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  • Department of mathematics is awarded $3.8 million NSF grant

    The National Science Foundation has awarded UGA’s department of mathematics a five-year, $3.8 million grant to continue to develop its integrated research and training program.

  • Record-breaking class

    UGA expects just over 4,800 students in the new freshman class, and they will set new records for academic quality and diversity, according to the…

  • Stic Harris

    Stic Harris

    Stic Harris has led numerous lives in one. Before he came to UGA’s vet school, he worked on trauma research, spent time playing professional ice…

  • UGA Arts Festival and School of Art building dedication

    Music, drama, art, dance and poetry will enliven the University of Georgia campus during the first UGA Arts Festival, a four-day celebration to be held…

  • Graduate School Orientation and InfoFair

    University of Georgia Graduate School officials expect more than 800 incoming students at the Graduate School Orientation and InfoFair Thursday, Aug. 14, from 9 to…

  • Historic UGA Chapel Bell returns this week

    Gleaming brightly and safely secured in a sturdy new tower, the historic University of Georgia Chapel Bell will be back in place when fall semester…

  • Nithya Natrajan

    Nithya Natrajan

    Nithya Natrajan cares about people. The mid-term Foundation Fellow and CURO apprentice chose UGA for her undergraduate degrees because she was able to start doing…

  • Tulsi Patel

    Tulsi Patel

    Senior Tulsi Patel is a pure scientist. She came to UGA as a freshman because of the Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities program that allowed…

  • Dining hall openings

    Bolton Dining Commons and the Summit open Aug. 12 at 10:30 a.m. Oglethorpe Dining Commons opens Aug. 14 at 7 a.m. Snelling Dining Commons opens…

  • Mileage reimbursement rates

    The State Accounting Office has updated mileage reimbursement rates for travel in state-owned or personal vehicles. When it is determined that a personal motor vehicle…

  • Bioware software training

    A Web-based program for submission of animal use protocols is available to help researchers. The Bioware software program streamlines the proposal submission, review, revision and…

  • Orientation for graduate TAs

    New graduate students with teaching or laboratory responsibilities are required to attend the workshop and orientation session conducted by the Center for Teaching and Learning…

  • New faculty colloquium

    The Center for Teaching and Learning will conduct a day-long orientation for new UGA faculty beginning at 8 a.m. Aug. 14 in Masters Hall of…

  • UGA to host global health research symposium

    The University of Georgia’s Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases will host an international research symposium, “Global Health through Research,” on Sept. 19 and…

  • Student employment fair

    The July 28 issue of Columns contained the wrong location for the upcoming student employment fair. On Aug. 22 the Career Center will host the…

  • Summer enrollment tops 15,600 students

    Summer enrollment at UGA was up by 306 students from a year ago. Total enrollment for summer semester was 15,608, a 2 percent increase over…

  • UGA incoming freshmen set records for academic quality

    The University of Georgia expects just over 4,800 students in the new freshman class and they will set new records for academic quality and diversity,…

  • Fraternity house demolition under way

    Demolition of the former Kappa Alpha fraternity house at 294 S. Lumpkin Street is under way. The entire project is expected to be completed by…

  • Priority purchase period opens Aug. 18 for upcoming Performing Arts Center season

    Beginning Aug. 18, the Performing Arts Center will offer UGA faculty, staff and students a priority purchase period to order tickets for the upcoming 2008-2009…

  • $9.2 million stem cell grant from NIH

    A research group led by Stephen Dalton, professor and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar of Molecular Biology at UGA, has been awarded $9.2 million as…

  • Young Dawgs

    Deniqua Mitchell didn’t exactly expect to spend her summer dissecting lab rats. When the Cedar Shoals High School sophomore learned she would be working at…

  • New institute will focus on creating plant varieties

    A new institute that will focus on the science of creating new and improved plant varieties that are higher yielding, disease resistant, nutritious or simply…

  • Member apathy, use of Social Security numbers top Staff Council agenda for new academic year

    Stuart Ivy, the new president of Staff Council, plans to address member apathy and the use of Social Security numbers during the 2008-2009 academic year.

  • UGA moves up in national ranking of Ph.D.s earned by black students

    In its July edition, Diverse Issues in Higher Education ranked UGA 18th in the nation for doctoral degrees conferred upon African Americans, up from 21st…