. Department of State intern, Athens-Clarke County Unified Government energy analyst, Carl Vinson Institute of Government Fellow, The Energy Concept at UGA director of university relations, Honors Policy Scholars Course teaching assistant, Lunchbox Garden Project executive director, Refugee Outreach at UGA vice president of finance, Student Government Association, UGA Office of Sustainability energy intern, UGA Visitors Center tour guide, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change delegate Honors & Awards: Udall Scholar, Blue Key Honor Society, CURO Summer Fellow, CURO Research Assistantship, Mu Sigma Rho National Statistics Honor Society, Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Society, Palladia Women’s Honor Society, Roosevelt Institute National Network Emerging Fellow for Energy & Environment, Sphinx Society, Dean Tate Honor Society, Terry College of Business Deer Run Fellow, UGA Amazing Student, UGA Honors in Washington, Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude with High Honors Post-Graduation: Shreya works for Google in Mountain View, California, as an associate product marketing manager.

Kal Golde, Mallory Harris, and Taylor Smith hike during their senior year.

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Kalvis Erik Golde Major: Mathematics Minor: Computer Science Hometown: Atlanta, Georgia Research: The Convergence of Quantum Mechanics and Religious Mysticism Travel-Study & Internships: Bali; England; Morocco; Thailand; Washington, D.C.; New York, New York Activities: Center for American Progress War Room intern, Clarke County Mentor Program, Georgia Political Review editor-in-chief, Meigs Professorship Selection Committee student representative, Phi Gamma Delta academic chair, Student Government Association treasurer Honors & Awards: Blue Key Honor Society, Dean’s List, Department of Mathematics Hollingsworth Award, UGA Honors in Washington, Presidential Scholar, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude with Honors Post-Graduation: Kal is a Law & Policy Fellow at the American Constitution Society in Washington, D.C.

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John Miles Hall Majors: Economics, International Business, Risk Management & Insurance Minor: Statistics Hometown: Cape Elizabeth, Maine Research: Economic Research on Performance Bonuses in College Football Travel-Study & Internships: Bali; Ecuador; England; Washington, D.C.; Charlotte, North Carolina; New York, New York; Charleston, South Carolina Activities: Corsair Society, Game Point capital director and cofounder, Oconee County Parks and Recreation youth basketball coach, Sigma Chi scholarship chair Honors & Awards: Markets and Enterprises Seminar; magna cum laude with Honors Post-Graduation: Jack is the managing director of Game Point Capital, the specialty sports finance firm he co-founded, in Charleston, South Carolina.

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Mallory Jessica Harris Majors: Computational Biology, Mathematics Certificate: Interdisciplinary Writing Hometown: Dunwoody, Georgia Research: Climate Drivers of Zika Virus in the Americas; Early Warning Signs of Sticky Malaria Elimination; Forecasting Malaria Resurgence in Kericho, Kenya; Reducing Teen Pregnancy: Case for Comprehensive Sex Education in Georgia; Spatial Early Warning Signals of Malaria Elimination in Haiti Travel-Study & Internships: Bali; Ecuador; England; Thailand; Uruguay; Palo Alto, California; Washington, D.C.; New York, New York Activities: Marisue Hilliard for State Senate District 46 assistant campaign manager, Barrow Elementary School tutor, MATHCOUNTS head coach, Girlology social media intern, STEM Pump coach, Students for Gun Safety president, UGA Department of Mathematics teaching assistant, Drake Lab student researcher Honors & Awards: Goldwater Scholar, National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates at Stanford University, summa cum laude with Highest Honors Post-Graduation: Mallory attended the Voting Rights Data Institute at Tufts University in the summer and is now on staff with the Lucy McBath for Congress campaign. She intends to pursue a PhD in biology with a quantitative emphasis.

Rachel Ann Kelley Major: International Affairs Minors: French, Korean Language & Literature Hometown: Marietta, Georgia Research: Effect of Public Opinion of Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Nonproliferation on South Korea; Efficacy of U.S. Foreign Policy towards North Korea Travel-Study & Internships: Bali; Canada; England; France; South Korea; Washington, D.C.; New York, New York Activities: Animal shelter volunteer, Education Abroad Ambassadors treasurer, Georgia Museum of Art student association member, IEP Conversation Program, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Nuclear Energy Research and Education Center Young Fellows Program, Carl Vinson Institute of Government Fellow, MATHCOUNTS coach Honors & Awards: U.S. Fulbright Scholar, Sigma Iota Rho National Member, UGA Presidential Award of Excellence, UGA Presidential Scholar, magna cum laude with High Honors Post-Graduation: Rachel is spending a year in South Korea as a Fulbright Scholar.

Joshua Edward Kenway

Mallika Madhusudan

Majors: Economics, Political Science Hometown: London, United Kingdom

Majors: Economics, Sociology Minors: Mathematics, Spanish Hometown: Atlanta, Georgia

Research: Energy, Environment, Transportation, and Infrastructure: Intersection of State and Federal Policies; Mayoral Guidelines for Implementing Maternal Wellness Policies and Initiatives Travel-Study & Internships: Bali; Ecuador; England; Washington, D.C.; New York, New York Activities: Athens Ark UMOC campus outreach intern and digital development and data analysis intern, Centre for Euro-Asian Studies at the University of Reading data intern, Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Society treasurer, UGA Athletic Association’s LEAD Program, UGA Men’s Swimming and Diving Team, UGA Student-Athlete Advisory Council, UGA Visitors Center tour leader, Square Roots LLC technical author, Federal Affairs Office of the New York Governor staff assistant Honors & Awards: Alex Patterson Scholar Athlete Award (2x), Blue Key Honor Society, Joel Eaves Student Athlete Award, Department of Political Science Skinner Political Theory Essay Award, UGA Honors in Washington, Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Society, SEC Honor Roll (3x), summa cum laude with Honors Post-Graduation: Josh is pursuing an MA in international policy studies at Stanford University.

Research: Eradicating Food Insecurity in Metro Atlanta; Reducing the Disparity between Federal Sentencing of Crack and Powder Cocaine Travel-Study & Internships: Bali; Cambodia; Ecuador; England; Tanzania; Thailand; Washington, D.C.; Atlanta, Georgia; New York, New York Activities: Corsair Society head of management consulting, Journal of Undergraduate Research Opportunities editor, Laboratory for the Study of Social Interaction undergraduate research assistant, Roosevelt Institute student board of advisors chair, Roosevelt at UGA external engagements coordinator and policy head coordinator, Terry Student Consulting analyst, University Judiciary justice and operations assistant, Bain & Company associate consultant intern, Freedman Consulting research intern and spotlight Fellow Honors & Awards: Barrow Scholarship, Blue Key Honor Society, UGA Honors in Washington, Presidential Award of Excellence, Sea Island Scholar, Sigma Delta Pi, Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude with Honors Post-Graduation: Mallika is an associate consultant at Bain & Company in Atlanta.

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Fellows Class of 2018 Majors: Cognitive Science, Sociology Hometown: Marietta, Georgia

Emily Kathleen Maloney

Research: Alleviating the Teacher Turnover Rate in Georgia; The Effect of Polarization on Networks in State Houses of Representatives; Evaluating Family Goals in the Head Start Program; Reducing Teen Pregnancy: The Case for Comprehensive Sex Education in Georgia; University System of Georgia Enrollment Trends: Policy Suggestions; Extracurricular Activities and Student Outcomes: Causal Effects or Self-Selection?

Travel-Study & Internships: Antarctica; Bali; England; Morocco; South Africa; Washington, D.C.; Atlanta, Georgia; South Bend, Indiana; New York, New York Activities: Carl Vinson Institute of Government Fellow, Georgia Political Review staff writer, Honors Policy Scholars Course teaching assistant, Laboratory for the Study of Social Interaction undergraduate research assistant, MATHCOUNTS head coach, Roosevelt Institute education policy coordinator and education policy center assistant director, Roosevelt Scholar, UGA Club Hockey Team intern, UGA Honors Program peer assisted leadership mentor, Whatever It Takes tutor Honors & Awards: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, Alpha Kappa Delta Sociology Honor Society, American Sociological Association Honors Program, Best Paper Award from the Center for Undergraduate Research Symposium, Blue Key Honor Society, Dean’s List, Outstanding Honors Student in the Social Sciences Award; Palladia Women’s Honor Society, Presidential Scholar, Ray Payne Award, Phi Beta Kappa, First Honor Graduate, summa cum laude with Highest Honors Post-Graduation: Emily is pursuing a PhD in sociology at Duke University with the funding of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

Major: Health Promotion & Behavior Hometown: Glen Allen, Virginia Travel-Study & Internships: Argentina; Bali; Chile; England; Morocco; Washington, D.C.; New York, New York; Richmond, Virginia Activities: Black Affairs Council, Oasis Católico Santa Rafaela tutor, Greater New York Hospital Association intern, UGA Women’s Club Ultimate Frisbee, Whatever It Takes tutor Honors & Awards: Dean’s List, UGA Office of Institutional Diversity Leaders Engaged in Affirming Diversity Fellowship, UGA Honors in New York, Phi Kappa Phi, magna cum laude with Honors Post-Graduation: Samia is interning with the New York City Emergency Management’s Health and Medical Unit to complete her health promotion degree.

Samia Montese McEachin

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Major: Advertising Minor: Certificate in New Media Hometown: Newark, Delaware Research: Admit One: Analyzing the Myriad Pathways into the Design Industry; The Design of an Industry: Bridging the Gap between Design Professionals and Hopefuls; JODD: Creation of the Journal of Digital Design Travel-Study & Internships: Ecuador; England; Tanzania; Washington, D.C.; New York, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Activities: Talking Dog Agency director and art director, UGA AdClub vice president of design, Community Connection creative director, Georgia Political Review layout and design editor, Honors Program teaching assistant, Journal of Digital Design designer and manager, New Media Institute ambassador, UGA Stickers App designer and manager Honors & Awards: Blue Key Honor Society, CURO Assistantship, Dean Tate Honor Society, Heyward G. Smith Award, Jennifer Lynn Stone Memorial Award, Kappa Tau Alpha, Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Society, Presidential Award of Excellence, Phi Kappa Phi, First Honor Graduate, summa cum laude with Highest Honors Post-Graduation: Reilly works as a graphic designer with Brand Bureau in New York.

Reilly Ayres Megee

Majors: Arabic, Economics Hometown: Atlanta, Georgia

Isabel Bailey Palmer

Research: Increasing Demand for Weather-Based Index Insurance in Kenya by Lowering Basis Risk and Improving Farmer Understanding through Experiential Learning; Production Responses and Tax Evasion with Limited State Capacity— Evidence from Major Reform in India; Reducing the Disparity between Federal Sentencing of Crack and Powder Cocaine; Do Negative Rainfall Shocks Increase al Shabaab Attacks?

Travel-Study & Internships: Bali; Kenya; Morocco; Oman; Tanzania; Washington, D.C.; New Orleans, Louisiana Activities: Georgia Political Review editor-in-chief, MATHCOUNTS head coach, Roosevelt Institute at UGA economic development center policy advisor, Roosevelt Scholar, Honors Program peer assisted leadership mentor Honors & Awards: Department of Mathematics Hollingsworth Award, Terry College of Business Outstanding Honors Student Award, Dean’s List, Presidential Scholar, Rhodes Scholarship national finalist, Marshall Scholarship national finalist, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude with Highest Honors and CURO Research Distinction Post-Graduation: Bailey started a pre-doctoral research assistantship this fall in the Economics Department at Princeton University.

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Sierra Runnels

Mollie Rose Simon

Majors: International Affairs, Master of Public Health (Disaster Management Concentration) Minor: Certificate in Global Studies Hometown: Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Majors: Journalism, Political Science Minors: Certificate in Local Food Systems, Certificate in New Media Hometown: Atlanta, Georgia

Research: CMS Emergency Preparedness Compliance in LongTerm Care Facilities; Standardization of Hospitals’ Emergency Alert Codes in Georgia; State of the Literature on Sexual Violence in Conflict Travel-Study & Internships: Canada; England; Japan; South Africa; South Korea; Washington, D.C.; Savannah, Georgia; New York, New York Activities: Athens Office of Emergency Preparedness Field Medical Team, Relationship and Sexual Violence Prevention peer educator, ServGA Medical Reserve Corps, CITS Richard B. Russell Security Leadership Program, UGA Director of Enrollment search and selection committee student representative, UGA Community Emergency Response Team, Emergency Management and Public Health Summit 2017 Honors & Awards: Presidential Scholar, Sigma Iota Rho, Stamps Leadership Scholar, Rhodes Scholarship national finalist, First Honor Graduate, summa cum laude with Highest Honors Post-Graduation: Sierra is currently pursuing an MA in health and medical journalism at UGA.

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Travel-Study & Internships: England; Italy; South Korea; Tanzania; San Francisco, California; Washington, D.C.; Lahaina, Hawaii; New York, New York Activities: Local Food Systems First Year Odyssey Course peer advisor and course assistant, Georgia Political Review layout designer, Palladia Women’s Honor Society president, Red & Black investigative and beat reporter, #RedandBlack creator and curator; Spoon University UGA chapter co-founder and editor-in-chief, UGArden intern, UGA Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute website administrator, UGA MATHCOUNTS public relations and website coordinator, Whatever It Takes tutor Honors & Awards: George M. Abney Award, James M. Cox Institute Innovation Fellow, UGA Honors in Washington, McGill Fellow, Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Society, Palladia Women’s Honor Society, Peabody Student Honor Board, Presidential Scholar, Sphinx Society, Phi Beta Kappa, First Honor Graduate, summa cum laude with Honors Post-Graduation: After an Atlanta Business Chronicle internship through the Dow Jones News Fund, Mollie now covers Clemson University for the Greenville News and Anderson Independent.

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Taylor Bradley Smith Majors: Mathematics, Statistics, M.S. Statistics Minors: Certificate of Applied Data Science, Religion Hometown: Canton, Georgia Research: An Expected Outcome Framework for Evaluating Batting and Pitching Performance in Major League Baseball with Applications to the Juiced Ball and the Fly Ball Revolution Travel-Study & Internships: Tanzania; Los Angeles, California; Ann Arbor, Michigan Activities: Los Angeles Dodgers analytics intern, Advanced Sports Analytics Club president and founder, MATHCOUNTS head coach, University of Michigan Big Data Summer Institute, MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference Honors & Awards: Charter Scholarship, Presidential Scholar, Department of Mathematics Strahan Award First Runner-Up, UPS’s Casey Scholarship, summa cum laude with Highest Honors Post-Graduation: Taylor is an analyst in the R&D department of the Tampa Bay Rays.

Fellows Class of 2018 Majors: Geography, Entertainment & Media Studies, M.S. Geography Minor: Certificate in GIS Hometown: Louisville, Tennessee

Samuel Jackson Tingle

Research: Mapping Bicycling Hazards in Athens Clarke County with the UGA Community Mapping Lab Travel-Study & Internships: Australia; Bali; Canada; England; Fiji; Greece; India; Malaysia; Mexico; Nepal; Netherlands; New Zealand; Vietnam; Washington, D.C.; Hilo, Hawaii; Boston, Massachusetts; New York, New York Activities: NASA Develop intern, UN Development Programme Crisis Response Unit intern, NATAN International Humanitarian Aid refugee community center consultant, USAID remote intern for mapping at-risk countries, Mitrelli International independent researcher, Athens Humane Society Dog Fostering Program, Atlas Business Society, Casa de Amistad volunteer, CURO Research Assistantship, Federal Geographic Data Committee intern, Grady College student ambassador, Peabody Student Honor Board, Talking Dog Advertising Agency executive promotions director, Thomas Lay AfterSchool Program head mentor, UGA Division of Marketing and Communications media relations intern Honors & Awards: Geography Department Outstanding Senior, Atlas Award, Dean’s List, Freeman Asia Grant Recipient, Stamps Leadership Scholar, Presidential Award of Excellence, Presidential Scholar, UGA Amazing Student, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude with Honors (projected) Post-Graduation: Sam interned for the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta this summer before returning to UGA to complete his MS in geography.

Majors: Computer Science, English, Mathematics Hometown: Powder Springs, Georgia Research: Story Generation Systems: A Model of Character Evolution Based on Stanislavsky-Driven BDI Agents; Machine Learning: Indoor Localization in Urban MultiFloor Environments Travel-Study & Internships: Ecuador; England; Japan; Singapore; Spain; Washington, D.C.; New York, New York Activities: Stillpoint Literary Magazine submissions editor and staff editor, Humanists at UGA director of recruiting and founding member, Interfaith Hospitality Network volunteer, Crisis Text Line volunteer, MATHCOUNTS head coach Honors & Awards: Dean Tate Honor Society, National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates at New York Institute of Technology, Presidential Scholar, summa cum laude with Highest Honors (projected) Post-Graduation: Matthias worked with smart grid technologies through an internship with Landis + Gyr this past summer, and he is finishing his three majors at UGA this fall.

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Elizabeth Francina Wilkes Majors: Ecology, Geography Minor: Anthropology Hometown: Atlanta, Georgia Research: Changing Food Systems on College Campuses; Fracking Governance and Resistance in Western North Carolina; Revisiting Property Politics on Sapelo Island; Reviving Our Roots: Reconnecting Teens to Agriculture Travel-Study & Internships: Bali; Ecuador; England; Netherlands; San Francisco, California; Washington, D.C.; Sapelo Island, Georgia; New Orleans, Louisiana; Boston, Massachusetts; Raleigh, North Carolina Activities: Presbyterian Student Center congregant, Lunchbox Garden Project executive director, Real Food Challenge national steering committee member, Progressive Action Coalition, Real Food UGA campaign director, Roosevelt at UGA, First Presbyterian Waddel Fellow in community outreach, Zero Waste Team volunteer Honors & Awards: Udall Scholar, Gamma Theta Upsilon, Palladia Women’s Honor Society, Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude with High Honors Post-Graduation: Elizabeth is working on two organic farms in Georgia, Front Field Farm and Diamond Hill Farm, and is pursuing other nonprofit and political organizing opportunities in the Southeast.

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Victoria Ayse Yonter Majors: Economics, Mathematics Hometown: Marshfield, Missouri Research: Disparities Between Rural and Urban School Districts: Evidence from Georgia; The Effect on Educational Outcomes of SNAP Program Implementation Variation Travel-Study & Internships: Ecuador; England; Morocco; Tanzania; Turkey; Washington, D.C.; Ann Arbor, Michigan; New York, New York Activities: Economics Society president, Georgia Debate Union public debate coordinator and treasurer, Christian Campus Fellowship student intern and senior leader, Honors Program teaching assistant, Math Club vice president of communications, University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy research assistant, Michigan Debate Camp dorm supervisor, Digital Debate Camp head of novice division, Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms volunteer, UGA Economics Department breakout session leader and tutor Honors & Awards: CEDA National Debate Scholar, Department of Mathematics Hollingsworth Award, Presidential Scholar, magna cum laude with Honors Post-Graduation: Victoria is working at the Center for Economic and Social Research at the University of Southern California, after which she plans to pursue a PhD in economics.

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Lilian Lin Zhu Majors: Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Romance Languages Hometown: Iowa City, Iowa Research: From Past to Present: The Tradition of Syrian-Lebanese Immigration in Brazil and Its Impacts on the Current Syrian Refugee Crisis; Soft Power Influence in Latin America: The Evolution of U.S. Foreign Diplomacy in the Americas Travel-Study & Internships: Argentina; Bali; Brazil; Chile; Ecuador; England; Washington, D.C.; New York, New York Activities: Paper Airplanes Refugee Program tutor, Roswell Voices Project assistant linguistic researcher, UGA Office of the Senior VP for Academic Affairs and Provost student liaison, UGA Women’s Ultimate Frisbee president and captain, Whatever It Takes site director, National Hispanic Leadership Agenda Summer Fellow, Fundação Vidal Ramos activities coordinator Honors & Awards: U.S. Fulbright Scholar, Blue Key Honor Society, Dean’s List, Presidential Scholar, Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mosaic Fellow, U.S. Department of State Education Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude with Honors Post-Graduation: Lilian will spend a year in Brazil as a Fulbright Scholar.

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Samia McEachin prepares for a catch at the UGA Intramural Fields, while, below, top, the 12 Monos gather before a game, and below, bottom, Lilian Zhu backhands the disc to a teammate.

An Ultimate senior year

Samia, Lilian take their disc skills to Argentina

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ftentimes, the end of high school signals the end of a sports career, but for Foundation Fellows Samia McEachin and Lillian Zhu, they were just getting started.

Samia and Lilian were both athletes in high school—Samia played basketball and ran track and Lilian captained her school’s swim team—and they took their competitive spirit to another level as members of the UGA Women’s Club Ultimate Team.

For the unfamiliar, Ultimate involves one team throwing a Frisbee amongst each other in efforts to score on the defending team by passing the disc over their goal line. The sport is non-contact but still requires immense amounts of throwing skill and stamina to play.

Lilian, a six-year veteran of the sport, convinced Samia to join the UGA team when they were both sophomores.

Although they play on the same Ultimate team, the pair differ significantly in their individual areas of study. Lilian graduated in May with bachelor’s degrees in Romance languages and Latin American and Caribbean studies, and Samia will graduate in December with her bachelor’s degree in health promotion and behavior.

Last fall, while they were both studying and interning abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Samia and Lilian joined the local Ultimate team, 12 Monos, which had qualified to compete in the 2017 Pan American Ultimate Club Championships, held last November in nearby Cañuelas, Argentina. The tournament featured 900 players on 40 teams from 11 different countries across North, Central, and South America.

“We were lucky enough to be living in Argentina at the time because the tournament took place about an hour outside of Buenos Aires,” says Samia.

Overall, Lilian tallied one goal in eight games, and Samia recorded three goals and one assist in seven games. Ultimately, 12 Monos won only two of the eight games they played in the championships and finished 16th among 17 teams in the Mixed Division.

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Graduation celebration: Lorin Crear, left, and Shreya Ganeshan participate in the commencement rituals of confetti photos and Chapel bell ringing.

Fellows Class of 2019

Swapnil Agrawal Chamblee High School Dunwoody, GA Economics, International Affairs

Rachael Folakemi Akinola Adesina College Ibadan, Nigeria Ibadan, Nigeria French, International Affairs

Ashley Uchenna Amukamara North Forsyth High School Cumming, GA Genetics, Psychology

Maria Isabella Ceron Archer High School Dacula, GA International Affairs, Latin American & Caribbean Studies

Dwain Paul Chambers Providence Academy of Watkinsville Watkinsville, GA Biology, Economics

Trisha Dalapati Centennial High School Roswell, GA Anthropology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, M.S. Comparative Biomedical Sciences

Tarun Daniel Northview High School Johns Creek, GA Biology, Psychology

Guy Darrell Eroh Riverdale High School Portland, OR Ecology, Master of Forest Resources (Fisheries)

Steven W. Feng Deerfield-Windsor School Albany, GA Economics, Mathematics

Laurel Hiatt iAchieve Virtual Academy Suwanee, GA Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Spanish

Jessica Ziling Ho Lakeside High School Martinez, GA Cellular Biology, Master of Public Health

Nirav Ilango Chattahoochee High School Johns Creek, GA Computer Science, Geography

Christina Corrine Lee Kennesaw Mountain High School Marietta, GA Computer Science, English

Zoe Yan Li Bulloch Academy Statesboro, GA International Affairs, Romance Languages

Divine Chukwumelie Ogbuefi South Cobb High School Powder Springs, GA Biology

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Kavi Pandian Chamblee High School Tucker, GA Economics, Sociology

Jessica Kate Pasquarello Saints John Neumann and Maria Goretti Catholic High School Philadelphia, PA Economics, International Affairs, M.A. Political Science & International Affairs

John Michael Rawlings Forsyth Central High School Cumming, GA Finance, International Affairs, International Business

Ashley Elizabeth Reed Hudson High School Hudson, OH Psychology, Sociology

Ruth Anne Schade Marlborough High School Marlborough, MA Nutritional Sciences, M.S. Foods and Nutrition

Caroline Laura Shearer Escondido Charter High School Fallbrook, CA Ecology

Aditya Sood Alpharetta High School Alpharetta, GA Biology, Sociology

Stephanie Alexandra Stewart Norcross High School Norcross, GA Economics, International Affairs, Women’s Studies

Abigail Elizabeth West Classen School of Advanced Studies Oklahoma City, OK Printmaking & Book Arts

Ashley Henehan Willard Holton Arms School Derwood, MD Economics, Political Science, Psychology

Tarun Daniel looks over MRI scans in the psychology building. He joined a project in the Department of Psychology working to create a simple physical test to help diagnose mental disorders.

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Avni Sheel Ahuja Alpharetta High School Alpharetta, GA International Affairs, Sociology

McKenna Aliya Barney Indian Springs School Venetia, PA Economics, Geography, Mathematics

Rebecca L. Buechler Greater Atlanta Christian School Duluth, GA International Affairs, Mathematics

Claire Martha Drosos Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy Cincinnati, OH Finance, Sociology

Montgomery Lloyd Fischer Henry Sibley High School South Saint Paul, MN Computer Science, Mathematics

Stephan Nicholas George Brookwood High School Lawrenceville, GA Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Biology, Genetics

Emma Marie Goldsmith Deerfield-Windsor School Albany, GA Journalism, Political Science

Nicole Marie Googe Clarke Central High School Athens, GA Economics, International Business

Griffin Scott Hamstead West High School Knoxville, TN English

Mackenzie Rose Joy Sequoyah High School Woodstock, GA Physics & Astronomy

John Gabriel Kolb Atherton High School Louisville, KY Biology

Aditya Krishnaswamy George Walton Comprehensive High School Marietta, GA Mathematics, Statistics

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Nicolas Leis Cambridge High School Milton, GA Economics, Psychology

Kaitlin Mary Luedecke McIntosh High School Peachtree City, GA Chemistry

Jessica Yan Ma Northview High School Johns Creek, GA Sociology, Women’s Studies

Jon Mallory McRae III Grace Christian Academy Bainbridge, GA English, Psychology

Sebastian Puerta Centennial High School Alpharetta, GA Economics BA/MA, Mathematics, Statistics

Nina P. Reddy Lambert High School Suwanee, GA Economics, Sociology, Women’s Studies

Margaret Grace Russo Blue Valley North High School Overland Park, KS English

Andrew Dunivin Schmitt Brighton High School Rochester, NY Economics, Statistics

Benjamin Crawford Starks Celebration High School Celebration, FL Management Information Systems

Aditya Krishnaswamy, Andrew Schmitt, and Nina Reddy break for lunch during their internships in Washington, D.C., this past summer.

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Asim Ahmed Brookstone School Columbus, GA Finance, Spanish

ZoĂŤ Lorene Andrews Charles R. Drew Charter School Atlanta, GA Chemistry, Music

Nitin Sai Prasad Ankisetty Oxford High School Oxford, MS Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Finance

Phaidra S. Buchanan Sandy Creek High School Tyrone, GA Unspecified (Education)

Katherine Fredrica Christie Boca Raton Community High School Boca Raton, FL Ecology

Zakiyya Nzinga Ellington Allen High School Allen, TX Accounting, Arabic, International Business

Arden Anne Farr Hutchison School Memphis, TN International Affairs, Statistics

Victoria Christine Fonzi North Gwinnett High School Suwanee, GA Cellular Biology

Divya Ghoshal Del Norte High School San Diego, CA Cellular Biology

Nina Grace Howard Academic Magnet High School Mt. Pleasant, SC Cellular Biology, Romance Languages

Satya Amritsai Jella Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science and Technology Lawrenceville, GA Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Economics

Anderson Kunho Kim Oconee County High School Watkinsville, GA Computer Science, STEM MBA

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Manav Cherian Mathews Chamblee High School Dunwoody, GA Economics, International Business, Statistics

Kyle Pishunjay Patel Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology Duluth, GA Biology, International Affairs

Tarun Neel Ramesh Northview High School Johns Creek, GA Economics, Genetics

Isabelle Olivia Riddle Sequoyah High School Canton, GA Biology, Genetics

Fiachra Eileen Rottinghaus Home School Lander, WY Classics, Cognitive Science

Angela Lily Tsao Parkway West High School Manchester, MO Cognitive Science, Computer Science

Emma Grace Tucker The Paideia School Decatur, GA Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Anthony J. VanDieren Notre Dame Preparatory High School Bloomfield Hills, MI Entomology

Avery Elise Warner Clarke Central High School Athens, GA Business (Unspecified), Mathematics

Brian Jay Woolfolk Westlake High School Atlanta, GA Computer Science

Rachel Janeyee Yuan Orange County School of the Arts Fountain Valley, CA Entertainment & Media Studies, STEM MBA

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Robyn Evelyn Anzulis South Carroll High School Woodbine, MD Applied Mathematics, Economics

Luke Joseph Armao Archbishop Hoban High School Fairlawn, OH Biology (Neuroscience), Computer Science

Eva-Michelle Belikova Woodstock High School Woodstock, GA Biology

Claire E. Bunn Marion Senior High School Marion, AR Biochemistry, Statistics

Keaton Patrick Coletti North Oconee High School Bogart, GA Business, Economics, Engineering

Emma Calhoun Ellis Lovett School Atlanta, GA Genetics, Romance Languages

Elizabeth Ann Esser Cedarburg High School Cedarburg, WI Genetics

Emma Chandler Innes Hale Charlottesville High School Charlottesville, VA Criminal Justice, History

Edward Tatum Hunda Wheeler High School Acworth, GA Animal Science

Jena M. Jibreen Collins Hill High School Lawrenceville, GA International Affairs

Jamil Fayazali Kassam Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology Suwanee, GA Computer Science, Genetics

Aparna Pateria Northview High School Johns Creek, GA Biology, Genetics

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William Goins Ross Marist School Atlanta, GA Finance, M.S. Business Analytics

Nathan Samuel Safir American School of The Hague Wassenaar, The Netherlands Computer Science, Mathematics

Emma Joanna Traynor Savannah Arts Academy Savannah, GA International Affairs

Jaaie Upkar Varshney Rome High School Rome, GA Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Margaret Elizabeth Warren George C. Marshall High School Dunn Loring, VA Actuarial Science, Spanish

Himani Yadav Lambert High School Suwanee, GA Cognitive Science, Computer Science

Anna Samsonov Lafayette High School Wildwood, MO Anthropology, Biochemistry

Oleksandra Stogniy Woodstock High School Acworth, GA Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Incoming Fellows and Ramseys Luke Armao, Elizabeth Esser, Emma Hale, and Marshall Berton test their hammock skills.

Ramsey Honors Scholars Class of 2018 Jenny Elizabeth Alpaugh Major: Biology Minor: Spanish Hometown: Athens, Georgia Research: Diversity in High School Publications Travel-Study & Internships: Costa Rica; England; San Diego, California; New Orleans, Louisiana; Austin, Texas; Seattle, Washington Activities: Athenia executive producer and reporter, Georgia Scholastic Press Association Media and Leadership Academy assistant director and Georgia Leadership Academy counselor, Journal of Undergraduate Research Opportunities discipline editor and content editor, MATHCOUNTS coach, UGAzine copy editor and staff writer, ULEAD mentor, Undocumented Student Alliance executive member Honors & Awards: CURO Research Assistantship, magna cum laude with Honors Post-Graduation: Jenny is pursuing a career in radio journalism in Portland, Oregon.

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Davis Jarratt Coleman Major: Finance Minors: Statistics, Certificate in Legal Studies Hometown: Orlando, Florida Travel-Study & Internships: England; Spain; Atlanta, Georgia; New Orleans, Louisiana; Austin, Texas Activities: Apollo Society consumer analyst, Colliers International investment sales analyst, The Home Depot merchandising intern, Sigma Chi fraternity, Student Government Association senator, UGA Finance Society, University Council, Whatever It Takes executive director and finance director Honors & Awards: Dean’s List, cum laude with Honors Post-Graduation: Davis is a financial analyst for The Home Depot Corporate Finance Division at the company headquarters in Atlanta.

Emily Christine Giambalvo Major: Management Information Systems Minors: Certificate in Sports Media, Anthropology Hometown: Easley, South Carolina Travel-Study & Internships: Brazil; Korea; Russia; San Diego, California; Indianapolis, Indiana; New Orleans, Louisiana; Eugene, Oregon; Austin, Texas; Seattle, Washington Activities: Red & Black senior staff writer and sports editor, Associated Press journalist, Atlanta Journal Constitution freelance writer, ESPN.com freelance writer, Inside Publications writing intern, Seattle Times sports reporting intern, USA Track & Field communications intern Honors & Awards: Associated Press Sports Editors Student Portfolio Contest Winner, Georgia College Press Association Best Sports Story (3x), Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication McGill Fellow, Terry College of Business Excellence in Management Information Systems Award, summa cum laude with Honors Post-Graduation: After a summer interning for the Washington Post, Emily is now a full-time sports reporter for the newspaper.

Evan Knox Majors: Mathematics, Physics, Psychology (Neuroscience Concentration), Statistics Hometown: Athens, Georgia Research: Neuropsychology and Memory Assessment; Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Moderates Protection of Cognitive Flexibility

by Cognitive Reserve; Effects of Cognitive Reserve and MPOD Levels on Personality in Older Adults; Through the Eyes of the Experts: Meteorologists’ Perceptions of the Probability of Precipitation Travel-Study & Internships: San Francisco, California; New Orleans, Louisiana; Durham and Raleigh, North Carolina; Austin, Texas Activities: Demosthenian Literary Society sergeant-at-arms and custodian, Quiz Bowl Club of UGA vice president and primary tournament director, Thomas Lay After-School Program tutor, Neuropsychology and Memory Assessment Laboratory, Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group Honors & Awards: Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude with High Honors (projected) Post-Graduation: After a summer of biostatistics research at Duke University and North Carolina State University, Evan returned to UGA to complete his four degrees.

Zoe Irene Schneider Majors: Cognitive Science, Genetics Hometown: Atlanta, Georgia Research: Investigation of Visual Event Related Potentials in Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective, Psychotic and Non-Psychotic Bipolar Disorders Travel-Study & Internships: Ecuador; Nepal; Peru; San Diego, California; Atlanta, Georgia; New Orleans, Louisiana; Austin, Texas; Seattle, Washington Activities: Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab research assistant; Health 4 Kids health education volunteer, MATHCOUNTS curriculum coordinator and head coach, Plant Evolutionary Biology Lab research assistant, Ramsey service spring break coordinator, UGA Spoon University co-founder Honors & Awards: CURO Scholar Distinction, Dean’s List, magna cum laude with High Honors Post-Graduation: Zoe will spend a gap year working in public health and epidemiology before entering a graduate program for epidemiology in preparation for a career with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Manasa Kadiyala, center, works with graduate student Lauren Brown as they monitor undergraduate Madeline Mitchell during clinical testing of muscle mitochondrial oxidative capacity in the Exercise Muscle Physiology Laboratory.

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Ramseys Class of 2019 Manasa Lakshmi Kadiyala Chattahoochee High School Alpharetta, GA Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Jacqueline Grace Kessler Eastside High School Gainesville, FL Environmental Economics & Management

Prabhjot Kaur Minhas Richmond Hill High School Richmond Hill, GA Anthropology, Genetics

Vineet Sundar Raman George Walton Comprehensive High School Marietta, GA Biology, Spanish, Latin American & Caribbean Studies

Evan Chandler Barnard Johns Creek High School Johns Creek, GA Ecology, International Affairs

Sara Elizabeth Cagle Morgan County High School Madison, GA English

Grant Harrison Mercer Harrison High School Marietta, GA Biology, International Affairs, Spanish

Carl Thomas Miller III Grovetown High School Grovetown, GA Computer Science

Ramseys Class of 2020 Hayley Marie Rutchow Franklin High School Thompsons Station, TN Early Childhood Education, MSEd Early Childhood Education

William Jessie Walker Bainbridge High School Bainbridge, GA Anthropology, Biology (Neuroscience)

Benjamin Giebelhausen Bennington Public High School Bennington, NE Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Psychology, M.S. Artificial Intelligence

Emma Danielle Hope Cherry Creek High School Englewood, CO Genetics

Sarah Aven Hartwell Jones Collegiate School Richmond, VA Art

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Ramseys Class of 2021 David Harry Bekore Sanford H. Calhoun High School Merrick, NY Economics

Erica Kaila Glorianna Bressner Douglas County High School Winston, GA Economics, International Affairs

Elijah David Solomon Courtney Home School Gainesville, GA Physics

George Branham Culpepper Westfield School Perry, GA Economics, Romance Languages

Samantha Jane Daly Dunwoody High School Dunwoody, GA International Affairs, Journalism

Hannah Yongxian Huang John S. Davidson Fine Arts School Augusta, GA Environmental Health, STEM MBA

Ashley Catherine Martin Home School Owens Cross Roads, AL Genetics

Zane G. Placie Kennesaw Mountain High School Kennesaw, GA Finance, Risk Management & Insurance

Karan A. Pol Campbell High School Smyrna, GA Economics

Margaret Frances Schrayer Princeton High School Princeton, NJ Computer Science

Meredith Elaine Van De Velde Glynn Academy St Simons Island, GA Computer Science, International Affairs

Theodore Jacob Vincent Ladue Horton Watkins High School Creve Coeur, MO Entertainment & Media Studies, Mathematics

Winston Hayes Way Westfield School Hawkinsville, GA Mathematics, Statistics

James Herbert West Notre Dame High School Chattanooga, TN Computer Science, Linguistics

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Rachel Aubrey Mattson Hampton High School Pittsburgh, PA Biochemistry

Sam Daly spent six days hiking Mount Kilimanjaro during a Maymester study abroad trip to Tanzania. “During the climb, we hiked through five different climate zones.

The peak is above 19,000 feet in elevation and is high enough to see the curvature of the earth.�

Yehia Abdelsamad Baker Early College Wilsonville, OR Biology

Marshall Dean Berton North Springs Charter High School Sandy Springs, GA Business, International Affairs

Rosasharn Lilly Brown Weber School Marietta, GA Political Science

Alex Joshua Eldridge Dunwoody High School Dunwoody, GA Mathematics

Eric Nathan Miller North Springs Charter High School Sandy Springs, GA Computer Science, Mathematics

Austin Michael Stack Research Triangle High School Morrisville, NC Biochemical Engineering

William Frank Swenton III Cambridge High School Milton, GA Genetics

Garrett H. Williams Liberty North High School Kansas City, MO Finance

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At the 2018 Foundation Fellows Interview Weekend, alumni share how the Fellowship continues to benefit them. From left to right are Shannon Hiller, Phil Grayeski, Gaby Pierre, Tracy Yang, Shaun Kleber, and Jennifer Srygley Sucre.

Fellows Alumni

Foundation Fellow alumni by class year Class of 1977 John Ernest Graves Robert Richardson Rice Joseph Allan Tucker, Jr. Class of 1978 Michael Thomas Bohannon Audrey Shields Crumbley Class of 1979 William Arthur Ball John Weldon Harbin Harold Bobby Lowery Class of 1980 Sara Ruth Shlaer Bryan Jay Whitfield Class of 1981 Cornelia Isabella Bargmann Class of 1982 Fred Holtz III Peter Lumpkin Patrick Michael Brian Terry Catherine Leigh Touchton Class of 1983 William Mark Faucette Frank Joseph Hanna III Betsy Lyons McCabe Judson Durward Watson III

Class of 1984 Stephen Robert Ellis Denise Lamberski Fisher Sara Voyles Haddow Liebel Jessica Bruce Hunt Charles William McDaniel Robert Brad Mock Kevin Brett Polston Leslie Williams Wade Class of 1985 Charles Victor Bancroft II Frank Eugene Glover, Jr. Shannon Terrell Gordon Margaret Crowder Lawrence Marjorie Dixon Mitchell Tab Eugene Thompson Christopher Lamar Vickery Sharon Anderson White Class of 1986 Grace Elizabeth Hale Andrew Madison Martin Stephen William Smith Mark Edward White Class of 1987 Rebecca Elizabeth Biron Bruce Edward Bowers Anne Davison Dolaher Kirsten Jarabek Franklin John Edward Fowler, Jr.

First-year Fellows meet with poet A.E. Stallings (Fellows Class of 1990), a 2011 MacArthur Fellow and director of the Poetry Center in Athens, Greece.

Mary Ruth Hannon Noel Langston Hurley Elizabeth Ford Lehman Robert Marcus Reiner Margaret Ruth Sparks

Susan Golden James Leah Deneen Lowman Adena Elder Potter Kyle Wayne Sager Andrew William Stith

Class of 1988 Cathy Luxenberg Barnard Thomas Christopher Cisewski Sharon Blair Enoch Linda Leith Giambalvo India Frances Lane Neil Chandler Thom John Eugene Worth

Class of 1990 Maitreya Badami Felton Jenkins III Gwen Renee Kaminsky Mark David Sheftall John Carlyle Shelton Alicia Elsbeth Stallings

Class of 1989 Courtney Cook Angeli Lisa Caucci Amy Lee Copeland Kimberlee Walkenspaw Curley Julie Kathleen Earnhart Nancy Letostak Glasser

Class of 1991 Susan Shackelford Dawes Elizabeth Hebert Day James Ansley Granade III Paul Harvey Matthews John Phillip Piedrahita Marc Lane Silverboard Lougene Williams III

Grace Hale receives 2018 Carnegie Fellowship Honors and Foundation Fellow alumna Grace Elizabeth Hale was one of 31 Andrew Carnegie Fellow recipients for 2018. Grace graduated from UGA in 1986 with a bachelor’s degree in accounting and in 1991 with a master’s degree in history. She is now the Commonwealth Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Virginia.

Grace teaches courses in U.S. cultural history, the history of the U.S. South, documentary studies, and popular music.

She is the author of Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle Class Fell in Love With Rebellion in Postwar America, and

Cool Town: Athens, Georgia and the Promise of Alternative Culture in Reagan’s America, due to be released later this year.

As part of the so-called “brainy award,” 31 Carnegie Fellows each receive up to $200,000, making it possible for them to devote their time to significant research, writing, and publishing in the humanities and social sciences.

Grace’s fellowship will support completion of The Lyncher in the Family: Reckoning with the Southern Past, a book that draws on some of her family history as well as Southern history to examine race relations in the South.

Class of 1992 Robert Geoffrey Dillard Chris Gunter Anne Marie Hargaden Robert Kirk Harris Martin Allie Hollingsworth Robin Ann Kundra Laura Jane Calhoon Lyttle Andrew McSwain Millians Charles Andrew Mitchell Christina Stewart Payton Class of 1993 Jennifer Lee Cathey Arbitter Christine Darden Brennan Michael Herman Burer Albert Vernon Dixon III David Michael Hettesheimer Peter James McBrayer Mia Noerenberg Miller Christen Wheeler Mitchell Nevada Waugh Reed Spencer Allen Rice Thad Andrew Riddle Philip Rodney Webb H. Thomas Willman III Class of 1994 Sonja Victoria Batten Stephen Spratlin Bullock Anne Kissel Harper Pamela Ann Hungerbuhler Michael Paul Jones, Jr. Eric Marvin Overby Brett Jerry Pellock Jennifer Tracie Calvert Rosser Jennifer Marie Rubin Laura Anne Shepherd Caroline Placey Smith Katherine Anne Smith Julie Lynne Steiner

Class of 1997 Ryan Paul Bartlett Christie Mew Jan Leilani Cooksey Lisa Ann Coole William Stephen Steiner Andrew Abell Wade Class of 1998 Jay Chugh Adrian John Daigle Brandon Edward Kremer Robyn Andree Painter Vijaya Rangan Palaniswamy Beth Alison Shapiro Catherine Allison Evans Webb Class of 1999 Leona Nichole Council Tzu-Chuan Jane Huang Ellen Sutherland Irby Laura Lacy Feldman McCurdy Torré Deshun Mills Class of 2000 Melissa Bugbee Buchanan Dhruti Jerry Contractor Tiffany Celena Earley-Spadoni Matthew Scott Eckman Bronson Hurst Lee Michael Eugene Morris Ethan James Sims Holly Gooding Tran

Class of 1995 Laura Barbas-Rhoden Harold Dean Green, Jr. Scott Allen Haggard Joshua Eric Kight Molly Meghan McCarthy Darren Howard Pillsbury Andrew Rhea Schretter Amanda Wojtalik-Courter

Class of 2001 Laura Ann Adang Dustin Joseph Calhoun Christopher Macdonald Caruso Semil P. Choksi Fruzsina Csaszar Di Ruggiero Corey Scott Gill Amita Ramesh Hazariwala Kathryn Jessica Hull Robert Gardner Linn Thomas John Ludlam Francis Joseph Martin Amy Mulkey McGowan Joseph Adams Perry-Parrish Laquesha Shantelle Sanders Andrew Clark Thompson Kyle Burton Wingfield

Class of 1996 Keith Robert Blackwell Thomas Andrew Bryan Robert Compton Cartwright Timothy Paul George Bomee Jung James Benjamin Kay IV Bradley Scott Malcom Michael Justin Shoemake Robert Matthew Sutherland Stephen Jefferson Tate Robert Thomas Trammell, Jr.

Class of 2002 Divya Balakrishnan Alyssa Holmgren Craigie Laramie Elizabeth Duncan Amy Elizabeth Early Eric Jonas Gapud Julie Dotterweich Gunby Allyson Elizabeth Harper Rachel Kassel Cathy A. Lee-Miller Marc Paul Lindsay Caitlin Christine Martell

Lorina Naci Tina Rakkhit Nandi Kameko Lanilaura Nichols Kathryn Stepp Nicolai Mary Catherine Plunkett Suzanne Elizabeth Scoggins Steven Christopher Smith Andrew John Sucre Lakshmi Swamy John Andrew Wright Emory Paul Wright Class of 2003 John Anthony Asalone Maria Anderson Booth Marshall Martin Chalmers Timothy Tianyi Chen Adam Steven Cureton Brian Matthew Dunham Christopher James Gibson Jennifer Gibson Gill Leah Rose Givens Tanya Martin Hudson Eirin K. Kallestad Dmitry Sergeevich Kolychev Robin Elizabeth McGill Meredith Neal McCarthy Moore Jeffrey Daniel Pugh Robert Province Quinn Kimberly Council Sheridan Jennifer Srygley Sucre Chung “Gemma” Suh Buudoan “Doannie” Vinh Tran Melanie Monroe Venable Joseph Brendan Wolpin Class of 2004 Ellen Downs Beaulieu John Carnes Boggan Virginia Barton Bowen Amanda Morgan Casto William Cullen Conly Blake Linton Doughty Corrin Nicole Drakulich Deepti Gupta-Patel Vanessa Reynolds Hale Sarah Nicole Julia Hemmings Bliss Immanuel Khaw David Alan Kross Daniel Michael Ludlam Evan James Magers Megan Jean McKee Kunal Mitra Jane Adaeze Okpala Julie Walsh Orlemanski Satya Hiru Patel Nathan Willis Ratledge Daniel Winfield Reed Travis Daniel Reeves Randolph Lines Starr Carson Wayne Strickland Manoj “Sachin” Varghese Josh Alan Weddle Charles Elliott Willson

Beth Shapiro named HHMI professor In December 2017, Honors and Foundation Fellow alumna Beth Shapiro was named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute professor as one of 14 leading scientists from across the nation. The award recognizes excellence in research and education and empowers recipients to explore new approaches to important challenges in science education. Her collaborative grant will look at environmental DNA for science investigation and education.

In January, she gave the keynote address for the Odum School of Ecology’s 10th anniversary and the Institute of Ecology’s 50th anniversary.

Beth was UGA’s first female Rhodes Scholar. A MacArthur “Genius Award” recipient and a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, she graduated from UGA in 1999 with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in ecology.

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Fellows Alumni Fellows alumni Yannick Morgan, Rebecca Corey, and Shannon Hiller meet up at the Zanzibar International Film Festival for the premiere of Rebecca’s documentary, Wahenga.

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Class of 2005 Raechel Keay Anglin Benjamin Samuel Bain Jeanette Eva Thurber Barzelay Allison Carter-Agnotti Krisda H. Chaiyachati Eugenia Gina Chu Charles Philip Ciaccio, Jr. Renee Claire Contreras Kathryn Kay Coquemont Matthew Tyler Crim Kacie Schoen Darden John Thomas DeGenova Anne Zimmerman Hawkins Jeremy Paul Johnson Ivy Nguyen Le Ashley Marie Lott Thomas Michael Mittenzwei Brendan Francis Murphy Allison Scott Roach Sarah Ellen Sattelmeyer Amy Nicole Sexauer Matthew Buckley Smith Adam Martin Sparks Charles Thompson Tuggle III Katherine Helen Anne Vyborny Leslie S. Wolcott Tuquyen Mach Yee Class of 2006 Jennifer Andrea Bartmess Jason Michael Brown Simon Flax Ferrari Daniel Joseph Gough Warren Brandon Holton Jana Dopson Illston Chloe Thompson Kelley Melissa Cabinian Kinnebrew Lisa Ann Last Joseph Robert LeCates Jenny Page Linton William Michael Lynch III Patrick Joseph Maher Elizabeth Grams Margalis Brian Patrick Quinif Katherine Morgan Ragland Heather Michaela Ripley Rebekah Lee Rogers Laura Emiko Soltis Robert Christopher Staley Matthew James Stewart Nathan Joseph Stibrich David Carson Turner Sara Pilzer Weiss Class of 2007 Mary Patricia Alvarez William Brooks Andrews Franklin Edwin “BJ” Ard John Christopher Binford Yves Wolfgang Laurent Bouillet Priya Chandan Lesley Marie Graybeal John Floyd “Jay” Howell

Douglas Michael Jackson Joseph Edgar Lariscy IV Michael James Levengood Robert Bradley Lindell Andrew Campbell McKown Erin Alicia Mordecai Yannick Beale Morgan Amulya Nagarur Jayanthi Lakshmi Narain Corrine Allison Novell Caelin Cubenas Potts Sarah Brown Puryear Anna Harrison Saffer Helen Caples Smith Zachary Philip Smith Jake Everett Turrentine Katrin Usifo Class of 2008 Lynzi Jacqueline Archibald Maria Alejandra Baetti Sarah Ritchey Bellamy Benjamin Tyler Cobb Anureet Cheema Copeland Rachel Elizabeth Whitaker Elam Katherine Elizabeth Folkman Adele Handy Goodloe Matthew Wood Grayson Shannon Snead Hiller Donald Ray “DJ” Johnson, Jr. Joseph Robert Kapurch Peter Tomlinson Klein Mindy Cara Lipsitz Anant Mandawat William Giles Mann Jordan Elizabeth Myers Bryan Scott Overcarsh Adam Podowitz-Thomas Tyler Blalock Pratt Deep Jayendrakumar Shah Gabriel Rehman Shaukat George Valentinov Vulov Class of 2009 Craig Chike Akoh Payton McCurry Bradford Kevin Kyong Chang Chuan “CiCi” Cheng Christopher John Chiego Rebecca Yeong Ae Corey Colleen Helen Cotton Jordan Allen Dalton Christina Lynn Faust Elizabeth Riggle Gargaro William Featherston “Beau” Gilmore III Elizabeth Anne Godbey Nithya Natrajan Hall Clare JoAnna Hatfield Chadwick Parker Hume Brittany Lee McCall Caitlin McLaughlin Poe Kevin Christopher Poe Paul Andrew Ruddle II

Milner Owens Staub Marlee Jean Waxelbaum Sana Hashmi Zahiruddin Class of 2010 Elisabeth Allen Adams Thomas Matthew Bailey Amanda Nicole Brouillette Sarah Marie Caruana Kevin Peter Copp Amy Patricia Davis David Dawei Fu Peter Carswell Horn David Martin Howcroft Laura McDonald Hunter Connor Lawson McCarthy Jasmaine Williams McClain Sharon Aileen Marie McCoy Joshua Ivan McLaurin Zoe Eva Fadul Meroney Allon Mordel Virginia Susan Newman Cleveland Alcides Piggott, Jr. Kelsey Jones Pratt Lucas Llanso Puente Jennifer Ann Taylor Lila Elisabeth Tedesco Robert Barton Thrasher Class of 2011 Katherine Sara Cuadrado Ryan Michael Friday Lucy Fu Claire Underwood Hailey Marcus Jamel Hines Mir Mohamed Inaamullah Anne Helene Karam Matthew Henry Levenson Xiaofeng “Phoeny” Li John Benjamin Marshall Aaron Bartow Marshburn Calley Aileen Mersmann Phillip Charles Mote Muktha Sundar Natrajan Sabrina Ann Ragaller Katherine Geales Goodwin Rawe

Robert Nalls Rosenbleeth Rachel Pocock Shah Robert Darnell Sinyard III Alexander David Squires Stephanie Chapman Weishaar Tracy Jane Yang Sheena Shiyi Zhang Class of 2012 Victoria Suzanne Akin Juliet Elizabeth Allan Juan Carlos Cardoza-Oquendo Dana Lynn Higgins Cox Patrick Joseph Fitzmaurice Hillary Dolores Kingsley Logan Hunter Krusac Morgann Ashley Lyles Tatum Danielle Mortimer Luke Hensley Mosley Saptarsi “Rohan” Mukhopadyay Bryn Elise Murphy Jaime Ayers Patterson Jacob Hunter Rooney Henry Louis Schwartz Matthew Richard Sellers Anuj Atul Shukla William Harry Stephenson Hemali Prakash Vin Thomas Matthew Ward David Michael Zweig Class of 2013 Sara De La Torre Berón Megan Unger Caudill JoyEllen Ashley Freeman Camille Parker Gregory Ryan Patrick McLynn Todd Warren Pierson Derek Anthony Ponticelli Reuben Arthur Reynolds Matthew Wyatt Saltz Bethany McCain Seewoester Waring “Buck” Trible III Lawrence William White Addison Von Wright Brittany Anne Young

Fellows alumni Joe Gerber and Anisha Hedge Gerber celebrate their wedding with alumna Blake Shessel and other friends.

Fellows and Ramseys from the Class of 2017 celebrating Megan Murphy Jones, center, include Trang Nguyen, Vijeth Mudalegundi, Jonathan Adelman, Laura Courchesne, and Gaby Pierre. Megan married Clayton Jones.

Class of 2014 Sara Thomas Black Jesse Yuen-Fu Chan Smitha Ganeshan Anisha Hegde Gerber Joseph Elliott Gerber Philip Joseph Grayeski Osama Shariq Hashmi Paul Alexander Kirschenbauer Marianne Morris Ligon David Richman Millard Clara Marina Nibbelink Rachel Claire Sellers Blake Elizabeth Shessel Jeremiah Hudson Stevens Matthew Telford Tyler Jacqueline Elizabeth Van De Velde Kishore Pavan Vedala Cameron Saeed Zahedi Yuliya Bila Zarnitsyna Class of 2015 Joshua Andrew Chang Savannah Elyse Colbert

Maria Gardner Cox Parker Timothy Evans Eilidh Geddes Allison Nicole Koch Ronald Jackson Kurtz Michael Tyler Land Kameel Mir Sarah Aneese Mirza Davis Reynolds Parker Camir Neville Ricketts James Alexander Rowell Grace Maastricht Siemietkowski Sophie Giberga Thompson John Henry Tab Thompson Megan Ernst Tipton Megan Frances White Avery Elizabeth Wiens Class of 2016 Caroline Grace Coleman Lauren Wesley Dennison Alexandra Rae Edquist Seth Isaac Euster Lee Handly Folk

Fellows alumni Matt Tyler, Caleb Ingram, Phil Grayeski, Karishma Sriram, Susie Jones, and Seth Euster cheer on the Dawgs from North Carolina during the National Championship game in January.

Fellows alumni Eli Scott, Meredith Paker, Torre Lavelle, and Laura Courchesne hike with the first years in Cornwall.

Kirstie Dolores Hostetter Caleb Alexander Ingram Jacob Randall Kennedy Shaun Henry Kleber Torre Elisabeth Lavelle Christopher Thomas Lewitzke Katherine Ann Lovejoy Kelsey Jane Lowrey Sandip Kaur Minhas Caroline Elizabeth Moore Meredith Marie Flood Paker Eytan Aaron Palte Rand Warren Pope Hannah Mary Reiss Giovanni Righi Leighton Michele Rowell Madison Grace Snelling Minhyuk Michael Song Karishma Sriram John Bradley Stroud Kevin Hongyi Sun Treva Chung-Kwan Tam Bert Ferguson Thompson, Jr. La’Ron-ChenÊe Heidi Tracey Kathleen Elizabeth Wilson

Class of 2017 Jonathan Paul Adelman Tristan Paul Bagala Catherine Mahala Callaway Laura Agatha Courchesne Jonah Stephen Driggers Nathan Andrew Farr Moira Elizabeth Fennell Carver Lowell Harris Goodhue Shuchi Goyal Erin Elizabeth Hollander Glenn Anderson Jacoby Susan Margaret Jones Hammad Ahmed Khalid Bruce Li Krystal Lo Vijeth Mudalegundi Trang Xuan Nguyen Morrison Robert Nolan Justin Samuel Payan Joy Phyllis Gabrielle Peltier Gabrielle Antoinette Pierre Elijah Hunter Scott Jason Patrick Terry Luke Tellis Thompson

Fellows alumni Sophie Giberga Thompson and John Henry Thompson celebrate their marriage with alumni Avery Wiens and Parker Evans.

Ramsey Alumni

Ramsey Honors Scholar alumni by class year Class of 2004 Ladson Gaddy-Dubac Andrew Ely Guthrie Virginia Wood Pate Daniel Anthony del Portal Samuel Winters Richwine III Rachel Elizabeth Wahlig Class of 2005 Katherine Elizabeth Bugg Andrew G. Crowley Lawrence Robert Ficek Matthew Eric Hickman Ngozi Christie Ogbuehi James Christoper Tarr Brian William Teplica Class of 2006 Molly Martin Anderson Staci Hutsell Cannon Elizabeth Kate Davidson Jarrett Roux Horne Jackson Charles Dillingham May Class of 2007 Mary Beth Bereznak Jonathan Andrew Charles Brian Lee Claggett Kelly Eaton Gladin Hope Carrell Ham Maggie McQueen Hodges Brian Louis Levy Daniel Suresh Mathews Lamar Houston Moree Lauren Elizabeth Sillery Oberg Teerawit “Tim” Supakorndej Rebecca Rahn Vahrenwald Andrew Jay Vesper

Class of 2009 Nneka Alicia Arinze Shannon Chen Jonathan Brown Chestnut Nisha Gupta Jeremiah Douglas Johnson Jeremy Howard Jones Lindsay Beth Jones Elizabeth Alexandra Katzmann Madison Moore Pool Peter Samuel Shoun Joseph Dempsey Turrentine Class of 2010 Alexander Linton Brown Peyton Clark Edwards Carole Noelle House William Daniel Jordan III Halina Maladtsova Nicholas Anthony Passarello Lauren Elizabeth Pinson Caitlin Gail Robinson Emily Frances Reed Underwood Zao “Michael” Yang Class of 2011 Jonathan William Arogeti Jason Daniel Berkowitz

Christopher Jordan Floyd Haylee Nicole Humes Mark Paul Johnson Jung Woong Kim Nicole Elizabeth Nation Erika Parker New Griffin Daniel Rice Joseph Cataquiz Rimando Stephen Bradford Thompson Andrew George Watts Laura Ann Wynn Class of 2012 Whitney Marie Ising Adams Samantha Colleen Gray Aisha Mahmood Haley Tiffany Ying Hu John Bradley Otwell Anna Catherine Savelle Ryan Oliver Sheets Catherine Lois Shonts Sheila Vedala Class of 2013 Glenn Ryan Branscomb Frank Logan Butler IV Trevor Hunter Hohorst Yiran Emily Peng Alexander Collins Vey

Class of 2014 Catherine Jane Backus Emily Elizabeth Backus Victoria Lynn DeLeo Amanda Jane Holder Stephen Edward Lago Mariana Lynne Satterly Pranay Kumar Udutha Class of 2015 Cody James Baetz Carmen Orpinas Kraus Tuan Anh Nguyen Abigail Taylor Shell Class of 2016 Melissa Carlene Cousins Berta Maria Franzluebbers Samuel Thomas Johnston Rachel Hana Paleg Mihir B. Patel Juliana Jianquan Saxton Class of 2017 Prentiss Rachel Autry Malcolm Alexander Barnard Katie Michele Googe Heather Kimberly Huynh Megan Murphy Jones

Ramsey alumna Emily Backus was named teacher of the year for Montgomery Elementary School in Atlanta, where she teaches music.

Class of 2008 Matthew Charles Agan Brent Lewis Allen Molly Beatrice Pittman Babineaux Jeffrey Craig Elrod James Tristan Gordy Annie Ming Huang Joseph Stuart Knight John Thompson Matthews James Lucas McFadden Noah Reuben Mink Gregory James O’Connell Blake William Shealy Karen Christina Wong

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Jessica B. Hunt Emily L. Myers Shirley Maggie O. Middleton Designer & editor

Stephanie W. Schupska Photographers

Tyler Daniels, Wingate Downs, Dorothy Kozlowski, Stephanie W. Schupska, Andrew Davis Tucker, Latetia Vernelson, various Fellows and Ramseys Honors student assistants

Hamilton Armit, Jessica Ho

Jessica Ma made time for the Broadway hit musical Hamilton while in New York this summer through the Honors in New York internship program.

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