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2024 Mandela Washington Fellows Arrive in the United States
The following article was originally featured on the official Mandela Washington Fellowship webpage. The U.S. Department of State and IREX are pleased to welcome the 2024 cohort of the Mandela…
UGA honored as top producer of Fulbright students
The University of Georgia’s 11 Fulbright student offers for the 2023-2024 academic year have landed it among the top producing institutions for Fulbright U.S. students. This is the second year…
Mandela Washington Fellowship returns to UGA in summer 2024
The University of Georgia is proud to announce its selection as an Institute Partner for the 2024 Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders. Beginning in mid-June, UGA will host…
UGA’s Center on Human Trafficking Research & Outreach triples number of survivors identified in Sierra Leone
To date, CenHTRO’s programs in Sierra Leone tripled the number of survivors identified and served. Nearly 2,000 government officials, judiciary and law enforcement members, and community leaders received training on…
Peanut Innovation Lab at UGA receives $2.5M grant to help farmers in Madagascar
Madagascar is particularly vulnerable to climate change, as more numerous cyclones, rising seas and additional rain erode coastal areas, while prolonged drought and desertification plagues the southern part of the…
International Doctoral Student Danielle Essandoh’s dream to help nourish a continent
At 8 years old, Danielle Essandoh unearthed a fascination with agriculture and never looked back. Her grandfather, a peanut farmer, welcomed her help around the family farm in her home country of…
Cultivating Curiosity Podcast: How the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Peanut enhances food security worldwide
In this episode, Cultivating Curiosity digs into the career of Dave Hoisington, director of the USAID Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Peanut at the University of Georgia’s College of Agricultural and…
Feed the Future Innovation Lab Study details how household dynamics impact Senegalese women’s ‘time poverty’
A woman’s work is never done, especially during the rainy season. “Who has the time? A qualitative assessment of gendered intrahousehold labor allocation, time use and time poverty in rural…
Fellowship Alumna Oluwafunke Adeoye Wins Waislitz Global Citizen Award
Congratulations to 2023 Fellowship Alumna Olawafunke Adeoye for her achievement in winning the $75,000 Waislitz Global Citizen’s Choice Award. The Waislitz Global Citizen Awards are annual cash prizes totaling $250,000 that recognize…
Peanut Innovation Lab takes home research award
The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Peanut has won the Corteva Agriscience Award for Excellence in Research, an honor that recognizes an individual or team for career performance or for outstanding research…
UGA-led International research team publishes Finger millet genome breakthrough
An international research team led by University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES) faculty has published a pioneering study on the finger millet genome offering new insights for breeders…