Dr Peggy Ozais-Akins

Peggy Ozais-Akins, a professor of horticulture at UGA’s Coastal Plain Experiment Station, developed a system to make a transgenic pearl millet cell that can be quickly improved using genetic-engineering techniques and then coaxed to grow into a full, fertile plant.

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Nathalie Dupree

As the first woman since Julia Child to film more than 100 cooking shows for public television, Nathalie Dupree helped bring southern US cooking to the nation’s attention. Recognizing the contributions of European and African cooks, she emphasized traditional ingredients and foodways that can be traced back through the Great Depression of the 1930s to the Civil War (1861-65). T

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