All News
-
Science symposium judges
Judges and readers are needed for the 36th Georgia Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, which will be held March 6-8 at the Georgia Center. Sponsored…
-
History Day judges
Judges are needed for documentary, performance, website, exhibit and paper categories at the annual District I History Day Contest, which will be held Jan. 29…
-
Service-learning mini grants
The Office of Service-Learning invites faculty members of all career tracks (full- and part-time), staff or graduate students to submit proposals for service-learning mini grants.…
-
Pecan sale
The Environmental Health Science Club is selling fresh, Georgia-grown Schermer pecans. This year the club is offering fancy mammoth pecan halves, dark chocolate-covered pecans, chocolate-covered…
-
Georgia Center revamps site
The Georgia Center for Continuing Education Conference Center and Hotel has updated its website with a new look and functionality. The site boasts a clean…
-
Salamanders featured in final volume of guide to Southeastern reptiles, amphibians
Salamanders of the Southeast By Joe Mitchell and Whit Gibbons UGA Press $26.95 Salamanders of the Southeast completes the five-book series of guides to reptiles…
-
Healthy outlook
Open enrollment for the 2011 calendar year will run Oct. 25-Nov. 19. Columns sat down with Lydia Lanier, senior director of the Financial Management and…
-
Retirees October 2010
Nineteen UGA employees retired Oct. 1. Retirees, their job classification, department and length of employment are:Vickie E. Bates, associate accountant, Soil, Plant and Water Lab,…
-
Mr. Fix-IT: Network administrator troubleshoots school’s computers
Between handling troubled callers, helping people figure out their problems and just generally being there for his colleagues, Rysiew’s job as the network administrator in…
-
Henry F. Schaefer III, honored by the the University of California
Henry F. Schaefer III, Graham Perdue Professor and director of the Center for Computational Chemistry, was honored by the University of California at Berkeley with…
-
Beth Phillips, named residency Preceptor of the Year
Beth Phillips, a clinical associate professor in the College of Pharmacy, has been named Residency Preceptor of the Year by the American Society of Health-System…
-
John Knox, T. Theodore Fujita Research Achievement Award
John Knox, an assistant professor in the department of geography, received the T. Theodore Fujita Research Achievement Award from the National Weather Association. The award…
-
Gene Helfman, delivered the anual Smith Memorial Lecture
Gene Helfman, professor emeritus in the Odum School of Ecology, delivered the annual Smith Memorial Lecture at the South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity in…
-
A. Stanley Culpepper, 2010 Montreal Protocol Award
A. Stanley Culpepper, associate professor and extension agronomist at the Tifton Campus, has been selected to receive the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s 2010 Montreal Protocol…
-
Seminar to examine health care bill’s effect on insurance choices at UGA
Roger Roemmich, a former faculty member in accounting and current certified financial planner, and Kari March, president of ROKA Wealth Strategists, will be conducting a…
-
Fall enrollment at UGA down slightly
UGA’s total fall enrollment is 34,677, down one-half of 1 percent from last year. There are 7,752 new students attending the university, with 4,333 first-time…
-
Board of regents adopts new policies concerning undocumented students
A report presented Oct. 13 to the board of regents found that only 501 undocumented students-all paying out-of-state tuition-are among the 310,000 students enrolled in…
-
Make sure Halloween treats are safe
Halloween is a time of costumes, merriment and good fright. According to Judy Harrison, a Cooperative Extension foods specialist, Halloween also presents three major hazards:…
-
U.S. medical schools see rise in enrollment of minority students
Enrollment figures in medical schools across the U.S. rose in 2010, and minority students represent the largest rise in gains, The Chronicle of Higher Education…
-
Ohio academic libraries institute new policy to help save space
To cope with a storage crunch resulting from a lack of space in their five book depositories, 13 academic libraries in Ohio have decided to…
-
Free tree ID class
Dan Williams (left), forest resources manager for the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, leads a recent tree identification class at Oconee Forest Park.…
-
Totally Ludacris
Rapper Ludacris (near photo, above) was the headline act at the annual Homecoming concert Oct. 13. More than 4,000 of his fans (top photo, above)…
-
NSF grant will be used to study vampire bats in Peru
Throughout Latin America, common vampire bats transmit infectious diseases like rabies to animals and humans. Factors influencing the spread of disease within bat populations and…
