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Columns::August 18, 2003

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Twenty-eight undergraduates work on research projects with faculty mentors

By Joelle Prine
jprine@uga.edu

Twenty-eight UGA students worked on research projects with faculty mentors this year through a summer fellowship program

Robert Brady (left) of Box Springs, with psychology faculty mentor Nader Amir, was one of 28 CURO summer research fellows.

funded by the provost’s office and UGA’s Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute.
The program is administered by the Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities, part of the Honors Program. Twenty of the CURO Fellows each received a $2,000 research award, while the eight BHSI-sponsored Fellows were each given a $2,500 fellowship. The CURO summer fellowships give undergraduates an intensive research experience in which they can become immersed in individual projects guided by faculty in the arts, humanities, social sciences or life sciences.
Projects ranged from studying public spaces in Cortona, Italy, to improving techniques for plant health detection. Projects of the biomedical fellows involved faculty from cellular biology, psychology, veterinary medicine, genetics, biochemistry and molecular biology, and foods and nutrition.
“Some CURO Fellows have continued on to receive national scholarships such as the Marshall and Goldwater Scholarships and be admitted to top medical and graduate schools,” says Pamela Kleiber, CURO coordinator and an associate director of the Honors Program. “When these students are asked to describe their overall research experiences, they credit the fellowship program as one of the many benefits at UGA.”

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