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Proposals sought for next faculty hiring initiative
v UGA deans have been invited to submit proposals for positions to be funded or partially funded through a second Faculty Hiring Initiative, recently approved…
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Regents adopt budget reduction contingency plans
Although state revenue collections rose in June and July over the same months a year ago-the first two-month increase period in two years-the board of…
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Fresh start
UGA welcomed more than 6,100 new undergraduate students this fall, including more than 4,700 new freshmen and close to 1,400 new transfer students. Another 1,000…
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Cable lineup
University Cablevision has announced the following additions to its lineup: CSS, which carries many UGA sporting events, both live and taped; MSNBC; The 101; Fox…
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Law library tours
The library at the School of Law offers tours and legal research instructional sessions to all schools and departments on campus. For courses with a…
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Pre-marriage workshop
The College of Family and Consumer Sciences is offering a one-day workshop entitled “Prepare for Marriage” for engaged couples on Oct. 2 from 9 a.m.-5…
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Grant proposals
The Office of the Vice President for Public Service and Outreach invites public service, tenure-track or clinical faculty members to submit proposals for the 2010-2011…
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New website promotes lab’s services
The Stable Isotope/Soil Biology Laboratory of the Odum School of Ecology’s new website for soil, water and plant analysis promotes the variety of analytical services…
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Professor emeritus publishes textbook about istory of ecosystem science
Big Ecology: The Emergence of Ecosystem Science David Coleman University of California Press $39.95 David C. Coleman, Distinguished Research Professor emeritus in the Odum School…
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Balancing act: Staffer finds time for art, music while moving up in ranks
What do a stained glass artist, a blues singer in a local band and a marketing professional in the Terry College of Business have in…
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Life behind bars
Ron Carlson, a professor of law, was quoted in a CNN article about a convicted killer and how parole boards make decisions. “This is a…
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Weathering hard times
In an article about the southeast U.S.’s vulnerability to climate change, the Chattanooga, Tenn. Times-Free Press quoted Marshall Shepherd, an associate professor or geography, who…
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Going abroad
A USAToday story about tracking student performance and study-abroad programs quoted Don Rubin, a professor emeritus of speech communication and language education. “The skeptics of…
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Melting myths
An article written by United Press International about the belief that water in polar regions created by melting ice can absorb carbon dioxide and lessen…
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From the bat cave
Scientific Computing quoted Daniel Streicker, a UGA researcher, and Sonia Altizer, an assistant professor of ecology at UGA, in an article documenting their research into…
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Accounting for oil
The Nigerian newspaper Punch quoted Samantha Joye, a professor of marine sciences, in a story about continuing cleanup efforts that BP was taking following the…
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Community Music School to offer ensemble lessons to area seniors
The University of Georgia Community Music School, in partnership with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, will begin offering ensemble performance opportunities to senior citizens in…
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UGA ranks ninth in number of graduates headed for Teach for America corps
The University of Georgia ranked ninth nationally in its number of graduating seniors who are pursuing teaching positions with Teach For America’s 2010 teaching corps,…
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Grant to used to assess effects of oil leak, dispersant on plant populations
Geneticist Mike Arnold has received a National Science Foundation Rapid Response Grant to assess the effects of crude oil and dispersant on native plant populations…
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Office of Information Security offers virus, spyware protection for UGA students, faculty, staff
The Office of Information Security has upgraded the service that provides free anti-virus, anti-spyware and firewall protection for computers of UGA students, faculty and staff.…
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UNC students can opt out of abortion coverage in health insurance
Students at the University of North Caroline who get health insurance through the institution now have the ability to drop the plan’s standard abortion coverage,…
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Former president of Colombia will teach at Georgetown University
Former Colombian president, Álvaro Uribe Vélez, has agreed to join the faculty of Georgetown University as a distinguished scholar this fall, The Chronicle of Higher…
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UGA researchers receive grants to reduce childhood obesity in Georgia communities
University of Georgia researchers recently received funding to find ways to prevent or reduce childhood obesity, a health crisis of epidemic proportions in Georgia, through…
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GA researchers receive grants to assess environmental impacts of Gulf oil spill
Two University of Georgia marine sciences researchers, Samantha Joye and Patricia Medeiros, have received rapid response grants from the National Science Foundation to further assess…