G'84 Undergraduate Research Experience Made All the Difference Dr. Marguerite Madden '79 G '84, stands in the courtyard of Hawkins Hall this fall. Madden was honored in October as Distinguished Visiting Alumna, a program that brings back alumni who exemplify academic and professional excellence. At the University of Georgia in Athens, the freshman class numbers around 8,000. There, interaction with professors is luck not standard procedure.
Undergrads interact with teaching-assistant graduate students.
Forget about it. As associate director for environmental studies in the Center for Remote Sensing and Mapping Science at the University of Georgia, Madden knows of what she speaks. She shakes her head at the thought of undergrads delving into research as they do at her alma mater. Most of our people working in research are grad students. You really don't interact with undergrads at all.