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Maya Alandete and two students harvesting vegetables

Where stories take root: Franklin alumna Maya Alandete brings an English major’s perspective to community agriculture

This story is part of Humanities in Practice, a Franklin College of Arts and Sciences series exploring the value of the humanities in work and everyday life.  “We went to Monk’s House and I ate one of Virginia Woolf’s apples!” Maya Alandete (BA English ’23) wrote during a study-away semester in England. “It was a tart, pink-fleshed apple—the most flavorful I’ve ever tasted.”  The visit to Woolf’s home reminded Alandete, then an…
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Geology, anthropology guided alumna toward science career

UGA goes Beyond the Arch to feature alumna Beth Shapiro (BS ’99, MS ’99), MacArthur Fellow, author, and chief science officer of the “de-extinction” startup Colossal Biosciences, where she works the front lines of possibility and ethics in utilizing gene editing to re-introduce an extinct wolf species:   For her part, Shapiro addressed these questions in her 2015 book How to Clone a Mammoth, a sort of how-to manual that also…
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