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Stephan Singleton
  Stephan Singleton recently won the prestigious Smith-Kilborne Foreign Animal Disease Scholarship, given to only one student annually from the 28 vet schools nationwide.
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Go ADVANCING THE QUEST FOR KNOWLEDGE AND ACHIEVING
PRE-EMINENCE: Testing the waters of Etowah River
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Attracting and Supporting Our Best Students
 
Stephan Singleton is no ordinary veterinary student. Besides caring for her mother, who was diagnosed recently with a brain aneurysm, and a sister that is 21 years younger, Singleton is president of the UGA student chapter of the American Veterinary Medical Association, works with many community service projects and has even been to South America to investigate the economic impact of foot and mouth disease in Chile, Uruguay and Brazil.

A Georgia Veterinary Scholar, Singleton recently won the prestigious Smith-Kilborne Foreign Animal Disease Scholarship, given to only one student annually from the 28 vet schools nationwide. Singleton is one of many UGA “Amazing Students” (www.uga.edu/amazing) who are at the core of UGA’s Archway to Excellence Campaign.

UGA seeks $75 million to attract bright, determined and talented students. UGA must offer significant scholarship and fellowship funds to attract students like Singleton, who understands the importance of do-nor contributions to her own education. She said she hopes to give back to her school one day, so UGA can continue its climb to excellence, “producing future leaders for the world.”

The resources provided through the Archway to Excellence Campaign will also provide funds for internships and service opportunities, the Honors Program, international initiatives and other academic programming. Strong graduate and professional programs, like Veterinary Medicine, Pharmacy and Law, are one hallmark of the best national research universities.

Graduate and professional education are critically important to the role that UGA plays in this state, in terms of research and teaching support on campus and the long-term benefits that accrue to the state when more citizens hold ad-vanced degrees. Such programs, on par with those at the best universities in America, must be one of UGA’s goals.

For Singleton, who hopes to one day make a career combining public health and veterinary medicine, it is much more personal. “I have been taught by the best professors in the field of veterinary medicine,” she said. “The people in the College of Veterinary Medicine have been an ex-tended family, offering support and encouragement in my tough times.”
 
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