Communications
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April 17, 2013 | Events on Campus
Futures of the Book Symposium to be held April 27 at UGA
Brian Croxall, an Emory University English professor whose research explores representations of technology within fiction and philosophy, is the featured speaker at the Futures of the Book Symposium April 27. The symposium will be held 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries at the University of Georgia.
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April 17, 2013 | Events on Campus
Free copies of 2013 Pandora Yearbook to be distributed to students
The 2013 edition of Pandora, the official yearbook of the University of Georgia, will be available to students free of charge during the annual Pandora Premiere event April 24 on Tate Student Center Plaza from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. and near Joe Frank Harris Commons on East Campus from 5-8 p.m.
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April 15, 2013 | General News
Turner Entertainment President creates Koonin Scholars Fund at UGA’s Grady College
Turner Entertainment President Steve Koonin and his wife Eydie have made a $250,000 personal gift and pledge to establish the Koonin Scholars Fund at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. The fund will provide scholarships for Grady students preparing for careers in the creative industries and media.
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April 15, 2013 | General News
Student-driven UGA app available in App Store
The University of Georgia has launched a new central mobile app that lets users track campus buses, plan their meals at various dining halls and see the latest athletic scores, among other features.
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April 11, 2013 | Events on Campus
NYU cinema studies chair to lecture on Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’ at UGA
Richard Allen, professor and chair of cinema studies at New York University, will lecture on the use of electronic sound in Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 film "The Birds" Apr. 22 at 12:20 p.m. in Room 53 of the University of Georgia's Fine Arts Building.
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April 8, 2013 | Events on Campus
Award-winning essayist to speak at The Georgia Review fifth annual Earth Day celebration
Nationally known environmental activist and award-winning writer Scott Russell Sanders will speak on "Near and Distant Bears" during The Georgia Review's fifth annual Earth Day program on April 22 at 7 p.m. in the Cecil B. Day Chapel at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia. A reception will follow, with musical accompaniment by the eclectic Athens duo Hawk Proof Rooster.
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April 8, 2013 | Honors & Awards
UGA Career Center wins Chevron Award for new iPad career guide
The University of Georgia Career Center has received a national award for its newly created Digital Career Guide for iPad.
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April 5, 2013 | General News
Passport office to move to Tate Student Center copy shop
On April 15, the passport office in the University of Georgia Tate Student Center is relocating to a new space on the third floor, to Print and Copy Services. Previously located in the UGACard office, the operation is moving to the new space because of new federal regulations that prohibit the issuing of passports in facilities that produce other official identification cards.
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April 4, 2013 | Events on Campus
Alumni, Athletic Associations to hold UGA Days
The University of Georgia Alumni Association and the UGA Athletic Association will host UGA Days events in a tour of 12 cities in four states spanning April to July.
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April 2, 2013 | General News
Trailblazer for equity in the workplace, Lorena Weeks, featured in new PBS series
Lorena Weeks, who won a landmark sex discrimination case against Southern Bell Telephone Co. in 1969 and donated her papers to the University of Georgia Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies in 2010, has been chosen for inclusion in the new PBS Series on the Women's Movement, "Makers."
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April 2, 2013 | Events on Campus
Irish poet Ciaran Carson to open Atlantic Archipelagos Research Project conference
The welcome reception to the 2013 Atlantic Archipelagos Research Project at the University of Georgia will feature a reading by poet and novelist Ciaran Carson of Belfast, Ireland. The April 10 reception in the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries will begin at 7 p.m. The reading will take place in the building's auditorium.
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March 28, 2013 | Honors & Awards
Grady College to recognize distinguished alumni
Four distinguished alumni of the University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication will be recognized May 9 at 10:30 a.m. at the Georgian Hotel in Athens.
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March 27, 2013 | Honors & Awards
72nd Annual Peabody Awards winners announced
Thirty-nine recipients of the 72nd Annual Peabody Awards were announced today by the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. The winners, chosen by the Peabody board as the best in electronic media for the year 2012, were named in a ceremony in the Peabody Gallery on the UGA Campus.
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March 26, 2013 | Events on Campus
Princeton University scholar to lecture on modernism, photography at UGA
Michael Jennings of Princeton University will visit the University of Georgia to discuss German-Jewish cultural philosopher Walter Benjamin's "Berlin Childhood around 1900" on April 8 from 3:30-6:35 p.m. in Room 144 of Park Hall. Part of the Seminars on Modernism series organized and hosted by Jed Rasula in the department of English, the lecture is open to the UGA community.
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March 26, 2013 | General News
Dick Yarbrough establishes Chair in Crisis Communications Leadership
The University of Georgia Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication has announced the creation of the C. Richard Yarbrough chair in Crisis Communications Leadership. The official announcement comes during Grady's "Dick Yarbrough Day," at an event that kicks off the college's first Crisis Communications Week.