ATHENS — Two doctoral candidates in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at University of Georgia have been selected for the 2021 class of the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research Fellows program.
The CAES FFAR Fellows are Shreena Pradhan, a second-year doctoral student in the lab of Katrien Devos in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences and the Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics, and Sujan Paudel, a first-year doctoral candidate in the lab of Brian Kvitko in the Department of Plant Pathology. The fellows are sponsored by the UGA Office of Research.
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