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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…
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Next generation of MyUGA will be launched March 2
Application Development and Database Management, a unit of EITS, is implementing a multi-phased project to upgrade MyUGA, the UGA student portal. MyUGA is a Web…
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VITA service: Financial planning majors offer free income tax help
UGA employees, as well as other Athens residents, have the opportunity again this year to have their taxes filled out for free by family financial…