Foundation Fellows Annual Report, 2020-2021

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.

Matthew Motley, Carlos López

Ramírez, Audrey Conner, and Natasha Dörr-Kapczynski study outside the Science Learning Center on South Campus.

Endowed and Named Fellowships

Philip Alston Fellows

Aakash Arora ’23

William Cole Broomberg ’24

Eugene Black Fellows

Elise Maria Karinshak ’23

Manav Cherian Mathews ’21

Carlyle Fraser Fellows

Maeve Akiko Breathnach ’23

Natasha Dörr-Kapczynski ’24

Brian Jay Woolfolk ’21

Vera Milner Fellows

Cassidy Jean Hettesheimer ’24

Marianne Christine Lamarche ’23

Morehead Fellow

Thomas Elliot Williamson ’24

Winship Nunnally Fellows

Christopher Alan Rosselot ’23

Maxwell Booth White ’24

Martha Nunnally Fellow

Keaton Patrick Coletti ’22

Bernard Ramsey Fellows

Asim Ahmed ’21

Zoë Lorene Andrews ’21

Nitin Sai Prasad Ankisetty ’21

Robyn Evelyn Anzulis ’22

Eva-Michelle Belikova ’22

Carter Elizabeth Best ’22

Mary Teresa Breen ’23

Phaidra S. Buchanan ’21

Theron E. Camp ’24

Katherine Fredrica Christie ’21

Jordan Amias Cole ’23

Sophia Emelia DeLuca ’23

Emma Calhoun Ellis ’22

Danielle Chukwunoryenim Emefiele ’23

Elizabeth Ann Esser ’22

Arden Anne Farr ’21

Vic Calvin Fischer ’23

Patricia Alejandra Gonzalez ’23

Madison Janel Greer ’23

Emma Chandler Innes Hale ’22

Jason Germaine Hawkins ’24

Hyde Alford Healy ’23

Nina Grace Howard ’21

Satya Amritsai Jella ’21

Jena M. Jibreen ’22

Evan Sidney Johnson ’24

Melita Joanna Kalczynska ’23

Jamil Fayazali Kassam ’22

Anderson Kunho Kim ’21

Shi Ho Kim ’23

Daniel Greer Klein ’24

Vanisha Kudumuri ’23

Carlos Felipe López Ramírez ’23

Isabella My Lan Luu ’23

Yi Jian Ma Ma ’21

Sophia Maria Milazzo ’24

Eric Nathan Miller ’22

Margaret Louise Mitchell ’23

Eniola Olujumoke Olubunmi ’24

Sahana Maya Parker ’23

Ashni M. Patel ’24

Kyle Pishunjay Patel ’21

William Goins Ross ’22

Fiachra Eileen Rottinghaus ’21

Nathan Samuel Safir ’22

Anna Samsonov ’22

Caroline Emma Schneider ’24

Margaret Frances Schrayer ’21

Emily Paula Spector ’24

Oleksandra Stogniy ’22

Jordan Edward Theoc ’23

Jessica Bailey Thompson ’21

Emma Joanna Traynor ’22

Angela Lily Tsao ’21

Emma Grace Tucker ’21

Anthony J. VanDieren ’21

Avery Elise Warner ’21

Margaret Elizabeth Warren ’22

Claudia-Michele ZiYi White ’23

Lauren Rose Wilkes ’23

Joseph Logan Williamson ’24

Rachel Janeyee Yuan ’21

John White Ramsey Fellow

Sydney Taylor Brooke Phillips ’22

Penelope W. and E. Roe Stamps IV

Foundation Fellows

Luke Joseph Armao ’22

Claire E. Bunn ’22

Audrey Violet Conner ’24

Denzel Jeremiah Cunningham ’23

Samuel Chukwubuike Ejiofor II ’23

Zakiyya Nzinga Ellington ’21

Emilio Dante Ferrara ’24

Victoria Christine Fonzi ’21

Shashank Sriram Ganeshan ’23

Divya Ghoshal ’21

Edward Tatum Hunda ’22

Matthew Jeffrey Li ’24

Khushi Harshkumar Mehta ’24

Natalie Elena Navarrete ’23

Priyanka Sunil Parikh ’23

Aparna Pateria ’22

Tarun Neel Ramesh ’21

Isabelle Olivia Riddle ’21

Charlotte Conway Williams ’24

Himani Yadav ’22

Charlotte and Claude Williams Fellow

Jaaie Upkar Varshney ’22

Student Scholarships and University Initiatives

Committee Members

Christopher W. Brown, Chair Newton, Massachusetts

Allison Ausband Atlanta, Georgia

Leah Brown Phoenix, Arizona

Mark Chandler Atlanta, Georgia

Victor E. Corrigan

Atlanta, Georgia

Richard W. Courts IV Atlanta, Georgia

Betsy Cox Jacksonville, Florida

Jim Dinkins Atlanta, Georgia

Jennifer Flanagan Atlanta, Georgia

Nancy Juneau Atlanta, Georgia

J. Keith Kelly Newborn, Georgia

Charles E. Knox Augusta, Georgia

Elizabeth Correll Richards Atlanta, Georgia

Dorothy Barfield Sifford Nashville, Tennessee

Kimberly L. Stamper Alpharetta, Georgia

Delos H. Yancey III Rome, Georgia

David E. Shipley

Ex-Officio, Voting Athens, Georgia

Asim Ahmed

Ex-Officio, Non-Voting Athens, Georgia

Savannah Hembree

Ex-Officio, Non-Voting Athens, Georgia

Jack Hu

Ex-Officio, Non-Voting Athens, Georgia

Vernon Googe III

Advisory Atlanta, Georgia

Rebecca B. Winkler

Advisory Charlotte, North Carolina

Foundation Fellows

Program Staff

David S. Williams

Associate Provost & Dean

Jessica B. Hunt

Assistant Dean & Director of Scholarships

Emily L. M. Shirley

Program Administrator

Kaitlyn Graham

Graduate Assistant

Michelle Belikova

Student Worker

FROM THE PRESIDENT

As a leading public research university committed to innovative teaching, pioneering research, and community-engaged service, the University of Georgia is proud to be the home of the outstanding Foundation Fellowship program. Foundation Fellows and Ramsey Scholars benefit from the vibrant campus life and educational opportunities that only a major research university can provide while receiving all of the academic and personal support of a small, elite college. They work closely with renowned faculty both inside and outside of the classroom and begin making their mark on UGA and the world from their very first semester. I am proud of all that our Foundation Fellows and Ramsey Scholars achieve as students and alumni. They are a valued part of UGA’s diverse academic community, which shares their dedication to excellence.

Jere W. Morehead, President University of Georgia

FROM THE UGA FOUNDATION CHAIR

As we welcome a new class of Foundation Fellows, 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, many of these scholars will advance to careers and callings in local, national, and global forums addressing the most critical needs of our times, while others will be admitted to top graduate programs, and many will earn the country’s most prestigious post graduate scholarships. The University of Georgia Foundation is proud to support these outstanding students and is convinced that the Foundation Fellowship is the one of the best and most prestigious programs of its kind in the country.

Neal Quirk, Chair University of Georgia Foundation

FROM THE DEAN

Foundation Fellows and Ramsey Scholars are truly extraordinary individuals with an impressive array of talents and skills. It is a privilege to work with them on a daily basis. Their sustained commitment to academic excellence combined with their genuine concern for others makes a very positive impact both on and well beyond our campus. 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 Dean

Jere W. Morehead Honors College and Foundation Fellowship

FELLOWS AND RAMSEYS HAVE

University of Georgia Foundation Fellows and Ramsey Honors Scholars come from around the country and globe, all arriving in Athens, Georgia, to advance their educational goals. This page provides an overview of the locations our students call home.

STATE AND COUNTRY REPRESENTATION

for 2020-2021, we have 132 Fellows and Ramseys from 132 countries

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2 from Canada

1 each from Jamaica, Nigeria, South Korea, and the Netherlands

82 from Georgia

4 from Missouri

3 each from California, Florida, Louisiana, Ohio, and Tennessee

Other states represented are Alabama, Arkansas, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

Zakiyya Ellington, Victoria Fonzi, Diya Ghoshal, and Rachel Yuan walk past the UGA Chapel on North Campus.

About the Foundation Fellowship and Ramsey Honors Scholarship

The Jere W. Morehead Honors College 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 travel-study 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 have been 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 Hall, and off-campus retreats that promote a sense of community.

Benefits of both scholarships

• Special seminars and book discussions with UGA and visiting professors

• Faculty, peer, and alumni mentoring

• Twice-a-year retreats

• Participation in a community of scholars who stimulate each other’s intellectual and personal development

• First-year housing supplement of $614 for in-state students, $1,228 for out-of-state students

Foundation Fellowship benefits, 2020-2021

• Annual stipend for in-state students: $12,400 plus the Zell Miller Scholarship (currently $9,790 per year)

• Annual stipend for out-of-state students: $20,400 plus an out-of-state tuition waiver (currently $19,040 per year)

• Three fully funded spring travel-study programs (first through third years). Recently, Fellows have traveled to Morocco, South Korea, Bali, Japan, Tanzania, Argentina, and Vietnam

• Fully funded summer study abroad program to the University of Oxford valued at $8,500

• Individual travel-study grants up to a cumulative total of

2020-2021 PROGRAM OVERVIEW

$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

Ramsey Scholar benefits, 2020-2021

• Annual stipend for in-state Ramseys: $6,260 plus the Zell Miller Scholarship (currently $9,790 per year)

• Annual stipend for out-of-state Ramseys: $10,260 plus an out-of-state tuition waiver (currently $19,040 per year)

• A separate travel-study grant of $3,000 (related to academic and professional goals, can be combined with semester stipends for travel-study for semester or academic year)

• Four funded spring service-learning trips. In recent years, Ramseys have traveled to Mississippi, Seattle, Austin, New Orleans, Miami, Asheville, and San Francisco

2020-2021 Estimated Cost of Attendance • Full Academic Year

u Georgia Resident

Myers Hall rent (double room)

7-day Meal Plan

Tuition & Fees

Zell Miller Tuition Scholarship

FFR Stipend

$6,506

$4,036

u Non-Georgia Resident

Myers Hall rent (double room)

7-day Meal Plan

Tuition & Fees

Out-of-State Tuition Waver

$6,506

$6,506

$4,036 $31,120 -$19,040 -$10,260 -$1,228 $11,134

Adeboye Adeoye, Cole Broomberg, Garrett Williams, Daniel Klein, Kat Christie, Matthew Li, Avery Warner, and William Ross walk by the UGA Chapel.

YEAR at a GLANCE

JUNE - JULY

UGA Orientation Sessions

AUGUST

Move into Myers Hall

First-Year FFR Welcome and Orientation

Freshman Welcome, Sanford Stadium

FFR Library Drop-In Feast

FFR Fall Retreat, North Georgia Mountains

AUGUST - DECEMBER

FFR dinner seminars, book discussions, alumni events, cultural and theatrical events (painting at ARTini’s Art Lounge in Athens), and Morehead Honors College lunchbox lectures and book discussions

NOVEMBER

FFR Pre-Spring Trip Seminars

SEPTEMBER

FFR Class Breakfasts

OCTOBER

FFR Wellness Weeks (yoga, painting and pottery workshops, hiking, and kayaking)

FEBRUARY

Foundation Fellows

Interview Weekend

DECEMBER

Finals Week Food in FFR Library

JANUARY

FFR Winter Retreat, UGA

Special Collections Library

FFR Pre-Spring Trip Seminars

JANUARY - APRIL

FFR dinner seminars, book discussions, cultural and theatrical events, and Morehead Honors College lunchbox lectures and book discussions

APRIL

UGA at Oxford Foundation Fellows Maymester Orientation Meeting

FFR Graduation Banquet at the Georgia Center

FFR Recruiting Events—Kayaking the Broad River

MAY

Finals Week Food in FFR Library

UGA at Oxford Foundation Fellows Maymester

MARCH

FFR Spring Trips

“The Foundation Fellowship has been the base that allowed me to explore and follow my passions for the past four years. It has provided the financial support, resources, community, and encouragement that have guided and uplifted me in every arena of my college and professional experiences. I was able to experience this all alongside my best friends, while traveling the world, meeting incredible people, and learning from faculty across disciplines.”

“I have done so much more in so many different directions than I would have thought possible. I’ve done research in three departments, multiple internships and clubs, and designed my own degree path, all while being met with encouragement and assistance at every step. Having that level of support and engagement from my mentors and advisors has made my college experience so much more than just attending some classes and taking exams.”

Fourth-year Foundation Fellow majoring in ecology and genetics with an MS in conservation ecology & sustainable development

KAT CHRISTIE

Fourth-year Foundation Fellow majoring in entertainment and media studies with a STEM MBA

RACHEL YUAN

“My time as a Foundation Fellow changed my life, undoubtedly for the better. I’ve been given the freedom and support to grow, learn, pursue passions and interests, and further myself by improving upon and adding talents and skill sets. I have met life-long friends, reconnected with old ones, and built a foundation for myself that will allow me to become my best self and, hopefully, better the world. I hope my impact here is long-lasting, and I want to thank those who were there for the ride.”

ZOË ANDREWS

“From the numerous mentors I have found through the program to the myriad opportunities for travel to the network of friends—the FFR program is a special place at an already special university.”

Fourth-year Foundation Fellow majoring in economics and statistics

Fourth-year Foundation Fellow majoring in music

MANAV MATHEWS

“UGA has given me the opportunity to fully explore my interests and passions on my own schedule. I would recommend that any student take full advantage of the wide breadth of education available but also the range of friends, mentors, and spaces that allow you to be bored, think, and dream.”

“The Ramsey Scholarship afforded me the opportunity to study food security and medical Spanish in Amsterdam and Riobamba and travel to San Francisco, Sapelo Island, and the Mississippi Delta with the Ramsey Scholars. However, from the faculty-led seminars and book discussions to the 4 a.m. conversations in Myers lobby, some of the most special parts of my college experience took place right here in Athens, immersed in a community of scholars, leaders, and friends.”

Fourth-year Ramsey Honors Scholar majoring in biology

Fourth-year Ramsey Honors Scholar majoring in economics with a Master of International Policy

KARAN POL

HANNAH HUANG

“The Fellowship has been very accommodating of me throughout the entire process of exploring possible careers during college. Whatever direction I was going at the time, and even during the chaos of the last year, I was provided with resources that helped me perform my best, gain more exposure, and enjoy my college experience.”

“In my room I have a stack of books heavier than I can carry from all the book discussions I’ve attended at UGA. I have taken the chance to sign up for every Fellows and Honors enrichment activity I could fit into my schedule. It’s so exciting when alumni come back to lead discussions or seminars about their books and research, and to hear all about the cool work that they’ve been up to since graduation. Honestly, there’s one simple word to describe everyone and everything: interesting.”

Fourth-year Foundation Fellow majoring in cognitive science and computer science with an MS in artificial intelligence

ANGELA TSAO

JAMIL KASSAM

Graduating third-year Foundation Fellow majoring in computer science

NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL AWARD RECIPIENTS

Rhodes: Phaidra Buchanan

Samvid: Tarun Ramesh

Phi Kappa Phi: Aven Jones

Goldwater: Claire Bunn

Schwarzman: Zakiyya Ellington Knight-Hennessy: Arden Farr

Udall: Elizabeth Esser

Fulbright: Kyle Patel

International Recognition

Rhodes Scholar

Phaidra Buchanan

It was Nov. 21, 2020, and Phaidra Buchanan was on Zoom, interviewing for a Rhodes Scholarship. She was about to make history: She is in the first class of Rhodes Scholars to be elected virtually—she is one of 32 U.S. Rhodes Scholars for 2021—and she is the University of Georgia’s first Black Rhodes Scholar.

Phaidra was one of four Rhodes finalists from UGA— the highest number of finalists the institution has produced in a given year—and she said she was able to go into the interview with good energy because of all of the encouragement and preparation the finalists received from Jessica Hunt, assistant dean and director of scholarships; David S. Williams, dean of the Morehead Honors College; and other UGA faculty.

“As dean, I interact on a daily basis with wonderful students and people,” Williams said. “In Phaidra’s case, I’ve had numerous interactions, including helping to recruit her to come to UGA, leading domestic and international travel study groups that included her, and teaching her in a course. I have had the chance to watch Phaidra grow over the past four years. As the Rhodes Scholarship campus representative, it has been great to work especially closely with her.”

Phaidra is UGA’s 25th Rhodes Scholar.

It was a four-hour wait from the time her interview ended until the time Phaidra was called back to the computer. She spent every one of those hours in the Foundation Fellows Library on the second floor of Moore Hall, perched on the couches, pacing the floor, and sitting at the table at the back of the room.

She and the other finalists played Pictionary and made a Spotify playlist during their wait.

Immediately after the Rhodes committee made its announcement and finished its housekeeping duties with the recipients, Phaidra pulled out her phone.

“As soon as it was over, I called my family,” she said. “It was very surreal.”

When Phaidra applied to the Foundation Fellowship in 2016, she wrote a bio that still holds true: “An aspiring teacher … she plans to major in education with a focus on education policy.”

Phaidra graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in social studies education from the Mary Frances Early College of Education and a minor in German. She plans a career as a teacher “who fosters criticality, compassion, and joy,” and as an advocate for policies that empower students and communities, according to her Rhodes bio. At Oxford, she plans to pursue an M.Sc. in comparative and international education.

Phaidra was a volunteer with U-Lead Athens, a tutor for the Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement Tutoring Service, and an assistant and panel moderator for the Morehouse

College Annual Math Competitions Bootcamp. She was a student assistant in the history department, on the Meigs Professorship Selection Committee, on UGA’s First Look Academic Panel, and in the LEAD Fellows Program. Through the Honors Team-Based Problem-Solving Course, she also worked with Envision Athens and its partner organization MOB Athens.

Phaidra worked on several research projects at UGA, including investigating structural inequities in the American educational system and their historical roots, and how teachers, teacher educators, and educational theorists have sought to combat them; completing an inquiry into the history and current state of school segregation in Fayette County, the school district where she completed her primary and secondary education; investigating the history of slavery at UGA as part of a research team; and helping facilitate workshops designed to develop pre-service teachers’ cultural awareness.

She is especially proud of her work with U-Lead, an organization that provides educational support, scholarships, and mentoring to local students of various immigrant backgrounds and documentation statuses.

“As a second-generation immigrant whose life was shaped by my parents’ educational attainment, I’m proud to have served as a college coach, tutored in math, and enjoyed spending time with such brilliant, passionate, and fun students since my first year.”

Recognition

Schwarzman Scholar Zakiyya Ellington International

Zakiyya Ellington was one of 154 students selected internationally for the Schwarzman Scholarship, a graduate fellowship designed to prepare the next generation of leaders with an understanding of China’s role in global trends.

Zakiyya is UGA’s sixth Schwarzman Scholar. The incoming Class of 2022 was narrowed down from more than 3,600 applicants from China, the U.S., and around the world. It includes students from 39 countries and 99 universities.

Six classes of Schwarzman Scholars have been named since the highly competitive program opened to applicants in 2015. Scholars are taught by leading international faculty and pursue a fully funded, yearlong master’s degree in global affairs at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Students choose a focus of public policy, economics and business, or international studies.

An Honors student, Foundation Fellow, and Stamps Scholar from Allen, Texas, Zakiyya graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Arabic with a minor in Spanish from the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences in addition to a bachelor’s degree in accounting and a master’s degree in business analytics from the Terry College of Business.

Zakiyya intends to apply her talents, experiences, and passion to advance social and economic equity for underserved communities in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region through entrepreneurship. She aspires to work directly with ethnic minorities, refugees, and migrants to assist them in growing sustainable startups.

She plans to later continue this work at a larger scale as a strategy expert, serving organizations with similar aims.

As a Schwarzman Scholar, Zakiyya’s concentration will be in economics and business. She plans to examine China’s approach to recent economic development and its impact on the socioeconomic status of underserved groups. As she translates these learnings to MENA contexts, she will build capabilities in marginalized communities to help them navigate appropriate development models and advance their social and economic empowerment.

“Zakiyya has been a delight to know and work with since I first met her when she was still in high school,” said David S. Williams, associate provost and dean of the Morehead Honors College. “Though Zakiyya obviously has a first-rate intellect, she is also an extremely kind and supportive person. Given all her gifts and promise, it is clear that Zakiyya will make a very positive impact on society.”

Zakiyya is a Sea Island Scholar and Presidential Scholar and received the Hostilo Family Scholarship in History. She

is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and Beta Gamma Sigma honor societies. She has interned as a summer business analyst for McKinsey and Company and has served as a Career Prep Fellow for Management Leadership for Tomorrow and a campus organizer for Food and Water Watch. She is an Honors teaching assistant, Athens Prison Tutorial volunteer tutor, Kickstart Fund partner, LEAD Fellow, Terry College of Business ambassador, Delta Sigma Pi business fraternity co-vice president of professional activities as well as a UGA Women’s Rugby Football Club student-athlete, treasurer, and three-time team MVP. She was a Freshman Connect member of UGA’s Student Government Association.

An advanced speaker of modern standard Arabic, specifically in the Moroccan dialect, Zakiyya is also proficient in Spanish. She has studied abroad in Tanzania, Morocco, and the United Kingdom.

“The Schwarzman Scholars program connects future global leaders, and that makes it a perfect fit for Zakiyya,” said Jessica Hunt, assistant dean of Honors and director of scholarships. “Zakiyya has proven to be an exceptional mentor to her fellow students and to budding entrepreneurs, and she has worked hard to promote diverse and inclusive workspaces and communities. She will no doubt do the same during her year in Beijing as a Schwarzman Scholar.”

KnightHennessy Scholar Arden Farr

Arden Farr is among the fourth cohort of Knight-Hennessy Scholars, a global graduate-level program at Stanford University.

Established in 2016, the KnightHennessy Scholars program provides full funding for graduate students as they pursue studies ranging from medicine to law to doctoral programs as well as joint and dual degrees.

The program is designed to prepare students to take leadership roles in finding creative solutions to complex global issues. Arden is UGA’s third Knight-Hennessy Scholar.

“As someone who has taught and worked closely with Arden, I know that she is a most deserving recipient of the Knight-Hennessy Scholarship,” said David S. Williams, associate provost and dean of the Morehead Honors College.

“It is evident that Arden’s academic, internship, and service background informs her long-term interests in defense, diplomacy, human rights, and public service. Taking into account the leadership roles Arden has already filled both on and beyond our campus, I am sure that she will be a force for positive change in the future.”

A Foundation Fellow and Honors student from Memphis, Tennessee, Arden graduated this spring with bachelor’s degrees in international affairs and economics from the School of Public and International Affairs and Terry College of Business, respectively. She will begin a master’s degree in international policy at Stanford University in the fall.

She plans to apply to the Presidential Management Fellowship, putting her on

a direct track to a leadership position in the federal government. Her goal is to work in the federal government, advocating for arms control policies that are conscious of human rights.

Arden was an Undergraduate Research Fellow for the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, California, focused on the intentions and capabilities of ISIS and the degradation of the norms of weapons of mass destruction.

Her list of previous internships as a UGA undergraduate is extensive— she was an analytical intern with the U.S. Department of Defense, digitally tracking information campaigns and propaganda; a remote research intern with the Justice Centre Hong Kong, analyzing the human rights situation; and an analytical and legal intern with the Freeland Foundation in Bangkok, Thailand, researching countertrafficking programs. Her internships with the U.S. Department of State include the Office of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, investigating gross violations of human rights; the Office of Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism, working with partner countries and updating databases of nuclear trafficking

incidents; and the Global Engagement Center, tracking disinformation and propaganda campaigns.

She was a Public Service and Outreach Scholar with UGA’s J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development, a UGA Public Service and Outreach unit, focusing on state-wide foster care programs; and a Research Fellow with the KAIST Nuclear Nonproliferation Education and Research Center in Daejeon, South Korea, conducting research on the future of nuclear power in South Korea.

Arden has been a CURO research assistant, Honors Policy Scholar, and member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Richard B. Russell Security Leadership Program. She has served on the executive board and as external engagements coordinator for Roosevelt at UGA.

During her time at UGA, Arden studied abroad at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science Technology and the University of Oxford. She has been awarded the Senator Chambliss Leadership Fellowship and the U.S. Department of State Certificate of Appreciation. She speaks German, Spanish, French, and Portuguese.

National Recognition

Goldwater Scholar Claire Bunn

Claire Bunn was among 410 undergraduates across the nation to be recognized as Barry Goldwater Scholars in 2021, earning the highest undergraduate award of its type for the fields of the natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering.

Claire, from Marion, Arkansas, is an Honors student, Foundation Fellow, and Stamps Scholar majoring in genetics and minoring in statistics.

Claire plans to pursue an MD/PhD in genetics and bioinformatics. Her goal is to uncover mechanisms and mutations in clinical oncology as a physician scientist in an academic research hospital. She hopes to combine genomic and bioinformatic approaches to guide medical treatment.

Since her freshman year, Claire has conducted research on protein kinases with Natarajan Kannan, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, in his evolutionary systems biology lab. She completed a remote bioinformatics

NIH summer internship with him during the COVID-19 pandemic that was critical to her ability to continue pursuing research.

She will be a co-author on two manuscripts being prepared for submission.

Claire researched how more inclusive databases are helping physicians develop more equitable healthcare and presented her research at the American Association for the Advancement for Science Conference for Science, Technology and Human Rights. She works remotely with Dr. Jennifer Sucre, assistant professor of pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and a Foundation Fellow alumna, conducting digital imaging analysis of lung tissue samples of preterm infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia.

Her UGA involvement includes serving as a UGA MathCounts Outreach school coordinator and head coach, UGA Visitors Center campus tour

Udall Scholar Elizabeth Esser

Elizabeth Esser was recognized for her leadership, public service, and commitment to issues related to the environment this spring as one of 55 undergraduates selected from across the nation and U.S. territories for the Udall Scholarship, which is awarded to sophomores and juniors on the basis of their commitment to careers in the environment, Native healthcare, or Tribal public policy.

Elizabeth, a Foundation Fellow from Grafton, Wisconsin, is majoring in genetics and ecology in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and the Odum School of Ecology, respectively.

She plans to pursue a career in conservation and environmental protection as a government researcher who uses genetic techniques to conserve endangered species.

Elizabeth aims to increase the ways in which genetics is applied to conservation efforts, focusing on genetic techniques to help endangered

species and mitigate the effects of invasive species. Following a year of conservation work in a national park, she plans to pursue a PhD in genetics.

Three of the four research projects Elizabeth has participated in have direct connections to the environment. She assessed a newly developed protocol for genetic manipulation with Douglas Menke, associate professor and director of the Developmental Biology Alliance; helped genotype Kinorynches in Norwegian fjords while visiting Norway; and created a more accurate model of oceanic larval dispersal with Jeb Byers, Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor of Ecology. She also assisted in creating a prioritization system for molecular testing in zoos.

Her involvement at UGA includes being a service ambassador for ServeUGA and a volunteer animal socializer with Animal Control. She is active in the PAL Mentorship Program, the Society of Conservation Biology,

guide, Honors Student Council copresident, Honors teaching assistant and Destination Dawgs peer mentor. She belongs to the Omicron Delta Kappa and Dean William Tate honor societies. She studied biomedical ethics at the University of Oxford in 2019.

the Genetic Education Network and Experience Club, Women in Science, UGArden, Campus Kitchen, STEMzone educational booth, and Campus Stream Cleanup. Elizabeth has been a CURO research assistant and is a member of the Omicron Delta Kappa Honor Society.

Kyle Patel, Fulbright-Nehru Student Research Grant

Foundation Fellow Kyle Patel graduated in May with bachelor’s degrees in biology and international affairs and a Master of Public Health. He has been awarded a FulbrightNehru Student Research grant to conduct public health research in his family’s home state of Gujarat, India. His project is in partnership with SEWA Rural, a community-based health and development organization serving the Jhagadia district.

Kyle’s research will focus on health-seeking behavior of the ultra poor among rural and tribal populations, using field epidemiology and primary data collection and analysis to create policy recommendations that improve SEWA’s service delivery. He will use the knowledge and experience from his research in future practice of medicine and public health by fostering a community-centered, needs-based approach.

Aven Jones, Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Fellow

Having graduated in 2020 with a degree in scientific illustration and a minor in cellular biology, Ramsey Scholar Aven Jones will begin her graduate studies in biomedical visualization this fall at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

The program—one of only three specialized medical illustration master’s degrees offered in the U.S.—places a strong emphasis on technology for the use in science communication, such as 3D modeling, animation, virtual reality, and game design.

In recognition of her accomplishments and in support of her continued education, Aven was awarded a 2021 Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship for graduate and professional study. With the scientific expertise to understand complex biomedical topics and the technical artistic skills to visually translate that information for a broad audience, Aven’s role in the success and accessibility of scientific research is instrumental.

Tarun Ramesh, Samvid Scholar

Foundation Fellow Tarun Ramesh graduated in May with degrees in economics and genetics. He was selected for the inaugural class of Samvid Scholars, a new scholarship for future leaders and changemakers. Tarun is one of 20 exceptional graduate students selected for this scholarship, which provides up to $100,000 for graduate school tuition, which he will use toward his MD at Harvard Medical School.

With an interest in health policy, health economics, and clinical addiction medicine, Tarun’s work has been published by the Center for American Progress, the Roosevelt Institute, the UGA Journal of Economics, the Journal of Interdisciplinary Public Policy, and the Undergraduate Economics Review. He has worked at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Drug Policy Alliance, the Archway Partnership, Georgia General Assembly, and several local political campaigns.

MOREHEAD HONORS COLLEGE

The Jere W. Morehead Honors College provides its 2,500-plus 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 Morehead Honors College affords numerous opportunities for local, national, and global civic engagement and career development, including internship placements in Washington, New York, and Savannah; the Corsair Society, which mentors undergraduates pursuing banking and finance careers; the Honors Student Council; UGA MathCounts Outreach; 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 Morehead Honors College, CURO is open to all UGA undergraduates interested in pursuing research ranging from the humanities to social sciences to traditional STEM disciplines.

Among the on-campus benefits provided to Fellows and Ramseys is access to Morehead Honors College staff members, including the scholarships director, who provides important counsel for a variety of pursuits, including drafting personal statements, resumes, and cover letters for job, scholarship, and postgraduate study applications.

686 first-year students

4.2 average GPA

1505 average SAT 33.9 average ACT

Mariah Cady, Fiachra Rottinghaus, and Isaac Martin meet in front of Myers Hall on South Campus.

checks functions in a water chamber before running a test on aircraft parts in a College of Engineering lab.

Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities CURO

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.

Keaton Coletti

SENIORS SPEAK: Faculty Mentors

“For every official faculty mentor I’ve listed, there are probably 10 other faculty members, staff members, students, alumni, or other UGA/ Athens/Morehouse/Walton County community members who have changed my life and helped me grow. I am forever grateful for the many people who guided me through my journey at UGA. They know who they are, and if they’re reading this right now, I want them to know that I will never forget them. My only future aspiration is to pay their kindness forward.”

PHAIDRA BUCHANAN

“Dr. Jeffrey Berejikian is the reason I study international affairs. I registered for his first-year odyssey class, Foreign Policy and Neuroscience, largely by chance, but by the end of the semester I had discovered an unknown passion. He and I have conducted three years of U.S. military decision-making research, which is advising the Pentagon. I earned a Master of International Policy through the Double Dawgs program and will be moving to Washington, D.C., after graduation. I will be forever grateful to Dr. Berejikian for helping me find my path.”

Fourth-year Ramsey Honors Scholar majoring in international affairs with a Master of International Policy

Fourth-year Foundation Fellow majoring in social studies education

SAMANTHA DALY

ANTHONY VANDIEREN

“Taking organic chemistry with Dr. Suzanne Ellenberger was directly responsible for my decision to become a chemistry major. I was always waiting in line to ask her questions after class, and I remember constantly finding myself in her office for her weekly office hours. It was through her encouragement I realized I should be doing more with chemistry. Despite my protesting, she kept gently prodding me to add the major. It’s been three years since that class, and I cannot imagine my college career or future without it.”

“With the support of the Fellowship, I discovered my passion for computer science and cybersecurity. As a result, I have conducted exciting research on campus in Dr. Kyu Hyung Lee’s Software Security and Cyber Forensics Lab and off campus as an NSF REU cybersecurity researcher at Oakland University. I am thankful for Dr. Lee’s guidance. I have learned so much from him, and it’s because of his patience and willingness to work with undergraduate researchers like me that I am the cybersecurity researcher I am today.”

Fourth-year Foundation Fellow majoring in biological science, chemistry, and entomology

Fourth-year Foundation Fellow majoring in applied mathematics and computer science (cybersecurity emphasis)

KUNHO KIM

This page: Diya Ghoshal, left, takes an aerial yoga trapeze class in the Dance Building. Facing page, clockwise from top: 1) William Ross, Marshall Berton, Adeboye Adeoye, and Garrett Williams study the stock market in the Capital Markets Lab; 2) Jaaie Varshney, Khushi Mehta, and Vanisha Kudumuri take time for a Big-Little coffee during a weekend visit to Charleston, S.C.; 3) the Class of 2023 gathers for a picnic and movie at the Intramural Fields; 4) Elise Karinshak and Priyanka Parikh get creative on Photoshop and digitally create Maymester adventures; and 5) Fellows and Ramseys ready for a flag football game.

FELLOWS & RAMSEYS TEST VARIOUS CAREER PATHS THROUGH

INTERNSHIPS

Internships 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 forprofit, 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.

INTERNSHIPS students participated in 68 internships 87 virtual 26

“My work with the UGA football team was one of the most valuable experiences in my four years here. Working with the special teams coaches, I broke down film of future opponents and recorded relevant information used in scouting reports. It feels amazing knowing I am doing something I really love and gaining new insights into the sport as well as the insider knowledge of the industry. (It’s always fun hearing something before ESPN reports it!) I have made great connections with some amazing people.”

“Having the privilege to work in Washington, D.C., for six months, fully funded by the Foundation Fellowship and the Sen. Chambliss Fellowship, allowed me to do meaningful work in the realm of foreign policy and adapt my career trajectory. I spent these six months working for the U.S. Department of State, promoting diplomatic partnerships to prevent weapons of mass destruction terrorism as well as addressing gross violations of human rights and genocide in the East Asia and Pacific region.”

Fourth-year Foundation Fellow majoring in economics and international affairs

ARDEN FARR

Fourth-year Ramsey Honors Scholar majoring in economics with an MS in business analytics

DAVID BEKORE

SENIORS SPEAK: Internships

“I am grateful I packed as many experiences as possible into summer 2019. I spent the end of May and early June in South Africa, studying politics and development, funded by the Honors International Scholars Program. I spent the remainder in New York City as a software engineering intern with The Daily Beast. From my first day, my code was going live on the site and in their databases. I learned how to operate in a corporate software environment while also gaining valuable skills, like new programming languages and collaborative code writing.”

“The Fellowship has empowered me to research pressing issues surrounding access to affordable, quality healthcare and reduce barriers through community-based advocacy and government regulations. Through collaborations with renowned faculty, staff, and an inspiring cohort of students engaged in a variety of interdisciplinary work, I was able to merge my interests in health policy, economics, community health, and legislative advocacy to travel and intern across the United States and the globe.”

TARUN RAMESH

MEREDITH VAN DE VELDE

Fourth-year Foundation Fellow majoring in economics and genetics

Fourth-year Ramsey Honors Scholar majoring in computer science and international affairs

YI JIAN MA MA

“Because of the Mid-Term Fellowship, I have been able to support myself during my internship at Doosan Bobcat and fund travels to Europe, New York, Texas, and Massachusetts. More importantly, I was able to immerse myself in a community of intellectuals and driven individuals. Every day, this community inspires, motivates, and encourages us to pursue what we desire and be a bit better than we were the day before.”

“My experiences analyzing pension plans for clients as an actuarial intern at Aon and examining workers’ compensation losses for a new safety program as a risk management intern at TBC Corporation confirmed for me that actuarial science was just the right combination of mathematics and business for me. The opportunity to directly apply my knowledge from UGA’s amazing risk management program to important problems—namely, helping companies keep their promises to retirees—makes me excited to return to Aon full-time after graduation.”

Fourth-year Foundation Fellow majoring in risk management and insurance

Fourth-year Ramsey Honors Scholar majoring in finance, risk management & insurance

ZANE PLACIE

FELLOWS AND RAMSEYS EXPLORE THEIR

RESEARCH INTERESTS

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

CONFERENCES & RESEARCH GRANTS students participated in 42 conferences 14 all virtual out of state 7 PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS students publications 7 presentations 45 CURO presentations 33 42

SENIORS SPEAK: Research

“Working in the Avci Lab was one of the best experiences of my life. Dr. Avci and his graduate students introduced me to what it meant to be a scientist and gave me valuable experience not only in the field of science but in life, helping me develop skills such as presenting my work to a variety of audiences, learning and adapting to new circumstances, and how to use my time efficiently. In the lab itself, Dr. Avci and his graduate students helped me become a published author and awakened my desire to continue researching throughout my future career.”

SATYA JELLA

“Working with Dr. John Hale on research at the intersection of traditional linguistics and computer science/natural language processing has been both rewarding and enlightening, and it has allowed me to contribute to the representation of understudied languages and dialects in computational linguistics as a whole. My summer study in a Gaeltacht on the west coast of Ireland contributed both content and meaning to my work on the Irish language.”

Fourth-year Foundation Fellow majoring in cellular biology with an MPH in epidemiology

Fourth-year Ramsey Honors Scholar majoring in computer science and linguistics

JAMES WEST

“What began as one semester of research on monetary sanctions with Dr. Sarah Shannon turned into three semesters, a change in my career path, and a lifelong mentorship. I am grateful to Dr. Shannon and Dr. Christopher Cornwell for challenging me to understand my love of research, ultimately leading me to pursue a PhD in a field I care about.”

“The UGA Physics Department has provided the necessary resources for me to pursue and publish physics research while building a solid foundation of knowledge and growing as a physicist. The physics faculty have been supportive while still providing an academic challenge, and Dr. Stancil has been a fantastic research mentor. Together with him, I presented at my first research conference and had one paper published in Astrophysical Journal, with another paper currently pending.”

Fourth-year Ramsey Honors Scholar majoring in physics

Fourth-year Foundation Fellow majoring in economics and sociology

AVERY WARNER

ELIJAH COURTNEY

Stamps Day of Service

UGA Stamps Scholars invited other Fellows and Ramseys to join them in two service activities in the fall Stamps Scholars and other FFR joined PERIOD@ UGA for its packing party, which is a work session that includes documentary screenings and guest speakers to incorporate education and advocacy into the evening’s activities. PERIOD@UGA is committed to eliminating the period taboo and expanding access to menstrual care in the community.

Stamps Scholars and other FFR also volunteered with The Backpack Project of Athens (TBP/ATH) to cook 60 meals. They delivered the meals to homeless encampments that the organization works with in Athens.

Luke Armao, a Foundation Fellow and Stamps Scholar, was president of TBP/ATH in 2020-2021.

“Once we had people’s trust and built relationships with them, it became a lot easier to help, because the people we knew in one encampment would show us other encampments,” he told The Red & Black in November 2020.

“It’s been really cool to see people we started working with finding housing and work,” Luke said. “That’s been my favorite part of leading this organization, is you see how our relationship with our clients has evolved. I’m glad we have their trust.”

Feeding the Frontlines

Collaboration provided meals for healthcare workers and revenue for restaurants

In spring 2020, Fellows alum Aditya Sood and Honors alum Anita Qualls formed a nonprofit to help ease the burden of thousands of workers across the state.

When the pandemic hit, Aditya (Fellows Class of 2019) was in his second semester of medical school at Emory. Anita was in Cambridge, England, as UGA’s first-ever Churchill Scholar.

After Anita returned to the States, she actively sought ways to contribute to the fight against COVID-19. One of the friends she reached out to was Cali Callaway (Fellows Class of 2017), a thirdyear medical student at Cornell. Cali was involved in an effort to deliver restaurantmade meals to healthcare workers around New York, called NYP Healthcare Heroes.

When Anita learned about NYP Healthcare Heroes, she set up a similar effort in Athens and contacted Aditya, who was in Alpharetta. The concept created a partnership between the organization

and local restaurants who made and then delivered fresh meals to healthcare workers in hospitals and medical clinics around the state. Feed the Frontlines volunteers handled the logistics of connecting with healthcare providers and providing funding to restaurant partners.

“We realized there was a need, not just with healthcare workers who were struggling but also with local restaurants that had no source of income but massive rents to pay,” Aditya said.

Anita and Aditya cast a wide net and reeled in dozens of friends and acquaintances from across Georgia who, like them, were trying to figure out a way to make an impact.

“Being a part of this effort during the early stages of the pandemic helped me feel connected with UGA, and I got to help organize a fundraiser targeting UGA students,” said Jaaie Varshney, a third-year Foundation Fellow majoring in political

UGA Visitors Center tour guides

science and women’s studies.

Jaaie was a coordinator in her hometown of Rome, along with her sister Juhi.

Feed the Frontlines Georgia grew from four people to 80 in just two and a half weeks, and as of fall 2020, had served more than 40 hospitals and clinics across the state. More than 1,000 meals were delivered statewide every week. Anita estimates that 90% of the volunteers were current UGA students or alumni.

Feed the Frontlines Georgia also provided crucial support to rural areas. They raised more than $75,000, which helped keep dozens of restaurants afloat.

Also involved were Avni Ahuja (Fellows Class of 2020); Elise Karinshak, third-year Foundation Fellow; Jessica Ma (Fellows Class of 2020); Prabhjot Minhas (Ramseys Class of 2019; and Vineet Raman (Ramseys Class of 2019).

—Parts of this story originally appeared in the fall 2020 issue of Georgia magazine.

Five Fellows and Ramseys were Visitors Center tour guides in 2020-2021, welcoming prospective students to UGA. They include, top left, Shashank Ganeshan, Albert Chen, and Marianne Lamarche showing visitors a campus map; bottom left, Marianne, Asim Ahmed, Albert, Shashank, and Claire Bunn posing with Visitors Center director Eric Johnson, third from left; and above, Claire and Asim discussing tours while Marianne, Albert, and Shashank chat in the background.

“Serving as SGA president during a pandemic has been the most formative experience of my life. I got hands-on experience with institutional advocacy, lobbying/governing, policy implementation, and much more. From creating a campaign to the out-going inauguration, I have been humbled and honored by this role and believe it has been the experience of a lifetime.”

“As a UNICEF Youth Representative, I love seeing new UNICEF club leaders gain a sense of empowerment and purpose in the face of otherwise overwhelming global issues. My most meaningful takeaway has been a sense of personal responsibility for improving our world however I can and the belief I can actually do so.”

Fourth-year Foundation Fellow majoring in cellular biology with an MPH in health policy & management

Fourth-year Foundation Fellow majoring in biochemistry & molecular biology and finance

VICTORIA FONZI

ASIM AHMED

MARGARET

SCHRAYER

“I enjoyed learning about UGA’s mission of public service as a land-grant institution. In the PSO Student Scholars program, I visited all eight of UGA’s public service units and heard from public service faculty and staff. I later interned with three of those units: I coordinated the state science fair at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education, collected economic data on rural communities for the Archway Partnership, and oversaw Campus Kitchen operations at the Office of Service-Learning. Each of these roles showed me UGA’s impact on communities across the state. ”

“The Backpack Project gave me a family away from home. I found mentors in the previous executive directors and my closest friends in the other members. We spent hours in the storage unit packing hundreds of backpacks with daily supplies and necessities to be distributed in Athens, Atlanta, and Augusta. I always looked forward to our annual Homeless Heroes Day when we packed thousands of backpacks along with our community and corporate partners to be taken to various shelters and locations in Atlanta.”

Fourth-year Foundation Fellow majoring in computer science with an MS in artificial intelligence

Fourth-year Foundation Fellow majoring in cellular biology with an MPH in epidemiology

DIVYA GHOSHAL

Global TravelerS

Eshaan Agrawal: Washington, D.C.

Asim Ahmed: Durham, North Carolina

Zainub Ali: Washington, D.C.; Boston, Massachusetts

Luke Armao: Haines City, Florida; Muncie, Indiana

Aakash Arora: Atlanta, Georgia

David Bekore: Grand Canyon, Arizona; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Michelle Belikova: Los Angeles, California; Daytona, Florida; St. Louis, Missouri; Glacier National Park, Montana; Nebraska; Death Valley National Park, Nevada; Mount Rushmore, South Dakota; Park City, Utah

Rosa Brown: Washington, D.C.

Claire Bunn: Nashville, Tennessee

Katherine Christie: Aiken, South Carolina

Jordan Cole: Athens, Georgia

Keaton Coletti: Flagstaff, Arizona; Grand Canyon, Arizona; Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah; Zion National Park, Utah

Sophia DeLuca: Washington, D.C.

Sam Ejiofor: Scottsdale, Arizona

Zakiyya Ellington: Peru

Emma Ellis: San Juan, Puerto Rico

Danielle Emefiele: Orlando, Florida

Elizabeth Esser: Kirtland, Ohio

Emilio Ferrara: Athens, Georgia

Shashank Ganeshan: Los Angeles, California; San Francisco, California

Madison Greer: Atlanta, Georgia

Emma Hale: Grand Canyon, Arizona; New Smyrna, Florida; Boston, Massachusetts; Nolichucky River, Tennessee; Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah; Zion National Park, Utah

Jason Hawkins: Athens, Georgia

Nina Howard: Moab, Utah; Salt Lake City, Utah; Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming; Jackson Hole, Wyoming; Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Hannah Huang: Homer, Alaska; Mokelumne Hill, California; Asheville, North Carolina

Tate Hunda: Washington, D.C.

Satya Jella: Los Angeles, California

Jena Jibreen: Washington, D.C.

Melita Kalczynska: Warsaw, Poland

Jamil Kassam: San Francisco, California; Denver, Colorado; Austin, Texas; Seattle, Washington

Kunho Kim: South Korea

Matthew Li: Atlanta, Georgia

Yi Jian Ma Ma: Boston, Massachusetts; Las Vegas, Nevada; New York, New York; Dallas, Texas

Manav Mathews: Washington, D.C.; New Orleans, Louisiana

Rachel Mattson: Grand Canyon, Arizona

Sophia Milazzo: Yosemite National Park, California; Washington, D.C.

Natalie Navarrete: Washington, D.C.

Priyanka Parikh: New York, New York

Sahana Parker: Costa Rica; Los Angeles, California; Santa Barbara, California; Seattle, Washington

Kyle Patel: Atlanta, Georgia

Aparna Pateria: Savannah, Georgia

Sydney Phillips: Washington, D.C.

Zane Placie: Colorado, Wyoming

Karan Pol: Washington, D.C.

Tarun Ramesh: Cambridge, Massachusetts; New York, New York

Isabelle Riddle: Boulder, Utah

William Ross: San Francisco, California

Christopher Rosselot: Washington, D.C.

Percy Rottinghaus: Lander, Wyoming

Nathan Safir: Chicago, Illinois; Seattle,

Washington

Anna Samsonov: Giecz, Poland

Sasha Stogniy: Los Angeles, California

Trey Swenton: Giecz, Poland

Jordan Theoc: Atlanta, Georgia

Emma Traynor: Washington, D.C.

Emma Tucker: Arizona, New Mexico, Texas

Anthony VanDieren: Tuscon, Arizona; Santa Fe, New Mexico; Terlingua, Texas

Jaaie Varshney: San Francisco, California; Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Emme Warren: Ocala, Florida; Athens, Georgia

Garrett Williams: San Francisco, California

Elliot Williamson: Bozeman, Minnesota

Himani Yadav: Chicago, Illinois

GLOBAL SENIORS

The Class of 2021—both Foundation Fellows and Ramsey Honors Scholars—have traveled the globe and the greater United States during their four years at the University of Georgia.

SENIOR TRAVEL seniors traveled to countries 34 states 22 41

“The Ramsey Scholarship has turned me into something of a world traveler. I managed to spend summers in both Germany and Brazil, studying German and Portuguese. Being able to interact with the cultures of these other countries and experience their landscapes was incredible.”

BRANHAM CULPEPPER

“I direct enrolled at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid for the 2019 spring semester with the goal of improving my Spanish and broadening my academic horizons. From a tiny apartment steps away from the Plaza Mayor, I spent my days reading Cervantes, studying the legal foundations of the European Union, and composing essays on Spanish mystic poets. I took advantage of every break, fulfilling long-standing dreams of visiting the Alhambra and the Sistine Chapel. I put down roots in Madrid, and I appreciate the Fellowship for giving me this opportunity to grow academically outside of my major field of study.”

Fourth-year

Foundation Fellow majoring in biochemistry & molecular biology

Fourth-year Ramsey Honors Scholar majoring in economics and romance languages

EMMA TUCKER

“I spent a week at an equine hospital in Tennessee and shadowed a veterinary dermatologist in Switzerland to get experience in the veterinary field, and I also studied at Oxford, hiked Yosemite, gotten my motorcycle license, and completed an SCCA race driving course. These are things that I would have only dreamed of doing coming out of high school. These amazing experiences have inspired me to keep pursuing new things even as my life changes.”

“Sophomore year after I had been doing research with Dr. William Kisaalita for a few months, he asked if I was ready to go to Uganda the following summer to direct clinical trials there for some data we needed. I was taken aback but also deeply appreciative of the confidence and trust he had in me to travel there and complete the last phase of our project. The experience ended up being one of the greatest summers of my life, and I will forever be grateful to him and the Fellowship for providing the support and resources that enabled it.”

Fourth-year Foundation Fellow majoring in biology and international affairs with an MPH in epidemiology

Graduating third-year Foundation Fellow majoring in biology

MICHELLE BELIKOVA

KYLE PATEL

SENIORS SPEAK: Travel-Study

“Summiting Kilimanjaro was the most challenging yet exhilarating experience of my life. In my hardest moments, I often find myself calling back to the immense strength, freedom, joy, and gratitude I felt during the trek. The relationships I created are unlike any I have had before: sweetened by hours-long meandering conversations, warm meals together at the end of exhausting days, and words of encouragement during the final gruelling hours of the summit. The Kilimanjaro trek was a mental, physical, and spiritual detox I needed as I entered into my adult life, and I will always be grateful for it.”

ISABELLE RIDDLE

TEDDY VINCENT

“After sophomore year, I traveled to Costa Rica for the Humanities and Social Sciences Maymester. As an applied mathematics student, being able to take abbreviated courses in environmental journalism and creative writing was both intellectually stimulating and a lot of fun. But classes were only part of the experience. I’m a complete animal nerd; living in the Monteverde cloud forest was a dream come true. I saw coatis and capibaras, walked at night in search of tarantulas, befriended a cow, and went on a few hikes on my own through the old growth forest (where I finally saw spider monkeys).”

Ramsey Honors Scholar, Class of 2021, who graduated in May 2020 with a degree in applied mathematics

Fourth-year Foundation Fellow majoring in biology (neuroscience emphasis)

SENIORS: Lisa Ann Coole Award

Rachel Yuan honored with Lisa Ann Coole Award

The Foundation Fellows and Ramsey Honors Scholars Class of 2021 chose Rachel Yuan as this year’s recipient of the Lisa Ann Coole Award. The award was established in 1999 to honor the memory of an extraordinary young woman 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 a model Foundation Fellow. She graduated from the University of Georgia magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in biology in 1997. She was a 19-time AllAmerican 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.

Rachel Yuan

Rachel graduated with a bachelor’s degree in entertainment & media studies and a STEM MBA and is now working at Anonymous Content, a talent/literary management and production company in Los Angeles, in their media rights department. Rachel’s classmates share their appreciation below.

—“Rachel is just a fantastic leader, a public servant who is deeply committed to service, and an all-around enthusiastic and genuine person. She has a deep love for those around her and is invested in the learning and growth of others.”

—“There is simply no one more qualified to receive this award. Rachel is talented and is a leader but does both so humbly. She is personable, can carry on a conversation with anyone, and always makes you feel like your opinions are valid and she is interested in them. More than anything, Rachel is the best representation of what a student leader and a Foundation Fellow should be, as her impact is more than just her impressive resume. Rachel exudes kindness and empathy.”

—“Rachel embodies all the qualities of Lisa Ann Coole, but the one that sticks out to me the most is leadership without a hint of self-promotion. Since freshman year, I’ve known that Rachel is one of the most selfless people I’ve ever known. She drops everything to support her friends and peers in their endeavors, whether it be a comedy show, a musical performance, or even an interview, and to serve the community around her with the same vigor. It doesn’t even occur to her to do otherwise—to not rearrange her entire schedule at the drop of a hat to support someone. One of

my favorite phrases is ‘moving in silence,’ a tale of humility, and she does just that, even though she herself is a highly accomplished student and future entertainment mogul. In this way, by just being herself, Rachel is the best example of kindness, leadership, and modesty, and of what we should all strive to be more like.”

Previous recipients are Avni Ahuja and Emma Goldsmith (2020), Caroline Shearer (2019), Emily Maloney and Mollie Simon (2018), 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 and Kyle Wingfield (2001), Bronson Lee (2000), and Lacy Feldman and Torre Mills (1999).

Foundation Fellows Class of 2021

Asim Ahmed

Majors: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Finance

Minor: Spanish

Hometown: Columbus, Georgia

Research: Cost Disparity With-In Coronary Artery Disease Treatment Continuum; Measuring the Indirect Workforce Productivity Burden of Health Disparity

UGA Faculty Mentors: Professor Brian Sadler, Ms. Taylor Cain, Mr. Victor Wilson, Dr. Zhuo Chen

Travel-Study & Internships: Austria; Hungary; Italy; Morocco; Spain; United Kingdom; Washington, D.C.; Atlanta, Georgia; New York, New York; Durham, North Carolina

Activities: UGA SGA student body president, UGA orientation leader, UGA COVID-19 Response Committee, Beyond Baldwin, UGA Visitors Center tour guide, Emory Telehealth Work Group, Compassionate Care Hospice volunteer, NAACP Exec

Honors & Awards: Dean Tate Honor Society, Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Honor Society, Blue Key Honor Society, UGA Amazing Student, UGA Presidential Award of Honor, UGA Homecoming Court, Presidential Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude with High Honors (expected 2022)

Post-Graduation Plans: Asim is staying in Athens for one more year to complete his degrees in finance and biochemistry, after which he will be attending medical school to pursue an MD/MBA.

Zoë Lorene Andrews

Major: Music

Minor: Music Business

Hometown: Atlanta, Georgia

UGA Faculty Mentors: Dr. Angela Birkes, Dr. Emily Gertsch, Dr. Monica Hargrave

Travel-Study & Internships: Argentina; Germany; Greece; Italy; Netherlands; Uganda; United Kingdom; Uruguay; Washington, D.C.; Athens, Georgia; New York, New York

Activities: National Pan-Hellenic Council vice president and student advisor, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. economic legacy chair, Abeneefoo Kuo Honor Society programming chair, Foundation of International Medical Relief of Children-Uganda (FIMRC) volunteer clinic worker, UGA Parking student assistant Honors & Awards: Abeneefoo Kuo Honor Society Ervin and McFadden Fellowship Post-Graduation Plans: Zoë is taking a gap year while working as a medical scribe for Robin Healthcare and applying to medical school and biomedical master’s programs.

Nitin Sai Prasad Ankisetty

Majors: Biology, Finance

Hometown: Oxford, Mississippi

Research: Determining the Change in Temperature Over Time in Circumpolar Deep Water

UGA Faculty Mentor: Dr. Patricia Yager Travel-Study & Internships: Argentina; France; Netherlands; Spain; United Kingdom; Uruguay; Atlanta, Georgia; Memphis, Tennessee Activities: Ballroom Dancing

Performance Group principal dancer, Corsair Consulting Society, Science Olympiad Outreach co-president, UGA Kickstart partner, Boston Consulting Group social impact intern, Campus Kitchen shift leader, North Carolina Community Health Association, UGA Auxiliary Services student partner, Apollo Business Society healthcare analyst, Study Soup marketing team leader

Honors & Awards: Dean Tate Honor Society, Terry Bank of America Scholarship, Clifford H. Scholarship, Presidential Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude with Honors

Post-Graduation Plans: Nitin is working for the Boston Consulting Group as an associate consultant in their Atlanta office.

Asim Ahmed

Zoë Andrews

Kyle Pishunjay Patel

Majors: Biology, International Affairs, MPH

Epidemiology

Hometown: Duluth, Georgia

Research: Salivary MicroRNA Profiles of Treatment-Naïve Tuberculosis Patients in Uganda; Differential Governmental Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic; Analysis of Modern Pandemics to Inform Pandemic Staging Systems; Voter Attitudes and Engagement in the 2021 Georgia Runoff Elections; Gun Ownership and Proximity to Suicide

UGA Faculty Mentors: Dr. José Cordero, Dr. Micah Gell-Redman, Dr. William Kisaalita, Dr. Toni Miles

Travel-Study & Internships: Argentina; South Africa; Uganda; United Kingdom; Uruguay; San Francisco, California; New Haven, Connecticut; Washington, D.C.; Atlanta, Georgia; New York, New York; San Juan, Puerto Rico

Activities: Mokah for Georgia field director; Moms Demand Action GA state social media lead; Office of State Senator Michelle Au legislative aide; Mercy Health Center; UGA Kalakaar; Athens AntiDiscrimination Movement criminal justice reform liaison; Working Families Party regional director; Georgia Department of Public Health contact tracer; They See Blue GA legislative affairs chair; Stacey Abrams for Governor field intern Honors & Awards: Fulbright Scholar, Eagle Scout, Blue Key Honor Society, Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Honor Society, CURO Research Assistantship, Dean’s List, Presidential Scholar, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude with Highest Honors

Post-Graduation Plans: Kyle will conduct public health research for a year in India as a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar before starting medical school.

Tarun Neel Ramesh

Majors: Economics, Genetics

Minor: Beckham Jr. Workforce Diversity Certificate

Hometown: Johns Creek, Georgia

Research: Prevalence of Adolescent Smoking in the US-Mexico Border Region; Rural Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions and Impact on Patient Quality of Care; Rural Hospital Closures Reduce Access to Emergency Care; Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder in Correctional Facilities; The Pandemic and Economic Crisis Are a Wake-Up Call for State Medicaid Expansion; Effect of Medicaid Block Grants on Beneficiaries; TET Proteins and Neurodevelopment; Carbon Offsets and Internal Carbon Pricing in Higher Education; Against Drug Testing TANF Recipients: An Overview

UGA Faculty Mentors: Dr. Amanda Abraham, Dr. Kelly Dyer, Dr. Micah GellRedman

Travel-Study & Internships: India; Tanzania; United Kingdom; Washington, D.C.; Atlanta, Georgia; Boston, Massachusetts Activities: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services intern, Center for American Progress health policy intern, Greater Madras Leprosy Hospital, Roosevelt Institute National Network emerging fellow, Drug Policy Alliance Office of National Affairs intern, GA COVID-19 Taskforce legislative fellow, Archway Partnership, Public Service and Outreach student scholar, Roosevelt Institute at UGA executive director, Georgia Political Review editor-in-chief, Student Government Association policy advisor, University Council Strategic Planning Committee, Honors Policy Scholars Course teaching assistant, Beyond Baldwin, Honors Ambassador, Visual X Med

Honors & Awards: Samvid Scholar, Newman Civic Fellow, Bateman Prize in Economics Nominee, Stamps Scholar, Blue Key Honor Society, Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Honor Society, Rhodes Scholarship Finalist, Marshall Scholarship Finalist, Truman Scholarship Finalist, Honors in Washington Scholar, Dean Tate Honor Society, Washington Leadership Program, Peterson Foundation Fiscal Intern, Presidential Scholar, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude with Honors

Post-Graduation Plans: Tarun is attending Harvard Medical School for a joint MD/ MPP in health policy.

Kyle Patel

Tarun Ramesh

Isabelle Olivia Riddle

Major: Biology (Neuroscience emphasis) Minor: Philosophy

Hometown: Canton, Georgia

Research: Regenerative Medicine: Thymic Epithelial Cell Reprogramming and CoCulture with T-Cell Progenitors; A Deep Dive into Death: Analysis and Arguments from Three Philosophical Frameworks

UGA Faculty Mentors: Dr. Mary Bedell, Dr. Nancy Manley, Dr. Piers Howard Guy Stephens

Travel-Study & Internships: Argentina; Denmark; Iceland; Norway; Sweden; Tanzania; United Kingdom; Uruguay; Washington, D.C.; New York, New York Activities: Health Disparities and Inequality Service Program certification, Extra Special People volunteer, UGA Native American Student Association, Campus Kitchen volunteer, Guide Dog Foundation volunteer, Memorial Sloan Kettering/Weill Cornell Medical Center medical shadowing in neurooncology, Manley Genetics Laboratory full-time student researcher, Johns Hopkins Richard Macksey Humanities Research Symposium presenter, National Conference on Undergraduate Research presenter, Stanford School of Medicine Conference on Disability in Healthcare and Medicine attendee, personal care assistant, Stethoscope Magazine staff writer, American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics member Honors & Awards: Georgia Undergraduate Research Conference— 1st Place for STEM Presentation, CURO Research Assistantship, Stamps Scholar, Coca-Cola Scholar, Jack Kent Cooke Scholar, Dean Tate Honor Society, Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Honor Society, Palladia Women’s Honor Society, Alpha Epsilon Delta Pre-Med Honor Society, summa cum laude with Honors and CURO Research Scholar Distinction Post-Graduation Plans: Isabelle was an ecology field researcher in Zion National Park in Utah over the summer and is taking a gap year with plans to attend medical school.

Fiachra Rottinghaus

Majors: Classics, Cognitive Science Minors: Classical Culture, English Hometown: Lander, Wyoming

Research: Effect of In-Group/Out-Group Bias on the Perception of Robots; Automata in the Ancient and Medieval World; Literature, Art, Engineering, and Magic

UGA Faculty Mentors: Dr. Adam Goodie, Dr. Jordan Pickett

Travel-Study & Internships: Italy; Tanzania; United Kingdom; Washington, D.C.; New York, New York

Activities: Dungeons & Dragons at UGA officer, Medieval and Renaissance Society at UGA

Honors & Awards: Dean’s List, Eta Sigma Phi Classics Honor Society, Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude with Honors

Post-Graduation Plans: Fiachra conducted field archaeology over the summer in the Rocky Mountains and is attending graduate school at the University of Oklahoma, pursuing dual master’s degrees in library and information studies and the history of science.

Margaret Frances Schrayer

Major: Computer Science, MS Artificial Intelligence

Hometown: Princeton, New Jersey

Research: Rapid Visuomotor Integration as a Window into Multisensory Processing; Motor Decision Making Under Uncertainty; Human-Computer Interaction and Health; Predicting Glucose Levels in Continuous Glucose Monitoring Systems; Deep Learning Methods for Tripartite Eye-Movement Classification in the Transverse Plane

UGA Faculty Mentors: Dr. Deborah Barany, Dr. Suchendra Bhandarkar, Dr. Jaewoo Lee, Dr. Tarkeshwar Singh, Dr. Delaram Yazdansepas

Travel-Study & Internships: Canada; China; San Francisco, California; Atlanta, Georgia; Sapelo Island, Georgia; Savannah, Georgia; Chicago, Illinois; Boston, Massachusetts; Verona, Wisconsin

Activities: Public Service and Outreach student scholar, Campus Kitchen intern, Gottlieb Vision Group intern, Archway Partnership intern, Georgia Center for Continuing Education intern, Serve UGA executive board, UGA Krav Maga Club, Women in Technology, Epic Systems software developer intern Honors & Awards: Dean’s List, Presidential Scholar, CURO Summer Fellowship, magna cum laude with High Honors

Post-Graduation Plans: Margaret interned at Epic Systems in Wisconsin over the summer and returned to Athens to complete a master’s degree in artificial intelligence before pursuing software engineering roles.

Isabelle Riddle

Fiachra Rottinghaus

Jessica Bailey Thompson

Major: Psychology

Minors: Statistics, Music Business Certificate

Hometown: Tucker, Georgia

Research: Effects of Racism on Substance Abuse and Risky Behavior in Young Adults; Systemic Review and Meta-Analysis on Child Maltreatment and Substance Use; Examining the Effects of Sexual Harassment Policy on Men’s Willingness to Work with Women; Data Analysis Using the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) to Examine the Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences; Individual and Relational Future Orientation Among Emerging Adults; Typologies of Psychiatric Symptom Comorbidity with PTSD

UGA Faculty Mentors: Professor David Barbe, Dr. Jody Clay-Warner, Dr. Assaf Oshri

Travel-Study & Internships: France; Tanzania; Atlanta, Georgia; Warren, New Jersey; Nashville, Tennessee

Activities: Hotel Fiction lead guitarist, Youth Development Institute researcher, IMPACT Service Breaks site leader, UGA MUSE, Georgia Theatre intern, Laboratory for the Study of Social Interaction researcher, CURO Scholars teaching assistant, Honors teaching assistant, UGA Young Democrats, Service Squad leadership team, Tim Denson for County Commissioner social media coordinator, Leadershape participant Honors & Awards: CURO Honors Scholar, Honors International Scholar, Presidential Scholar, Dean Tate Honor Society, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude with Highest Honors

Post-Graduation Plans: Jessica moved to Nashville to continue pursuing music with her band, Hotel Fiction. They are performing on tour throughout the United States.

Angela Lily Tsao

Majors: Cognitive Science, Computer Science, MS Artificial Intelligence Minors: Ecology, Certificate in International Agriculture Hometown: St. Louis, Missouri Research: Collective Intelligence in Probability-Based Particle Swarm Optimization for the Forest Planning Problem; Climate-Driven Land Use and Land Cover Change in Ethiopian Rain-Fed Agropastoral Systems; CNNs for Detection of Biological Patterns Across Fisheries and Satellite Data; Hydrological Modeling of Soil-WaterVegetation Interrelationships and Climate Change in Inner Mongolian Steppe Grasslands; Virtual Reality with Tangible Landscape Sandbox for Ecological Modeling; Quantification of In-Farm Food Waste in Georgia and Genetic Algorithms for Optimization of Harvest Recovery Routing Problem UGA Faculty Mentors: Dr. Pete Bettinger, Dr. Elizabeth Kramer, Dr. Ellen McCullough, Dr. Adam Milewski Travel-Study & Internships: Argentina; China; United Kingdom; Uruguay; Washington, D.C.; New York, New York, Vieques, Puerto Rico Activities: Roosevelt Institute National Network financialization policy coordinator, Georgia Political Review editor-in-chief, Office of Sustainability intern, Lunchbox Garden Project executive director, Women in Science vice president, Bag the Bag policy coordinator, Agricultural and Environmental Economics Club president, ACM-W secretary, PSO Student Scholars Marine Extension intern, Student Government Association educational affairs senator Honors & Awards: Udall Scholar, NOAA Hollings Scholar, Joy P. Williams Honors Physical Sciences Award, Blue Key Honor Society, Palladia Women’s Honor Society, Outstanding Senior Leader, Presidential Scholar, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude with Highest Honors Post-Graduation Plans: Angela is pursuing a PhD in earth system science at Stanford University.

Jessica Thompson

Angela Tsao

Emma Grace Tucker

Major: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Minor: Spanish

Hometown: Decatur, Georgia

Research: Digital Technology Monitoring of Adherence to Tuberculosis Treatment Among Patients in Uganda: A Pilot Feasibility Study; Mapping Lunatic, Manic, and Radical Fringe Modifications on the EGF repeats of Delta-Like Ligands; What’s the Catch: Evaluating Bond Characteristics of Notch1 and its Ligands in the Presence of Lunatic, Manic, and Radical Fringes; Introduction of an Organ Donation Tax Credit to Increase Access to Living-Donor Kidney Transplants in Georgia; Mission Emission: Increasing Climate Change Accountability at the University of Georgia through Internal Carbon Pricing

UGA Faculty Mentors: Dr. Robert Haltiwanger, Dr. Quint Newcomer, Dr. Juliet Sekandi

Travel-Study & Internships: Spain; Tanzania; United Kingdom; Washington, D.C.; Baltimore, Maryland; Boston, Massachusetts; New York, New York Activities: Greater New York Hospital Association intern, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) policy team intern, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services intern, Roosevelt Institute National Network emerging fellow, Roosevelt Institute at UGA executive director, Campus Kitchen shift leader, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid exchange student, Honors teaching assistant, UGAvotes volunteer, Student Government Association policy advisor, Georgia Political Review staff writer Honors & Awards: Joy P. Williams Honors Life Sciences Award, Honors in New York Scholar, Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Honor Society, Palladia Women’s Honor Society, Blue Key Honor Society, Presidential Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude with Highest Honors, First Honor Graduate

Post-Graduation Plans: Emma is pursuing an MD/MPH at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Anthony J. VanDieren

Majors: Biological Science, Chemistry, Entomology

Hometown: Bloomfield Township, Michigan

Research: Effects of Rhodococcus rhodnii, Rhodococcus triatomae strain 92, and E. coli on Kissing Bug (Rhodnius prolixus) Growth and Development; Hearing Outcomes After Surgical Manipulation of the Membranous Labyrinth During Superior Semicircular Canal Dehiscence Plugging or Posterior Semicircular Canal Occlusion, Journal of Otology and Neurotology publication credit

UGA Faculty Mentors: Dr. Suzanne Ellenberger, Dr. Joseph McHugh, Dr. Kevin Vogel

Travel Study & Internships: Argentina; United Kingdom; Uruguay; Washington, D.C.; Phoenix, Arizona; Tucson, Arizona; Farmington, Michigan; Madison Heights, Michigan; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Santa Fe, New Mexico; New York, New York; Terlingua, Texas

Activities: Vogel Vector Physiology Lab undergraduate researcher, Dr. Dennis Bojrab’s neurotology research assistant, Henkel Corporation analytical chemistry intern, Entomology Club

Honors & Awards: Alan J. Jaworski

Honors Physical Sciences Award, CAES Department of Entomology Outstanding Junior Award, CAES Department of Entomology Outstanding Senior Award, CURO Research Assistantship, CAES Research Assistantship, Presidential Scholar, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude with Highest Honors; CURO Research Scholar Distinction

Post-Graduation Plans: Anthony is working as an analytical chemistry lab technician for Henkel AG & Co. before pursuing a PharmD and/or PhD program.

Emma Tucker

Anthony VanDieren

Avery Elise Warner

Majors: Economics, Sociology

Minors: Criminal Justice, Statistics

Hometown: Athens, Georgia

Research: Effect of Mass Incarceration and Sex-Ratio Imbalances on Marriage, Employment, and Educational Attainment Outcomes for African American Women; Curtailing Collateral Consequences: Employment and Occupational Licensing Reform in Georgia; The Price of Probation: Probation Services and Their Effect on Fines and Fees in Georgia; Prevalence of Student Mental Health Issues: Implementing Awareness Training at UGA; Game On: Innovatively Engaging and Connecting Students through Experiential Learning

UGA Faculty Mentors: Dr. Christopher Cornwell, Dr. Sarah Shannon Travel-Study & Internships: Tanzania; United Kingdom; Atlanta, Georgia; San Francisco, California; Washington, D.C.; New York, New York

Activities: Council for Court Excellence policy intern, Honors Policy Scholars Course teaching assistant, Freedman Consulting, LLC research and policy intern, Roosevelt Institute at UGA policy training coordinator, UGA Student Government Association policy advisor, University Council, The Cottage Sexual Assault and Child Advocacy Center hotline advocate, Athens Prison Tutorial GED tutor, Athens-Clarke County Mentorship Program student mentor, Beyond Baldwin, UGA Economics Society, UGA Chamber Music Society, UGA MathCounts, Georgia Appleseed Center for Law and Justice intern, Reform Georgia volunteer, UGA Learning Technologies Grant team member Honors & Awards: UGA Presidential Award of Excellence, Terry College of Business Deer Run Fellow, Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Honor Society, Palladia Women’s Honor Society, Phyllis Jenkins Barrow Scholar, Alpha Kappa Delta International Sociology Honor Society, Blue Key Honor Society, Honors in Washington Scholar, Bateman Prize in Economics nominee, Presidential Scholar, Dean’s List, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude with Highest Honors

Post-Graduation Plans: Avery is pursuing a PhD in sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Brian Jay Woolfolk

Majors: Advertising, Computer Science Minor: Certificate in New Media Hometown: Atlanta, Georgia

UGA Faculty Mentors: Dr. Kirsten Strausbaugh, Prof. John Weatherford Travel-Study & Internships: Canada; Indonesia; United Kingdom; Washington, D.C.; Atlanta, Georgia; New York, New York

Activities: Talking Dog Agency digital media specialist, Impact Service Breaks site leader and participant, Hot Corner Athens intern, Red and Black Publishing account executive, Athens Downtown Development Authority Art Guide technical lead, Intramural Sports, Ad Club Honors & Awards: Dean’s List, Presidential Scholar, cum laude with Honors

Post-Graduation Plans: Brian interned with Omnicom Media Group and is finishing his degrees in December.

Rachel Janeyee Yuan

Majors: Entertainment & Media Studies, STEM MBA

Minor: Certificate in Personal and Organizational Leadership

Hometown: Fountain Valley, California Travel-Study & Internships: France; Tanzania; United Kingdom; Los Angeles, California; Washington, D.C.; New York, New York

Activities: Legendary Television development intern, Alloy Entertainment film and television intern, Franklin Entertainment film and television intern, Fabrik Entertainment production and development intern, Scripty podcast development intern, Warner Bros. media research intern, Grady Newsource senior production manager, Grady College ambassador, Grady College Diversity Committee student representative, Public Service and Outreach student scholar and communications intern, The Backpack Project marketing manager, Cannes Film Festival study abroad and film reviewer

Honors & Awards: Lisa Ann Coole Award, Leonard Leadership Scholar, Blue Key Honor Society, Presidential Scholar, summa cum laude with Highest Honors

Post-Graduation Plans: Rachel is working at Anonymous Content, a talent/ literary management and production company, in its media rights department. She is helping represent and make deals for authors, journalists, and screenwriters adapting works into film and television.

Avery Warner

Brian Woolfolk

Celebrating Graduation

Fellows Class of 2022

Robyn Evelyn Anzulis South Carroll High School Woodbine, MD

Applied Mathematics, Economics AB/MA

Keaton Patrick Coletti North Oconee High School Bogart, GA Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering

Edward Tatum Hunda Wheeler High School Toccoa, GA

Animal Science, Biological Science

Luke Joseph Armao Archbishop Hoban High School Fairlawn, OH Cognitive Science, Economics, MS Artificial Intelligence

Emma Calhoun Ellis Lovett School Atlanta, GA Genetics

Carter Elizabeth Best Campbell High School Marietta, GA International Affairs

Elizabeth Ann Esser Cedarburg High School Cedarburg, WI Ecology, Genetics

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

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

Claire E. Bunn Marion Senior High School Marion, AR Genetics

Emma Chandler Innes Hale Charlottesville High School Charlottesville, VA History, Women’s Studies

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

Sydney Taylor-Brooke Phillips Chapel Hill High School Douglasville, GA

Political Science, Public Relations

Anna Samsonov Lafayette High School Wildwood, MO Anthropology, Biology

Jaaie Upkar Varshney Rome High School Rome, GA

Political Science, Women’s Studies

William Goins Ross Marist School Atlanta, GA Economics, Finance, MS Business Analytics

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

Margaret Elizabeth Warren

George C Marshall High School

Dunn Loring, VA Finance, Risk Management & Insurance

Nathan Samuel Safir American School of The Hague Wassenaar, The Netherlands Computer Science, Geography, MS Artificial Intelligence

Emma Joanna Traynor Savannah Arts Academy Savannah, GA International Affairs, Mathematics

Himani Yadav Lambert High School Suwanee, GA

Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Philosophy

Eric Miller, above, holds a satellite prototype in the Small Satellite Research Lab. Emme Warren eats lunch in the Founders Memorial Garden on North Campus.

Eshaan Agrawal Chamblee High School Chamblee, GA

Cognitive Science, Computer Science

Mariah Leigh Cady Columbus High School Midland, GA International Affairs, Russian

Aliya Danyel Elmore

Eagles Landing Christian McDonough, GA Political Science, Sociology

Zainub Rushna Ali Athens Academy Athens, GA Economics, International Affairs

Jordan Amias Cole The Westminster Schools Smyrna, GA Psychology, Sociology

Danielle Chukwunoryenim Emefiele

Etowah High School Acworth, GA Nutritional Sciences

Aakash Arora Veterans High School Bonaire, GA Cellular Biology, Economics

Denzel Jeremiah Cunningham Westover Comprehensive High School Albany, GA Mechanical Engineering

Vic Calvin Fischer

Henry Sibley High School

South St. Paul, MN Electrical Engineering

Maeve Akiko Breathnach

Campbell High School Roswell, GA Economics, International Affairs

Sophia Emelia DeLuca Decatur High School Decatur, GA International Affairs

Shashank Sriram Ganeshan

Northview High School

Johns Creek, GA

Computer Science, Economics

Mary Teresa Breen Classical High School Providence, RI History, Mathematics

Samuel Chukwubuike Ejiofor II

Martin Luther King Health Magnet Nashville, TN Exercise & Sport Science

Patricia Alejandra Gonzalez

Richmond Hill High School

Richmond Hill, GA

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, English

Madison Janel Greer

Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology

Lilburn, GA

Marketing, Public Relations

Marianne Christine Lamarche

Centennial High School

Alpharetta, GA

Human Development & Family Science

Sahana Maya Parker

Midtown High School

Atlanta, GA

Astrophysics

Hyde Alford Healy

Saint Paul’s School Covington, LA

Entertainment & Media Studies

Carlos Felipe López Ramírez

West Forsyth High School Cumming, GA

Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Psychology

Christopher Alan Rosselot

Decatur High School Decatur, GA

International Affairs, Latin American & Caribbean Studies

Melita Joanna Kalczynska

Mater Dei High School

Placentia, CA

Finance, International Business, MA Economics

Isabella My Lan Luu Humboldt High School Humboldt, IA Anthropology, Journalism

Jordan Edward Theoc Campion College

Kingston, Jamaica Finance, Mathematics

Elise Maria Karinshak Greater Atlanta Christian School

Lawrenceville, GA

Data Science, Marketing

Margaret Louise Mitchell Dupont Manual High School Louisville, KY Political Science, Sociology

Claudia-Michele ZiYi White

Thomasville High School

Thomasville, GA Unspecified

Shi Ho Kim

McIntosh High School

Peachtree City, GA

International Affairs, Linguistics, Spanish

Natalie Elena Navarrete

Boca Raton Community High School Boca Raton, FL

International Affairs, Russian, Spanish

Lauren Rose Wilkes

United World College

New Orleans, LA Chinese, Data Science

Vanisha Kudumuri Chattahoochee High School

Johns Creek, GA

Economics, International Affairs, Political Science

Priyanka Sunil Parikh Columbus High School Columbus, GA

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Economics

Fellows Class of 2024

William Cole Broomberg Lowndes High School Lake Park, GA

Biology, Psychology

Theron E. Camp

Clarke Central High School Athens, GA

Interdisciplinary Studies

Emilio Dante Ferrara IV Lovett School Atlanta, GA

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Daniel Greer Klein

Sylvania Northview High School

Sylvania, OH

International Affairs, Political Science

Jason Germaine Hawkins Academy for Classical Education Macon, GA English, Management Information Systems

Matthew Jeffrey Li

Adlai E Stevenson High School

Buffalo Grove, IL

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, MS Comparative Biomedical Sciences

Audrey Violet Conner Tift County High School Tifton, GA Chemistry, Mathematics

Cassidy Jean Hettesheimer Mill Creek High School Dacula, GA Communication Studies, Journalism

Khushi H. Mehta North Gwinnett High School

Suwanee, GA

Economics, International Business, Spanish

Natasha Dörr-Kapczynski

Campbell High School Smyrna, GA

Chinese, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Romance Languages

Evan Sidney Johnson North Gwinnett High School Suwanee, GA

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Sophia Maria Milazzo

Victor Central High School

Victor, NY

Unspecified

Eniola Olujumoke

Olubunmi

The Ambassadors College

Ota, Ogun, Nigeria

Accounting

Maxwell Booth White Thomasville High School Thomasville, GA

Cognitive Science, Economics

Ashni M. Patel

Coffee High School Douglas, GA

Data Science, International Affairs

Charlotte Conway Williams

Isidore Newman School New Orleans, LA Unspecified

Caroline Emma Schneider The Weber School Atlanta, GA

Criminal Justice, Political Science

Joseph Logan Williamson Athens Academy Athens, GA Political Science

New Albany High School New Albany, OH

Genetics BS/MS

Audrey Conner completes an assignment in the Science Learning Center on South Campus.

Thomas Elliot Williamson Athens Academy Athens, GA Economics

Emily Paula Spector

Fellows Class of 2025

Brooke Elise Bergeron Whitefield Academy Smyrna, GA

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Julian Louis Fortuna Decatur High School Decatur, GA International Affairs, Political Science

Suhan Kacholia BASIS Chandler Chandler, AZ

Economics AB/MA, Statistics

Surya Jane Cheadle Blasiole Verona Area High School Fitchburg, WI Anthropology, Music

Daniel Antonio GarcíaPozo Clarke Central High School Athens, GA English Education

Joseph Andrew Lamb Swainsboro High School Swainsboro, GA

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Cognitive Science

Jonathan Luke Bowles

Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science Buckatunna, MS Cognitive Science, Philosophy

Martha Lee Garrett Walker School Marietta, GA Finance

Daniel Harrison Cohen

Friends Seminary New York, NY Economics

Joseph Drahos Linn

School Cedar Rapids, IA Political Science

Eliana Naomi Gelman William Howard Taft High School West Hills, CA ArtX, Cognitive Science

Sara Rose Logsdon Richard Montgomery High School Potomac, MD Mathematics

Larissa Alves Lozano

Riverside High School Greer, SC Political Science, MIP International Policy

Savannah Mercedes Hernandez Marietta High School Kennesaw, GA Journalism

Ciara Ashley Mitchell Brookwood High School Snellville, GA Pharmaceutical Sciences, MS Pharmacy

Alexander

Mar High

Nicholas Gary Lamont Myers Columbus High School Cataula, GA

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Exia DeLeon Stephens Oakdale High School New Market, MD Sociology

Julianna Marie Russ Highlands High School Fort Thomas, KY International Affairs, Journalism

Aryan Thakur Denmark High School Cumming, GA Genetics

Kennedi Lashaun Scales

Douglas County High School Castle Rock, CO

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Dana Marie Theoc Immaculate Conception High School

Kingston, Jamaica

Unspecified - AB

Yeongseo Son Central Magnet School Murfreesboro, TN Pharmaceutical Sciences

Adam Michael Starks Dunwoody High School Atlanta, GA International Affairs

Amanda Sydney Whylie Immaculate Conception High School Kingston, Jamaica Entertainment & Media Studies

Incoming Foundation Fellows attend the fall 2021 FFR Retreat at

Falls State Park.

Amicalola

David Harry Bekore

Majors: Economics, Business Analytics MS

Minors: Entrepreneurship, Legal Studies

Hometown: Merrick, New York

Travel-Study & Internships: Germany; Italy; Netherlands; San Francisco, California; Atlanta, Georgia; Boston, Massachusetts; Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Activities: UGA Football, UGA Kickstart Fund meeting director, Society of Entrepreneurs vice president, MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference attendee, Game Point Capital research intern, Oracle Corporation intern Honors & Awards: Dean’s List, Graduation with Honors

Post-Graduation Plans: David is pursuing a JD at the University of Miami Law School.

Erica Kaila Glorianna Bressner

Majors: International Affairs, Russian Hometown: Douglasville, Georgia Research: Linguistic Differences

Regarding Security Competitors and Security Allies in Cases Held before the ITC; Common Trade Barriers Faced by American Exporters to Russia

UGA Faculty Mentor: Prof. Alexander Spektor

Travel-Study & Internships: China; Italy; Kazakhstan; Los Angeles, California; San Francisco, California; Washington, D.C.

Activities: Russian Flagship Program, Trade Secure research assistant, Sujata Gupta Winfield LLC intern, Howard & Arca LLC legal intern, Knudsen & Co Shanghai junior regulatory advisor, UCLA

Undergraduate Conference on Slavic and East/Central European Studies, Security and Strategic Trade Management Academy

Honors & Awards: Presidential Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude

Post-Graduation Plans: Erica is planning to volunteer at a nature conservation center before applying to graduate programs.

David Bekore

Ramsey Honors Scholars in the Class of 2021 are Branham Culpepper, Karan Pol, James West, Erica Bressner, Zane Placie, Teddy Vincent, Elijah Courtney, Hannah Huang, Sam Daly, Meredith Van De Velde, David Bekore, and Hayes Way.

Elijah David Solomon Courtney

Major: Physics

Minor: Mathematics

Hometown: Gainesville, Georgia

Research: Calculation of Early Universe

Abundance and Rovibrationally

Distinguished Rate Coefficients of the Molecular Ion Helium Hydride; Comprehensive Chemistry of Helium Hydride in the Early Universe

UGA Faculty Mentor: Dr. Phillip Stancil

Travel-Study & Internships: Athens, Georgia; Sapelo Island, Georgia; Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Activities: Brookhaven National Lab

SULI intern, American Astronomical Society conference presenter, UGA Housing resident assistant, UGA Rankin Smith Center tutor, Office of STEM Education physics and mathematics peer learning assistant, Intramural Ultimate Frisbee

Honors & Awards: Charles H. Wheatley Award, Ted L. Simons Award, UGA Hollingsworth Award, Presidential Scholar, Presidential Award of Excellence, summa cum laude with Highest Honors, First Honor Graduate Post-Graduation Plans: Elijah is pursuing a PhD in physics at Stanford University.

George Branham Culpepper

Majors: Economics, Romance Languages

Minor: Mathematics

Hometown: Perry, Georgia

Research: Race Switching and Regional Migration in Brazil; Relating Relative Rural Population Size and Internet Access in Brazil

UGA Faculty Mentors: Dr. Chris Cornwell, Dr. Ian Schmutte

Travel Study & Internships: Florianópolis, Brazil; Freiburg am Bresigau, Germany; Atlanta, Georgia; Sapelo Island, Georgia; Mississippi Delta, Mississippi Activities: Portuguese language study in Brazil, JP Morgan Chase Middle Market and Specialized Industries Division intern, German language

study in Germany, Terry Analytics Lab econometrics tutor, Georgia Political Review managing editor, Young Americans for Liberty

Honors & Awards: Honors International Scholar, Department of Education

Foreign Languages and Area Studies

Fellow, Max Kade Grant recipient, Dean’s List, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude with Highest Honors

Post-Graduation Plans: Branham is working in a full-time research position in economics at Cornell University.

Samantha Jane Daly

Majors: International Affairs, Master of International Policy

Minor: Global Studies

Hometown: Dunwoody, Georgia

Research: Competition from Within: Ethnicity, Power, and Militant Group

Rivalry; Challenges to Creative Thinking: Identifying Officers’ Background Beliefs in Limited Information Environments; United States Military Deterrence Decision-Making by Domain; Evaluating Export Controls Capacity of Nuclear Suppliers Group States

UGA Faculty Mentors: Dr. Jeffrey Berejikian, Dr. Justin Conrad, Dr. Loch Johnson

Travel-Study & Internships: Austria; China; Hungary; Iceland; Italy; Morocco; Netherlands; Spain; Tanzania; Thailand; San Francisco, California; Washington, D.C.

Activities: UGA Center for International Trade and Security graduate research assistant, Athens Prison Tutorial president, Sapience Partners Shanghai international business intern, UGA Maymester in Tanzania, Battlbox content writer, Clarke County Mentor Program mentor, Shop with a Bulldog mentor, Honors Peer Assisted Leadership mentor Honors & Awards: United Nations and Humanitarian Affairs Asia Peace Ambassador, Richard B. Russell Security Leadership Fellow, Phi Kappa Phi, Honors International Scholar, Freeman Asia Scholar, Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities Assistantship, summa cum laude with Highest Honors Post-Graduation Plans: Sam is moving to Washington, D.C., where she will be working for the U.S. government.

Elijah Courtney

Branham Culpepper

Hannah Yongxian Huang

Major: Biology

Minors: Genetics, Public Health

Hometown: Augusta, Georgia

Research: Drug Attitudes and Drug Use Among Early Adolescent Youth: The Protective Role of Self-Esteem; SBIRT Implementation for Substance Use Intervention in Secondary Schools; Teacher Support as a Moderator of Peer Victimization and School Engagement; Does Student Race Matter? Role of Positive Parenting in Parent-Child Social-Emotional Interactions in Latinx and African American Households; Association of Mercury Exposure and Amalgam-Based Dental Surface Restorations

UGA Faculty Mentor: Dr. Sycarah Fisher Travel-Study & Internships: Ecuador; Italy; Netherlands; San Francisco, California; Sapelo Island, Georgia; Detroit, Michigan; Mississippi Delta, Mississippi; Albany, New York Activities: Science Olympiad Outreach at UGA president and community outreach coordinator, Athens Homeless Shelter science night coordinator, National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum canvasser, Homestead Hospice and Pruitt Health Hospice volunteer, East Georgia Cancer Coalition intern, Prelude Dance Ensemble member, IMPACT Service Breaks participant, State Representative Spencer Frye Environmental Health Policy Fellow, MEDLIFE Family Head Honors & Awards: Honors International Scholar, CURO Summer Fellow, CURO Research Assistantship, Phi Kappa Phi, Presidential Scholar, Dean’s List, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude with Highest Honors

Post-Graduation Plans: This fall, Hannah will begin medical school at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta.

Isaac Martin

Major: Genetics

Minor: Ecology

Hometown: Huntsville, Alabama Research: Developing Genetic Tools in Non-Model Bacteria for Biofuel or Bioplastic Production; Metabolic Engineering of Geobacillus

thermoglucosidasius and Megasphaera elsdenii

UGA Faculty Mentor: Dr. Janet Westpheling

Travel-Study & Internships: Australia; San Francisco, California; Sapelo Island, Georgia

Activities: Lambda Alliance, UGA G.E.N.E.S

Honors & Awards: Presidential Scholar, Honors International Scholar, magna cum laude with Honors

Post-Graduation Plans: Isaac is pursuing a PhD in biomedical sciences at the University of Alabama in Birmingham.

Zane Garrison Placie

Majors: Finance, Risk Management & Insurance

Minors: Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Certificate in Actuarial Science, Certificate in Applied Data Science

Hometown: Kennesaw, Georgia

UGA Faculty Mentors: Mr. Daniel Brown, Dr. Rob Hoyt, Dr. Steven Pottier Travel-Study & Internships: France; Ireland; United Kingdom; San Francisco, California; Palm Beach Gardens, Florida; Atlanta, Georgia; Sapelo Island, Georgia; Savannah, Georgia; New Orleans, Louisiana; Mississippi Delta, Mississippi; Nashville, Tennessee; Austin, Texas

Activities: Aon actuarial intern, TBC Corporation risk management intern, Young Americans for Liberty at UGA president, Athens Prison Tutorial tutor, Actuaries at UGA vice president of communications, UGA Quiz Bowl president, UGA Student Government Association senator, Christian Campus Fellowship, Deloitte R.I.S.E. Risk and Financial Advisory Case Competition, financial mathematics tutor, Atlas Society, Kennedy Society

Honors & Awards: Actuarial Science Academic Excellence Award, Outstanding Honors Student in Business, Beta Gamma Sigma, Honors International Scholar, Presidential Scholar, Dean’s List, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude with Highest Honors, First Honor Graduate

Post-Graduation Plans: Zane is returning to Aon, where he will be an actuarial associate in the retirement solutions practice of their Atlanta office.

Hannah Huang

Isaac Martin

Karan Ajit Pol

Majors: Economics, Master of International Policy

Hometown: Smyrna, Georgia

Research: CIT Training and Police Violence; The Efficacy of Carbon Taxes; The Impact of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster on International Energy Policy and Communications

UGA Faculty Mentors: Dr. David Gattie, Dr. Joshua Massey

Travel-Study & Internships: San Francisco, California; Washington, D.C.; Ann Arbor, Michigan; Mississippi Delta, Mississippi

Activities: United States Department of State ISN-CATR intern, Center for International Trade and Security student assistant, Security and Strategic Trade Management Academy, GLOBIS Human Rights Lab student researcher, Honors College Development Office student worker, Loch Johnson Society president and co-founder, Roosevelt Institute at UGA policy writer, John Quincy Adams Society, Kennedy Society, Economics Society

Honors & Awards: Honors in Washington, Richard B. Russell Security Leadership Fellow, Omicron Delta Kappa Honor Society, Phi Kappa Phi, magna cum laude with High Honors

Post-Graduation Plans: Karan is working in Washington, D.C., as a research analyst with the Energy Impact Center.

Meredith Elaine

Van De Velde

Majors: Computer Science, International Affairs

Minors: Global Studies, Certificate in Personal and Organizational Leadership

Hometown: Saint Simons Island, Georgia Research: SPOC Team of the UGA Small Satellite Research Laboratory; Applying Bentham’s Law to Analyze Twitter Accounts More Likely to Share “Fake News”; Facing Facts: Efforts to Regulate Facebook’s Fact-Checking Methods

UGA Faculty Mentors: Dr. Leah Carmichael, Mr. Joshua Darnell

Travel-Study & Internships: Botswana; China; Philippines; Hong Kong; South Africa; South Korea; Zimbabwe; San Francisco, California; Washington, D.C.; Tallahassee, Florida; Atlanta, Georgia; Chicago, Illinois; New Orleans, Louisiana; Boston, Massachusetts;

Mississippi Delta, Mississippi; New York, New York

Activities: Model United Nations president, Honors Student Council, Small Satellite Research Lab, The Daily Beast software engineering intern, LearningLeaders summer fellow, Corsair Society, Girls Who Code, Academic Resource Center tutor, MathCounts, Institute for Leadership Advancement

Honors & Awards: Richard B. Russell Security Leadership Fellow, Honors International Scholar, Honors in Washington, Dean Tate Honor Society, Palladia Women’s Honor Society, UGA Homecoming Court, Blue Key Honor Society, Dean’s List, Presidential Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude with Honors

Post-Graduation Plans: Meredith will be working as a software engineer for Raytheon Intelligence and Space in Dallas, Texas.

Theodore Jacob Vincent

Major: Applied Mathematics Minor: Interdisciplinary Writing Hometown: St. Louis, Missouri

Research: Modeling Marine-Oil Aggregation in the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; Narrativizing Climate Change Through Popular Culture; Mission Emission: Creating an Internal Carbon Pricing Model at UGA

UGA Faculty Mentors: Dr. Adrian Burd, Dr. James Hamilton, Dr. Quint Newcomer Travel-Study & Internships: Costa Rica; Croatia; Germany; Greece; Italy; San Francisco, California; Atlanta, Georgia; Mississippi Delta, Mississippi; New York City, New York

Activities: UGA Mathematics Department peer learning assistant, UGA Marine Sciences Department undergraduate researcher, Grady School of Journalism undergraduate researcher, USA Triathlon Club triathlete

Honors & Awards: Honors International Scholar, UGA Sustainability Grant, CURO Research Assistantship, UCSD Regents Fellowship, Scripps Fellowship, Best Use of Quantitative Methods (SCCS NY Conference), Dean’s List, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude with Highest Honors Post-Graduation Plans: Teddy is currently pursuing his PhD in marine chemistry and geochemistry at Scripps Institution of Oceanography/UCSD.

Karan Pol

Meredith Van De Velde

Teddy Vincent

Ramsey Honors Scholars

Winston Hayes Way

Major: Mathematics

Minors: Nutrition, Certificate in Data Science

Hometown: Hawkinsville, Georgia

Research: Geometry Research; Outreach and Visualization Initiative

Travel-Study & Internships: Berlin, Germany; San Francisco, California; Mississippi Delta, Mississippi; Boston, Massachusetts

Activities: UGA Rowing Club, Directed Reading Program

Post-Graduation Plans: Hayes is staying at UGA for one more year to complete his degree.

James Herbert West

Majors: Computer Science, Linguistics

Minor: Anthropology

Hometown: Chattanooga, Tennessee

Research: A Finite-State Morphology for the Irish Verb; A Striking Takes Place: A Lexical-Functional Analysis of the Irish Autonomous Verb

UGA Faculty Mentor: Dr. John Hale

Travel-Study & Internships: Ireland; Sapelo Island, Georgia

Activities: Irish Language Summer Program 2019, UGA Undergraduate Linguistics Club vice president and co-founder, Linguistic Atlas Project transcription writer

Honors & Awards: UGA Presidential Award of Excellence, Spark Award for Undergraduate Research in Linguistics, Presidential Scholar, Dean’s List, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude with Honors

Post-Graduation Plans: James is attending the University of Washington, where he is pursuing an MS in computational linguistics.

William Frank Swenton III Cambridge High School Milton, GA Anthropology, Genetics

Claire Elizabeth Armstrong Berkeley Preparatory School

Tampa, FL Biology, Sociology

Hayes Way

James West

Yehia Abdelsamad Baker Early College Wilsonville, OR Biology, MPH Biostatistics

Ramseys Class of 2022

Marshall Dean Berton

North Springs Charter High School

Sandy Springs, GA Finance, International Business, International Affairs

Garrett H. Williams

Liberty North High School Kansas City, MO Economics, Finance

Patrick Grant Chen

Wheeler High School

Marietta, GA Computer Science

Rosasharn Lilly Brown Weber School

Marietta, GA English, International Affairs

Ramseys Class of 2023

Albert Zhonghai Chen

George Walton Comprehensive High School Marietta, GA Finance, International Affairs, International Business

Liberty Catherine Jones Cambridge High School Milton, GA Biology

Alex Joshua Eldridge

Dunwoody High School

Dunwoody, GA Linguistics, Mathematics

Nicholas Andrey Kundin Archer High School Lawrenceville, GA Computer Science

Matthew Robert Motley

Blue Valley North High School

Leawood, KS Computer Science, Music Performance

Rachel Aubrey Mattson

Hampton High School Pittsburgh, PA Cognitive Science, MS Artificial Intelligence

Molly Katherine Young Providence Day School Matthews, NC Exercise & Sport Science

William Wallace Riley Spearfish High School

Spearfish, SD Biology (Neuroscience emphasis)

Austin Michael Stack Research Triangle High School

Morrisville, NC

Biochemical Engineering, MS Pharmacy

Adeboye Adeoye Campbell High School Kennesaw, GA Economics, Finance

Kunal Vohra Alpharetta High School

Alpharetta, GA

Management Information Systems, Mathematics

Ramseys Class of 2024

Foundation Fellowship alumni by class year Foundation Fellows Alumni

Class of 1977

John E. 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 Shlaer

Bryan J. Whitfield

Class of 1981

Cornelia Isabella Bargmann

Class of 1982

Fred Holtz III

Peter L. Patrick

Michael Brian Terry

Catherine Leigh Touchton

Class of 1983

William Mark Faucette

Frank Joseph Hanna III

Betsy Lyons McCabe

Jay Watson

Class of 1984

Stephen Ellis

Denise Lamberski Fisher

Sara Voyles 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 E. Thompson

Christopher Lamar Vickery

Sharon Anderson White

Class of 1986

Grace Elizabeth Hale

Andrew Martin

Stephen Smith

Mark Edward White

Class of 1987

Rebecca E. Biron

Bruce Edward Bowers

Anne Davison Dolaher

John Fowler

Kirsten Jarabek Franklin

Mary Ruth Hannon

Noel Langston Hurley

Elizabeth Ford Lehman

Robert Marcus Reiner

Margaret Ruth Sparks

Class of 1988

Cathy Luxenberg Barnard

Thomas Christopher Cisewski

Sharon Blair Enoch

India Frances Lane

Linda Leith Redderson

Neil Chandler Thom

John E. Worth

Class of 1989

Courtney Cook Angeli

Lisa Caucci

Amy Lee Copeland

Kimberlee Ann Walkenspaw Curley

Julie Kathleen Earnhart

Nancy Letostak Glasser

Susan Golden James

Leah Deneen Lowman

Adena Elder Potter

Kyle Wayne Sager

Andrew William Stith

Class of 1990

Maitreya Badami

Felton Jenkins III

Gwen Kaminsky

Mark David Sheftall

John Carlyle Shelton

Alicia Elsbeth Stallings

Class of 1991

Susan Shackelford Dawes

Elizabeth Hebert Day

James Ansley Granade III

Paul H. Matthews

John Phillip Piedrahita

Marc L. Silverboard

Gene Williams

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 Millians

Charles Andrew Mitchell

Christina Stewart Payton

Class of 1993

Jennifer Cathey Arbitter

Christy 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 Webb

H. Thomas Willman III

Class of 1994

Sonja Batten

Stephen Spratlin Bullock

Anne Kissel Harper

Pam Hungerbuhler

Michael Paul Jones, Jr.

Eric M. Overby

Brett Pellock

Caroline Placey

Tracie Calvert Rosser

Jennifer M. Rubin

Laura Anne Shepherd

Katherine Anne Smith

Julie Lynne Steiner

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 1996

Keith Robert Blackwell

Thomas Andrew Bryan

Robert Cartwright

Timothy P. George

Bomee Jung

James Benjamin Kay IV

Bradley Scott Malcom

Justin Shoemake

Robert Matthew Sutherland

Stephen Tate

Robert T. Trammell, Jr.

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 Shapiro

Catherine Allison

Evans Webb

Class of 1999

Leona Nichole Council

Tzu-Chuan Jane Huang

Ellen Sutherland Irby

Lacy Feldman McCurdy

Torré Deshun Mills

Class of 2000

Melissa Bugbee Buchanan

Dhruti Contractor

Tiffany Earley-Spadoni

Matthew Scott Eckman

Bronson Lee

Michael Eugene Morris

Ethan Sims

Holly Gooding Tran

Class of 2001

Laura Ann Adang

Dustin J. Calhoun

Chris Caruso

Semil P. Choksi

Fruzsina Csaszar Di Ruggiero

Corey Gill

Amita Ramesh Hazariwala

Kathryn Jessica Hull

Gardner Linn

Thomas John Ludlam

Frank Martin

Amy Mulkey McGowan

Joseph Adams Perry-Parrish

Laquesha Shantelle Sanders

Andrew Clark Thompson

Kyle Wingfield

Class of 2002

Divya Balakrishnan

Alyssa Holmgren Craigie

Laramie 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 Nichols

Kathryn Stepp Nicolai

Mary Catherine Plunkett

Suzanne Scoggins

Steven C. Smith

Andrew John Sucre

Lakshmi Swamy

John Andrew Wright

Emory Paul Wright

Class of 2003

John Anthony Asalone

Maria Anderson Booth

Marshall Chalmers

Timothy Tianyi Chen

Adam Cureton

Brian Dunham

Christopher James Gibson

Jennifer Gibson Gill

Leah Rose Givens

Tanya Martin Hudson

Eirin Kallestad

Dmitry Sergeevich Kolychev

Robin Elizabeth McGill

Meredith Neal McCarthy

Moore

Jeffrey Pugh

Rob Quinn

Kimberly Council Sheridan

Jennifer Srygley Sucre

Gemma Suh

Doannie Tran

Melanie Monroe Venable

Joseph Brendan Wolpin

Class of 2004

Ellen Downs Beaulieu

Jake Boggan

Virginia Barton Bowen

Amanda Morgan Casto

William Cullen Conly

Blake L. 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 Orlemanski

Satya Patel

Nathan Ratledge

Daniel Winfield Reed

Travis Daniel Reeves

Randolph Lines Starr

Carson Wayne Strickland

Manoj “Sachin” Varghese

Josh Weddle

Charles Elliott Willson

Class of 2005

Ben Bain

Jeanette Eva Thurber

Barzelay

Allison Carter-Agnotti

Krisda H. Chaiyachati

Eugenia Gina Chu

Charles P. Ciaccio, Jr.

Renee Claire Contreras

Kathryn Kay Coquemont

Matthew Crim

Kacie Schoen Darden

John Thomas DeGenova

Anne Zimmerman Hawkins

Jeremy Paul Johnson

Raechel Anglin Kummer

Ivy Nguyen Le

Ashley Lott

Thomas Michael Mittenzwei

Brendan F. Murphy

Allison Scott Roach

Sarah Ellen Sattelmeyer

Amy Nicole Sexauer

Matthew Buckley Smith

Adam M. Sparks

Charles T. Tuggle III

Kate Vyborny

Leslie Wolcott

Tuquyen Mach Yee

Class of 2006

Jennifer Bartmess

Jason M. Brown

Simon Ferrari

Daniel Gough

Warren Brandon Holton

Jana Dopson Illston

Chloe Renee Thompson

Kelley

Melissa Cabinian Kinnebrew

Lisa Last

Joseph LeCates

Jenny Page Linton

Mike Lynch

Patrick J. Maher

Beth Grams Margalis

Brian Patrick Quinif

Katherine Leigh Morgan

Ragland

Heather Ripley

Rebekah Rogers

Laura Emiko Soltis

Robby Staley

Matthew Stewart

Nathan Joseph Stibrich

David Turner

Sara Pilzer Weiss

Class of 2007

Mary Patricia Alvarez

William Brooks Andrews

Franklin Edwin “BJ” Ard

John Christopher Binford

Yves Bouillet

Priya Chandan

Lesley Graybeal

John Floyd Howell III

Douglas Michael Jackson

Joseph Edgar Lariscy IV

Michael James Levengood

Robert Bradley Lindell

Andrew Campbell McKown

Erin Mordecai

Yannick Morgan

Amulya Nagarur

Jayanthi Narain

Corrine Allison Novell

Caelin Cubenas Potts

Sarah Brown Puryear

Anna Harrison Saffer

Helen Caples Smith

Zach P. Smith

Jake Everett Turrentine

Katrin Usifo

Class of 2008

Maria Alejandra Baetti

Sarah Ritchey Bellamy

Benjamin Cobb

Anureet Cheema Copeland

Rachel Elizabeth Whitaker Elam

Katherine Elizabeth Folkman

Adele Handy Goodloe

Matthew Wood Grayson

Lynzi Jacqueline Archibald Gruetzemacher

Shannon Hiller

Donald Ray “DJ” Johnson, Jr.

Joseph Robert Kapurch

Peter Klein

Mindy 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 K. Chang

Chuan “CiCi” Cheng

Chris 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

Clare JoAnna Hatfield

Chad Hume

Brittany Lee McCall

Nithya M. Natrajan

Caitlin McLaughlin Poe

Kevin Christopher Poe

Paul Ruddle II

Milner Owens Staub

Marlee Jean Waxelbaum

Sana Hashmi Zahiruddin

Class of 2010

Betsy Allen Adams

Thomas Matthew Bailey

Amanda Brouillette

Sarah Marie Caruana

Kevin Copp

Amy Davis

David Fu

Peter Horn

Dave Howcroft

Laura McDonald Hunter

Connor McCarthy

Jasmaine Williams McClain

Josh McLaurin

Zoë Meroney

Allon Mordel

Virginia Susan Newman

Cleveland Alcides Piggott, Jr.

Kelsey Jones Pratt

Lucas Puente

Sharon McCoy Swabb

Jennifer Taylor

Lila Elisabeth Tedesco

Robert B. Thrasher

Class of 2011

Anne Karam Conroy

Katherine Sara Cuadrado

Ryan Friday

Lucy Fu

Claire Underwood Hailey

Marcus Jamel Hines

Mir Inaamullah

Matthew Levenson

Phoeny Li

John Benjamin Marshall

Aaron Marshburn

Calley Mersmann

Phillip C. Mote

Muktha Natrajan

Sabrina Ann Ragaller

Geales Goodwin Rawe

Robert Rosenbleeth

Rachel Pocock Shah

Trey Sinyard

Alex Squires

Stephanie Chapman

Weishaar

Tracy Yang

Sheena Zhang

Class of 2012

Victoria Suzanne Akin

Elizabeth Allan

Juan Cardoza-Oquendo

Patrick Fitzmaurice

Dana Higgins

Hillary Kingsley

Logan Krusac

Morgann Ashley Lyles

Tatum Danielle Mortimer

Luke Mosley

Saptarsi Rohan

Mukhopadhyay

Bryn Elise Murphy

Jaime Ayers Patterson

Jacob Hunter Rooney

Chaim Schwartz

Matthew R. Sellers

Anuj Shukla

Will Stephenson

Hemali Vin

Thomas Matthew Ward

David Zweig

Class of 2013

Megan Unger Caudill

Sara De La Torre Berón

Camille Gregory

Brittany Young Leamon

Ryan McLynn

Todd Pierson

Derek Ponticelli

Reuben Reynolds

Matthew Wyatt Saltz

Bethany McCain Seewoester

Waring “Buck” Trible

Lawrence William White

JoyEllen Freeman Williams

Addison Wright

Class of 2014

Sara Thomas Black

Jesse Yuen-Fu Chan

Smitha Ganeshan

Anisha Hegde Gerber

Joseph E. Gerber

Philip Joseph Grayeski

Osama Hashmi

Paul Kirschenbauer

Marianne Ligon

David Millard

Clara Nibbelink

Rachel Claire Sellers

Blake Shessel

Jeremiah Stevens

Matthew Tyler

Jacqueline Van De Velde

Kishore Vedala

Cameron Zahedi

Yuliya Bila Zarnitsyna

Class of 2015

Joshua Andrew Chang

Savannah Colbert

Maria Cox

Parker Evans

Eilidh Geddes

Ronald Jackson Kurtz

Michael Land

Kameel Mir

Sarah Mirza

Brian Quinif: From south Georgia to vice president at HSBC

Thomasville native Brian Quinif says it was a big move for him when he came to Athens to attend the University of Georgia. There would be much larger ones to come.

As an underclassman he earned a Foundation Fellowship, the university’s foremost scholarship, which set him up for a journey that filled his passport with stamps.

Brian studied abroad in Innsbruck, Austria, had an internship in Barcelona, and another study abroad trip in Rio de Janeiro. Those latter two experiences helped him acquire fluency in both Spanish and Portuguese. Further study at the London School of Economics honed his business acumen. By the time Brian (Fellows Class of 2006) graduated with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics (he double-majored in Romance languages as an undergraduate), he had a job waiting for him as a trader on Wall Street.

“I combined the economics, politics, and language skills I acquired through the fellowship while studying abroad, so I’m extremely thankful for the opportunities that Georgia gave me both academically and in terms of learning about the world,” he said.

In June 2019, he started his current job as a vice president at HSBC. Because of his language skills, Brian works as a trader for the Latin American market, but in a general sense, the lessons he learned traveling as a student pay off every day in the increasingly global banking market.

“Knowing how to find a common language, whether it is literally speaking the same language or simply finding common ground, is a very useful thing,” Brian said. “Knowing what it’s like to be a foreigner somewhere and learning how to adapt to that culture while still being true to your own is a really valuable skill.”

—Eric Rangus, Georgia magazine

Davis Parker

Camir Neville Ricketts

Alex Rowell

Grace Siemietkowski Rowell

Allison Koch Saroni

Avery Wiens Saucier

Sophie Giberga Thompson

John Henry Thompson

Megan Ernst Tipton

Megan Frances White

Class of 2016

Caroline Coleman

Alex Edquist

Seth Isaac Euster

Lee Handly Folk

Kirstie Hostetter

Caleb Alexander Ingram

Jacob Kennedy

Shaun Kleber

Torre Elisabeth Lavelle

Chris Lewitzke

Kate Lovejoy

Kelsey Lowrey

Lauren Dennison Maslin

Sandip Kaur Minhas

Caroline Elizabeth Moore

Meredith Paker

Eytan Palte

Rand Pope

Hannah Reiss

Giovanni Righi

Leighton Michele Rowell

Madison Snelling

Minhyuk Michael Song

Karishma Sriram

John Bradley Stroud

Kevin Sun

Treva Chung-Kwan Tam

Bert Thompson, Jr.

Chenée Tracey

Kathleen Wilson

Class of 2017

Jonathan Adelman

Tristan Paul Bagala

Cali Callaway

Laura Courchesne

Jonah Driggers

N. Drew Farr

Moira Fennell

Carver L. H. Goodhue

Shuchi Goyal

Erin Elizabeth Hollander

Glenn Anderson Jacoby

Susie Jones

Hammad Ahmed Khalid

Bruce Li

Krystal Lo

Vijeth Mudalegundi

Trang Xuan Nguyen

Morrison Nolan

Justin Payan

Joy Peltier

Gabrielle Pierre

Elijah Scott

Jason Terry

Luke Thompson

Class of 2018

Kerri Andre

Michael Logan Campbell

Lorin Crear

Thomas Andrew Desoutter

Maddie Dill

Brianna English

Shreya Ganeshan

Kalvis Golde

Jack Hall

Mallory Jessica Harris

Rachel Kelley

Joshua E. Kenway

Mallika Madhusudan

Emily Maloney

Samia McEachin

Reilly Megee

Bailey Palmer

Sierra Runnels

Mollie Simon

Taylor Smith

Samuel Tingle

Matthias Stephen Wilder

Elizabeth Francina Wilkes

Victoria Yonter

Lilian Zhu

Class of 2019

Swapnil Agrawal

Rachael “Fola” Akinola

Ashley Amukamara

Maria “Izzy” Cerón

Dwain “Chip” Chambers

Trisha Dalapati

Tarun Daniel

Guy Eroh

Steven Feng

Laurel Hiatt

Jessica Ho

Nirav Ilango

Christina Lee

Zoe Li

Divine Ogbuefi

Kavi Pandian

Jessica Pasquarello

John Rawlings

Ashley Reed

Ruth Schade

Caroline Shearer

Aditya Sood

Stephanie Stewart

Abigail West

Ashley Willard

Class of 2020

Avni Sheel Ahuja

McKenna Aliya Barney

Rebecca L. Buechler

Claire Martha Drosos

Montgomery Lloyd Fischer

Stephan Nicholas George

Emma Marie Goldsmith

Nicole Marie Googe

Griffin Scott Hamstead

Mackenzie Rose Joy

Aditya Krishnaswamy

Nicolas Leis

Kaitlin Mary Luedecke

Jessica Yan Ma

Jon Mallory McRae III

Sebastian Puerta

Nina P. Reddy

Margaret Grace Russo

Andrew Dunivin Schmitt

Benjamin Crawford Starks

Ramsey Honors Scholar alumni by class year Ramsey Alumni

Class of 2004

Daniel Anthony del Portal

Ladson Gaddy-Dubac

Andrew Ely Guthrie

Virginia Wood Pate

Samuel Winters Richwine III

Rachel Elizabeth Wahlig

Class of 2005

Katherine Elizabeth Bugg

Andrew Gilman Crowley

Lawrence Robert Ficek

Matthew Eric Hickman

Ngozi Christie Ogbuehi

James Christopher Tarr

Brian William Teplica

Class of 2006

Molly Martin Anderson

Staci Hutsell Cannon

Elizabeth Davidson

Pisacreta

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 Levy

Daniel Mathews

Lamar Houston Moree

Lauren Elizabeth Sillery Oberg

Teerawit “Tim” Supakorndej

Rebecca Rahn Vahrenwald

Andrew Vesper

Class of 2008

Matthew Charles Agan

Brent Lewis Allen

Molly Beatrice Pittman

Babineaux

Jeff Elrod

James Gordy

Annie Ming Huang

Joseph Stuart Knight

John Matthews

James Lucas McFadden

Noah R. Mink

Gregory James O’Connell

Blake William Shealy

Karen Christina Wong

Class of 2009

Nneka Alicia Arinze

Shannon Chen

Jonathan Brown Chestnut

Nisha Gupta

Jeremiah Johnson

Jeremy Jones

Lindsay Beth Jones

BK Katzmann

Madison Moore Pool

Peter Samuel Shoun

Joseph Dempsey Turrentine

Class of 2010

Alexander Linton Brown

Peyton Clark Edwards

Carole House

William Daniel Jordan III

Halina Maladtsova

Nick Passarello

Lauren Elizabeth Pinson

Caitlin Gail Robinson

Emily Frances Reed

Underwood

Zao Mike Yang

Class of 2011

Jonathan Arogeti

Jason Daniel Berkowitz

Christopher Jordan Floyd

Haylee Humes

Mark Johnson

Jung Woong Kim

Nicole Elizabeth Nation

Erika Parker New

Griffin Rice

Joseph Cataquiz Rimando

Stephen Bradford

Thompson

Andrew Watts

Laura Ann Wynn

Class of 2012

Whitney Ising Adams

Sam Gray

Aisha Mahmood Haley

Tiffany Hu

John Bradley Otwell

Ryan Sheets

Catherine Lois Shonts

Sheila Vedala

Anna Savelle Walker

Class of 2013

Glenn Branscomb

Logan Butler

Trevor Hunter Hohorst

Yiran Emily Peng

Alexander Collins Vey

Class of 2014

Catherine Backus

Emily Backus

Victoria Lynn DeLeo

Amanda Holder

Stephen Edward Lago

Mariana Lynne Satterly

Pranay K. Udutha

Class of 2015

Cody Baetz

Carmen Kraus

Tuan Anh Nguyen

Abigail Taylor Shell

Class of 2016

Melissa Carlene Cousins

Berta Maria Franzluebbers

Samuel Thomas Johnston

Ray Paleg

Mihir B. Patel

Julie Saxton

Class of 2017

Prentiss Rachel Autry

Malcolm Alexander Barnard

Katie Michele Googe

Heather Huynh

Megan Murphy Jones

Class of 2018

Jenny Alpaugh

Davis Coleman

Emily Giambalvo

Evan Knox

Zoe Schneider

Class of 2019

Manasa Kadiyala

Jacqueline Kessler

Prabhjot Minhas

Vineet Raman

Hayley Rutchow

William “Trey” Walker

Class of 2020

Evan Chandler Barnard

Sara Elizabeth Cagle

Benjamin Thomas Giebelhausen

Emma Danielle Hope

Sarah Aven Hartwell Jones

Grant Harrison Mercer

Carl Thomas “Trey” Miller III

Theodore Jacob Vincent

Foundation Fellows & Ramsey Honors Scholars ANNUAL REPORT 2020-2021

Project managers

Jessica B. Hunt

Emily L.M. Shirley

Designer & editor

Stephanie W. Schupska

Photographers

Wingate Downs, Dorothy Kozlowski, Chad Osburn, Stephanie W. Schupska, Emily

L.M. Shirley, Andrew Davis

Tucker, various Fellows and Ramseys

Additional assistance

Kora Burton, Michelle Belikova

Angela Tsao stops for graduation photos near the Old College building.