Month: August 2019
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Partitioning vegetables can increase consumption
Research shows that food presentation can affect eating behaviors.
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Researchers get $1.4M to combat opioid crisis
It’s aimed at training students to become behavioral health professionals.
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Botanical Garden projects to increase opportunities
The projects will also improve accessibility to garden exhibits and facilities.
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Providing free legal help to Athens entrepreneurs
School of Law’s Business Law Clinic provides guidance for fledgling businesses.
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Human trafficking in Georgia: The need for data
Associate professor David Okech discusses what researchers are doing.
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Veteran revisits Navy School, now UGA’s HSC
Steve Kassay donated some of his Navy items to the university.
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Kaitlin Luedecke
Kaitlin Luedecke, a Goldwater Scholar on track to become a chemistry professor, hopes to inspire a…
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Emily Sahakian
Emily Sahakian, associate professor of theatre and French, has developed community partnerships that include a…
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Veterinary students welcomed in white coat ceremony
The event officially recognized 114 members of the incoming class by donning them in lab…
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Crich joins UGA faculty as GRA Eminent Scholar
David Crich is a synthetic chemist who specializes in carbohydrate chemistry.
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Kim named first Magill Professor in Sports Communications
Jooyoung Kim’s research at Grady College focuses on advertising theory and practice.
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New Faculty Tour provides education and impact
New UGA faculty and administrators take a five-day trek across Georgia.
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Forums to be held about USG’s strategic planning effort
The four regional forums being are part of the University System of Georgia’s 2019 strategic…
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Obesity Initiative, Plant Center get new directors
Jamie Cooper and C.J. Tsai have taken the reins of the two units.
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Bink on mission to grow UGA’s defense portfolio
He’ll focus on research areas that intersect defense, security and space.
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College of Public Health professor tracks tuberculosis through mobile location data
Cellphones make a lot of things easier—keeping in touch with family, finding directions to the…
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Grady College study identifies trends, challenges facing public relations professionals
The first study to examine the state of public relations in Canada and the U.S.…
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Fifteen UGA employees retired May 1, 2019
Fifteen UGA employees retired on May 1, 2019.
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OIR website gets update, additional section
The Office of Institutional Research website has been updated to provide more and easier access…
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Book seeks to combine poetry, philosophy
Poet Helen Mort and Aaron Meskin, UGA faculty member, explore what happens when poetry and…
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UGA Symphony Orchestra kicks off new season
The performance is the opening concert of the 2019-2020 Thursday Scholarship Series season.
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COE faculty named editor of multidisciplinary journal
Joel Ringdahl was recently named editor of Behavior Analysis: Research and Practice.
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Franklin College faculty member receives McKnight Scholar Award
Rachel Roberts-Galbraith has received the 2019 McKnight Scholar Award.
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CAES faculty member named Crop Science Society of America Fellow
Katrien M. Devos, a faculty member in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, has…
