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Budget update: Most jobs safe, ‘B’ units may face job losses
Despite shrinking funds from the state, most UGA workers should be safe from layoffs and furloughs in the current 2010 fiscal year if current budget…
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New department head named first Haltiwanger Professor
Jay A. Mancini, the new head of the University of Georgia College of Family and Consumer Sciences department of child and family development, has been…
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Marriage enrichment program
Engaged couples in Clarke, Oglethorpe and Oconee counties are being sought for the pre-marital preparation and relationship enhancement program provided by UGA’s Cooperative Extension and…
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Call for seminars
The First-Year Seminar Program invites faculty to offer seminars in the 2010-2011 academic year. The program offers a selection of academic classes under the heading…
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Conference deadline
Feb. 15 is the deadline to submit a presentation or poster for the 11th annual National Outreach Scholarship Conference hosted by North Carolina State University.…
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IAAP meeting
Members of the UGA community are invited to the next monthly meeting of the Athens chapter of the International Association of Administrative Professionals. It will…
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Law school site boasts new features
The School of Law recently completed an extensive redesign of its Web site. It has an increased visual impact, new interactive features and a greater…
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Book examines killing in sociology study
Is Killing Wrong?: AU Study in Pure Sociology Mark Cooney University of Virginia Press $39.50 “Thou shalt not kill” is arguably the most basic moral…
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Working in concert
Dale Monson became the director of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music in July 2009, after 10 years at Brigham Young University. Nearing his first…
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Retirees February 2010
Eleven UGA employees retired Feb. 1. Retirees, their job classification, department and length of employment are: Henry R. Ayers, forestry technician II, Warnell School of…
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Lifelong fascination with science leads prof to study student learning
While other young boys were playing with toy cars—mimicking the roar of their engines—John Mativo was more interested in how the real thing worked.
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Everybody counts
A Chattanooga Times-Free Press article about efforts to inform the Hispanic community about the upcoming 2010 U.S. census quoted Douglas Bachtel, UGA demographer. “It’s important…
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House of healing A story on the Internet Web log Huffington Post quoted UGA econom
An article entitled “Why attractiveness matters” in the Hindustan Times, a newspaper based in the Indian subcontinent, quoted Victoria Plaut, a psychologist in UGA’s Institute…
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Paul’s popularity
An L.A. Times article about the increasing popularity of Texas Congressman Ron Paul’s Libertarian views quoted UGA economics professor George Selgin. “A lot of good…
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Atlanta’s race relations
The Birmingham, Ala.,-based newspaper, The Times, quoted UGA political scientist Charles Bullock in an article about the role of race in the recent Atlanta mayoral…
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When models grow old
An article about African-American drug use on PhysOrg.com, a Web site devoted to news in the science, technology, physics and nano communities, quoted Ezemenari Obasi,…
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Self-control: It’s contagious
In article about recent research into the contagious effects of self-control, Business Week quoted Michelle vanDellen, an assistant professor of psychology at UGA. The research…
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House of healing
A story on the Internet Web log Huffington Post quoted UGA economist Jeff Humphreys in an article about the upturns in the November housing market.…
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Georgia Museum of Art awarded grant for collaborative exhibition, catalogue
The Georgia Museum of Art, in partnership with the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University and the Fred Jones Jr. Museum…
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Patterson Hood to host benefit for Grady College’s Osborne Classic Film Festival
Drive By Truckers’ Patterson Hood will host a Nashville-style songwriter-in-the-round performance at the 40 Watt Club on Feb. 24 at 10 p.m. to raise money…
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Ohio State University professor gives two invited campus lectures
Patti Lather, a nationally known expert in qualitative research, feminist methodology, and gender and education, will speak Feb. 11-12 at the first of the College…
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Don’t hibernate during winter months
The temperature has dropped and sunsets come earlier, but Lauren Healey, a Cooperative Extension 4-H youth development agent in Oconee County, says not to let…
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Tenn. law links funding to graduation
A new Tennessee law will link state funding for public colleges to graduation and student-retention rates, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported. The legislation, which…
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U. Mass system offers med school acceptance to high school seniors
In a move designed to increase the number of doctors from minority populations, the University of Massachusetts Medical School and four other institutions in the…