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UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA Foundation Fellowship

ANNUAL

REPORT 2025-2026

First-year Foundation Fellows gather in front of the Isamu Noguchi’s iconic Red Cube in New York City’s financial district during their spring travel-study trip to New York and Washington, D.C., in March 2026.

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CONTENTS Endowed and Named Fellowships . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Letters from the President, Chair, and Dean . . . . . . . 3 Mission of the Foundation Fellowship . . . . . . . . . 4 Overview of the Fellowship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 About the Morehead Honors College . . . . . . . . . . 6 Timeline: A Look Back at the Year . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Global Perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Seniors Speak: Fellowship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Scholarship Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Academic Enrichment and Events

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Seniors Speak: Mentors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Internships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Undergraduate Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Seniors Speak: Undergraduate Research . . . . . . .

Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Stamps Scholars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Individual Travel-Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Seniors Speak: Travel-Study

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Spring Travel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Oxford Maymester . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Lisa Ann Coole Award . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Foundation Fellows Class of 2026 . . . . . . . . . .

Seniors Speak: Friendships . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Celebrating Graduation

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Foundation Fellows by Class Year . . . . . . . . . .

Alumni by Class Year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

ENDOWED AND NAMED FELLOWSHIPS The University of Georgia Foundation Fellowship was created in 1972 by UGA Foundation trustees to enrich the educational experience of outstanding undergraduates. The Fellowship is supported by multiple endowments and a partnership with the Stamps Scholars Program. The Endowed and Named Foundation Fellowships provide an annual scholarship stipend for each Foundation Fellow.

2025-2026 STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS AND UNIVERSITY INITIATIVES COMMITTEE MEMBERS Dorothy Sifford, Chair Nashville, Tennessee

Leah Brown

Phoenix, Arizona

Betsy C. Cox PHILIP ALSTON FELLOWS Jaabili Sai Gosukonda ’28 Thomas Ray Griner ’28 Luke Miles Hendrix ’26 Tiffani Arnina McClain ’28 Claire Elizabeth McDonald ’27 EUGENE BLACK FELLOWS Britton Hare ’27 Ava Elizabeth Stillwagon ’27 Bianca Elena Wilson ’26 CARLYLE FRASER FELLOWS Audrey Elana Bagot ’29 Ashaar Bakshi ’28 Becker Curry ’29 Isabella Sofia Delgado ’27 Krish Devon Leveille ’28 Margaret Lee Opsahl ’26 Anna Grace Rachwalski ’26 VERA MILNER FELLOWS Avery Frances Roark ’29 Shivani Yadavalli ’29 MOREHEAD FELLOWS John William Jamieson ’29 WINSHIP NUNNALLY FELLOWS Parker Gavin Ferrer ’28 Elle Elisabeth Glassford ’28 Jack Ryan Jarashow ’26 Robie Elizabeth Lucas ’27 MARTHA NUNNALLY FELLOWS Ella Celeste Johnson ’27 Michael Liam Martin ’29 John Widener Norris ’26 BERNARD RAMSEY FELLOWS Anna Grace Aiello ’28 Sara Amou ’27 Pablo Basil Ashi ’28 Jhaycee Coren Barnes ’26 Bemnet Ashenafi Bekele ’26 Ashley Nicole Brown ’26 Benen Chancey ’26 Piper Danielle Duncan ’26 Liam Daniel Evans ’27 Anita Gillum Gorman ’26 Emma Grace Haddon ’29 Katherine Rebecca Johnson ’28 Bryce Allen Knoll ’27 Nathaniel Scott Levy ’28 Jack Douglas Little II ’27 Ava Rebeccah Marcus ’28 Russell Helderman Markwalter ’29

Erin Christiane Monroe ’26 Julianna Morelli ’28 Jay Zhang Natu ’28 Sophia Khoa Nguyen ’27 Megan Joy Pitt ’27 Ava Quarles ’28 Hadiza Sarr ’26 Catherine Anderson Smith ’26 Gwyneth Solomon ’28 Kyle JB Nathan Ssendagire ’29 Rowan Aoife Starr ’28 Selina Sun ’27 Lauren Elizabeth Thacker ’27 Lillian Christyne Thomas ’26 Wyn Alyse Thomas ’26 Callie Elizabeth Viktora ’28 Natalie Liza Wallace ’29 Ayla Zomermaand ’29 JOHN WHITE RAMSEY FELLOW Isabelle Rose Stephens ’28 PENELOPE W. AND E. ROE STAMPS IV FELLOWS Kiefer Lawson Adams ’27 Gabriel Demis Alemayehu ’28 Patrick Barry George Allen ’28 Grant Jameson Baumann ’26 Laila Elizabeth Carter ’28 Rayna Janett Carter ’26 Elise Ione Cookson ’27 Abigail Kathleen Flanegan ’29 Vaughn Robert Frost ’27 Juliana Isabel Gardner ’29 Shriya Kumari Garg ’27 Diya Akshila Garrepally ’28 Erin Howard ’27 Nikita Jha ’26 Chinmay Joshi ’26 Harshil Joshi ’27 Karthik Kuppuswamy ’29 Eden Evelyn Levitt-Horne ’29 Madison Lowe ’29 Deborah Joy Madden ’26 Aarov Malhotra ’27 Amy Franchesca Morales ’26 Trang Huyen Nguyen ’27 Grayson McCallie Rosenblad ’29 Philip Andrew Salzinger ’27 Charlie Lane Stout ’26 Sloka P. Sudhin ’26 Erin Suh ’26 Iziq A. Thomas ’28 Henry Ellis Traynor ’26 Aidan Phineas Ventimiglia ’27 Aerica Calynn Worrell ’27 Andrew Ray Wyatt ’26 Sophia Qiao Zhao ’28

Jacksonville, Florida

Yvette Daniels

Stone Mountain, Georgia

Jim Dinkins

Atlanta, Georgia

Trey Googe

Atlanta, Georgia

Nancy Juneau

Atlanta, Georgia

Keith Kelly

Newborn, Georgia

Charlie Knox

Augusta, Georgia

Hardman Knox Atlanta, Georgia

Elizabeth Reid Atlanta, Georgia

Elizabeth Richards Atlanta, Georgia

Jodi Selvey

Atlanta, Georgia

Kim Stamper

Alpharetta, Georgia

Becky Winkler

Charlotte, North Carolina

Dee Yancey

Rome, Georgia

Corey Dortch

Ex-Officio, Voting Marietta, Georgia

Ben Ayers

Ex-Officio, Non-Voting Athens, Georgia

Derrick Lemons, Associate Athens, Georgia

Rebecca Mayo, Associate Athens, Georgia

John Neely, Associate Athens, Georgia

Craig Barrs, Advisory Atlanta, Georgia

Lewis Massey, Advisory

Peachtree Corners, Georgia

2025-2026 FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP STAFF Meg Amstutz, Dean James Warnock, Associate Dean Tricia Jonas Hackleman, Director Sydney Phillips, Program Administrator Dani García-Pozo, Program Assistant Larissa Lozano, Graduate Assistant Anna Grace Aiello & Erin Suh,

Student Workers

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A REMARKABLE PROGRAM

LETTERS

UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA PRESIDENT The Foundation Fellowship is among the very best undergraduate scholarships in the nation and has become a cornerstone of the University of Georgia’s top-ranked Morehead Honors College. Thanks to the support of the UGA Foundation and the generosity of our alumni and friends, the program continues to expand, providing countless opportunities for our talented students. Foundation Fellows are drawn to UGA because of its world-class classroom environment, unparalleled access to undergraduate research and experiential learning opportunities, and longstanding commitment to student success. Seeing the incredible things our Fellows go on to accomplish after graduating and the positive impact they make across our state and around the world is a source of tremendous pride for me personally and for our institution. The University of Georgia is stronger because of the Foundation Fellowship, and I am excited for all that lies ahead for this remarkable program.

Jere W. Morehead, President University of Georgia

UGA FOUNDATION CHAIR As we welcome this incoming class of Foundation Fellows, we recognize their exceptional talents and diverse backgrounds. Throughout history, we have witnessed the remarkable potential of these students as they have made significant contributions to UGA. It is evident that many of these scholars will go on to pursue careers and endeavors addressing the most pressing issues of our local, national, and global communities. Additionally, numerous scholars will be accepted into renowned graduate programs, while others will earn highly esteemed post-graduate scholarships. The University of Georgia Foundation takes great pride in supporting these exceptional students.

Howard Young, Chair

University of Georgia Foundation

MOREHEAD HONORS COLLEGE DEAN As dean of the Morehead Honors College, it is my privilege to work closely with our Foundation Fellows, whether through a word of encouragement in the hallway, a deep discussion in the classroom, extended time together as we travel to New York City and Washington, D.C., or after spring break as we chat about experiences in locations such as Ecuador, Iceland, and Morocco. At the University of Oxford each May, I witness our first-year students learning deeply in classes ranging from human rights and art history to ethics and entrepreneurship. Our Fellows enhance UGA’s national reputation for excellence and elevate the Honors College. I want to express my appreciation to Tricia Jonas Hackleman, who led the Foundation Fellowship this year, and I am inspired by our Fellows as each continues, time and again, to shine across campus and around the world. As they grow from dedicated students to established alumni, I invite you to join me in celebrating their endeavors, now and in the years to come.

Margaret A. “Meg” Amstutz, Dean

Jere W. Morehead Honors College

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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.

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OVERVIEW

ABOUT THE FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP The Morehead Honors College administers the university’s top academic scholarship—the Foundation Fellowship. 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 spring group travel-study and a postfirst-year Maymester at the University of Oxford. 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). From 2000-2020, Ramsey Scholars were selected through the Foundation Fellows application process. The last class of Ramseys graduated in 2024. Foundation Fellows participate in community programming; off-campus retreats; scholarships advising and professional development; alumni networking; and academic, social, and cultural events throughout the year.

Foundation Fellowship benefits, 2025-2026 • Annual stipend for in-state students: $15,050 plus the Zell Miller Scholarship ($10,034 per year) • Annual stipend for out-of-state students: $25,900 plus an out-ofstate tuition waiver ($20,844 per year) • Annual stipend for international students: $28,800 plus a Presidential waiver ($21,740 per year) • Three fully funded spring travel-study programs valued at $15,000 (First-year Fellows always travel to New York City and Washington, D.C., and then participate in international trips in their second and third years. In recent years, Fellows have traveled to Bali, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Greece, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Tanzania, Türkiye, and Vietnam. This year, Fellows traveled to Ecuador, Iceland, and Morocco.) • Fully funded summer study abroad program to the University of Oxford valued at $10,511 • Individual travel-study grants up to a cumulative total of $10,000 (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 $2,000 • 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

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ABOUT THE MOREHEAD HONORS COLLEGE The Foundation Fellowship is housed in the Jere W. Morehead Honors College at the University of Georgia. The Morehead Honors College serves 2,800 undergraduates and offers resources to make the most of their higher education experience—including 259 Honors sections and 124 Honors classes a year with median class size of 15 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. Foundation Fellows have access to Honors College resources and staff members.

Moore Hall, located on North Campus, is home to the Morehead Honors College. Below, left: A statue of Bernard Ramsey sits on a bench outside of Moore Hall. Mr. Ramsey was instrumental in the growth of the Foundation Fellowship.

RANKED NO. 1 In January 2026, the Morehead Honors College was again ranked the No. 1 honors program or college in the nation by College Transitions.

OPPORTUNITIES FOR INVOLVEMENT The college offers numerous opportunities for local, national, and global civic engagement and career development, including: • Internship placements • Corsair Society • Arch Policy Institute • Thomas Lay After-School Tutoring Program • Honors Student Council • MATHCOUNTS Outreach • Association of Women in Science

CENTER FOR UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES Also housed in the Morehead Honors College, the Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities (CURO) allows students to work with faculty on projects that reach beyond classroom learning and gain research-related experience needed for graduate or professional schools. CURO is open to all UGA undergraduates interested in research ranging from humanities to social sciences to STEM disciplines.

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Anderson Smith, a 2025 Goldwater Scholar from Virginia Beach who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in ecology, celebrates her time at UGA by ringing the Chapel Bell.

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TIMELINE

A LOOK BACK

2025-2026 AUGUST - DECEMBER Fellows’ dinner seminars, alumni events, cultural and theatrical events,  class breakfasts,  pumpkin picking at Washington Farms, big-little meetups, and Morehead Honors College lunchbox lectures and book discussions

NOVEMBER

Fellows pre-spring trip seminars

JUNE - JULY UGA orientation sessions

JUNE

JULY

AUGUST

Move into Myers Hall, Fellows firstyear welcome and orientation, UGA Freshman Welcome, Fellows Library drop-in feast, fall retreat in the North Georgia mountains 

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SEPTEMBER

OCTOBER

NOVEMBER

OCTOBER

Fellows wellness events ( yoga, hiking, painting workshops, pottery studios at Good Dirt, and kayaking on the Broad River )

APRIL

UGA at Oxford Foundation Fellows Maymester orientation meeting,  Fellows Graduation Banquet at the Georgia Center, Honors Graduation Banquet at the Classic Center , Fellows recruiting events

FEBRUARY Foundation Fellows Interview Weekend

DECEMBER

Finals week food in the Fellows Library

DECEMBER

JANUARY

FEBRUARY

MARCH

JANUARY - APRIL JANUARY

Fellows winter retreat Fellows pre-spring trip seminars

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

MARCH

APRIL

MAY

Finals week food in the Fellows Library,  UGA at Oxford Foundation Fellows Maymester, UGA Commencement Ceremony 

Fellows spring trips, including Morocco in spring 2026

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GLOBAL REPRESENTATION

FELLOWS HAVE

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

STATE AND COUNTRY REPRESENTATION

95 3 For 2025–2026, we have 95 Fellows from

Fellows

23 states & territories

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countries 1 Vietnam, plus the U.S.

each from Jamaica and

57 from Georgia 6 from Tennessee 3 each from Alabama and Maryland each from Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, 2 North Carolina, and Virginia 1

each from Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, South Dakota, and Texas

Erin Suh traveled to Lisbon during her time as a Foundation Fellow. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and molecular biology and is now attending medical school.

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SENIORS SPEAK: FELLOWSHIP

“The Foundation Fellowship changed my life from day one. I came in not knowing what was possible, and from the moment I arrived, mentors poured into me and exposed me to opportunities, industries, and ways of thinking I had never encountered before. Through internships in consulting at firms like Deloitte, EY, and BCG across different cities, I was able to take real risks and explore with confidence, because I knew an entire community of Fellows and alumni had my back. The Fellowship opened doors for me and changed how I see what’s possible. ”

JHAYCEE BARNES

Class of 2026 | Economics, Political Science

“The financial support the Fellowship has given me is something I will never take for granted. I have had the privilege of attending conferences, traveling to see productions of my plays, taking internships, and seeing Broadway, OffBroadway, and regional theatre productions all around the country. I don’t know any other theatre student in the country that has had the same financial freedom to throw themselves into their art. I am now entering the theatre industry with professional connections from around the country and the ability to pursue exactly what I want without the stress of paying off student loans on a playwright’s paycheck. ”

WYN THOMAS

Class of 2026 | Theatre, Nonprofit Management & Leadership MA

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“The Foundation Fellowship provides us with generous funding— but the perks of the program do not stop there. Over the past four years, I have stayed up late in Myers Hall watching Dance Moms, backpacked across Europe for a month, and studied in Oxford, Turkey, and India with my fellow Fellows. The breadth of interests within the FFR community means that conversations will be lively, viewpoints diverse, and experiences exciting. I will miss our regular Christmas parties and back-to-school bashes dearly. ”

WIDENER NORRIS

Class of 2026 | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

“The University of Georgia and the Foundation Fellowship are both worthy of immense loyalty. From the moment I joined, I found myself surrounded by mentors and alumni who genuinely invested in my future, and peers who challenged and encouraged me every step of the way. The community and friendships we built became something I’ll carry long after graduation. The Fellowship helped open many doors for me and gave me the confidence to walk through them. For that, I couldn’t be more grateful. ”

CHARLIE STOUT

Class of 2026 | Biology

“The Fellowship community is unlike anything else on campus. It’s a place where conversations can range from religion and philosophy over dinner to watching low-quality reality TV later that night. What stands out most is the strength of the Fellowship across cohorts and well beyond graduation. Whether connecting in New York, D.C., or abroad, I’ve always found Fellows willing to offer support and advice with genuine enthusiasm. That sense of community is something I know I’ll carry with me long after graduation. ”

“I firmly believe the Foundation Fellowship has irrevocably changed the course of my life. It gave me the confidence and resources to pursue my goals without fear. I had access to phenomenal mentors and advisors who helped steer me in the right direction. I made lifelong friends who continue to challenge me every single day. Deciding where to go to college is a really scary thing, but I have never for a second doubted my decision to come to UGA because of the Foundation Fellowship. I gained a community of like-minded peers that contains so much joy and enthusiasm. I can’t imagine what my time here would have looked like without it. ”

MAGGIE OPSAHL

ANITA GORMAN

Class of 2026 | Computer Science, Mathematics

Class of 2026 | Physics & Astronomy, Physics

“The UGA Foundation Fellowship introduced me to an incredible group of people, several of whom I’m fortunate to call my closest friends. Throughout my experience, I felt encouraged to aspire to greater heights, and the mentorship from program staff and alumni pointed me in the right direction to get there. The conversations I’ve had with Fellows have been fascinating, heartwarming, and often life-changing. The Fellowship is a model for the kind of community I hope to build and foster wherever I go. ”

“I moved around a lot in college—I wasn’t one of the students who knew exactly what they wanted to do and stuck with it. But the Fellowship made that journey feel like an adventure rather than a crisis. They invite curiosity and exploration, and they genuinely want you to act on the things you’re drawn to so you can figure out if they’re right for you. My freshman year, I came in studying biology and quickly realized it wasn’t for me. When I asked Jessica Hunt what I should do that summer to start exploring, she came back with a whole list—math research grants, Deloitte internships, conferences. I remember feeling a wave of relief. She had opened those doors and made me feel hope about pivoting, not fear. That moment set the tone for everything that followed. ”

CHINMAY JOSHI

HADIZA SARR

Class of 2026 | Genetics

Class of 2026 | Mathematics

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SCHOLARSHIP RECOGNITION

Vaughn Frost

GOLDWATER SCHOLAR Vaughn Frost is working to harvest the potential of minuscule vibrations. This spring, he and University of Georgia student Annie Mehta are among 454 undergraduates from across the nation to be recognized as Barry Goldwater Scholars. The scholarship is the highest undergraduate award of its type for the fields of mathematics, engineering, and natural sciences and provides funding for students studying within these fields. Vaughn, a Foundation Fellow and Stamps Scholar, is majoring in mechanical engineering. He started conducting research with his current lab the spring of his freshman year. Vaughn plans to pursue a doctorate in mechanical engineering, specializing in acoustics, vibrations, and fluid-structure interactions. His goal is to study the minuscule movements of vibrations to find methods to prevent their destruction and harvest their potential. “Winning the Goldwater has affirmed my commitment to pursuing a career in research,” Frost said. “It’s really inspiring to know that a group of highly qualified people who work in my field of study believe I have the potential to reach their level of

success one day. As I reflect on this award, I can’t help to be humbled and extremely grateful for all of the professors and mentors in my life who have pushed me and gone out of their way to support me in my academics; it really doesn’t feel like an individual achievement whatsoever.” Vaughn’s research includes numerous projects with UGA associate professor Benjamin Davis in his Dynamic Devices and Solutions Lab. The Davis lab houses the largest university water tunnel in the Southeast, and Vaughn has learned how to use it, along with lasers, sensors, and other equipment, to successfully run a variety of experiments. His primary research involves looking at the impeller blades in a rocket engine and how they vibrate as they increase the flow and pressure of a fluid. He’s searching for ways to avoid catastrophic failure, also known as resonance, in rocket engines to help make launches safer and to bring down construction costs. In addition to his primary project, Vaughn designed experiments that imitate fish movements, working to capture the energy of a flowing river and turn it into a usable force. He also

studied how flat plates with different coatings move through the water. In January, he began working on a signal recovery optimization problem that carries important applications in the fields of dynamic testing and structural analysis. In 2025, Vaughn traveled to Valencia, Spain, to spend eight weeks as an apprentice at the civil engineering firm La Mano Derecha. During his time there, he created floor plans and product designs, while also improving his Spanish. —Stephanie Schupska

Keaton Coletti

TRUMAN FELLOW Keaton Coletti, Class of 2022, was named a Truman Postdoctoral Fellow at Sandia National Laboratories. The fellowship is a highly competitive, three-year appointment designed to

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attract exceptional early career scientists and engineers to pursue independent research that directly supports Sandia’s national security mission. The appointment provides fellows

SCHOLARSHIP RECOGNITION

Jack Jarashow, Widener Norris & Bianca Wilson

FULBRIGHT U.S. STUDENTS Through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, three Foundation Fellows will be working and researching abroad during the 2026-2027 academic year. The Fulbright program offers research, study, and teaching opportunities in more than 160 countries to recent college graduates and graduate students. As the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, it is designed to increase mutual understanding between the U.S. and countries worldwide. Jack Jarashow, Class of 2026, received a Fulbright English teaching assistantship grant to Ecuador. He will be teaching at an Ecuadorian host university for the 2026-2027 school year. During the year, he plans to run creative writing workshops and sporting events geared toward at-risk youth and rehabilitation programs in his host community. While at UGA, Jack co-led Athens Prison Tutorial, helping incarcerated individuals earn their GEDs, and fought to expand the program across the county. Widener Norris, Class of 2026, received a Fulbright English teaching assistantship grant to Taiwan. He will be teaching in an elementary or junior high school in Chiayi and studying Mandarin. Widener looks forward to learning more about Taiwan’s legal system and engaging with the local hiking culture the

area is known for. At UGA, Widener served as editor-in-chief of JURO, conducted immunology and quantum chemistry research, and studied abroad at National Taiwan Normal University and the University of Oxford. Bianca Wilson, Class of 2026, received a Fulbright research grant to Brazil. Partnering with the music education department at the Federal University of Paraná in Curitiba, she will write an

instructional book in Portuguese for beginning double bassists in Brazil, incorporating traditional samba and choro music into the string curriculum. She also plans to play in the local orchestra, auditing music education classes and teaching private lessons when possible. At UGA, Bianca majored in cognitive science and music and completed the MS in artificial intelligence through the Double Dawgs program.

with access to world-class facilities and mentorship from senior technical staff. “I’m very excited to be a Truman Postdoctoral Fellow at Sandia,” said Keaton, a Ph.D. candidate in mechanical engineering at the University of Georgia. “I’ve interned at Sandia for several years now, and I think that it’s an outstanding place to work. In addition to having my research funded, I’ll be working with some of the best minds in engineering and applied math. I’m eager to see what

we can accomplish.” This is the first time the fellowship has been awarded to a UGA student. Keaton is one of two doctoral students nationally to receive the award. “I have worked with Keaton since his first year as an undergraduate, and across thousands of interactions, he has never failed to impress me,” said Ben Davis, Keaton’s doctoral advisor and associate professor of mechanical engineering. Keaton’s research focuses on inverse

problems, uncertainty quantification, and optimization with applications in vibrations and acoustics. He has produced a strong record of peer-reviewed publications in this area. Keaton received bachelor’s degrees in mechanical engineering and mathematics from the College of Engineering and Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. He was a Foundation Fellow and Honors student in the Morehead Honors College. — Lillian Ballance

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SCHOLARSHIP RECOGNITION

Ryan Bohn

Luke Bowles

Piper Duncan

Luke Hendrix

Bryce Knoll

HONORS & AWARDS RYAN BOHN, Class of 2025, received the Alfred M.

Wolfe Fellowship from Phi Kappa Phi. He is attending the Pennsylvania State University to complete a Master of English. While at UGA, he majored in English and Linguistics and was president of the Creative Writing Club and a CURO Honors Scholar. At Penn State, he researches late nineteenth and early twentieth century American literature, focusing on borders, memory, and temporality.

LUKE BOWLES, Class of 2025, was named a Mass

Media Fellow through the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and will work as a science journalist for the News and Observer in Raleigh, NC. As a PhD student in entomology at the University of Missouri, Luke studies the health of native bee populations in urban areas and how participating in community science projects changes people’s perception of nature. As an undergraduate at UGA, Luke studied philosophy and cognitive science while researching how ant colonies make collective decisions.

PIPER DUNCAN, Class of 2026, received a Queen’s

University Belfast Postgraduate Award to support her studies in international human rights law. At Queen’s, she will expand upon her previous studies of gender security, human rights, and conflict while pursing a Masters in Law, researching how legislation and policies affect women in

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conflict-afflicted communities. In Belfast, Piper hopes to work with local peace-building organizations addressing Northern Ireland’s history of conflict.

LUKE HENDRIX, Class of 2026, received the Nathan

Deal Scholarship to support his study at Mercer University School of Medicine, where he will pursue a career in internal medicine. The scholarship was established to support those who exemplify Mercer’s mission statement and have a strong commitment to rural medicine. After his medical training, Luke plans to return to his hometown of Jesup, Georgia to practice medicine with his father.

BRYCE KNOLL, Class of 2027, was among the record-

breaking 18 undergraduates at UGA named Boren Scholars this spring, landing UGA at No. 1 among top-performing institutions for Boren Awards. Bryce was awarded a Boren Scholarship to support his participation in a capstone year program to study Russian and complete an internship in Kazakhstan. He is majoring in Russian, linguistics, and Spanish.

MARIANNE LAMARCHE, Class of 2023, is an Erasmus

Mundus Scholar in a European Union dual master’s degree for language teaching in multicultural environments. Marianne studies French and English education at Åbo Akademi in Finland and Université Rennes 2 in France.

Marianne Lamarche

Amy Morales

Tenacity Murdie

She previously worked at the Paideia School in Atlanta, teaching French and Spanish, and taught English abroad for a year in Greece.

AMY MORALES, Class of 2026, was named a

Princeton in Latin America Fellow and will spend one year in Santa Bárbara, Honduras as an English Language Instructor at Honduras Independence Bilingual School. At UGA, Amy majored in business and minored in TESOL and Portuguese. In Honduras, she will teach English language arts, support extracurriculars, and collaborate with fellow educators. She looks forward to building lasting relationships with her students, becoming part of the local community, and helping students develop confidence in their own abilities.

TENACITY MURDIE, Class of 2025, was named an

NSF Graduate Research Fellow and is a recipient of the Next Generation Foresight Practitioners (NGFP) Fellowship. Completing a PhD in Applied Mathematics at Northwestern University as a Cabell Fellow, she strives to enhance our understanding of the natural world through the intersection of mathematics and ecology. At UGA, she conducted undergraduate research by mathematically modeling the interactive effects of food subsidies, predators, and pathogens on wildlife mortality.

ANNA RACHWALSKI, Class of 2026, has joined the

Budget Lab at Yale as a Tobin Center for Economic Policy Pre-Doctoral Fellow. The Budget Lab is a nonpartisan

Anna Rachwalski

Adam Starks

Erin Suh

policy research center providing in-depth analysis of federal policy proposals for the American economy. Anna develops microsimulation models that estimate the revenue, distributional, and macroeconomic effects of federal tax and transfer proposals for policymakers and the public. Having graduated with degrees in economics and political science, she advances the Lab’s mission of democratizing fiscal analysis.

ADAM STARKS, Class of 2025, was named a Yenching

Scholar to pursue a master’s degree in China studies with a concentration in literature and culture. In this two-year program, Adam will study at Peking University in Beijing and conduct fieldwork across China. Building upon his undergraduate studies at UGA in international affairs and music, he will research the preservation of music, folklore, and other cultural practices in the face of modernization, the role of culture within the promotion of civil and economic rights, and how national governments and local communities come together to meet these goals.

ERIN SUH, Class of 2026, received the Marcus L. Urann Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship to support her in pursuing an MD at Washington University in St. Louis. Her work spans cancer research at MD Anderson and the Siteman Cancer Center, health policy at the Greater New York Hospital Association, and nonprofit leadership with The Backpack Project. While at UGA, she studied abroad in Spain, Oxford, and Italy and served as concertmaster of the UGA Philharmonia Orchestra.

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ACADEMIC ENRICHMENT, SOCIAL & CULTURAL EVENTS Fellows explore an array of intellectual and professional topics at dinner seminars and book discussions with faculty and alumni throughout the year. In addition, the Fellowship sponsors attendance at campus conferences, lectures, and a wide range of cultural and social events throughout the year—including Wellness Week activities such as painting, kayaking, hiking, yoga, and pottery workshops; ice skating at the Classic Center in downtown Athens; productions at UGA’s Performing Arts Center, Town & Gown Theatre, and Canopy Aerial Dance Studio; Big/Little mentoring meals; and class breakfasts. Students also attend university events, including UGA football games, senior recitals, and Winter Wonderlights, held every winter at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia. This page, from top: Fellows painted the Arch at ARTini’s; Dr. Phillip Mote (FF ’11) and Dr. John Marshall (FF ’11) discuss their journeys in healthcare during a Fellows alumni talk; Fellows enjoy a cold night at Winter WonderLights at the State Botanical Garden; forks and napkins were used appropriately at the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences’ Networking Reception Training and Dinner Etiquette Session at the Georgia Center. Facing page, from top: Bianca Wilson (FF ’26) performs in an undergraduate recital with her faculty mentor, Dr. Milton Masciadri; the Class of 2028 cheers on the Dawgs in Sanford Stadium; the Fellowship hosts its first “Fellows at the Farm” at Washington Farms, complete with pumpkins and kettle corn.

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CREATIVE COMMUNITY

PREMIERING A ‘DUCK, DUCK’ JOURNEY Aidan Ventimiglia, above, a third-year Stamps Scholar and Foundation Fellow, created a semiautobiographical animated short film, “Duck, Duck,” which details the journey of an older sister and younger brother who relive the same day as the sister was set to move into her university dorm. Aidan began work on the film in 2024 and continued the project for over two years. The initial idea for the film came as he was finishing work on his previous film, “Every Night the Stars Disappear.” He began by drawing inspiration from the world around him, including his study-abroad semester in Italy, to create the initial storyboards. Aidan first conceived of “Duck, Duck” as a free-form conversation he was having with his sister.

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Over the next three semesters, Aidan storyboarded the film, created background paintings, and finalized both animation and writing. “UGA has an incredible filmmaking community,” he said. "I recorded all of the voice acting in the Grady podcasting studio, but I actually toured four different microphone studios that UGA has." Aidan was commissioned by Savage Interactive to create a trailer for the film, becoming the youngest person ever to receive this honor. He had used the Procreate Dreams 2 software designed by the company to make the film. On February 7, he premiered “Duck, Duck” at the Ciné theatre. To secure the venue and support

the premiere, Aidan was awarded funds from his Foundation Fellowship stipend and the Morehead Honors College. The premiere was attended by Fellows from across all cohorts. “The Honors College was super generous and allowed me to use my Foundation Fellowship stipend to host the premiere,” he said. “I organized it with Prof. Hackleman, and Dean Amstutz was a big help in planning everything.” Following the premiere, Aidan’s film was accepted into the 2026 Backlight Film Festival, where the film won awards for both Best Screenplay and Best Score. It was also included in the 2026 Athens Film Festival in August. —Dani García-Pozo

SENIORS SPEAK: MENTORS

“To those wondering if UGA has mentors for you, the answer is a resounding "Yes." Professor Hackleman was my legal studies professor before she began as director of the Foundation Fellowship, and she has provided invaluable support for me throughout college, helping me gain funding to study political theory in D.C., figure out that I was interested in intellectual property law, and discern what was next for me after college. Dean Amstutz encouraged me when I decided to study at Oxford a second time, helped me apply for my Fulbright grant, and showed me what it looks like to be a professor who is devoted to her students. ”

"Dr. Abhyuday Mandal has been my research mentor since my first semester of freshman year. Through his guidance and collaboration with CURO and the Major Scholarships Office, I’ve been able to pursue original undergraduate research all four years of college with financial support every semester. The guidance of Andrea Silletti, Meg Amstutz, Jessica Hunt, and Elizabeth Hughes has been instrumental for everything I have ever applied to, and I cannot contain my gratitude toward the Honors College for the support it has provided me in pursuing a research career. ”

“Some of the most valuable mentorship I’ve received has come through the Fellowship. Whether speaking with older Fellows, alumni, Professor Hackleman, or Honors faculty, I’ve always trusted the guidance I’ve been given. That support has ranged from navigating major life decisions to simple but meaningful advice, like restaurant recommendations in a new city. Having access to such a thoughtful and invested network has made a lasting impact on my college experience. ”

"My bass professor, Dr. Masciadri, had never even assumed the title of "mentor." He just made it clear that he was in my corner, unconditionally, from the very first time that he heard me play. He's connected me with his colleagues, listened to my audition recordings outside of school hours, and offered me so many resources to better my playing. Foundation Fellow mentors see the potential of the students in this fellowship and work hard to develop it, not for their own sake, but for ours. I owe so many of my accomplishments to my mentor, and his advice from his own life experiences has guided me toward success. ”

WIDENER NORRIS

SLOKA SUDHIN

MAGGIE OPSAHL

BIANCA WILSON

Class of 2026 | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Class of 2026 | Mathematics, Data Science

Class of 2026 | Computer Science, Mathematics

Class of 2026 | Music, Cognitive Science

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INTERNSHIPS

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

INTERNSHIPS

students participated in

$60,882

The Foundation Fellowship awarded $60,882 in support of students pursuing internships this year.

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11 36 44 7

internships

virtual in Georgia out of state international

INTERNSHIP:

REPORTING ON THE WORLD CUP “My childhood dream came true this past month,” Jack Little shared on LinkedIn as the 2026 FIFA World Cup came to a close. Jack, a fourth-year Foundation Fellow majoring in journalism, was one of 24 University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication students honing their skills at the world’s largest sporting event, the FIFA World Cup. As credentialed journalists, the students published photos, videos, blogs, and stories for two of the largest media organizations in the country: USA Today and the Associated Press. Grady College students covered three knockout-round matches and 18 group play matches in Miami; Vancouver, British Columbia; Mexico City; Seattle; and Monterrey, Mexico. Each group was accompanied by a Grady College professor who served as a mentor and liaison with the media outlets during the three-week program. “I was fully credentialed media at four matches at the World Cup, including the tournament’s opening match between Mexico and South Africa and Mexico’s Round of 32 bout with Ecuador,” Jack said. “I wrote post-game feature articles, produced social media short-form content, and updated the Associated Press’s live blog during games, all from Mexico City. I participated in MD-1 press conferences, including the opening press conference for FIFA president Gianni Infantino, as well as post-game mixed zones with players.” Vicki Michaelis, the John Huland Carmical Chair in Sports Journalism and Society, says this was the most ambitious project the Carmical Sports Media Institute has undertaken. Supported by the Carmical Foundation, the institute provided funds for lodging and ground transportation. “A huge thank you goes out to Carlo Finlay (assistant director of the Carmical Sports Media Institute) and the Carmical Sports Media Institute at UGA,” Jack said. In total, the 18 students assigned to write produced more than 150 clips published worldwide. The six photojournalism students filed more than 15,077 images. Nearly 344 images were sent on the AP wire around the world. Once the students were selected, they were enrolled in a sports media class where they immersed themselves in soccer, studying World Cup traditions, researching players and teams, and writing case studies about the sport. Like all other credentialed journalists, the students asked questions during press conferences and covered matches from press boxes and press tribunes. “As a soccer-obsessed kid who spent way too much time playing FIFA, it was surreal to see, speak with, and even interview some of the players I adored like Guillermo Ochoa (Mexico’s goalkeeper who retired at the end of the World Cup) and Fabio Cannavaro (head coach of the Uzbekistan national soccer team),” Jack said. —Sarah Freeman & Stephanie Schupska

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INTERNSHIPS

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INTERNSHIPS Several Foundation Fellows worked in Washington, D.C., this summer through the Honors in Washington internship program. A few of them are featured here. This page: Anna Grace Aiello joined a Masters rowing club in Washington, D.C., rising before the sun to exercise on the Anacostia River. Through the experience, she connected with federal judges, Georgetown professors, government attorneys, former nationally and internationally competitive athletes, and a UGA alum. Facing page, left to right from top: Sophia Nguyen posed in front of her favorite car at the National Museum of American History, where she worked this summer; Aarov Malhotra spent his summer as an intern with FTI Consulting’s Center for Health Economics and Policy; Anna Grace Aiello, center, filled her summer with two internships, the first at Dentons, LLP with UGA alumnus Randy Nuckolls and the second with the Library of Congress; and Bryce Knoll worked as a student assessment intern for the American Councils for International Education.

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INTERNSHIPS

This page, left to right from top: Aarov Malhotra and Shriya Garg, with CURO Honors Scholar Eniola Badejo, attended Harvard University’s Summer Venture in Management Program; Gwyneth Solomon interned with the office of the Honorable Judge Walmsley at the Chatham County Superior Court; and Vaughn Frost worked as a propulsion intern for NASA.

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Facing page, left to right from top: Harshil Joshi worked for Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center for Innovation in Care Delivery; Gabe Alemayehu interned as an investment banking sophomore summer analyst for J.P. Morgan; Pablo Ashi worked with the Greater New York Hospital Association with Honors student Ava Godbey through the Honors in New York program; and Shriya Garg spent her summer as a healthcare intern for Arnold Ventures, a philanthropic organization designed to support health policy research.

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UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH

FOUNDATION FELLOWS EXPLORE THEIR

RESEARCH INTERESTS Guided by their research mentors, Foundation Fellows 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

conferences

12 in Georgia 33 out of state 5 international

$13,900

The Foundation Fellowship office awarded $13,900 in support of conference attendance this year.

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PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

students participated in

16 publications 29 presentations 23 CURO presentations

$1,930

The Foundation Fellowship office awarded $1,930 in support of undergraduate research this year.

RESEARCH:

SKYFALL SPACE Grant Baumann, left, and fellow University of Georgia mechanical engineering student Benjamin Pumphrey teamed up with 14 students from universities nationwide to develop technology to tackle the growing threat of space debris. Their project: Skyfall Space. It started with a proposal. Benjamin presented NASA staff with a bold pitch in summer 2023: use a shoebox-sized satellite with a deployable net to capture space debris. The idea won a $10,000 NASA seed grant from the Marshall Space Flight Center. Grant serves as the team’s principal investigator. Benjamin is the team’s lead engineer for technical development, focusing on systems engineering and other technical aspects. The threat of space debris or “space junk” is real and accelerating. The debris are remains from old satellites, scientific experiments, and military tests. The risk of junk colliding with operational spacecraft grows as satellites launch into orbit every day. Space debris about the size of a credit card can cause damage that looks like it was made by a car. “Even tiny pieces of shrapnel will rip through multi-million-dollar equipment like it’s a piece of paper,” said Grant, a Foundation Fellow and Stamps Scholar. When two pieces of debris collide at high speeds, they fragment further and potentially create a cascade that can render entire orbital zones unusable for GPS, military, and weather satellites. Skyfall Space targets a critical gap: mediumsized debris, roughly 10 centimeters to a meter in diameter. In early 2025, Skyfall Space secured a second NASA seed grant to further develop the net capture mechanism. Grant’s and Benjamin’s training ground has been the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences’ and College of Engineering’s Small Satellite Research Lab, a student-faculty collaboration that develops and builds miniature research satellites. They joined as first-year students, working on a computational imaging satellite for the U.S. Air Force Research Lab. The experience prepared them for Skyfall Space’s technical challenges. Grant and Benjamin graduated from the College of Engineering this spring, but they aren’t finished with Skyfall Space yet. The project needs more funding to build the satellite and test the net deployment system in space. It’s the kind of ambitious, boundary-pushing work that has defined their college experience. —Hannah Gallant

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SENIORS SPEAK: UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH

“Last summer, I completed a research internship at Georgia State University’s Department of Geosciences through an NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates Program. There, I conducted communityengaged research on housing inequality in a neighborhood of Atlanta called Peoplestown. Not only was I able to develop my geographic research skills, but I also had the chance to work directly with community activists and leaders, and to better understand how scholarly inquiry can be directed to address problems relevant to the communities in which our universities are situated. ”

BENEN CHANCEY

Class of 2026 | Geography, Romance Languages

The access to research opportunities I received as a Fellow completely changed the course of my academic and professional life. I entered college hoping to pursue research as a complement to clinical veterinary training, until I dove into my first project and realized I wanted nothing else than to do evolutionary ecology research for the rest of my life. With the support of the Fellowship, I’ve traveled and presented at national and international conferences, traveled for field work, applied for and won major research scholarships such as the Goldwater, and even planned and executed my own independent research projects working in conjunction with biologists abroad. ”

“Undergraduate research deeply enhanced my academic experience in college. It allowed me to explore the public health questions that interested me most and provided insight into the concepts I learned in my coursework. The skills I gained through my projects will continue to serve me in medical school and beyond. ”

ANDERSON SMITH

BEMNET BEKELE

Class of 2026 | Ecology

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Class of 2026 | Biology

“My research mentor jokingly called me betterfunded than any of her graduate students, but it really is ridiculous the amount of flexibility that having funding gives you. I got to present research and attend real conferences as early as my freshman year, experiences that hiring managers have said directly translate to employment. I’ve built a real career in research upon the opportunities and optionality I’ve been awarded in the Fellowship. ”

ANNA RACHWALSKI

Class of 2026 | Economics, Political Science

“Faculty mentors at UGA form an incredibly expansive and accessible network. As a freshman, I worked with Dr. Lance Wells at the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center to study dystroglycanopathies. Through the Foundation Fellowship, I’ve been able to extend that network nationally—conducting cancer research at the Siteman Cancer Center and MD Anderson, and exploring the diverse, dynamic healthcare landscape of NYC through the Honors College’s partnership with the Greater New York Hospital Association. ”

“I worked for two years at the Center for Computational Chemistry, where I studied phosphatetrahedrane and worked to map its potential energy surface. Grateful for my dry lab work but wanting to see what life was like at the research bench, I worked for three semesters at the Center for Vaccines and Immunology, studying how the immune system responds to different protein antigens on the viral surface of flu. UGA provided financial support for my research and gave me the chance to present and publish my work. Professors at UGA don’t look at undergraduates like they have a third eye when they ask about research; all of the faculty I’ve interacted with were genuinely excited to have undergraduates in their labs. ”

ERIN SUH

WIDENER NORRIS

Class of 2026 | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Photos from top: Bemnet Bekele studied vaccine intent with Dr. John Drake, right, and Dr. Michael Cacciatore; Benen Chancey spoke on his research on the Blues and Capoeira epistemologies that he conducted with Dr. Cecília Rodrigues; and Anna Rachwalski gathered with members of the Crisis Communication Think Tank, led by Dr. Yan Jin.

Class of 2026 | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

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UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH

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Facing page, left to right from top: Rowan Starr studies water issues in the Southeast U.S. during a field program in ecological problem solving; Widener Norris conducts research with Dr. Mark Tompkins in the Center for Vaccines and Immunology; Ashaar Bakshi shadows physicians at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta; Phillip Salzinger conducts field research on gray catbirds in coastal New Jersey; Pablo Ashi presents research at the Harvard National Collegiate Research Conference. This page, left to right from top: Shivani Yadavalli shares her research at the CURO Symposium; Karthik Kuppuswamy presents his healthcare policy proposal at the Arch Policy Institute’s capstone event; Sophia Nguyen wins best paper in public and international affairs at the CURO Symposium; Selina Sun presents her research at the Academic Surgical Congress; Erin Howard attends and presents her research at the Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference 2026 in Pacific Grove, California; Ava Stillwagon shares research at the CURO Symposium; and Hadiza Sarr and her team take first place in the Atlanta Innovation Cup, pitching their startup idea TERA at the Avant South conference.

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SERVICE

OPPORTUNITY & ACCESS

Jhaycee Barnes on mentoring, SGA & the Stargirl Diaries Jhaycee Barnes is not one to shy away from opportunity — she’s often pursuing exposure to new mentor relationships and chances to try new things. “If I’m exposed to it, if others are exposed to it, you notice that thing as a possibility,” Jhaycee said. “My whole overarching thing is opportunity and access.” In January, Jhaycee received the President’s Fulfilling the Dream Award at the 22nd Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Breakfast. The award is given to individuals in the UGA and Athens-Clarke County communities who are working to make Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream a reality. Jhaycee studied economics and political science, with a minor in Spanish. As a senior in high school, she wanted to apply to UGA and the Foundation Fellowship. While she hadn’t taken an official campus tour, she was familiar with the area, having visited in the past through her involvement with 4-H. “I came here for the interview weekend, and it was the most lifechanging experience,” Jhaycee said. “Everything that I wanted out of the college experience was here at UGA through that Fellowship.” She served as a campus tour guide through the UGA Visitors Center. She joined the Student Government Association her freshman year, later becoming the director of First-Year Senate. Her senior year, she was SGA vice president. In that role, Jhaycee did a lot of meeting and managing. She and the other SGA executives worked across campus every day to address concerns students raise. Jhaycee said she appreciated that even students she didn’t know well felt comfortable reaching out to her about ways they’d like to see campus life improved. Additionally, she oversaw both the Professional Clothing Closet and the Fresh Express Food Pantry. Jhaycee is also a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., where she served as financial secretary and chair of the economic development committee. She is a DST legacy, and several of her

Jhaycee Barnes, shown filming a video, began The Stargirl Diaries to provide guidance to other college students navigating internships and the professional world.

mentors were also members, which inspired her to join the chapter. “I just felt welcome from day one,” Jhaycee said. Jhaycee uses one of her projects — The Stargirl Diaries — to give tips and guidance about basics of the corporate world. Inspired by her time interning in 2025, she teaches her more than 4,000 Instagram and 3,000 TikTok followers key lessons like how to send a professional email, network, and make small talk. She plans to continue The Stargirl Diaries long term as a platform to mentor students in internships and their early careers. “I wanted to see more content online about people navigating internships,” Jhaycee said. “I never had that exposure to the corporate world, so I basically created that platform to teach people.” Be it through The Stargirl Diaries or other personal relationships, Jhaycee is a big proponent of mentorship. “If I hadn’t had mentors, I wouldn’t

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have joined the clubs that I did, and I wouldn’t have taken the classes that I did,” Jhaycee said. “You can only learn so much on your own. I think a lot of knowledge comes from other people.” Coming from the small town of Griffin, Jhaycee says she didn’t see many people going off to college and doing big things. She credits her family with providing her key support to get to where she is today. Both of her parents are educators. “They were really focused early on exposing me to as much opportunity as they could,” she said. “From an early age, they really instilled in me that if you put in a good effort, and that thing is meant for you, everything is going to work out.” After graduating this May, Jhaycee moved to Chicago to pursue a career in management consulting. Down the line, she hopes to continue doing strategy work, looking at big ideas for innovation and progress. —Allison Mawn

A POLICY OF PURPOSE

SERVICE

Shriya Garg’s passion comes from the power of personal experience. A Foundation Fellow and Stamps Scholar, Shriya grew up as the daughter of two physician parents. She knew friends and neighbors who struggled to navigate the healthcare system. “I have seen what it’s like from a patient’s perspective not to have access to healthcare,” she says. Seeing those gaps in access and affordability shaped her desire to help make care more accessible and sustainable for those who need it most. Those experiences also sparked her resolve to help people through clinical care and health policy. At UGA, Shriya is majoring in genetics and economics. After graduating, she plans to get a medical degree while also earning a master’s in business or public policy. Shriya describes herself as a generalist with a curiosity for learning new topics. She immerses herself in initiatives such as student government and local policy advocacy. As a freshman, the opportunity to make changes took on a new focus as Shriya became more aware of the importance of mental health support on campus. As a first-year senator in the Student Government Association, she proposed a simple idea: adding 988 and other emergency resource numbers to the back of UGA student ID cards. “It’s just making people aware and giving people access to healthcare resources that they often need,” she says. Shriya worked with campus administrators to ensure that new and replacement ID cards also included the updated crisis information. Shriya’s policy experience spans beyond campus. She served as the co-executive director of the Arch Policy Institute, a student-led, nonpartisan think tank. Through projects focused on healthcare access, digital disparities, and other community issues, she experienced the challenges of navigating real-world policy. In spring 2026, Shriya interned at a Washington, D.C., think tank where she worked on healthcare finance systems and payment reform. Shriya’s college experience is defined by more than serious policy proposals and implementations. Before outlining recommendations or meeting with university administrators, she might go to a coffee shop with friends, play tennis, or go thrifting. These everyday moments reveal the easygoing person behind the driven, policy-minded student leader. Her UGA experiences—whether advocating for mental health resources or researching payment reform—have laid the groundwork for Shriya’s approach to working with others. For Shriya, meaningful change often begins with curiosity, compassion, and the willingness not only to ask a simple question but also to follow through. —Rebecca McAdam UGA FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP // ANNUAL REPORT 2026

STAMPS SCHOLARS

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This spring, Foundation Fellows and Stamps Scholars Gabriel Alemayehu, Karthik Kuppuswamy, and Erin Suh served taco bowls to approximately 40 individuals at Bigger Vision of Athens, a nonprofit shelter serving people in Athens experiencing homelessness. Through the Stamps Day of Service, 12 Foundation Fellows and Stamps Scholars prepared taco bowls from scratch.

STAMPS SCHOLARS AT UGA Since 2011, the Foundation Fellowship has been a proud partner of the Stamps Scholars Program, which awards generous multi-year scholarships nationwide with additional enrichment funds for students to use toward their academic and professional development. UGA Stamps Scholars are part of a larger Stamps network of 34 institutions across the United States with more than 2,700 current scholars and alumni around the world. “Twenty years ago, Penny and I imagined a partnership with great universities which would enable some of the world’s brightest and most driven young men and women to move closer to their life’s objectives,” said E. Roe Stamps, benefactor of the Stamps Scholars Program. “Seeing how this community has grown, and what our Scholars have accomplished, is one of the greatest joys of my life. I am honored to welcome our 20th class and excited to support their journeys.” From each year’s class of Foundation Fellows, six students are nominated to interview for the Stamps Scholarship. In

addition, six second-year Honors students are nominated each year as “walk-on” Stamps Scholars through the Mid-Term Foundation Fellowship selection process. In 2025-2026, Stamps Scholars at UGA learned to make pasta from scratch, above left, during a Stamps Spirit Fund event held at Athens Cooks. They topped their handmade pasta with a creamy oyster mushroom sauce. Stamps Scholars assisted the Athens community through two service events. In the fall, above right, Stamps Scholars put together care packages with food and toiletries for unhoused people. They then distributed them in downtown Athens. In March, UGA Stamps Scholars and Foundation Fellows partnered with UGA Cooks for a Cause and Bigger Vision of Athens to host the Spring 2026 Stamps Day of Service. In April, the 2026 CURO Symposium brought together Stamps Scholars from across the country for a day of research, collaboration, and community building, below left.

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Global

TravelerS

INDIVIDUAL TRAVEL-STUDY

The Foundation Fellows office awarded $292,456 in support of individual travel for 2025-2026.

Kiefer Adams: Atlanta, Georgia Gabriel Alemayehu: Cambodia; Indonesia; Thailand; Vietnam Patrick Allen: Cambodia; Indonesia; Thailand; Vietnam Sara Amou: Morocco; Nashville, Tennessee Pablo Ashi: Ecuador; Japan; Boston, Massachusetts; New York City, New York Audrey Bagot: England; Greece; Spain; Switzerland Ashaar Bakshi: Australia; Japan; New Zealand Jhaycee Barnes: Portugal; Chicago, Illinois Grant Baumann: Belgium; Japan; Spain; Switzerland Bemnet Bekele: Thailand; Cleveland, Ohio; San Antonio, Texas Abigail Bias: Peru; Tallahassee, Florida Rayna Carter: Australia; New Zealand; Clemson, South Carolina Laila Carter: France; Japan; New York City, New York Benen Chancey: Lexington, Kentucky; San Francisco, California

Elle Cookson: Costa Rica; Phippsburg, Maine; New York City, New York; Boston, Massachusetts Becker Curry: Austria; Czechia; England; Italy; Slovenia; Spain; Switzerland; Breckenridge, Colorado; St. Petersburg, Florida Bella Delgado: St. Petersburg, Florida Piper Duncan: New Orleans, Louisiana Liam Evans: Rwanda Parker Ferrer: Peoria, Illinois Abigail Flanegan: France Julia Gardner: Albania Shriya Garg: Boston, Massachusetts; Charlotte, North Carolina; New York City, New York; Washington, D.C. Diya Garrepally: Japan; Greensboro, Alabama; Houston, Texas Anita Gorman: England Jaabili Gosukonda: San Francisco, California; Seattle, Washington Emma Haddon: Greece; Switzerland Britton Hare: Chicago, Illinois; Louisville, Kentucky

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Luke Hendrix: Spain; Springdale, Utah Erin Howard: Costa Rica; Crescent City, California ; Portland, Oregon Nikita Jha: Brazil; Greece; Chicago, Illinois; New York City, New York Ella Johnson: England; Scotland; Wales Kate Johnson: England; Hungary Hannah Jones: Kailua-Kona, Hawai’i Chinmay Joshi: St. Louis, Missouri Harshil Joshi: Estonia; Germany; Finland; Sweden Bryce Knoll: Argentina; Chile; Uruguay; Washington, D.C. Karthik Kuppuswamy: Austria; Belgium; Czechia; Italy; Netherlands Krish Leveille: Japan Nate Levy: Boston, Massachusetts; New York City, New York; Cambodia; Indonesia; Thailand; Vietnam Jack Little: Sacramento, California; Costa Rica; Mexico Madison Lowe: England; Greece; Spain; Switzerland Robie Lucas: Italy; New York City, New York; Washington, D.C.

Deborah Madden: Baltimore, Maryland Aarov Malhotra: Denver, Colorado; Washington, D.C. Ava Marcus: Austria; Cambodia; Czechia; Hungary; Italy; Switzerland; Thailand; Vietnam; San Francisco, California; Seattle, Washington Liam Martin: England; Germany; Greece; Portugal; Switzerland Tiffani McClain: Japan Claire McDonald: Dominica; Spain Erin Monroe: Greece; Orlando, Florida Amy Morales: Mexico

Julianna Morelli: Colombia; Ecuador; Peru; San Antonio, Texas Luke Netto: Belgium; Denmark; England; France; Germany; Ireland; Italy; Netherlands; Norway; Portugal; Sweden; Switzerland; Vatican City Sophia Nguyen: Denmark; Morocco; South Korea; Sweden; Baltimore, Maryland; Boston, Massachusetts; Washington, D.C. Trang Nguyen: Canada; Denmark; France; Germany; Hungary; Italy; Netherlands; Spain; Switzerland; Vietnam; Chicago, Illinois; Boise, Idaho; Los Angeles; California; Monterey, California; San Francisco, California; Santa Barbara, California; Twin Falls, Idaho Widener Norris: Greece Maggie Opsahl: Mexico; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Durango, Colorado; Jacksonville, Florida; Nashville, Tennessee; Orlando, Florida; Santa Fe, New Mexico

MJ Pitt: France; Hungary; Morocco; Netherlands; Ireland; Italy; Spain; Washington, D.C. Ava Quarles: France; Italy; Spain; Thailand; Vietnam; Ann Arbor, Michigan; Calabash, North Carolina; Charlottesville, Virginia; New York City, New York; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Williamsburg, Virginia Anna Rachwalski: Netherlands; Palo Alto, California; Washington, D.C. Avery Roark: France; Germany; Greece; Switzerland Phillip Salzinger: Costa Rica; Ecuador; Seattle, Washington Hadiza Sarr: Greece Anderson Smith: Argentina; Uruguay Gwyneth Solomon: Savannah, Georgia Kyle Ssendagire: Armenia; Georgia; Hungary; Poland; Slovakia Rowan Starr: France; Atlanta, Georgia; Apalachicola, Florida;

Columbus, Georgia; Tallahassee, Florida; Troy, Alabama Charlie Stout: Spain; Springdale, Utah Sloka Sudhin: Argentina; Dominica; Uruguay Erin Suh: England; France; Greece; Italy; Boston, Massachusetts; New York City, New York Selina Sun: Singapore; Bolton Landing, New York; New York City, New York; Orlando, Florida Lauren Thacker: France; Malta; Morocco; Switzerland; Washington, D.C. Lily Thomas: Japan Wyn Thomas: Montgomery, Alabama; New York City, New York Iziq Thomas: Cambodia; Croatia; Indonesia; Ireland; Thailand; Vietnam Henry Traynor: Kenya; Spain Aidan Ventimiglia: Denmark; Germany; Freeport, Maine Callie Viktora: Baltimore, Maryland; Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Natalie Wallace: Austria; Belgium; Czechia; Italy Aerica Worrell: Austria; Netherlands; Hungary; Arlington, Virginia; Nashville, Tennessee Andy Wyatt: England; France; Greece; Ireland; Italy; Netherlands Sophia Zhao: Cambodia; Thailand; Vietnam; San Francisco, California; Seattle, Washington Jonathon Ziegelbien: Czechia; Dominican Republic; England; Italy; Mexico; Netherlands; Spain; Fayetteville, Arkansas; Kansas City, Kansas; New Orleans, Louisiana; New York City, New York Ayla Zomermaand: Netherlands; St. Petersburg, Florida

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INDIVIDUAL TRAVEL-STUDY

This page: Foundation Fellows Diya Garrepally, Tiffani McClain, Ashaar Bakshi, Pablo Ashi, Laila Carter, and Krish Leveille walk through the Arashiyama Bamboo Forest in Kyoto, Japan. Facing page, left to right from top: Erin Howard and Phillip Salzinger hike in Costa Rica; Selina Sun wears a traditional hanbok at Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul, South Korea; Kate Johnson visits the Hungarian Parliament Building in Budapest, Hungary; Lauren Thacker poses by the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France; Pablo Ashi stands in front of the Cotopaxi Volcano in Ecuador’s Cotopaxi National Park; Aerica Worrell enjoys a stroopwafel during a visit to Amsterdam, Budapest, and Vienna; Callie Viktora explores the Badlands National Park in South Dakota; and Elle Cookson ziplines in La Fortuna, Costa Rica.

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SENIORS SPEAK: TRAVEL-STUDY

“Before I became a Foundation Fellow, I had never left the country. Upon graduating, I’ve been to 5 different continents. I’ve swam with turtles in the Great Barrier Reef, discussed Jane Austen in an Oxford tutorial, rode a camel in the Sahara, prayed with monks at thousand-year-old temples in South Korea, and walked the canals of Amsterdam back to my hotel from an invite-only research conference. I can’t believe that I did it all without spending a dime. ”

“The Fellowship’s travel stipend transformed my experience at UGA: I visited eight different countries across three continents thanks to the generous support from the Honors College. Backpacking in Costa Rica remains the most invigorating experience. I marveled at clouds slowly crawling up forested hills and subsequently felt their precipitation for hours on end. The unusual flora struck me with awe; the plants looked like they belonged more in imagination than reality. During that week, I learned from my local guide about the various reforestation strategies Costa Rica has enacted. That casual education has directly motivated my career decisions and the work I do now. ”

“Before joining the Foundation Fellowship, I had never left the country. Now thanks to the Fellowship and other incredible programs at UGA, I’ve had the chance to visit over a dozen countries! Seeing the beautiful landscapes in Iceland was unlike anything I had ever seen. Living and traveling in Europe broadened my horizons in ways I couldn’t imagine before! Travel through the fellowship has truly changed my life. ”

“I consider the Foundation Fellowship to be the greatest gift to my education—and perhaps even my life—because it gave me the freedom to say “Yes!” to my wildest dreams. “Yes!” to stargazing in the Sahara, chasing the Northern Lights and scaling glaciers in Iceland, spinning coconut boats in Vietnam (to my dear friends, Fellows Niki and Erin M.’s delight—and my own terrible nausea), stomping flamenco and teaching English in Spain, and afternoon tea in England. ”

ANNA RACHWALSKI

ANDY WYATT

GRANT BAUMANN

ERIN SUH

Class of 2026 | Economics, Political Science

Class of 2026 | Political Science, Public Relations

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Class of 2026 | Mechanical Engineering

Class of 2026 | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

“The Fellowship taught me that to truly love and appreciate a place like home, you need to see what else is out there. After the Maymester in Oxford, a fire for travel and exploration was lit. Throughout my time in the fellowship, I have traveled to many parts of the world, with the Fellowship and independently. Nothing could have prepared me for the awesomeness of the opportunities presented through this organization, and I will be forever grateful. My newfound desire to travel has gotten nothing but stronger, and I look forward to seeing what new experiences will be made possible by the groundwork the Foundation Fellowship has laid. ”

“The Fellowship gave me the support to pursue travel-study across the globe. I was able to visit the UK, Taiwan, Brazil, India, Iceland, Singapore, and Thailand. Each of these experiences gave me a new perspective on the world and my place in it. I spent nearly half of my time in college abroad, meeting people with infinitely diverse backgrounds, developing independence and resilience, and gaining a clearer picture of the future I want to pursue. ”

“Through the Foundation Fellowship, I spent a semester abroad in Oxford. There, I was able to challenge myself with familiar topics in tutorials on galaxies and Roman culture; I also tried my hand at unfamiliar coursework when I read James Joyce’s Ulysses for a modernist literature class. I made new friends, joined the Keble College novice rowing team, and was really able to make Oxford feel like home for a few months. I still maintain that this study abroad is one of the best things I’ve ever done, and it wouldn’t have been possible without the Fellowship’s supportive and encouraging community. ”

LUKE HENDRIX

BENEN CHANCEY

ANITA GORMAN

Class of 2026 | Biological Science

Class of 2026 | Geography, Romance Languages

Class of 2026 | Physics & Astronomy, Physics

“Without the Fellowship, I would have never had the opportunity to move to New Zealand to work at the Human Rights Measurement Initiative. That semester, I had the opportunity to work with human rights defenders from across the world, getting hands on experience with an NGO. More than the work, I also had the opportunity to travel around New Zealand, where I experienced the country’s breathtaking nature, interesting wildlife, and incredible people. Living solo in New Zealand gave me the confidence to pursue education and a career abroad, which I likely never would have been brave enough to do without the Fellowship’s help. ”

PIPER DUNCAN

Class of 2026 | International Affairs, Master of International Policy

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SPRING TRAVEL

New York & Washington, D.C. Led by Dr. Meg Amstutz, dean of the Morehead Honors College, and Tricia Hackleman, director of the Foundation Fellowship, the first-year Foundation Fellows explored New York City and Washington, D.C., two of the nation’s most important cities. Highlights of the trip included a discussion with Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., in the Courtroom at the Supreme Court of the United States and a visit to the Spotify corporate office at the World Trade Center hosted by Foundation Fellow alumna Ashley Lott and UGA alumnus Mark Rush. Fellows also toured Lower Manhattan with a local tour guide, visited Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty, saw “Hadestown” on Broadway, and enjoyed a guided tour at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Kevin Schatell, UGA alumnus and associate plaza producer at the TODAY Show, coordinated an early morning visit to the TODAY Show plaza. Fellows also visited D.C.’s monuments, toured the Library of Congress and the U.S. Capitol, and enjoyed several Smithsonian museums. In each city, Fellows enjoyed the opportunity to meet with Foundation Fellow alumni.

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SPRING TRAVEL

ECUADOR Led by Dr. Sonia Hernandez, professor in the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, and supported by Andrea Silletti, CURO program coordinator, Fellows traveled to Ecuador. Their trip began at Siempre Verde, an ecological reserve within the Andean cloud forest owned by the Lovett School in Atlanta. While there, Fellows spent their days hiking and exploring the forest, rivers, and waterfalls of the Ecuadoran highlands. They also had the opportunity to experience local culture and cuisine (including making passion fruit ice cream) in the nearby town of Santa Rosa. In the evening, the group shared family-style dinners by candlelight at the lodge, followed by games around the fireplace. After leaving Siempre Verde, they enjoyed a rainy day at the market in Otavalo and an impromptu Latin dance lesson from Dr. Hernandez. A stop at the equator, a night at the hot springs in Papallacta, and a day spent in the capitol city, Quito, rounded out the amazing trip.

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SPRING TRAVEL

ICELAND Fellows traveled to Iceland for the second consecutive year for a learning experience centered on sustainability, geology, and Nordic culture. Led by Dr. Thomas Mote, associate vice president for instruction and Distinguished Research professor in geography in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, and supported by Debbie Daniel, Honors director of development, the trip brought together Fellows from a wide range of disciplines, including engineering, biology, economics, journalism, mathematics, and international affairs. Traveling along Iceland’s southern coast and through Reykjavík, Fellows explored some of the country’s most distinctive landscapes and geological landmarks. Highlights included visits to the Blue Lagoon geothermal spa near Grindavík, the Golden Circle, Þingvellir National Park, Gullfoss waterfall, Reynisfjara black sand beach, Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon, and Vatnajökull National Park. At the Friðheimar tomato farm, they learned how Iceland harnesses geothermal energy to support sustainable agriculture and yearround food production. At a guided exploration of the Kalta Ice Cave beneath the Kötlujökull glacier, Fellows experienced Iceland’s glacial environment while learning about volcanic and glacial activity unique to the region. The program concluded with a tour of Reykjavík, where students explored Iceland’s cultural and political capital through visits to historic landmarks, museums, and the city’s harbor district.

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MOROCCO Led by Tim Samples, professor of legal studies in Terry College of Business, and supported by Sarah Dove, advisor in the Honors College, the Fellows traveled to beautiful southern Morocco to explore the religion, culture, and cuisine of Northern Africa. In Marrakech, Fellows learned about the history and religion of Morocco at the Koutoubia Mosque and the Bahia Palace and practiced their bartering skills in the spice markets and the traditional souks in the center of the city. Heading over the Atlas Mountains, Fellows learned about the history of trade and travel in the Sahara Desert before climbing onto camels to ride over some dunes themselves. Fellows were also able to engage in cultural exchange with Moroccan students, were invited to experience Iftar (the meal after sunset during Ramadan) with their host families, and learned to cook traditional Moroccan meals. Throughout the journey, the group gained deeper appreciation of Moroccan history, culture, and landscape. UGA FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP // ANNUAL REPORT 2026

OXFORD MAYMESTER

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD First-year students share highlights of their time at the University of Oxford below. Ayla Zomermaand ’29 "The month-long excursion to Oxford each cohort undertakes may be one of the most valuable experiences the Fellowship provides. Making unforgettable memories with my friends, studying in an academic environment that motivates you to push yourself, and adopting a global perspective so early in my life are just a few of the reasons I’m so grateful for our time studying abroad." Grayson Rosenblad ’29 "I’m a proponent of the idea that the location of your studies doesn’t necessarily matter. That all flies out the window in Oxford. Being surrounded by foundational literature, iconic architecture, and a culture of research leads one to almost a sense of reverence and respect for knowledge that can arguably not be garnered anywhere else in the world. Also, sticky toffee pudding will change your life." Shivani Yadavalli ’29 "Studying in Oxford was an amazing experience that I will always be grateful for. Whether discussing biomedical ethics, hiking in Cornwall, or exploring Oxford’s many colleges, I gained new perspectives, formed lasting memories, and bonded with my classmates." Karthik Kuppuswamy ’29 "The opportunity to study at Oxford was a remarkable experience, both culturally and academically. Small instructional groups ensured that your perspectives were constantly challenged, and discussions were consistently engaging and rigorous. Beyond that, navigating another country with friends and forming new relationships with Oxford students was very fulfilling, and I anticipate keeping many of those friendships for a lifetime."

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LISA ANN COOLE AWARD

Erin Suh and Widener Norris, center, were presented with the 2026 Lisa Ann Coole Award by Meg Amstutz, dean of the Morehead Honors College, and Tricia Jonas Hackleman, director of the Foundation Fellowship.

SENIORS WIDENER NORRIS & ERIN SUH HONORED WITH LISA ANN COOLE AWARD The Foundation Fellows Class of 2026 chose Widener Norris and Erin Suh as this year’s recipients of the Lisa Ann Coole Award. The award was established in 1999 to honor Lisa Ann Coole’s memory and to inspire Foundation Fellows to translate into their lives the compassion, joy, courage, and excellence that defined Lisa’s presence in the Fellowship, at UGA, and in her communities both in Georgia and in Illinois. Lisa was an extraordinary person. 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 All-American swimmer, won two NCAA titles, and was selected as the 1997 NCAA Woman of the Year. Lisa had just completed her first year of veterinary medicine at the University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign 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. Widener and Erin both graduated with bachelor’s degrees in biochemistry and molecular biology. Widener is now teaching in southern Taiwan as a Fulbright English teaching assistant. Erin is in her first semester of medical school at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Their classmates share their appreciation below:

WIDENER NORRIS

“Widener memorized every single Fellow’s name at Interview Weekend before meeting them. I’ve never met someone who endeavors to treat others more with grace, care, and

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kindness than Widener does.” “Widener can strike up a conversation about just about anything with just about anyone! He opens his home to us, treats us like family, and has been the glue of our class since day one. A huge shout out to the Norris family for raising such an incredible human being!” “Widener is the perfect Fellow. He possesses a strong curiosity about the world, an infectious passion (especially for the U.S. Constitution), and genuine care and love for those around him.” “I once met a student at the Athens Jail. They couldn’t stop raving about how much they LOVED their tutor, Widener. Just weeks later, that person had passed their GED exam, largely thanks to Widener’s efforts. While Widener’s vibrance and exuberance may not scream modesty, his service does: behind the scenes, yet impactful.”

LISA ANN COOLE AWARD “If Widener wanted the spotlight, he could have it in an instant. He is whip-smart and talented beyond measure, whether in the lab inoculating mice against the flu or working with actual law students reviewing university patents. In fact, he deserves the spotlight more than most of us—but he actively shirks it, choosing instead to practice the kinds of quiet kindness that stay with people forever.” “Widener embodies many characteristics of Lisa’s personality and life including her compassion, joy, excellence, and humbleness. He spreads laughter, care, curiosity, and kindness to everyone he greets, whether that be a receptionist at a hotel in Greece or his friends in the Fellowship.”

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“Widener memorized every single Fellow’s name at Interview Weekend before meeting them. I’ve never met someone who endeavors to treat others more with grace, care, and kindness than Widener does.” “With a sweetness as delightful as the treats she has gifted us—from the corridors of Myers Hall to the tables of the library—Erin has poured herself into our class year after year.”

ERIN SUH

“Erin Suh is a culinary queen, Fellowship aficionado, and kindness cultivator. Even while studying abroad in Spain and England, her check-in texts were a feature of weekly life. She is integral to our class’s cohesion and an absolute gem of a human being, truly worthy of the Lisa Ann Coole award.” “Erin has opened her heart to everyone in the Fellowship.” “Anyone who knows Erin recognizes her incredible work ethic and the high standards she holds for herself and others. Yet what makes her especially admirable is that, despite those qualities, she has never become consumed by her own goals. Erin is a paragon of what it means to be both deeply hardworking and deeply committed to community.” “With a sweetness as delightful as the treats she has gifted us—from the corridors of Myers Hall to the tables of the library—Erin has poured herself into our class year after year. From hosting Friendsgivings to politely reminding us to register for classes, pictures, or graduation, Erin has been both a friend and a guiding light ensuring that we all remain on track.” “While accumulating her own accolades, excelling academically, and garnering exceptional opportunities to travel and expand the horizons on her already bright future, Erin never fails to share the resources

Erin and Widener attend UGA Commencement with classmate Chinmay Joshi.

that have contributed to her success. This is evidenced by her time as an Honors teaching assistant and her spearheading a pre-med series to debunk the med school application process. In all, Erin’s ability to excel within herself and inspire a similar glow in others is something to be marveled and acknowledged.” Previous recipients of the Lisa Ann Coole Award are Yeongseo Son & Dana Theoc (2025), Eniola Olubunmi & Elliot Williamson (2024), Priyanka Parikh (2023), Emma Ellis & Emma Chandler Hale (2022), Rachel Yuan (2021), Avni Ahuja & Emma Goldsmith

(2020), Caroline Shearer (2019), Emily Maloney & Mollie Simon (2018), Moira Fennell (2017), Kirstie Hostetter & Chris Lewitzke (2016), Eilidh Geddes (2015), Jesse Chan (2014), Sara De La Torre Berón (2013), Hank Schwartz (2012), Mir Inaamullah & 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 & Tina Rakkit (2002), Laquesha Sanders & Kyle Wingfield (2001), Bronson Lee (2000), Lacy Feldman & Torre Mills (1999).

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FOUNDATION FELLOWS

CLASS OF 2026

JHAYCEE BARNES

Griffin, GA | Economics, Political Science Jhaycee’s college experience is defined by leadership and a commitment to expanding access to opportunity. As student body vice president, she led initiatives impacting thousands of students—securing campus-wide resources, expanding access to professional tools and basic necessities, and spearheading efforts to integrate artificial intelligence across campus. She founded Star Girl Diaries, a platform connecting students to internships, scholarships, and career resources through mentorship and digital community. As financial secretary of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., she brought that same dedication to service within her chapter. Professionally, she gained experience at three of the world’s leading firms, interning at Deloitte, EY, and Boston Consulting Group. This fall, Jhaycee began her career as a consultant with BCG in Chicago.

GRANT BAUMANN

Lawrenceville, GA | Mechanical Engineering A mechanical engineering major, Grant launched himself as a student industry fellow, leading projects with companies like Southwire on topics ranging from manufacturing to market strategy. He also led work in the Small Satellite Research Lab and co-founded Skyfall Space, where he’s working on ways to safely remove satellites from orbit once they’re no longer in use, basically space cleanup. His work has taken him well beyond Athens, from piloting an exchange program in Germany to studying innovation ecosystems across Denmark, Sweden, and Finland. Drawn to big, complex challenges and the people tackling them, Grant brings both technical precision and curiosity to everything he does. After graduation, Grant plans to pursue his space tech startup, Skyfall Space, as the full-time principal investigator.

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BEMNET BEKELE

Powder Springs, GA | Biology Having designed hypotheses and written literature reviews through UGA’s Epidemiology Department, conducted research at the Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University, and presented data with the Heart, Lung, and Blood Research Program at Case Western University, Bemnet is deeply invested in analyzing the wellness of others. From her intentionality and investment in the people around her, it is no surprise that she presides over one of the most welcoming student organizations on campus, EESA, and that she is leaving a legacy of spearheading the first ever EESA Night, celebrating Ethiopian and Eritrean culture. Next year, Bemnet will complete her Master of Public Health before going on to medical school.

ASHLEY BROWN

San Antonio, Texas | Biology, Psychology Beyond her impressive intellect, Ashley’s open-mindedness makes her the perfect travel companion and a great friend. Whether it’s through her education policy research, her work as a clinical Spanish interpreter, or her leadership in Delta Sigma Theta Sorority as its first vice president, Ashley’s compassion consistently brightens the lives of those around her. Through internships with Experience UGA, youth literacy initiatives with the East Athens Development Corporation, and the Frye Legislative Fellowship, Ashley’s dedication to service and her kindness are unwavering, and these qualities will continue to make her shine long after she says goodbye to UGA. After graduation, Ashley will be working at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta as a care partner during her gap year before applying to medical school.

RAYNA CARTER

Loganville, GA | Psychology, Sociology, Women’s & Gender Studies Rayna has conducted award-winning research in clinical neuroscience and student cognition, published academic work, and presented across the country, all while leading as president of Blue Key, traveling to Dublin for community-based addiction recovery work, welcoming thousands of students as a UGA orientation leader, and serving as a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. A Stamps Scholar and McNair Scholar who commands both a canvas and a crowd, Rayna is the rare person who makes excellence look effortless. As an advocate for equity at the intersection of criminal justice, rehabilitation, and community wellbeing, Rayna is attending the UGA School of Law, where she will pursue her legal education.

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BENEN CHANCEY

Tucker, GA | Geography, Romance Languages Benen majored in geography and romance languages, bringing together his interests in people, place, and power. He spent a summer studying in Brazil and completed a yearlong academic exchange in Taiwan. In Athens, he worked as a community organizer in Georgia’s immigrant and Asian American communities. On campus, he was a research assistant in UGA’s Community Mapping Lab, where he created maps and visuals to share Athens’ Black histories and geographies. He continued his mapping work during an internship at the Georgia State University’s Department of Geosciences, where he investigated absentee property ownership in Atlanta. Benen is pursuing a master’s degree in geography at the University of Kentucky, where he hopes to use critical cartography to examine the proliferation of surveillance technologies.

PIPER DUNCAN

Jasper, GA | International Affairs, Master of International Policy During her time at UGA, Piper studied all things human rights. In the Security Leadership Program, GLOBIS Human Rights Lab, and in her graduate classes, she studied topics ranging from tourism to conflict, all at the nexus of human rights and gender. On campus, Piper was an executive board member of both the University’s Model UN Team and the Georgia Political Review where she honed her policy analysis and writing skills. Off campus, she interned at the Feminist Majority Foundation in Washington, D.C., and the Human Rights Measurement Initiative in New Zealand. On campus and abroad, Piper’s passion for international human rights law solidified. Piper now lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where she is studying for a Master of Law at Queen’s University Belfast to ready for a career abroad in human rights.

ANITA GORMAN

New Orleans, LA | Physics & Astronomy, Physics Anita is driven by an unending curiosity. From her interest in galaxies and black holes to her study of ancient biography and technology, she is a lifelong student of the entire universe, past and present. Through research on proto-stellar regions of space, she investigated the energy levels and statistical likelihood of various molecular collisions; she also took her own telescopic observations of the Pleiades, learned how to use a spectrometer to detect diseases, and has never stopped asking questions. On a semester abroad in Oxford, she challenged herself intellectually and physically by joining a novice rowing team. She is a voracious reader, a passable musician, and a poor—but enthusiastic—knitter. Anita plans to apply to graduate programs in astrophysics this fall.

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LUKE HENDRIX

Jesup, GA | Biological Science Luke Hendrix somehow manages to be both incredibly accomplished, hit the gym, and manicure a great mustache. Whether working on his family’s 40-acre pecan farm or caring for patients, Luke has shown enthusiasm for it all, a man who is down for anything. While at UGA, Luke has proven he can handle pressure, Icelandic electric scooters, and bees while researching Varroa destructor mites, a parasite of bee hives, with Dr. Lewis Bartlett at the UGA Honey Bee Lab. Graduating with a biological sciences major and entomology minor, Luke is attending medical school at Mercer University’s Savannah campus on the Nathan Deal Tuition Scholarship. He plans to move back to his hometown in Wayne County, providing care for rural Georgians.

JACK JARASHOW

Morganville, NJ | Economics, Political Science Jack fights for people who can’t fight for themselves, including indigent and accused clients, through internships with the Athens Public Defender and Federal Public Defender in Washington, D.C. He tutored incarcerated students through Athens Prison Tutorial and served as Rep. Spencer Frye’s legislative director at the Georgia Capitol, drafting bills to help those in need, advising state stakeholders, and coaching a class of over 25 legislative fellows. He also traveled to three continents, joined the UGA Club Rugby team on a whim, and won a hot dog eating competition hosted by the world-famous Joey Chestnut to raise money in memory of his late friend, Matt. Jack’s career focused on public service will begin with a year as a Fulbright English teaching assistant in Ecuador.

NIKITA JHA

Duluth, GA | Computer Science, Economics Nikita chases hard problems across different contexts— developing scalable big data infrastructure for federal healthcare clients at Palantir, building a real-time robotic perception system for autonomous airport baggage handling at YC-backed Azalea Robotics, slashing SEC analyst lookup times from three hours to under 10 minutes, engineering a patent-filed AI branding system at NCR Voyix, and architecting a GPT-powered pipeline at the Census Bureau that transformed thousands of unstructured PDFs into clean data. On campus, she led ACM and the Corsair Technology Society, helped organize UGA Hacks, and taught middle schoolers as part of MathCounts Outreach. Tennis, pickleball, badminton, table tennis—she’ll play any of them. She’s now in San Francisco working for Loop, a fast-growing Series C startup, as a software engineer.

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CHINMAY JOSHI

Marietta, GA | Genetics Chinmay channeled his curiosity about the human body into computational cancer research in the Douglass Lab and clinical oncology research in Pune, India. While volunteering at Mercy Health Center, he observed pervasive gaps in healthcare access that motivated him to pursue experiences in strategic health policy consulting and policy research. As co-president of Athens Prison Tutorial, he advocated for expanded educational access for incarcerated community members while building genuine relationships with his students as a GED tutor. Chinmay aspires to bring together clinical practice, research, and healthcare policy to ensure that advances in medicine reach those who need them most. He is currently pursuing his M.D. at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

DEBORAH MADDEN

Kingston, Jamaica | Environmental Engineering Originally from Kingston, Jamaica, Deborah completed her high school in Freiburg, Germany, before coming to the U.S. During her time at UGA, Deborah has served as president of the National Society of Black Engineers, treasurer of the Tate Honor Society, and dance coordinator for the Caribbean Association. She was involved with the Tau Beta Pi Honor Society and Blue Key Honor Society. She is passionate about environmental sustainability and has contributed to meaningful work in Dr. Jenna Jambeck’s Circularity Informatics Lab since her freshman year. Deborah has interned at the West African Genetic Medicine Research Laboratory in Ghana, 2KB Energy Services, and MIT, where her research on the bacterial biodegradation of plastic was recently published. Following graduation, Deborah moved to Atlanta and is a business analyst at McKinsey & Company.

ERIN MONROE

Southaven, MS | Fisheries & Wildlife Sciences Erin is dedicated to the field of herpetology, working to save the critically endangered Mississippi dusky gopher frog at the Memphis Zoo and searching for the elusive Western toad in the mountains of Utah. She studied the movement patterns of terrestrial salamanders for her undergraduate thesis and has often taken off for the weekend to help her lab mates find striped newts or diamondback terrapins in south Georgia. She worked parttime as a veterinary assistant and served as Warnell’s sole representative on the SGA Senate. She studied abroad in Oxford, Australia, New Zealand, and Brazil. After graduation, Erin moved to Florida to work with the U.S. Geological Survey in Everglades National Park. She is studying the ecology of invasive Burmese pythons and Argentine tegus.

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AMY MORALES

Marietta, GA | International Business, Management Information Systems, Marketing Amy was an intern with Bain & Co., research fellow for the Georgia Power E-Mobility Cohort, a Terry diversity fellow funded by Ernst and Young, and a junior summer associate at Roland Berger in Boston this past summer. Her earliest college experience began with UGA MindBlowers, a program that teaches financial literacy and business etiquette. She served as a college prep volunteer for U-Lead, ignite fellow for Teach for America, volunteer educator at Fair Oaks Elementary School (where she went to school), and teaching volunteer in Kerala, India. Amy is spending a year as a Princeton in Latin America Fellow, teaching English at a bilingual school in Honduras. After completing the fellowship, she will join Roland Berger as a strategy consultant in the Chicago office.

WIDENER NORRIS

Athens, GA | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Fascinated by law, language, and the natural sciences, Widener graduated with a degree in biochemistry, a minor in Chinese, and a certificate in legal studies. At UGA, he tutored incarcerated students through Athens Prison Tutorial, led a ministry team with Reformed University Fellowship, served as editor-in-chief of the Journal for Undergraduate Research Opportunities, and conducted research in quantum chemistry and immunology. Through the Foundation Fellowship, he studied church history and common law at Oxford, political theory in Washington, D.C., and Mandarin in Taipei. After graduation, Widener moved to southern Taiwan to teach English for a year on a Fulbright grant.

MAGGIE OPSAHL

Atlanta, GA | Computer Science, Mathematics While at UGA, Maggie combined technical rigor with leadership and service, serving as co-president of MathCounts Outreach, vice president of Girls Who Code, and co-head of the Corsair Technology. She also worked as a teaching assistant for multiple computer science courses and supported her campus community as an Honors College Ambassador and director of student support for the Professional Clothing Closet. Her curiosity took her beyond campus through internships with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Diplomatic Technology and State Farm Enterprise Technology, as well as a semester in Oxford and a Maymester in Australia and New Zealand. Maggie now works in New York City as a technology consultant at KPMG.

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ANNA RACHWALSKI

Atlanta, GA | Economics, Political Science After at least 10 major switches, Anna landed on economics and political science, with a certificate in applied politics and minors in English and international affairs. She spent a summer analyzing foreign private issuer disclosures at the SEC; a semester hiking through Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, and Fiji; and three falls teaching UGA freshmen as an Honors teaching assistant. Along the way she tracked disinformation campaigns for the State Department, delivered econometric analyses in active federal litigation, and worked on rural economic development with the Carl Vinson Institute of Government. Anna is passionate about fiscal policy, hot yoga, good coffee, and Bananagrams. After graduation, she joined Yale’s Budget Lab as a pre-doctoral fellow.

HADIZA SARR

Athens, GA | Mathematics Hadiza built frameworks at Deloitte, spent summers as an analyst at Goldman Sachs, and accelerated the growth of local startup Good Agriculture by developing their Python subscription management tool. She was nationally recognized by AmeriCorps for her work combating food insecurity. Born in Senegal and raised in Athens, community is at the heart of everything she does. Her care shows up in the study guides she made for high schoolers she tutored, meals she organized for others during Ramadan, and texts she sends to check in after a rough day. She has transported her whole class to Senegal with food that tasted like love. Hadiza is working in acquisition strategy for Norfolk Southern in Atlanta before continuing to Goldman Sachs in asset and wealth management in Chicago.

ANDERSON SMITH

Virginia Beach, VA | Ecology Anderson’s interests in ecology and evolution have taken her across the world, from a summer working for the Environmental Protection Agency to an independent field project in the Ecuadorian Andes. They’ve also drawn her to diverse research experiences at UGA, including a published study on parasite phylogenetics through the College of Veterinary Medicine and a project on genomic diversity in a keystone salt marsh mussel, research that earned her the Goldwater Scholarship and that will eventually become her master’s thesis. Anderson also teaches free English as a Second Language classes to adults in Athens through Casa de Amistad, a local nonprofit. She will continue this work in tandem with her research this year as she completes her master’s degree in ecology and applies to doctoral programs.

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CHARLIE STOUT

Monroe, GA | Biology Charlie graduated with a degree in biology, a minor in general business, and a certificate in entrepreneurship. He was a swimmer for the UGA Swim Team, president of the Pre-Dental Society, and co-president and founder of Cooks for a Cause, an organization geared toward serving the unhoused Athens community through a shared love of cooking. He conducted research on Georgia’s dental Medicaid system, dental assisted at Mercy Health Center, and attended two dental mission trips in Honduras, assisting a team that provided free dental care. These experiences fueled his aspirations of becoming a dentist dedicated to addressing access to dental care in the state of Georgia. After graduation, Charlie got married (he and his wife met at UGA Orientation) and moved to Augusta where they both started school at the Dental College of Georgia.

SLOKA SUDHIN

Marietta, GA | Mathematics, Data Science Sloka is pursuing a career as an academic researcher at the intersection of optimization algorithms and large-scale computer experiments. As a recipient of the 2025 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, Sloka nurtured her ambition by attending nine conferences, presenting her research on d-QPSO, an optimization algorithm for physical experiments. She has traveled across the globe, exploring geothermal energy in Dominica and teaching English to underprivileged girls in Kerala, India. After graduation, Sloka returned to UGA as a Double Dawg to complete her master’s degree in statistics, writing her thesis under Dr. Abhyuday Mandal while applying for Ph.D. programs. Her cheer and enthusiasm for mathematics motivates her deeply rooted desire to be a great professor, both in research and instruction.

ERIN SUH

Duluth, GA | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Erin hopes to leave every space she enters a little sweeter, and she finds joy in caring for her communities. Her work spans cancer research at MD Anderson and the Siteman Cancer Center, advocacy for NYC hospitals with the Greater New York Hospital Association, and nonprofit leadership in The Backpack Project. She has studied abroad six times, including in Spain, Oxford, Vietnam, Iceland, and Italy, with coursework ranging from flamenco to Andalusian gastronomy to immunology. Erin was concertmaster of the UGA Philharmonia, interviewed Nobel laureates for ChemTalk podcasts, and served as an Honors teaching assistant. Erin is attending medical school at the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, where she hopes to become a clinician-scientist-educator.

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LILY THOMAS

Eatonton, GA | International Affairs Lily studied international affairs, human rights, and sustainability. She interned for the Georgia Governor’s Office, CARE International, Georgia 4-H’s public relations department, Washington Semester Program, and Flagpole magazine. Lily conducted research on sustainability and political engagement for Georgia Power and the Georgia Peanut Commission. She was a Security Leadership Fellow, crisis communications researcher, and environmental education counselor. Lily led the Georgia Political Review, Rural Students Igniting Success in Education, and Ecotones on campus, and studied in Europe; Washington, D.C.; India; Oceania; Japan; and Morocco. Lily hopes to pursue political communications in Washington, D.C., after finishing her master’s degree in journalism and mass communication at UGA.

WYN THOMAS

Buffalo Grove, IL | Theatre, Nonprofit Management & Leadership Masters Wyn is a playwright, composer, arts administrator, and theatre artist. More than anything, she loves creating and supporting new work that uses theatre to drive social change. At UGA, she wrote and composed the original fulllength musical First Semester, which garnered national recognition, including the second place National Student Playwriting Award at the Kennedy Center. Her other work is published and licensed by Samuel French, Playscripts, and Next Stage Press. She has supported new work development as an arts administrator with ENOUGH! Plays to End Gun Violence, the Blank Theatre, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Ring of Keys, and the Thalian Blackfriars, UGA’s oldest student theatre group. She moved to New York City to pursue arts administration and development in nonprofit theatre.

HENRY TRAYNOR

Savannah, GA | Ecology, Mathematics Henry bridges the gap between mathematics and ecology to contribute to a breadth of ecological research focusing on the movement of species and the transmission of disease. He spends much of his time writing code, catching bats, or in his canoe. Henry served as the president of the Odum School of Ecology’s mentorship program and gearmaster for the UGA chapter of 5Rivers. While at UGA, Henry traveled to Costa Rica to work with the endangered Baird’s tapir, capturing and radio collaring at-risk individuals. He also traveled to Kenya to work on his research studying the impacts of building modernization on viral dynamics in bats in rural Kenya. After graduation, he worked for Copperhead Environmental researching bats in caves and roadways. Henry is continuing a master’s degree in ecology at UGA.

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BIANCA WILSON

Annapolis, MD | Music, Cognitive Science Bianca played in all-county, all-state, and national youth orchestras in high school. Now, she is a Fulbright-winning bassist who has played with orchestras in Brazil, Taiwan, Italy, Portugal, and the U.S. On campus, Bianca was assistant principal bassist of the UGA Symphony Orchestra, marched baritone horn in the Redcoat Marching Band, played bass in all three premier UGA concert bands, and took part in numerous ensembles. She served as a student representative on the UGA Arts Council, executive board for the UGA Chamber Music ensemble, and School of Music Ambassador. She worked as a user interface intern with Good Agriculture and project manager for ArchPal, an educational AI startup. She is completing a master’s degree in AI before using a Fulbright research grant to write a double bass instruction book in Portuguese.

ANDY WYATT

Sandy Springs, GA | Political Science, Public Relations Before and throughout college, Andy and anyone who knew him would have told you he was headed for Washington, D.C. Indeed, Andy graduated with degrees in political science and public relations and certificates in applied politics and public affairs communications. He lived in UGA’s Delta Hall for two summers in a row, interning in the U.S. Senate and two nonprofits. In Athens and Atlanta, he bounced around: knocking on doors, crossing the halls of Georgia’s Gold Dome, and perfecting policy proposals for a think tank. Now, Andy lives in Sydney, Australia. He works at Corporate Carbon, an environmental services firm and leader in implementing projects through the government’s emissions reduction fund. He intends to eventually move to Canberra, fulfilling his dream of hustling about a capital city, just in a different nation than he expected.

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SENIORS SPEAK: FRIENDSHIPS

“Being a Foundation Fellow means having a built-in community from day one of college. My four years at UGA were not without moments of adversity, and I can honestly say that the Fellows community came through in each of those moments. On the other side of the spectrum, the Fellows are also the best cheerleading troupe you could ask for—the first people to send congratulatory messages or gather to celebrate someone’s good news. ”

“There is nowhere quite like Athens, and no community like UGA Honors and FF. It has taught me what true community feels like—a standard I now carry with me everywhere. The FF family is second only to my own family: a dean who greets you with an embrace; faculty who open their homes to you and feed you a LOT; and a library where you’re always running into a familiar, smiling face. These are the people who will show up for the rest of your life, for your concerts, theses, white coat ceremonies, weddings, and everything in between. ”

JACK JARASHOW

ERIN SUH

Class of 2026 | Economics, Political Science

Class of 2026 | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

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“The Fellowship introduced me to my closest friends in college. Without the support system offered by this program, I would not have gotten through the past four years. I am so grateful to have found friendships that will stick with me for life. ”

“My FF family has been central to my success and happiness at UGA. My big, Dana Theoc, was also from Jamaica, and she went above and beyond to make me feel welcomed. She became a best friend and big sister as she guided me through the ins and outs of UGA. Carrying on that legacy by mentoring my FF little, MJ, has been one of the biggest honors of my life. My FF family has become my home away from home. ”

“The Fellowship has given me some of my closest friendships. I lived with a Fellow, Anderson Smith, for three years, and she has been an incredible roommate and friend. (I wish we could keep living together after graduation!) I also feel lucky to be part of a FF family that I’m constantly proud of, from celebrating my “Big” when she was recognized as a Goldwater Scholar to staying connected with generations of Fellows who came before me. ”

BENEN CHANCEY

DEBORAH MADDEN

MAGGIE OPSAHL

Class of 2026 | Geography, Romance Languages

Class of 2026 | Environmental Engineering

Class of 2026 | Computer Science, Mathematics

CELEBRATING GRADUATION

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CELEBRATING GRADUATION

Graduation photos include, this page, left to right from top: Chinmay Joshi at Sanford Stadium; Piper Duncan at the Arch; Deborah Madden at Driftmier Engineering Center; Hadiza Sarr next to a quote by Hamilton Holmes, one of the first two African-American students admitted to UGA; Lily Thomas at the Chapel Bell; facing page, left to right from top: Charlie Stout at the Arch; Maggie Opsahl in front of the UGA Chapel; Jhaycee Barnes reading at the UGA Chapel; and Anna Rachwalski at the sign in front of Moore Hall.

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CELEBRATING GRADUATION

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FELLOWS CLASS OF 2027

Kiefer Lawson Adams Woodberry Forest School Whitefish, MT Finance, Political Science

Sara Amou Collins Hill High School Suwanee, GA Biology

Elise Ione Cookson Savannah Arts Academy Savannah, GA Art History

Isabella Sofia Delgado Archbishop McCarthy High School Parkland, FL Computer Science, Applied Mathematics

Liam Daniel Evans Forsyth Central High School Cumming, GA History, International Affairs

Vaughn Robert Frost Mountain Brook High School Mountain Brook, AL Mechanical Engineering

Shriya Kumari Garg Rome High School Rome, GA Economics, Genetics

Britton Cole Hare Christian Brothers High School Arlington, TN International Affairs, Linguistics

Erin Frances Howard Virgil I. Grissom High School Huntsville, AL Ecology, Plant Biology

Ella Celeste Johnson Cedar Shoals High School Athens, GA Classics, English

Harshil Manish Joshi Deerfield-Windsor School Leesburg, GA Regenerative Bioscience

Bryce Allen Knoll Bel Air High School Bel Air, MD Linguistics, Russian, Spanish

Jack Douglas Little Boyle County High School Danville, KY Journalism

Robie Elizabeth Lucas Athens Academy Watkinsville, GA Agricultural & Applied Economics, Real Estate

Aarov Malhotra Chapel Hill High School Chapel Hill, NC Economics, Political Science

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FELLOWS CLASS OF 2027

Claire Elizabeth McDonald Perry High School Perry, GA Environmental Engineering

Sophia Khoa Nguyen Greater Atlanta Christian School Duluth, GA Art History, International Affairs

Trang Nguyen Hanoi-Amsterdam High School for the Gifted Hanoi, Vietnam Food Science

Megan Joy Pitt East Coweta High School Newnan, GA Economics

Phillip Andrew Salzinger The Paideia School Atlanta, GA Ecology

Ava Elizabeth Stillwagon Saint Andrew’s School Savannah, GA Astrophysics, Physics

Selina Sun Saint James School Montgomery, AL Biomedical Physiology

Lauren Elizabeth Thacker Girls Preparatory School Cleveland, TN International Affairs, Russian

Aidan Phineas Ventimiglia Paul Duke STEM High School Norcross, GA Animation

Aerica Calynn Worrell Cambridge High School Alpharetta, GA Psychology (Neuroscience), Regenerative Bioscience

The Class of 2027 attends their final fall retreat at Amicalola Falls State Park in August.

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FELLOWS CLASS OF 2028

Anna Grace Aiello Xavier Charter School Twin Falls, ID Theoretical Mathematics, Honors Interdisciplinary Studies

Abigail Lee Bias Greenbrier High School Evans, GA Regenerative Bioscience

Thomas Ray Griner Valwood School Valdosta, GA Political Science, Philosophy

Gabriel Demis Alemayehu Northview High School Suwanee, GA Finance, Mathematics (Applied)

Laila Elizabeth Carter Miss Porter’s School Watkinsville, GA Journalism, Political Science, MA Public Relations

Patrick Barry George Allen Clarke Central High School Athens, GA Economics, Political Science

Parker Gavin Ferrer Forsyth Central High School Cumming, GA Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Katherine Rebecca Johnson Brookwood High School Lilburn, GA Economics, Mathematics

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Pablo Basil Ashi Marvin Ridge High School Waxhaw, NC Regenerative Bioscience

Diya Akshila Garrepally Wheeler High School Marietta, GA Regenerative Bioscience

Hannah Estelle Jones Sonoraville High School Calhoun, GA International Affairs, Political Science

Elle Elisabeth Glassford Davidson Academy of Nevada Las Vegas, NV Microbiology, Spanish

Krish Devon Leveille Paideia School Atlanta, GA Economics

Ashaar Bakshi Galloway School Atlanta, GA Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Jaabili Sai Gosukonda Houston County High School Warner Robins, GA Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Nathaniel Scott Levy Saint Andrew’s School Boca Raton, FL Economics, Mathematics

FELLOWS CLASS OF 2028

Ava Rebeccah Marcus William Jones College Preparatory High School Chicago, IL Genetics, Psychology (Neuroscience)

Tiffani Arnina McClain Jasper County High School Monticello, GA Biological Science, Marketing & International Business

Julianna Claire Morelli Delmar School Delmar, DE Computer Science, Statistics

Jessica Ann Muniz Promise Preparatory Academy Dahlonega, GA Atmospheric Sciences, Geography

Jay Zhang Natu Alan C. Pope High School Marietta, GA Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Sociology

Luke Mario Netto Milton High School Milton, GA International Affairs, Political Science

Ava Quarles Stuyvesant High School Brooklyn, NY Art History, Economics

Gwyneth Noelle Solomon Saint Andrew’s School Savannah, GA Psychology

Rowan Aoife Starr Home School Mystic, CT Ecology, French, Russian

Isabelle Rose Stephens Westminster Christian Academy Athens, GA Marketing

Iziq Abraham Thomas Lakeside High School Augusta, GA Accounting, Management Information Systems

Callie Elizabeth Viktora Adairsville High School Adairsville, GA Comparative Literature & Intercultural Studies, Ecology

Forrest Roy Wilkes The Willow High School New Orleans, LA Mathematics, Statistics

Sophia Qiao Zhao Lambert High School Suwanee, GA Finance, Management Information Systems

Johnathon Robert Ziegelbein Pleasant Valley High School Bettendorf, IA Accounting, Finance

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FELLOWS CLASS OF 2029

Audrey Elana Bagot Isidore Newnan School New Orleans, LA Comparative Literature & Intercultural Studies

Becker Ryan Curry Minnetonka High School Eden Prairie, MN Finance, Mathematics

Abigail Kathleen Flanegan Home School Rapid City, SD Biology (Neuroscience)

Juliana Isabel Gardner Baylor School Ooltewah, TN Regenerative Bioscience

Emma Grace Haddon Summit High School Spring Hill, TN Finance

John William Jamieson Wesleyan School Atlanta, GA Finance

Karthik Kuppuswamy Fulton Science Academy Alpharetta, GA Cognitive Science

Eden Evelyn Levitt-Horne Newton South High School Auburndale, MA International Affairs, Political Science

Madison Noel Lowe Freedom High School Chantilly, VA Political Science

Russell Helderman Markwalter Marist School Brookhaven, GA Biochemical Engineering

Michael Liam Martin Lausanne Collegiate School Memphis, TN Mechanical Engineering

Avery Frances Roark Athens Academy Athens, GA French, Genetics

Grayson McCallie Rosenblad Webb School of Knoxville Knoxville, TN Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Kyle JB Nathan Ssendagire Brookwood High School Lawrenceville, GA German, Russian

Natalie Liza Wallace Catonsville High School Catonsville, MD Mechanical Engineering

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FELLOWS CLASS OF 2029

Shivani Sarma Yadavalli Deerfield-Windsor School Albany, GA Biology

Ayla Zomermaand Albuquerque Academy Albuquerque, NM Nutritional Sciences, Psychology (Neuroscience)

First-year Fellows Madison Lowe, Audrey Bagot, and Avery Roark enjoy tea at Keble College during their Maymester at the University of Oxford.

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FELLOWS CLASS OF 2030

Noah Timothy An Greater Atlanta Christian School Atlanta, GA Chemistry, Music Performance

Ella Jennings Baker Spring Valley High School Elgin, SC Chemistry

Elliott Mason Cary Christian Brothers High School Memphis, TN Mechanical Engineering

Naveh Cohn Walter Johnson High School Rockville, MD Economics

Samantha Grace Dalby Woodland High School McDonough, GA Computer Systems Engineering

Reagan Laine Gary Woodward Academy College Park, GA Data Science, Music Performance

Jacob Jackson Gendreau Minnetonka High School Excelsior, MN Biological Engineering

Porter Robson Grinalds Westminster Schools of Augusta Augusta, GA Biological Engineering

Caitlin Mae Hawkins Chatfield Senior High School Littleton, CO Biology (Neuroscience)

Andrew Kaigler Hill The Westminster Schools Atlanta, GA Finance

Amelie Kathryn Johnson Baylor School Murray, KY Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Noah Moreno Kilpatrick Clarke Central High School Athens, GA Mathematics

Sara Emerson Knight Dunwoody High School Atlanta, GA Genetics

Aimua Boateng Korli Northgate High School Newnan, GA Economics

Elizabeth Rhae Lanier Carol Martin Gatton Academy Murray, KY International Affairs, Russian

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FELLOWS CLASS OF 2030

Joanne Youran Lu Norcross High School Peachtree Corners, GA Economics, International Affairs

Alexander Edward Medlyn Knoxville Catholic High School Knoxville, TN Real Estate

Dhruket Patel Thomasville High School Thomasville, GA Mechanical Engineering

Rohan Jaideep Patel Oconee County High School Athens, GA Physics

Evie Marie Steidl Dickson County High School Dickson, TN Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Political Science

Hunter James Taylor Dutch Fork High School Chapin, SC Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Charlotte Ann White Veterans High School Bonaire, GA Political Science

Andrew William Wiegand Marist School Atlanta, GA Economics, Mathematics (Applied)

Rishav Rajbhandari Jefferson High School Athens, GA Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Soccer in the Stadium: On Aug. 20, Fellows in the Class of 2030 attended the first soccer game to be held in Sanford Stadium since the 1996 Olympics. A collegiate-record crowd of 25,433 was on hand to see the Bulldogs blast James Madison, 6-0.

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FOUNDATION FELLOWS ALUMNI

Foundation Fellowship alumni by class year 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 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 Judson (Jay) D. Watson III 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 R. 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

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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 Marie 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 Allan 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 M. 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

Elizabeth Anne Godbey Clare JoAnna Hatfield Chad Hume Brittany Lee McCall Nithya M. Natrajan Caitlin McLaughlin Poe Kevin Christopher Poe Paul Ruddle II Marlee Waxelbaum Santos Milner Owens Staub Sana Hashmi Zahiruddin

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 2010 Betsy Allen Adams Thomas Matthew Bailey Amanda Brouillette Sarah 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 Newman Cleveland Alcides Piggott, Jr. Kelsey Jones Pratt Lucas Puente Sharon McCoy Swabb Jennifer Taylor Lila Elisabeth Tedesco Robert B. Thrasher

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

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 Morgann Lyles Hagan Dana Higgins Hillary Kingsley Logan Krusac 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 Derek Ou-Ponticelli Todd Pierson 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 Chang Savannah Colbert Maria Cox Parker Evans Eilidh Geddes Ronald Jackson Kurtz Michael Land Kameel Mir Sarah Mirza 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 Seth Isaac Euster Lee Handly Folk Caroline Moore Gold Kirstie Hostetter Caleb Alexander Ingram Jacob Kennedy Shaun Kleber Torre Elisabeth Lavelle Chenée Tracey Lewitzke Chris Lewitzke Leighton Rowell Lima Alex Edquist Locklear

Kate Lovejoy Kelsey Lowrey Lauren Dennison Maslin Sandip Kaur Minhas Meredith Paker Eytan Palte Rand Pope Hannah Reiss Giovanni Righi Madison Snelling Minhyuk Michael Song Karishma Sriram John Bradley Stroud Kevin Sun Treva Chung-Kwan Tam Bert Thompson, Jr. Kathleen Wilson-Kennedy 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 Morrigan Nolan Justin Payan Joy Peltier Gabrielle Pierre Elijah Scott Jason Terry Luke Thompson

Guy Eroh Steven Feng Laurel Hiatt Jessica Ho Nirav Ilango Bly 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 Buechler Bell 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 Jessica Yan Ma Jon (Jack) Mallory McRae III Sebastian Puerta Nina P. Reddy Margaret Grace Russo Andrew Dunivin Schmitt Benjamin Crawford Starks Katie Luedecke Trebuchon

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 Josh Kenway Mallika Madhusudan Em 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 2021 Asim Ahmed Zoë Lorene Andrews Nitin Sai Prasad Ankisetty Eva-Michelle Belikova Phaidra S. Buchanan Katherine Fredrica Christie Zakiyya Nzinga Ellington Arden Anne Farr Victoria Christine Fonzi Divya Ghoshal Nina Grace Howard Satya Amritsai Jella Jamil Fayazali Kassam Anderson Kunho Kim Yi Jian Ma Ma Manav Cherian Mathews Kyle Pishunjay Patel Tarun Neel Ramesh Isabelle Olivia Riddle Percy Rottinghaus Margaret Frances Schrayer Jessica Bailey Thompson Angela Lily Tsao Emma Grace Tucker Anthony J. VanDieren Avery Elise Warner Brian Jay Woolfolk Rachel Janeyee Yuan

Class of 2019 Swapnil Agrawal Rachael (Fola) Akinola Ashley Amukamara Maria (Izzy) Cerón Dwain (Chip) Chambers Trisha Dalapati Tarun Daniel

Class of 2022 Robyn Evelyn Anzulis Luke Joseph Armao Carter Elizabeth Best Claire E. Bunn Jordan Amias Cole Keaton Patrick Coletti Emma Calhoun Ellis

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Elizabeth Ann Esser Emma Chandler Innes Hale Edward Tatum (Tate) Hunda Jena M. Jibreen Shi Ho Kim Eric Nathan Miller Aparna Pateria Sydney Taylor-Brooke Phillips William Goins Ross Nathan Samuel Safir Anna Samsonov Oleksandra (Sasha) Stogniy Emma Joanna Traynor Jaaie Upkar Varshney Margaret Elizabeth (Emme) Warren Himani Yadav Class of 2023 Eshaan Agrawal Zainub Rushna Ali Aakash Arora Maeve Akiko Breathnach

Mary Teresa Breen Mariah Leigh Cady Denzel Jeremiah Cunningham Sophia Emelia DeLuca Samuel Chukwubuike Ejiofor II Aliya Danyel Elmore Danielle Chukwunoryenim Emefiele Vic Calvin Fischer Shashank Sriram Ganeshan Patricia Alejandra Gonzalez Franco Madison Janel Greer Hyde Alford Healy Melita Kalczynska-Coletti Elise Maria Karinshak Vanisha Kudumuri Marianne Christine Lamarche Carlos Felipe López Ramírez Isabelle My Lan Luu Margaret Louise Mitchell Natalie Elena Navarrete Priyanka Sunil Parikh

Sahana Maya Parker Christopher Alan Rosselot Jordan Edward Theoc Claudia-Michele ZiYi White Lauren Rose Wilkes Class of 2024 Claire Elizabeth Armstrong William Cole Broomberg Theron E. Camp Audrey Conner Kayla Costin Natasha Dörr-Kapczynski Emilio Dante Ferrara IV Jonathan Golan Jason Germaine Hawkins Cassidy Jean Hettesheimer Evan Sidney Johnson Daniel Greer Klein Matthew Jeffrey Li Khushi Harshkumar Mehta

Sophia Maria Milazzo Eniola Olujumoke Olubunmi Ashni M. Patel Milca Odalis Ramirez Caroline Emma Schneider Emily Paula Spector Kunal Vohra Maxwell Booth White Leah Channell Whitmoyer Charlotte Conway Williams Joseph Logan Williamson Thomas Elliot Williamson Class of 2025 Brooke Elise Bergeron Surya Jane Cheadle Blasiole Ryan Edward Bohn Jonathan Luke Bowles Daniel Harrison Cohen Sarah Louise Dean Alexander Joseph Drahos Julian Louis Fortuna

Daniel Antonio García-Pozo V’ Shoi Conrad Garfield Emanuel Martha Lee Garrett Eliana Naomi Gelman Savannah Mercedes Hernandez Suhan Kacholia Joseph Andrew Lamb Sara Rose Logsdon Larissa Alves Lozano Ciara Ashley Mitchell Tenacity Marie Murdie Nicholas Gary Lamont Myers Dhriti Pentela Julianna Marie Russ Kennedi Lashaun Scales Yeongseo So Adam Michael Starks Aryan Thakur Dana Marie Theoc Alexandra Catherine Wells Amanda Sydney Whylie

RAMSEY ALUMNI

Ramsey Honors Scholar alumni by class year 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 Kate Davidson Jarrett Roux Horne Jackson Charles Dillingham May Class of 2007 Mary Beth Bereznak Jonathan Andrew Charles Brian Lee Claggett Kelly Eaton Gladin Hope Carrell Ham Maggie 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

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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 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 Sophia Cynthia Giebelhausen Emma Danielle Hope

Sarah Aven Hartwell Jones Grant Harrison Mercer Carl Thomas (Trey) Miller III Class of 2021 David Harry Bekore Erica Kaila Glorianna Bressner Elijah David Solomon Courtney George Branham Culpepper Samantha Jane Daly Hannah Yongxian Huang Isaac Martin Zane G. Placie Karan A. Pol Meredith Elaine Van De Velde Theodore Jacob Vincent Winston Hayes Way James Herbert West Class of 2022 Yehia Abdelsamad Marshall Dean Berton Rosasharn Lilly Brown Alex Joshua Eldridge Rachel Aubrey Mattson Austin M. Stack William Frank Swenton III Garrett H. Williams Class of 2023 Albert Zhonghai Chen Nicholas Andrey Kundin Molly Katherine Young Class of 2024 Adeboye Adeoye Patrick Chen CJ Jones Matthew Motley William Riley

FOUNDATION FELLOWS ANNUAL REPORT, 2025-2026 Project Managers Stephanie Schupska, Erin Beasley, Dani García-Pozo Editor/Graphic Designer Stephanie Schupska Writers Lillian Ballance, Sarah Freeman, Hannah Gallant, Dani García-Pozo, Allison Mawn, Rebecca McAdam, Stephanie Schupska Photographers Lillian Ballance, Cydney Bish, Wingate Downs, Peter Frey, Edwin Hammond, Dorothy Kozlowski, Laney Martin, Sydney Phillips, Clara Sautre, Billy Schuerman, Stephanie Schupska, Andrea Silletti, Addison Simmons, Chamberlain Smith, Heather Wall Taylor, Andrew Davis Tucker, various Fellows Editorial Assistance Anna Grace Aiello, Kellyn Brisendine, Tricia Jonas Hackleman, Jessica Hunt, Ella Johnson, Kendall Oesterling, Erin Suh

Foundation Fellows ride camels during a spring break trip to Morocco.

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