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    Cooperative Agreement class

    A class entitled “Initiating Bi-Lateral Cooperative Agreements with Foreign Institutions” will be taught by Jane Gatewood, associate director of the Office of International Education, May…

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    Service-Learning Fellowships

    The Service-Learning Fellows Program will be accepting applications until April 18 for up to seven fellowships that come with a $2,500 award. The opportunity is…

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    Tournament ticket refund policy

    Fans who purchased tickets through the UGA Ticket Office for the 2008 Southeastern Conference men’s basketball tournament are eligible for a refund for games that…

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    Rodeo tickets

    Tickets are now on sale for the Great Southland Stampede Rodeo, which will be held April 17–19 at 8 p.m. at the Animal and Dairy…

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    Mileage reimbursement rate

    The State Accounting Office has provided updated mileage reimbursement rates for travel in state-owned or personal vehicles. The following reimbursement rates became effective April 1:…

  • Up to the challenge

    Up to the challenge

    Cooking a five-star meal good enough to impress three chef judges is hard enough, but for chefs at the recent Culinary Challenge, impressive just isn’t…

  • Site archives agricultural information

    Site archives agricultural information

    UGA’s Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources and the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences help run the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem…

  • Book explores public grief and the media

    Book explores public grief and the media

    Journalism in a Culture of Grief Janice Hume Taylor and Francis, Inc. $95 (hardback) $26.95 (paperback) Janice Hume, associate professor of journalism, recently published her…

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    2008 Summer Academy at UGA Youth Camps accepting registrations

    The University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education Conference Center and Hotel is currently accepting enrollment for the 2008 Summer Academy at UGA.

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    UGA health center to sponsor Dawg Gone Healthy Day festival

    The second annual Dawg Gone Healthy Day will be held on Monday, April 14 from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m., on the Tate Plaza.

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    University’s graduate programs rank among the best in nation

    UGA’s graduate programs remained among the best in the nation, according to U.S. News and World Report’s 2009 edition of America’s Best Graduate Schools.

  • M.B.A. program director is named University Professor

    M.B.A. program director is named University Professor

    Peter J. Shedd, director of the Master of Business Administration program in the Terry College of Business, has been awarded the title of University Professor.

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    University will host Native American studies conference

    A conference that will bring together scholars from around the globe who work in the field of Native American and indigenous studies will take place…

  • Making adaptations

    Making adaptations

    Parasites can decimate amphibian populations, but one University of Georgia researcher believes they might also play a role in spurring the evolution of new and…

  • Saving species

    Saving species

    When Hazel Wetzstein holds a tiny Georgia plume plant, she’s not just tending a future shrub. She’s keeping a native species from becoming extinct.

  • Building bodies, boosting brains

    Building bodies, boosting brains

    Many people claim to get their best ideas while on the elliptical machine, doing laps in the pool, or jogging along a quiet road, and…

  • Alien Invasion

    Alien Invasion

    What began as a breakfast-table discussion between two UGA professors has led to a grant, from the Program in International Research and Education of the…

  • Borrowers and Lenders

    Borrowers and Lenders

    A bit more than half a century ago, a musical called West Side Story opened on Broadway.

  • Gene-ius

    Gene-ius

    There’s a moment in a scientist’s life—at least in the movies—when a virtual light bulb goes off and a new idea is born.

  • Treating post-traumatic stress first helps children overcome grief

    Treating post-traumatic stress first helps children overcome grief

    Post traumatic stress disorder is commonly thought to affect victims of major trauma and those who witness violence, but a new University of Georgia study…

  • UGA researchers help papaya take genetic spotlight

    UGA researchers help papaya take genetic spotlight

    UGA researchers are not looking to pull sweet fruit from the papaya tree branches. They’re peering deeper to study its genes and see how they…

  • Reproducing black flies helps research effort

    Reproducing black flies helps research effort

    When it comes to black flies, most people would prefer them destroyed.

  • Camera reveals new organism in Georgia well

    Camera reveals new organism in Georgia well

    His drinking water smelled like old bait-shrimp, and the Putnam County homeowner wanted Keith Fielder, the local University of Georgia Cooperative Extension agent, to tell…