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One day, Anna Ramey, an undergraduate working in a canine genetics laboratory, gazed at her dog, a cocker spaniel’s long, floppy ears, and wondered: why? She took the question to her lab colleagues, and a project was born to map the genes responsible for ear length in dogs.

Genetics major Finn Walsh will build on her studies in infectious disease next fall as UGA’s newest Marshall Scholar. The scholarship is among the most selective graduate awards for Americans.

The health benefits of fish oil have expanded in recent years. As laboratory breakthroughs expand the understanding of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids’ impact on brain health and warding off a variety of cancers, uptake in the public has followed. 

Dawe began his postdoctoral work at a lab in Berkeley that used 3D light microscopy to study maize chromosomes.