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Six students receive Critical Language Scholarships

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These students join approximately 580 competitively selected American students at U.S. colleges and universities who received the award this year.

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The Critical Language Scholarship program provides scholarships to U.S. undergraduate and graduate… Read Article

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Triple Franklin major Raman named to Washington Leadership Program

Vineet Raman of Marietta is among the young Indian Americans recently named to the Washington Leadership Program class of 2018:

The WLP is a non-profit that seeks to develop the next generation of American leadership from the South Asian community. The nine scholars will be placed in… Read Article


LDSOA in NYC

A group of 32 students and three faculty recently returned from spending the maymester term studying art and design in New York City. There’s no doubt that New York offers advantages that the traditional classroom cannot, and it was in recognition of this fact the NYC… Read Article

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National Geographic features UGA research, solutions

This month we were proud to see the work of Jenna Jambeck and the New Materials Institute featured in the cover story of National Geographic. Jambeck, who inspired UGA associate professor of chemistry Jason Locklin and other researchers at UGA to get involved with the issue of plastic waste, now… Read Article

Biomass

UGA, NREL researchers create novel genetic method

Researchers from the University of Georgia, in conjunction with researchers at the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), have developed a new genetic engineering technique that dramatically improves an enzyme’s ability to break down biomass.

Ellen… Read Article