2025 Cora Nunnally Miller Arts Scholars

The Franklin College has named four current first year undergraduates as 2025 Cora Nunnally Miller Scholars in the Fine Arts. Each student will receive a $2,500 scholarship, in addition to any scholarships they currently receive. The support is continuous to the student in each of the future three years as long as they continue as majors in the arts with good academic standing.

The purpose of the scholarship, made possible as part of a $17 million gift to the university upon Miller’s passing in 2015, is to recognize exceptional artistic talent, to foster interdisciplinary collaborations in the arts, to promote the arts on the UGA campus and beyond and to give special opportunities to the students in the cohort. 

The 2025 cohort of Cora Miller Scholars in the Arts are:

Arwa Abdelrahman, acting, department of theatre and film

Anna Bossert, music composition, Hugh Hodgson School of Music

Mary Peyton Tanner, department of dance with an intended double major in business

Tori Hyder, painting, drawing and design, Lamar Dodd School of Art

"Dean Stenport and I are delighted to welcome these undergraduates as Cora Miller Fine Arts Scholars," said Adam Goodie, professor and associate dean in the Franklin College. "In their first year of study at UGA, they have distinguished themselves as young artists and scholars with engagement, artistic ability and work ethic. Thanks to the generosity of Cora Miller, we can encourage them to flourish even further in their artistic study."

Image: Arwa Abdelrahman in the UGA theatre production of "John Proctor is the Villain", Feb. 2025.