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
2025 Alexander C. Garrot