The Bulldogs are back in the College Football Playoff a year after winning Georgia’s first national championship in over 40 years. They’re hungry for a perfect season and focused on earning back-to-back titles.
As the Bulldogs set a new standard of excellence on the field, UGA faculty and students are standing out in other ways and earning recognition for their work on the national and international stage.
The University of Georgia has been celebrating off-field successes as well.
We are the 16th-ranked public university in the nation.
Natalie Navarrete, an international affairs, Russian, and Spanish major, was named a 2023 Rhodes Scholar. Navarrete’s achievement makes UGA one of only three public universities in the U.S., in addition to the nation’s service academies, to have a Rhodes Scholar and the only institution in Georgia this year.
For the first time, two UGA students received a prestigious Marshall Scholarship in the same year. Natalie Moss of Norcross and Lauren Wilkes of New Orleans will continue their studies in the U.K. next year through the award, which is among the most selective graduate scholarships for Americans. UGA is the only public institution of higher learning with multiple recipients this year, along with private institutions Harvard, Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Jenna Jambeck, Georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor of Environmental Engineering at the University of Georgia, was named a 2022 MacArthur Fellow for her work investigating the scale of plastic pollution and galvanizing efforts to address plastic waste.
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