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UGA to celebrate Women’s History Month
In recognition of the 2009 national Women’s History Month theme “Women: Taking the Lead to Save Our Planet,” the University of Georgia Institute for Women’s…
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State mileage reimbursement
UGA officials were informed that the State Accounting Office had updated the mileage reimbursement rates for travel by state-owned or personal vehicles on Feb. 1.…
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Service-Learning Fellowships
The Service-Learning Fellows Program is a yearlong faculty development program that provides an opportunity for selected faculty members to investigate, develop, implement and integrate service-learning…
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UGA Libraries blog about news and events
The UGA Libraries maintain a Web log filled with information about upcoming events, news and frequently asked questions. The blog, News and Events at UGA…
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New book details history of Audubon wildlife sanctuary in Mississippi
Strawberry PLains Audubon Center: Four Centuries of a Mississippi Landscape Hurbert H. McAlexander University Press of Missippi $20 Strawberry Plains Audubon Center: Four Centuries of…
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Safety from salmonella
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration advise consumers not to eat peanut products made with peanut butter or…
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New director named for UGA’s Gwinnett Campus
A new director for University of Georgia graduate and continuing education programs offered in Gwinnett has been named.
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Communications professionals receive awards
The University of Georgia received 10 awards in the 2008-2009 competition for District III of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Overall, UGA…
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The Smoking gun
In an article about the federal government’s building evidence against proprietors of a plant in Blakely that shipped salmonella-tainted foods, the Associated Press quoted Michael…
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Not the corporate interest
The Christian Science Monitor, in an article about the state of Georgia tightening its food safety net after a recent batch of peanuts in Blakely…
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Good Parents
Science Daily, a Web site devoted to research news, quoted Gene Brody, Regents Professor in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences, and Steven Beach,…
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Old school testing
Fox News, quoted Jan Bates Wheeler, the associate director for accreditation at the Office of Institutional Effectiveness, in an article about a plot Wheeler uncovered…
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A more honest Abde
n an article about present-day Americans’ fascination with U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, USA Today quoted Stephen Berry, a history professor at UGA. “(Students) ask, ‘Was…
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It keeps on tickin’
Physorg.com, an online source for news about physics, science and technology news, quoted Jonathan Arnold, a UGA geneticist, in an article about the different biological…
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Love of teaching led prof to stay at UGA
Kathryn Roulston came to UGA from Queensland, Australia, as a one-year post-doctoral fellow in 2000 to study and teach qualitative research methods-she did not expect…
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Fanning Institute: Rural leadership programs provide strength in tough economic times
A new study by UGA’s Fanning Institute shows that community leadership programs are helping to support economic viability in Georgia’s rural counties. The report, entitled…
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Breaking the Code
Southerners may best know sorghum as a sweet, biscuit-topping syrup. But the small grain’s uses range from a dependable, drought-tolerant food crop to biofuel source,…
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Professors: Stop college rankings
The American Association of University Professors is asking for a delay on U.S News & World Report’s college rankings in an effort to get colleges…
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Language police hang up cuffs at Queen’s University in Canada
Officials have discontinued a program at Kingston, Ontario’s Queen’s University in which six students employed by the school were asked to eavesdrop on campus conversations…
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IABC students take national honors
UGA’s chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators has been named the 2009 IABC Student Chapter of the Year. The chapter and its members…
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Conference to cover social injustice
Juvenile sentencing, eyewitness testimony and economic disparity are just a few of the topics that will be covered during the fourth annual Working in the…
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College of Education professor’s mentoring programs receive grant
A UGA counseling professor’s group of mentoring programs aimed at developing and nurturing academic and social skills, especially in young African-American men, has received a…
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Feminist legal theory expert will give House Lecture
Felice J. Batlan, a specialist in feminist legal theory, will deliver the School of Law’s 27th Edith House Lecture. Entitled “Are We Our Mother’s Law…
