Culture / Living
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June 14, 2013 | Events on Campus
UGA-Griffin hosts Alumni Ambassador Reception
The University of Georgia Griffin campus will host an inaugural Alumni Ambassador Reception June 27 from 6:30-8 p.m., in the Student Learning Center in Griffin.
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June 13, 2013 | Events on Campus
UGA College of Education to host conference on Moodle July 19
A one-day interactive conference about Moodle, a free learning management system that school systems can use for learning purposes, will be hosted by the University of Georgia College of Education July 19 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education.
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June 12, 2013 | Events on Campus
November festival will spotlight University of Georgia arts programs
The University of Georgia will spotlight its arts programs and venues during a nine-day festival in November that includes concerts, theater and dance performances, art exhibitions, poetry readings, film festivals, discussions on the arts and creativity, and more.
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June 11, 2013 | Events on Campus
UGA to celebrate National Pollinator Week with Brunswick event
The University of Georgia Marine Extension Service and Georgia Sea Grant will celebrate National Pollinator Week this month in coastal Georgia. The university's CoastScapes sustainable landscaping program and its partners will host an educational kickoff event June 20 from 9 a.m.-noon at the MAREX Brunswick station and native plant demonstration garden at 715 Bay St.
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June 10, 2013 | Honors & Awards
WUGA-FM and WUGA-TV win Georgia Association of Broadcasters Awards
WUGA-FM and WUGA-TV, the radio and television stations at the University of Georgia, won statewide awards for excellence in broadcasting at the Georgia Association of Broadcasters Honors Night held June 7 in Atlanta.
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June 5, 2013 | Events on Campus
Georgia Museum of Art to feature works by Georgia potter
The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will host the exhibition "Pick of the Kiln: The Work of Michael Simon" July 20 through Sept. 8.
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June 5, 2013 | Research News
UGA study shows current laws don’t prevent Sub-Saharan ‘land grabbing’
Sub-Saharan Africa has foreign investors flocking to buy its fertile land. Sometimes referred to as "land grabbing," the large-scale buying or leasing of large tracts of land in developing countries shifts indigenous, or customary, land rights from chiefs and local communities to investors or national governments, often stripping native people of a source of income.
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June 4, 2013 | Honors & Awards
UGA Costa Rica wins sustainability award
The University of Georgia Costa Rica recently was honored by GoAbroad.com with the 2013 Innovation in Sustainability Award at the NAFSA: Association of International Educators annual conference in St. Louis.
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June 3, 2013 | Events on Campus
UGA Performing Arts Center announces 2013-2014 season
The University of Georgia Performing Arts Center has announced the roster of artists for the 2013-2014 season.
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June 3, 2013 | Events on Campus
Georgia Museum of Art to host summer open house
The Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will host the museum's quarterly open house, "90 Carlton: Summer," on June 13, from 6-9 p.m.
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May 31, 2013 | General News
UGA appoints new director for Office of Online Learning
Following a national search, Keith Bailey has been named director of the University of Georgia Office of Online Learning. Bailey will begin his new position on Aug. 1.
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May 31, 2013 | Honors & Awards
UGA graduates win two national dissertation awards
Two University of Georgia graduates have won national dissertation awards. UGA doctoral graduate Tom Okie was awarded the 53rd annual Allan Nevins Dissertation Prize from the Society of American Historians and Wes Fugate received the 2013 Alice L. Beeman Award for Outstanding Research in Communications and Marketing for Educational Advancement for his dissertation.
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May 31, 2013 | Honors & Awards
Georgia Museum of Art director receives national service award
William Underwood Eiland, director of the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia, received the American Alliance of Museums Award for Distinguished Service to Museums last week at AAM's annual conference, in Baltimore.
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May 30, 2013 | Honors & Awards
UGA Hotel and Conference Center earns 2013 TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence
For the second consecutive year, the University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education's UGA Hotel and Conference Center received a TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence award. The award, which honors hospitality excellence, is given only to establishments that consistently achieve outstanding traveler reviews on TripAdvisor and is extended to qualifying businesses worldwide. Only the top-performing 10 percent of businesses listed on TripAdvisor receive this award.
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May 30, 2013 | Events on Campus
Athens’ architectural history to be subject of talk, book
A book talk on "The Tangible Past of Athens, Georgia," a forthcoming title about local architectural history, will be held June 12 at 12:30 p.m. in Room 271 of the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries on the University of Georgia campus.