Dr. Grace Thomas, during her long service to the University of Georgia, placed the education and welfare of undergraduates above her many other duties and responsibilities to the benefit of students and also the department as a whole. The Grace Thomas Award was created to acknowledge Dr. Thomas' efforts by recognizing annually the accomplishments of an outstanding undergraduate in what is now the department of Cellular Biology. The recipient of the award is expected to have excelled in several areas associated within the discipline, including classroom, seminar, and research performance. Listed below are the past winners of this prestigous award. 1988 Christopher J. McKenzie 1989 Patrick Abbot 1990 S. Rebecca Yeomans 1991 Nancy E. McIntyre 1992 Robin Ann Kundra 1993 Kristin Costley 1994 Shawn H. Turk 1996 Robert C. Cartwright 1997 William J. Kaiser 1998 Brandon R. Clements 1999 Ryan C. Arata 2000 Mihir M. Kamdar 2001 Benjamin Tanner 2002 John H. Woodruff 2003 Katherine Williams 2004 Nwakaso Umejiego 2005 Ashley E. Owen 2006 Dustin Williams 2007 David Burke 2008 Jessica Bryant 2009 Nisha Gupta 2010 L. Megan Beers 2011 M. Logan Davis 2012 Michael S. Burel 2013 David L. Owen 2014 Marianne M. Ligon 2015 Lina Tibavinsky 2023 Sahana Saravanan 2024 Krishie Desai
