Month: September 2018
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UGA Theatre opens season with ‘The Tall Girls’
UGA Theatre begins its season with a production of Meg Miroshnik’s The Tall Girls.
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UGA programs, faculty recognized by state water conservation group
UGA’s Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, the C.M. Stripling Irrigation Research Park and…
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Pulitzer Prize winner to give keynote address at Lillian Smith Book Awards
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hank Klibanoff will be the featured speaker at the celebration of the…
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Changing the world with empathy
The global challenges of the 21st century are becoming more complex and involved.
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Six research projects receive seed funding through grant program
Six collaborative, international research projects have received seed funding under UGA’s Global Research Collaboration Grant…
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President Morehead attends Staff Council Meeting
UGA President Jere W. Morehead spoke to the Staff Council during its Sept. 5 meeting…
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UGA Marine Institute expands undergraduate residential program
The UGA Marine Institute on Sapelo Island will offer a spring residential program for 14…
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Golf clinics, fees
The UGA Golf Course will host free golf clinics for UGA staff and faculty on…
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American historian and author to give Constitution Day Lecture
On Sept. 17, UGA’s School of Public and the International Affairs American Founding Group will…
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Four faculty members named SEC Academic Leadership Development Program Fellows
Four UGA faculty members—Scott Ardoin, Thomas Mote, Amanda Murdie and Usha Rodrigues—have been selected as…
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New UGA scholarship and program serves rural students
The ALL Georgia program is a network of campus resources “to support these exceptional students.”
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UGA researchers battling the destructive whitefly
Last year, the tiny silverleaf whitefly decimated vulnerable crops throughout south Georgia.
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Nonprofit professorship named for retired UGA faculty member
Not many university faculty members can say they’ve established a graduate degree program, but Professor…
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Julie Fowlis to perform ‘Music from the Scottish Isles’
Fowlis is known to millions of children and parents around the world for singing the…
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Where have all the turtles gone, and why does it matter?
61 percent of the world’s 356 turtle species are threatened or already extinct, with consequences.
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Sculptor Richard Hunt fuses diverse influences
Hunt has created more than 130 large-scale public commissions and helped change the role of…
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New book about 9/11 by UGA professor
In her recently published book about 9/11, Angry Public Rhetorics, Distinguished Research Professor in the department…
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UGA engineering programs earn accreditation
All eight undergraduate degree programs in the college now have earned accreditation from ABET.
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18 UGA students, alumni receive Fulbright offers
The Fulbright Program offers study and teaching opportunities in more than 140 countries.
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$5M grant to help reduce indoor farming energy costs
One of the steepest barriers to profitable controlled-environment agriculture is the energy cost associated with…
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UGA climbs to 13th in U.S. News & World Report rankings
This is the third consecutive year the university has risen in the U.S. News national…
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Mary Frances Early: A life of courage and accomplishment
The College of Education formally named itself in her honor in February.
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Jean Martin-Williams kicks off 2018-2019 Faculty Artist Series
This season’s Faculty Artist Series begins with Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor of Horn Jean…
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More than 300 people attended UGA’s 2018 Multicultural Faculty and Staff Reception
UGA’s 2018 Multicultural Faculty and Staff Reception was held on Aug. 28 at the Georgia…
