A professor from the University of Georgia's College of Pharmacy received a three-year award worth more than $570,600 to research issues related to breast cancer. Eileen Kennedy, assistant professor of pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences, studies a type of enzyme as it relates to cancer. The award is from the National Institutes of Health. Kennedy joined the pharmacy college in 2010.

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Ceudy Gutierrez reads a book to her 2-year-old son, Matias, at their home in Buford, GA, on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025. Ceudy Gutierrez is struggling to make ends meet for herself and her three young kids following her husband’s ICE arrest earlier this fall. (Miguel Martinez/ AJC)

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