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Evening Stroll
During an “Evening in the Garden” on Sept. 16, Allan Armitage, horticulture professor and founder of UGA’s Trial Gardens, gives a tour to a group…
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UGA receives awards for excellence in customer service
University System of Georgia Chancellor Erroll B. Davis Jr. recently recognized three UGA teams and two individual staff members with customer service awards for going…
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UGA’s Honors Internship Programs accepting applications
The University of Georgia Honors Internship Programs are now accepting applications for summer 2010 internships through Oct. 19.
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Peabody Awards issues call for entries, welcomes four new board members
The George Foster Peabody Awards’ 69th annual search for excellence in electronic media has begun.
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Balancing trade and security
A godsend to kidney-stone sufferers is a machine called a lithotripter, which focuses sound waves to break the stones into smaller fragments that may then…
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Female monarch butterflies on 30-year decline in eastern North America
Female monarch butterflies in eastern North America have significantly declined over the past 30 years, a new study by a University of Georgia researcher reveals.
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University of Michigan president emeritus to give engineering lecture at UGA
One of the nations’ foremost proponents of American higher education and its evolving role in shaping society, University of Michigan President Emeritus James J. Duderstadt,…
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UGA seeks community cooperation to manage game day trash and recycling
The university plans to distribute 12,000 trash bags in parking lots and around campus this Saturday before the Georgia Bulldogs play host to the Arizona…
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UGA alumna Beth Shapiro receives MacArthur Foundation “Genius Award”
University of Georgia alumna Beth Shapiro (BS ’99, MS ’99), a Rhodes Scholar who is currently Shaffer Career Development assistant professor of biology at Penn…
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UGA Press to sell ‘dirty books’
The University of Georgia Press will sell deeply discounted books at its Dirty Book Sale. The two-day event is Oct. 1 from 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.…
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Lillian Smith Book Award winners named
As part of the Decatur Book Festival on Sept. 6, the UGA Libraries and the Southern Regional Council presented the 2009 Lillian Smith Book Awards…
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UGAAlert test planned for Sept. 22
In conjunction with National Preparedness Month, a campus-wide test of UGAAlert, the university’s mass emergency notification system, is scheduled for Sept. 22 at 12:15 p.m.…
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New UGA study shows that the popular antioxidant quercetin does not enhance athletic performance
The antioxidant quercetin is increasingly being marketed as a supplement that boosts athletic performance, but a new UGA study finds that it is no better…
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Chemistry in outer space
Interstellar clouds drifting through the unimaginable vastness of space may be the stuff dreams are made of. But it turns out there’s an unexpectedly strange…
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Health Center offers tips to avoid flu
UGA and University Health Center officials are monitoring the international H1N1 flu situation. There are confirmed cases at UGA. To avoid getting either H1N1 or…
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Private college exchanges free tuition for town’s school building
Finlandia University, a private school in Michigan’s upper peninsula, has struck a deal with the town of Hancock, Mich., in which the university receives a…
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Kent State to give faculty bonuses
Tenure-track faculty at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, will receive bonuses this year from money raised through fundraising, the institution reported. The program was…
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UGA Honors students awarded 2009-2010 Boren Scholarships
Four undergraduates in the Honors Program have been awarded National Security Education Program David L. Boren Undergraduate Scholarships for language study abroad during the 2009-2010…
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Office of Multicultural Services and Programs celebrates 20 years
In recognition of its 20th anniversary, the Office of Multicultural Services and Programs will hold a weekend celebration for alumni, current students, faculty and staff.…
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UGA receives nearly $6 million in stimulus funds for energy retrofits
Federal stimulus dollars will once again be flowing to the University of Georgia, this time to upgrade energy systems and make them more efficient. The…
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Former Franklin associate dean will head international education
Kavita Pandit, a high-level administrator and professor at the State University System of New York, has been named the associate provost for international education at…
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Family researchers receive $5.9 million grant
UGA researchers have been awarded a five-year, $5.9 million Core Center of Excellence grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to address the ways…
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Jere Morehead selected to become UGA’s next provost
Jere W. Morehead, vice president for instruction and the Meigs Professor of Legal Studies at UGA, will serve as senior vice president for academic affairs…
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Waste Not
An innovative process for turning waste biomass-such as dead trees, agricultural waste and lumber byproducts-into a liquid fuel to power conventional engines has been licensed…