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UGA Alumnus wins 2024 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
University of Georgia alumnus Peter Schreiner has received one of Germany’s most prestigious research awards. The Joint Committee of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) announced the recipients of…
International Student Life Director Linden Dudley Wins 2023 NAFSA New Professional Award
This award recognizes outstanding contributions to international education through her accomplishments at International Student Life and in Athens Linden Dudley, Director of International Student Life (ISL), is the 2023 recipient…
International Alumni: Khalifeh Al Jadda, director of data science at Google
Khalifeh Al Jadda PhD ’14 doesn’t wait for opportunities. He creates them. In the late 2000s, while teaching computer science at a university in Saudi Arabia, Al Jadda learned from a mentor…
UGA’s Mariah Cady named a 2024 Rhodes Scholar
University of Georgia student Mariah Cady was one of 32 students nationwide named a 2024 Rhodes Scholar this weekend. UGA is the only school in the SEC and one of only…
Spring in Spain: UGA archaeologists search for medieval town’s secrets
A group of researchers from the University of Georgia’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Department of Anthropology set out this past spring for the medieval village of Mercadal, Spain,…
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…
Rhodes to Success: Natalie Navarrete
Natalie Navarrete didn’t know Russian when she came to the University of Georgia. Now, she has studied it around the globe. Navarrete graduated in spring 2023 with several new stamps…
UGA named a top-performing institution for Boren Scholarships
For the third year in a row, the Boren Awards named the University of Georgia a top-performing institution for Boren Scholarships. With five UGA undergraduates selected as Boren Scholars this spring,…
UGA hosts international human trafficking researchers to standardize best practices
Human trafficking can’t be studied with a one-size-fits-all approach. The crime affects people in different ways, depending on where they live and what type of exploitation they’re experiencing. Researchers need…
