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Anna Karls has been awarded the General Sandy Beaver Teaching Professorship by the Franklin College of Arts & Sciences for her sustained commitment to high-quality instruction and the 2015 Public Service and Outreach Engaged Scholar Award for her contributions to advancing community…

Ten UGA Microbiology students were elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Honorary Society during the Spring 2014 semester. Phi Beta Kappa is the nation’s oldest and most widely-known academic honorary society.

Drs. Zack Lewis and Anna Karls were named National Academies Education Fellows in the Life Sciences for the 2013-2014 academic year.

UGA Microbiology graduate student Hannah Bullock was selected as one of five recipients for the inaugural  Franklin College-University of Liverpool Doctoral Student Short Term International Research Fellowship.

The Microbiology Department was pleased to host a two-day workshop on comparative genomics taught by Prof. Valerie de Crecy-Lagard and assisted by Dr. Jennifer Thiaville, from the University of Florida (Department of Microbiology and Cell Science).