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Legendary novelist Chinua Achebe joins faculty at Brown University
Acclaimed novelist Chinua Achebe, who wrote Things Fall Apart, has accepted the position of David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and professor of Africana studies…
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UGA research funding reaches record high
UGA research funding reached a record high last year with University of Georgia researchers receiving more than $173 million from external sources.
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World Food Prize laureate to deliver 2009 Brooks Lecture
Philip Nelson, World Food Prize laureate and Scholle Chair professor at Purdue University, will deliver the 2009 D.W. Brooks Lecture. The annual lecture isOct. 6…
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First-year experience is focus of Quality Enhancement Plan
Starting in fall semester 2011, the first-year experience for new students at UGA will undergo a significant transformation. That’s when a new integrated program for…
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Michigan president emeritus will give Distinguished Lecture in Engineering
James J. Duderstadt, one of the nation’s foremost proponents of American higher education and its evolving role in shaping society, will deliver UGA’s 2009 Distinguished…
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NIH awards geneticist $2 million stimulus grant for reserach on thymus
The National Institutes of Health have awarded, as part of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, a two-year,$2 million grant to a UGA genetics researcher…
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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…