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Junior Christina Faust has conducted research on avian influenza. She recently received the Udall Scholarship and the Truman Scholarship. (Photo by Paul Efland)
Undergraduate receives 2008 Morris Udall Scholarship
By Joëlle Walls
jpwalls@uga.edu
Honors student Christina Faust has been named a 2008 Morris K. Udall Scholar, a prominent national award honoring outstanding sophomores and juniors planning careers related to environmental or Native American policy.

Faust, a junior, also recently won a 2008 Truman Scholarship. A graduate of Cedar Shoals High School in Athens, she is pursuing a dual bachelor’s/master’s degree in ecology. She is the daughter of Lynn and the late Tim Faust, a former professor in UGA’s Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources.

Faust is one of 80 Udall Scholars chosen among 510 applicants and the third UGA student to receive the scholarship in recent years.

“Kudos to Christina for the second significant academic honor this semester,” said UGA President Michael F. Adams. “She is an extraordinarily talented young woman and representative of the quality of the UGA student body.”

The $5,000 scholarships, administered by the Morris K. Udall Foundation, were created in 1992 by the U.S. Congress as a tribute to Udall for his 30-year career in the House of Representatives.

“She thinks deeply about the environmental policy implications of her research and career choice. She is the perfect Udall recipient,” said Ron Carroll, a professor of ecology and UGA’s faculty representative for the Udall Scholarship.

Faust is conducting avian influenza virus research through UGA’s Odum School of Ecology and the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study in UGA’s College of Veterinary Medicine. She has studied abroad extensively and volunteered for Arcturos, a nonprofit wildlife conservation group in Aetos, Greece, where she assisted in research this past summer.

“Rep. Morris Udall was an inspirational public figure who was committed to the environment,” said Faust, “and I hope to carry on his legacy to improve our world.”

Faust would like to pursue a veterinary doctorate and a Ph.D. in ecology of infectious diseases and use her knowledge and expertise working with environmental nonprofits or nongovernmental organizations.
 


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