Dr. Michelle Momany, Associate Dean for Life Sciences in Franklin College and Professor of Fungal Biology in the Department of Plant Biology, was one of nine UGA faculty members named as the 2018-2019 Women's Leadership Fellows.

John Spiekerman (from Katrien Devos' lab) received the Wilbur Duncan Award for 2018. This award is the highest recognition awarded to students in Plant Biology and it recognizes a PBIO graduate student's excellence in two of three areas: research, teaching and service to the department. 

Callie Oldfield, a doctoral student in the Peterson lab, was one of two UGA graduate students to receive a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship this year.

Shannon Kennedy, PBIO Business Manager III, was one of four staff members in all of Franklin College to win the Staff Excellence in Service Award for 2018.

PBIO Undergrad Ellen Krall (graduating Cum Laude this Spring of 2018) will be headed to Emory University in Fall of 2018 to join their Genetics and Molecular Biology PhD program. Great job, Ellen!