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		<title>UGA.Today: Major Gifts</title>
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		<dc:date>2012-05-16T14:00:+00:00</dc:date>
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				<title>UGA receives third round of donated trees from Select SustainablePlus Tree Trust</title>
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					More than 150 new trees have been planted on the University of Georgia campus in the last few months as part of a $1 million commitment from Oconee County wholesale nursery Select Trees through their charitable entity Select SustainablePlus Tree Trust. In the third year of the donation, the trees are being planted this year in honor of internationally-renown horticulturist and former UGA faculty member Michael Dirr and his wife, Bonnie.
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				<pubDate>Fri, 6 Apr 2012 15:03:11 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Georgia Museum of Art receives collection by African&#45;American artists</title>
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					The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia has a new  collection&mdash;prominent works by African-American artists&mdash;donated by Larry  D. and Brenda A. Thompson. The couple will also fund an endowment to  support a new curatorial position.
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				<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:16:40 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>$1 million Deloitte Foundation fund established at UGA&#8217;s Tull School of Accounting</title>
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					With pledged gifts totaling $1 million, the Deloitte Foundation has established an endowment for the J.M. Tull School of Accounting in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia.
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				<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:39:00 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Springfield Legacy Foundation supports UGA Programs</title>
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					The University of Georgia Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources and the Georgia Sea Grant Program are two of the four organizations supported by the Springfield Legacy Foundation established in 2007 by Laura Devendorf of Midway, Ga.
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				<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:53:41 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>UGA researchers awarded $1.34 million USDA climate change grant</title>
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					Researchers and an outreach specialist at the University of Georgia have been awarded a $1.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture to identify and promote ways pine forests can be used to mitigate and adapt to climate change. The grant is part of a larger $20 million award being coordinated by the University of Florida, which is leading an 11-university consortium to conduct research, extension and outreach education about the potential for pine trees as a climate change solution.
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				<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 20:20:06 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Carter Gift endows UGA Distinguished Professorship in Journalism</title>
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					A $250,000 gift by former journalist and University of Georgia alumnus Don E. Carter will support an increased focus on public affairs journalism in UGA's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
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				<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 15:38:04 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Former governor&#8217;s papers given to the UGA Russell Library</title>
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					After serving more than three decades in state and local government including two terms as Georgia&rsquo;s governor, Sonny Perdue has committed his political papers and memorabilia to the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies at the University of Georgia.&nbsp;
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				<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:34:26 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Ernst and Young pledges $1 million to UGA&#8217;s Tull School of Accounting</title>
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					Ernst and Young, one of the largest professional services firms in the world, has pledged a $1 million gift to the Tull School of Accounting in the University of Georgia Terry College of Business.
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				<pubDate>Fri, 5 Nov 2010 16:44:51 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Researchers to study anthropogenic drivers of rabies in vampire bats</title>
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					Now, a team of researchers, led by associate professor Sonia Altizer of the University of Georgia Odum School of Ecology, hopes to close these knowledge gaps with a $580,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for a three-year study of rabies in vampire bats in Peru.
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				<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:06:29 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>UGA College of Public Health receives training grant</title>
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					The University of Georgia College of Public Health is the recipient of a five-year $3.2 million award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to establish the Georgia Public Health Training Center to improve the state's public health system by enhancing skills of the current and future public health workforce.
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				<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:40:13 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Coca&#45;Cola Enterprises donates antique soda fountain to UGA College of Pharmacy</title>
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					Coca-Cola Enterprises donated a historic soda fountain to the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy today. The 1907 soda fountain, manufactured by Liquid Carbonic Co., is valued at $15,000.
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				<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:34:23 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>UGA research funding climbs to record for second year; continues in top 100 research universities</title>
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					For the second year running, the University of Georgia has set a record for research funding. Research awards received from external - mostly federal - sources totaled almost $176 million.
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				<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:58:04 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>UGA researchers win $1.34 million USDA&#45;DOE biofuels grant</title>
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					Researchers at the University of Georgia have won a $1.34 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to attempt to increase the productivity of trees by genetically modifying certain proteins critical to wood formation. The study could have important implications in using trees as biofuel.
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				<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:47:17 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>UGA researchers receive grants to reduce childhood obesity in Georgia communities</title>
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					University of Georgia researchers recently received funding to find ways to prevent or reduce childhood obesity, a health crisis of epidemic proportions in Georgia, through partnerships among University System of Georgia institutions and local communities.
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				<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:36:26 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>UGA researchers seek to improve English language learners&#8217; achievement with $2.9 million grant</title>
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					University of Georgia education researchers have received a $2.9 million grant from the Institute of Education Sciences to examine the effectiveness of a teaching method based on small-group dialogue in improving the academic achievement of English language learners in upper elementary grades.
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				<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:45:40 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>UGA researcher awarded National Science Foundation Rapid&#45;Response Grant</title>
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					University of Georgia geneticist Mike Arnold has received a National Science Foundation Rapid Response Grant to assess the effects of crude oil and dispersant on native plant populations in the Gulf Coast region.
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				<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:07:47 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>$1.47 million award to UGA researchers enables purchase of next generation X&#45;ray detector</title>
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					B.C. Wang, the Ramsey-Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Structural Biology at the University of Georgia, and four UGA colleagues have received a $1.47 million award for the purchase of a next-generation, high-speed X-ray detector.
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				<pubDate>Mon, 9 Aug 2010 14:56:06 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>UGA receives $700,000 grant to create new Professional Science Master&#8217;s program</title>
				<link>http://news.uga.edu/releases/article/uga&#45;receives&#45;700000&#45;grant&#45;to&#45;create&#45;new&#45;professional&#45;science&#45;masters</link>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:49:08 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>$2.4 million gift from The Goizueta Foundation boosts need&#45;based scholarships at UGA</title>
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					A $2.4 million gift from The Goizueta Foundation is expanding need-based scholarships at the University of Georgia for students who are fluent in Spanish, the most rapidly growing segment of the state's college-age population.
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				<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:55:39 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>UGA&#8217;s Georgia Museum of Art awarded grant for collaborative exhibition and catalogue</title>
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					The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia in partnership with the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University and the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma was recently awarded a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation for the exhibition and catalogue of Art Interrupted: Advancing American Art and the Politics of Cultural Diplomacy. 
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				<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:45:38 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>UGA College of Family and Consumer Sciences receives $1.3 million federal stimulus grant</title>
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					A $1.3 million stimulus grant to University of Georgia College of Family and Consumer Sciences will help Georgians reduce their energy bills and carbon footprint, and create jobs in Georgia.
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				<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:29:51 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Stimulus grant brings new research projects and jobs to Savannah River Ecology Laboratory</title>
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					A $2.6 million federal stimulus grant from the U.S. Department of Energy will bring new jobs to the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, the University of Georgia research facility located near Aiken, S.C.
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				<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:09:25 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Gift expands access to cutting&#45;edge geographic imaging technology at UGA</title>
				<link>http://news.uga.edu/releases/article/gift&#45;expands&#45;access&#45;to&#45;cutting&#45;edge&#45;geographic&#45;imaging&#45;technology&#45;at&#45;uga</link>
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					Students and faculty members at the University of Georgia in fields as diverse as agriculture, landscape architecture and geography will benefit from a gift that allows them to use satellite images and aerial photographs to better understand the world around them.
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				<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:25:19 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>UGA receives $6 million in stimulus funds for energy&#45;saving retrofits</title>
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					The university has been awarded $5,942,845 for utility system improvements at its main campus in Athens, its extended campus in Griffin, and its Marine Institute facility on Sapelo Island.
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				<pubDate>Wed, 9 Sep 2009 5:24:28 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>UGA sets annual private fundraising record</title>
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					The University of Georgia raised $110.8 million in gifts and commitments for the fiscal year that ended June 30, setting a new record for private giving at the nation's oldest state-chartered university.
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				<pubDate>Wed, 5 Aug 2009 16:35:48 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>State Farm gift funds creation of a new sales lab in UGA&#8217;s Terry College of Business</title>
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					State Farm has committed $96,000 to establish a sales lab at the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business.
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				<pubDate>Tue, 7 Apr 2009 20:47:21 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Athletic Association Gives $6M</title>
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					The University of Georgia Athletic Association will help the university cope with one of its harshest financial challenges in decades by contributing $6 million to support teaching and research.
The association&rsquo;s board of directors voted unanimously Feb. 4 to approve Athletic Director Damon Evans&rsquo; request to provide $2 million a year for three years to support academic programs.
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				<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:37:52 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>$1 million gift to UGA will help create children&#8217;s garden</title>
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					When Alice Richards' family decided to give $1 million to the State Botanical Garden at the University of Georgia to create a children's garden, they didn't know they were helping fulfill a dream she had harbored for almost two decades.
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				<pubDate>Mon, 9 Feb 2009 5:29:12 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>UGA Athletic Association giving $6 million</title>
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					The University of Georgia Athletic Association will help the university cope with one of its harshest financial challenges in decades by contributing $6 million to support teaching and research.
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				<pubDate>Sat, 7 Feb 2009 2:36:55 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>New grant to improve computing power of UGA biologists</title>
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					A new grant from the National Science Foundation will more than quadruple the computing power available to University of Georgia biologists.
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				<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:21:13 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>UGA&#8217;s Archway to Excellence campaign ends</title>
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					The University of Georgia received a total of $653,647,368 in gifts and commitments during its seven-year Archway to Excellence fundraising campaign that ended June 30.
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				<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:33:28 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>UGA department of mathematics awarded $3.8 million grant</title>
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					The National Science Foundation has awarded the department of mathematics at the University of Georgia a five-year, $3.8 million grant to continue to develop its integrated research and training program.
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				<pubDate>Fri, 8 Aug 2008 20:49:35 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>UGA gets $2.5 million in grants to study plants</title>
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					University of Georgia researchers were recently awarded two grants totaling $2.5 million to help find better ways to produce biofuels from switchgrass and sunflowers.
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				<pubDate>Thu, 7 Aug 2008 20:58:15 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>More than $4 million committed to FACS as part of planned giving campaign</title>
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					More than $4 million has been committed to the University of Georgia College of Family and Consumer Sciences as part of the college's 100 Legacies in the Making planned giving campaign.
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				<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:34:28 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>NEH makes grant of nearly $350,000 to UGA project</title>
				<link>http://news.uga.edu/releases/article/neh&#45;makes&#45;grant&#45;of&#45;nearly&#45;350000&#45;to&#45;uga&#45;project</link>
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					The Linguistic Atlas Project, a compilation of studies on words and the pronunciation of everyday American English dating back to the 1930s and located at the University of Georgia, has been awarded a $349,600 grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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				<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:07:08 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Former state amateur ennis champion leaves UG $1.8 million for academic scholarships</title>
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					Though she was never a student at the University of Georgia like her father, Natalie Cohen had a love affair with UGA football that began almost a century ago and lasted a lifetime.
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				<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:50:21 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>NOAA funds UGA College of Public Health graduate program on ocean sciences and health policy</title>
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					Led by faculty from the College of Public Health, the University of Georgia is now partnering with researchers from multiple agencies to host a new graduate training program. The program participants will investigate applications to human health and health policy related to aquatic/ocean sciences.
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				<pubDate>Wed, 3 Oct 2007 3:37:41 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>$2.5 million National Science Foundation grant to UGA</title>
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					What began as a breakfast-table discussion between two married University of Georgia professors has led to a $2.5 million grant for a novel interdisciplinary research and education program with China.
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				<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:13:22 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>UGA again tops $100 million in annual private fundraising</title>
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					For the second consecutive year, the University of Georgia has broken the $100 million mark in private funds raised, receiving a total of $106.4 million in gifts and new commitments for the fiscal year that ended June 30. 
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				<pubDate>Thu, 2 Aug 2007 22:16:44 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>$1 million gift from The Coca&#45;Cola Foundation to support first generation UGA students</title>
				<link>http://news.uga.edu/releases/article/1&#45;million&#45;gift&#45;from&#45;the&#45;coca&#45;cola&#45;foundation&#45;to&#45;support&#45;first&#45;generation&#45;ug</link>
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					The Coca-Cola Foundation has made a gift of $1 million to the University of Georgia to expand its Coca-Cola First Generation Scholarship program.
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				<pubDate>Mon, 2 Jul 2007 18:06:04 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Deceased UGA scientist&#8217;s $1.24 million bequest creates two professorships in botany</title>
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					Colleagues knew University of Georgia scientist Bruce Lee Haines as a private, low-key man whose life revolved around his research on plant ecology and who loved talking science with graduate students and fellow faculty.
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				<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:13:43 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>William Harry Willson Distinguished Chair established with $2.5 million endowment to Terry College</title>
				<link>http://news.uga.edu/releases/article/william&#45;harry&#45;wilson&#45;distinguished&#45;chair&#45;established&#45;with&#45;2.5&#45;million&#45;endow</link>
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					Jane S. Willson of Albany, Ga., has given a $2.5 million gift to the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia to endow a new faculty chair in memory of her late husband. The William Harry Willson Distinguished Chair will honor Harry Willson's commitment to business excellence and his support of higher education in the state of Georgia.
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				<pubDate>Wed, 7 Mar 2007 20:10:05 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>UGA Honors Program receives $1 million gift from Jane Willson</title>
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					The University of Georgia Honors Program has received a $1 million gift from Jane S. Willson of Albany that will enable honors students to study abroad.
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				<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 19:33:45 GMT</pubDate>
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