Education
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January 27, 2010 | General News
Athens-Clarke manager shares experience with future leaders
Alan Reddish, manager of the Athens-Clarke County Unified Government, recently shared his insights into local government first-hand with a class of University of Georgia graduate students.
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January 27, 2010 | General News
Decatur city manager shares experience with future leaders
Peggy Merriss, city manager of Decatur, recently shared her insights into local government first-hand with a class of University of Georgia graduate students.
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January 27, 2010 | General News
Canton city manager shares experience with future leaders
Scott Wood, city manager of Canton, recently shared his insights into local government first-hand with a class of University of Georgia graduate students.
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January 27, 2010 | General News
UGA FACS earns national accreditation
The University of Georgia College of Family and Consumer Sciences has been recognized by its national accrediting agency for its innovative faculty, the community service learning opportunities offered to undergraduates, and the support of its alumni.
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January 26, 2010 | Events on Campus
UGA to host visiting ceramics artist Arthur Gonzalez
The University of Georgia Lamar Dodd School of Art brings to campus the ceramic sculptor Arthur Gonzalez as a visiting artist, beginning with a lecture at 5 p.m. in room S101 of the art school on Jan. 28.
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December 8, 2009 | General News
New fellowship program draws STEM majors to teaching in public schools
Ten recent graduates or professionals in mathematics and science have returned to classes at the University of Georgia this fall to become future math and science teachers in Georgia's public schools, thanks to a new scholarship program in the UGA College of Education, funded by nearly $1 million in federal grants.
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November 19, 2009 | General News
UGA education associate dean to help develop Common Core K-12 Standards
University of Georgia education professor and administrator James Marshall has been named to a group of educators, scholars and school administrators which will help develop a common national K-12 standard for English-language arts and mathematics.
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November 18, 2009 | General News
Athens and Albany medical campuses on target for 2010, accrediting body says
Resources are adequate for Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine to proceed with a four-year campus in Athens in partnership with the University of Georgia and a two-year residential clinical campus in Southwest Georgia, the accrediting body for U.S. medical schools has confirmed.
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November 17, 2009 | General News
UGA Child Development Lab earns national accreditation
The Child Development Lab at the McPhaul Center of the University of Georgia College of Family and Consumer Sciences is one of the first in the nation to receive accreditation by the National Association for the Education of Young Children under a new system that requires child care programs to meet more than 400 separate criteria.
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November 6, 2009 | General News
UGA to co-host White House Initiative’s Community Conversation on Latino education
Georgia educators, students, parents, community and business leaders will have an opportunity to speak to leaders of a White House Initiative on how to improve education for Latino immigrants in a Community Conversation on Friday, Nov. 13 at the Atlanta Latin American Association.
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November 3, 2009 | General News
UGA & Univ. of Michigan to collaborate on 2010 Atlanta Leadership Symposium
The business schools at the University of Georgia and the University of Michigan announced Tuesday their collaboration on a new executive program to be called the Atlanta Leadership Symposium.
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October 12, 2009 | General News
UGA education prof’s science textbook inspires Malawi teen to ‘harness the wind’
A science textbook written by University of Georgia education professor Mary M. Atwater is being heralded as the inspiration and guide for a 14-year-old African boy's quest to build a windmill that provided electricity to his family and village for the first time.
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August 18, 2009 | General News
UGA hosts international language instructors
Six language instructors from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Turkey and Bangladesh have begun the fall semester at the University of Georgia under the auspices of the Fulbright Program and the Institute of International Education in New York.
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July 28, 2009 | General News
Local teachers study ways to engage students
Ten area school teachers from Clarke, Barrow, Gwinnett, and Rockdale counties and four University of Georgia education researchers will collaborate in a teacher inquiry community this fall to develop ways to help students engage in school.
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July 22, 2009 | General News
High School Students to present STEM Summer Academy Projects
For the past two weeks, about 45 Athens-area high school students have learned about advanced mathematics and science, and possible careers in those fields, during a Summer Academy hosted by the University of Georgia's department of mathematics and science education.