The awards, scholarships, and achievements by Franklin College students, alumni, faculty, and staff don't stop for summer. Congratulations to the members of our community whose individual honors bring great distinction to the college and the University of Georgia. A glimpse of the excellence that shined through the summer months:

Jordyn Faucette, a senior philosophy, English, and political science major, was one of 19 students across the nation named UGA’s third Beinecke Scholar – UGA Today

Marine sciences faculty member Natalie Cohen received a multi-year grant from the Simons Foundation to support her phytoplankton research investigations off the Georgia coast

Ryan Smith, academic advisor for Geography and Art, was selected as a recipient of the NACADA Outstanding New Advisor Award

Three Franklin College scholars are among five UGA faculty selected to receive 2024 Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) foundation awards from the National Science Foundation

Dorothy Fragaszy, Professor Emerita and Director of the Primate Behavior Laboratory in the department of psychology, received the D.O. Hebb Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award from Division 6 of the American Psychological Association (APA). Division 6 is also known as the Society for Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology.

Fourth-year students in the department of geography and atmospheric sciences program Shania Green and Jada Lamar were selected to receive 2024 American Meteorological Society Senior Named Scholarships

The National Institutes of Health awarded $3.5M to UGA Foundation Distinguished Professor Jorge Escalante to continue his studies of the metabolic capabilities of prokaryotic cells

The Franklin College of Arts and Sciences announced the John C. Inscoe Professorship in History

Four Franklin College faculty members were included in the 2024-25 cohort of Fellows for Transformative Teaching by the Center for Teaching and Learning

Four alumni and one current Franklin College student were among the 34 UGA student-athletes who competed in the 2024 Paris Olympics

Thirteen alumni with Franklin degrees or minors were named in the UGA 40 Under 40 Class of 2024

Image: Photo of Natalie Cohen by Jackson K. Schroeder