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  • Samikshya Rijal and W. Turner Spratling were selected as the UGA Griffin Ambassadors for campus and community events at the UGA Griffin campus. Proud of them!

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  • W. Turner Spratling, a Ph.D. candidate from Bahri Lab, has been awarded the Georgia Seed Association Scholarship 2023. This is awarded to graduate students who intend on pursuing a career in the seed industry or related field and display exceptional academic ability and impactful community involvement.

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  • Bahri Lab at UGA Griffin hosted three students as a part of UGA Young Scholars Program- Summer 2023. These young scholars worked for 10 weeks on different turfgrass projects and presented their work as a poster presentation at UGA Griffin campus and UGA Athens campus. [(L – R : Jalen Walker, Nysha Reddy, Mya Keidra,…

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  • Samikshya Rijal will serve as the Vice-President (Griffin) for IPBGG Graduate Student Association (GSA).

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  • Harshita Saxena was selected as a recipient of the Bill Rose Foundation Travel Scholarship to Pure Seed Field Day! The Pure Seed Field Day is an annual event that brings together turfgrass scientists, industry professionals, and students from around the country. 

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  • Harshita Saxena received the Summer Research Grant from the UGA Graduate School for the project entitled, ‘Elucidating the host range of Magnaporthe oryzae, causal organism for gray leaf spot (GLS) on turfgrasses and oat under controlled conditions’ from June 2023 to August 2023.

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  • John White Bagwell, a third-year Ph.D. student under Dr. Bochra Bahri and Dr. Mohamed Mergoum, received the Fonseca Scholarship for his outstanding academic achievement and personal excellence in the Fall 2022.

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  • Harshita Saxena, a second-year Ph.D. student under Drs. Bochra Bahri and Paul Raymer received the Central Georgia Community Foundation Board Scholarship for her outstanding academic achievement and personal excellence in the Fall 2022 semester, from the University of Georgia, Griffin campus.

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  • W. Turner Spratling, a third-year Ph.D. student in Bahri Lab, was one of the 6 students in the country selected to serve as an intern with the USGA Green Section in Summer 2022. Kudos to Turner!!

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  • John W. Bagwell, a third-year Ph.D. student at IPBGG under Dr. Bochra Bahri and Dr. Mohamed Mergoum, has been awarded the Georgia Seed Association Scholarship 2022.

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