Author: Leigh Hataway

Make the most out of Take Our Kids to Work Day

Thousands of children will tag along to their parents’ workplaces on April 26 for the…
Turning trash into treasure

Right before Jenna Jambeck returned to school to get her doctorate in environmental engineering in…
Embark Georgia offers UGA’s most vulnerable students a helping hand

Margaret* hates the word homeless. But when she transferred to UGA in fall 2014, that’s…
TedXUGA presenters encourage others to develop new connections

It’s easy to get wrapped up in your own world view, seeking out information that…
Drug discoveries

Roughly half a million people die every year from malaria. Dennis Kyle puts the problem…
Alfred Blalock: Mender of broken hearts

Today, a century after he graduated from UGA, Alfred Blalock is revered in the medical…
UGA researchers battle neglected diseases around globe

Lymphatic filariasis. Schistosomiasis. Cryptosporidiosis. They’re some of the world’s most widespread parasitic diseases, but many…
New materials, new perspectives

Next time you visit the beach, take a look around. Chances are you’ll see a…
Healthy chickens, healthy economy

In Georgia, poultry farming isn’t just an industry. It’s an integral part of the state’s…
Operation optics

You can’t see it. You can’t feel it. But you use it every day—on…
Founders Day speaker: Scientists must communicate better

J. Marshall Shepherd knows how to communicate science to the public. The Georgia Athletic Association…
Checking out

When Jean Chin’s father moved his family of six to Athens for a job at…
Education is the key to realizing King’s dream

It’s been more than 50 years since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous…
Mail & Receiving assistant manager takes pride in protecting UGA’s goods

Al Sand has been a billing clerk, a forklift operator and a hostler; he logged…
Just the beginning

President Jere W. Morehead offered his congratulations to the fall 2017 graduating classes with a…
Protective barrier

Hitesh Handa doesn’t think a hospital stay for one problem should turn into another. But…
Namesake to deliver Holmes-Hunter Lecture

Charlayne Hunter-Gault, an award-winning journalist and University of Georgia alumna, will present the 2018 Holmes-Hunter…
Former associate provost to speak at Freedom Breakfast

Cheryl Davenport Dozier, president of Savannah State University and former associate provost and chief diversity…
Science ‘Cell-a-Bration’

It’s 8 o’clock on a Friday morning, but the room in Barrow Elementary School is…
Students launch businesses through Entrepreneurship Program

More than 300 University of Georgia students have been inspired and trained to launch their…
Impacting someone’s day-to-day life is music to grants coordinator’s ears

June was a busy month for Michael McGough. The grants coordinator for the College of…
UGA dedicates Center for Molecular Medicine

The University of Georgia’s Center for Molecular Medicine officially has a new home on Riverbend…
Endowed faculty positions on the rise at UGA

The number of endowed faculty positions continues to rise at the University of Georgia, now…
Weigh to go

When Aaron Bemis found out UGA was participating in the University System of Georgia’s HealthTrails…