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Franklin Ph.D. student’s summer pivot wins $100,000 prize for AI startup MyFixam

Jane Odum developed MyFixam through the inaugural Franklin CREATE! Summer Startup Academy  Three months after Jane Odum earned just $9 from the first product she tried to sell, the University of Georgia computer science Ph.D. candidate stood on a Los Angeles stage to accept a $100,000 prize.  Odum won third prize in the Google XPRIZE Build with Gemini Competition for MyFixam, a marketplace where people in Nigeria can find verified…
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From classroom to code: experiential learning propels Franklin student to Google

Experiential learning is at the heart of what happens at the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. Immersed in hands-on projects, research, and real-world applications, Franklin students don’t just major in their disciplines – they live them. Nivedha Natarajan’s undergraduate journey demonstrates the transformative power of this type of education.  On graduation day, Natarajan will deliver the student commencement address for UGA’s School…
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Kudos, February 2022

Students lead our roundup of Franklin College awards, accolades, and achievements announced during February – though not to be outdone by our outstanding alumni!  Congratulations all: Shannon Rodriguez, Ph.D candidate in linguistics, studies a dialect of English spoken by Latinos born in Georgia, a particular blend of Southern drawl. She recently presented her dissertation on the topic “Latino English in Georgia: a sociophonetic…
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UGA libraries partner with Google Books

The extraordinary treasure that is the University of Georgia libraries has a new digital access partnership with Google Books to digitize about 120,000 of the Libraries’ 4.5 million volumes: Through a new partnership with Google, about 120,000 of the Libraries’ 4.5 million volumes will be digitized, allowing further access to literary, historic, scientific and reference books and journals through UGA’s library catalog as well as one of…
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Student designs AI app to diagnose plant diseases

Shaza Mehdi tried diagnosing blighted flowers by Googling images of plant diseases and comparing those images with the sick roses, sparking an idea that led her to come up with PlantMD — a smartphone app that can diagnose a plant disease with the snap of a photo: After three months of researching, coding and getting some help from her high school teachers, Mehdi launched the app. “PlantMD works when you take a picture of a…
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