Environmental Health and Safety Manager Brad Dearth, center, speaks to PROPEL Rural Scholars at Harris Equipment in Cordele.

We Know Georgia: PROPEL Rural Scholars visit Crisp, Pulaski counties

January 30, 2025

A cloud of peanut dust hung in the air this fall as a team of University of Georgia students stood in a rural Crisp County field speaking with a local farmer and sampling green peanuts.

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picture of Clark Stancil, creative design specialist; Garrison Taylor, graduate assistant; and Rob Gordon, institute director (Photo by Sara Ingram, UGA)

We Know Georgia: UGA student leaves lasting impact on communities

May 21, 2024

When Garrison Taylor graduated with a master’s degree in landscape architecture from the University of Georgia earlier this month, she left with an amazing portfolio and the knowledge that her vision has made a positive economic impact on communities across Georgia.

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picture of Rob Gordon, institute director; Hannah Brown, UGA CyberArch student; and Mark Lupo, UGA CyberArch faculty

Hannah Brown Awarded Runner-Up Undergraduate Student Employee of the Year Award

May 17, 2024

Hannah Brown, UGA Carl Vinson Institute of Government CyberArch intern, was named runner-up for the UGA Undergraduate Student Employee of the Year Award at last month’s Student Employee of the Year Award Ceremony.

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Six Institute of Government student employees have been named as top 100 UGA Student Employee of the Year honorees. Carl Vinson Institute of Government honorees include: Disha Adama, Hannah Brown, Hayat Abdulla Asad Cue, Kailani Restrepo, Micah Shannon and Garrison Taylor.

Six Institute of Government Student Employees Honored as Top 100 UGA Student Employees

April 10, 2024

Two Institute of Government student employees were named as UGA Student Employees of the Year. Garrison Taylor, a graduate research assistant with the Infrastructure and Community Resilience division, was awarded Graduate Student Employee of the Year, and Hannah Brown received runner-up for the...

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From left to right, PROPEL Rural Scholars Kevin Vega, Ambar Reyna-Montanez, Margaret Hart and Harper Pendley toured Fitzgerald High School College and Career Academy on a recent community visit. Applications for the 2024-2025 PROPEL Rural Scholars program is open through March 27.

We Know Georgia: UGA PROPEL Rural Scholars program provides experiential learning for UGA students

March 14, 2024

The University of Georgia Carl Vinson Institute of Government is now accepting applications for the 2024-2025 PROPEL Rural Scholars program.

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