Six University of Georgia students have been selected as mid-term recipients of the Foundation Fellowship, UGA’s most prestigious undergraduate scholarship. Their fellowships will cover the final two years of undergraduate study, including the full estimated cost of attendance, as well as international travel-study grants, academic research and conference grants, and numerous other academic enrichment opportunities.
 
The 2006 Mid-Term Foundation Fellows are: Benjamin Cobb, an economics and international affairs major from Huntsville, Ala.; Adele Handy, a biology and psychology major from Peachtree City; Shannon Hiller, an international affairs and political science major from Blacksburg, Va.; Mindy Lipsitz, a biology, psychology and Spanish major from Birmingham, Ala.; Tyler Pratt, an international affairs and religion major from Evans; and George Vulov, a computer science and mathematics major from Atlanta.
 
Honors students in their third semester at UGA with a minimum cumulative 3.70 GPA and two years of study remaining are eligible to apply for mid-term fellowships. All six mid-term fellows are Presidential Scholars, having maintained 4.0 GPAs in their classes during a given semester.
 
“These are all incredible students,” said Steve Elliott-Gower, associate director of the Honors Program. “They hit the ground running when they came to UGA and have already established impressive records of academic achievement. We have high hopes for all of them, and believe that the benefits of the Foundation Fellows Program will propel them to achieve their long-term academic and professional goals.”
 
Handy is a Georgia Scholar who plans to use her biology and psychology majors to pursue an M.D. /Ph.D. This path will enable Handy to combine her two passions: pediatrics and research. This interest in medicine has led her to volunteer at the Athens Regional Medical Center and to serve as vice president of the Biological Sciences Student Association. Serving as a laboratory assistant to Gregory Robinson, Handy has performed experiments in the field of organometallic chemistry and is the co-author of a soon-to-be-published article in the Journal of Organometiallic Chemistry.
 
The Foundation Fellows Program was established in 1972 by the trustees of the University of Georgia Foundation to foster an enhanced educational experience for academically outstanding undergraduate students. More information on the Foundation Fellows Program can be found at www.uga.edu/honors/fellows.