The Humanities Festival opening celebration on March 17 will highlight significant achievements by students and faculty in the humanities and the arts during the past year. The event, which is open to the public, begins at 5:30 p.m. in the Founders Memorial Garden and will include remarks from students O-Jeremiah Agbaakin and Finn Walsh. Agbaakin is a doctoral student in the department of English and the Creative Writing Program and a recent recipient of the Georgia Writers Association’s John Lewis Writing Grant in poetry, while Walsh is a senior Honors student and UGA’s latest Marshall Scholar.

“As someone interested in medicine and infectious disease, I’ve found the humanities component of my education here at UGA to be essential to my academic development,” said Walsh, who will graduate this spring with a bachelor’s degree in genetics and a minor in Spanish.

The University of Georgia will present its fourth annual Humanities Festival from March 16 to April 2. The three-week festival will feature public lectures, conversations, readings and other events including an opening celebration honoring recent accomplishments by the humanities community at UGA.