The Graduate School welcomes the newest cohort of the FUSE Program.
FUSE Cohort 2024-2026
Alexa DeVilme – College of Public Health
Yasmin Holt – Marine Sciences, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
Charlotte Ingram – Financial Planning, Housing and Consumer Economics, College of Family and Consumer Sciences
Genesis Ivey – International Policy, School of Public & International Affairs
G’re Leslie Marc – Comparative Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine
Nina Simone Warner – Odom School of Ecology
Kaitlyn Whitner – Department of English, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
Jamia Wideman – College of Public Health
Through the program, Facilitating Underrepresented Student Experiences (FUSE), the UGA Graduate School affirms its commitment to recruit, retain, and graduate historically underserved students. Since 2008, UGA has fostered partnerships with minority-serving institutions to enhance the recruitment and transition of undergraduate students as they learn about applying to graduate school and enroll as graduate students. Prospective UGA graduate students who earned undergraduate degrees from one of UGA’s partner institutions are eligible to participate.
The UGA Graduate School provides programming, support, and resources for these students from their application to UGA through graduation. Once enrolled, cohort participants receive an assistantship, attend professional development and networking programs, are paired with a mentor, and find strong support from earlier cohort members. To date, the FUSE Program has enrolled 112 students.
Read more about a recent FUSE participant and 2023 UGA Ph.D. graduate success story:
Jared Grant – Using Trust to Build Community
