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Woman’s Club Meeting
The University Woman’s Club will meet Nov. 13 at 10 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall of Central Presbyterian Church, which is located at 280 Alps…
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Award nominations
Nominations for the Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award are due Dec. 4. The award recognizes two recent graduates of the Graduate School, usually one award…
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Flu shots
The University Health Center is offering flu shots for students, faculty, staff and faculty emeritus by appointment on Tuesdays through Fridays from 10 a.m.–4 p.m.…
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Course reserve deadline
Nov. 26 is the course reserve deadline for spring semester 2008. Information on using course reserves including the full course reserve letter, guidelines, submission forms,…
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution editor to deliver 29th annual McGill Lecture on Nov. 7
Julia Wallace, editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and www.ajc.com, will speak at 4 p.m. in Room 101 of the Student Learning Center. She will address…
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Amanda Elam
Amanda Elam as a truly amazing student. She has been described as upbeat, optimistic and always smiling. She has been captain of the UGA women’s…
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System courses now available in one place
The University System of Georgia Board of Regents has launched a new Web site that provides access to a full array of distance-education offerings from…
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New book details former colonial empire
The Dutch Diaspora Howard J. Wiarda Lexington Books $29.95 The Dutch Diaspora: The Netherlands and Its Settlements in Africa, Asia and the Americas is a…
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Faculty Development
University of Georgia faculty are eligible for leaves of absence with or without pay—but that fact apparently is not very well-known in the university community.
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UGA welcomes new faculty
New Faculty
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Urinetown
When friends and collaborators Greg Kotis and Mark Hollmann began creating the musical Urinetown, they assumed the title alone would scare away most audiences. Six…
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Lelavision
Performing back flips while suspended by bungee cords all the while beating drums and creating their own music, Lelavision will present a unique blend of…
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UGA fall semester enrollment tops 33,000
A total of 33,831 students enrolled at UGA for fall semester, a slight decline from last year but still the third-highest enrollment in university history.…
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Father of Creativity’ honored with annual distinguished lecture series
The work and ongoing legacy of E. Paul Torrance, the late UGA educational psychology professor, will be celebrated at the National Association for Gifted Children’s…
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Symposium to address juvenile justice issues through documentary, discussion
“The Prison Pipeline: The Criminalization of America’s Children,” a campus-wide symposium coordinated by two of the participating partners in the Child and Family Policy Initiative,…
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Smoke screen
A 1998 settlement designed to limit the marketing of smokeless tobacco to youth hasn’t been effective, according to a new UGA study published in the…
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Conserve water and save plants
With Level 4 water restrictions in effect throughout much of North Georgia, the drought is taking its toll on plants. The following list offers ways…
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Proposal for faculty and staff police force in Nevada struck down
Selected faculty and staff members in the Nevada university system will not form an auxiliary police force after the board of regents rejected the proposal,…
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Grandfather plays one last season of football for Sul Ross State University
Fifty-nine-year-old Mike Flynt missed playing college football so much that he decided to play one last season for his alma mater, Sul Ross State University,…
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Cal professor to discuss gender equity in workplace
Mary Ann Mason, professor of social welfare at the University of California, Berkeley, will discuss her new book, Mothers on the Fast Track: How the…
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Vice president of European Parliament to speak at conference
Diana Wallis, vice president of the European Parliament, will join American and European experts in private international law to explore new European Union legislation on…
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Head of security preparedness retires; interim director named
Opal D. Haley, director of UGA’s Office of Security and Emergency Preparedness, has retired with more than 30 years of service to the state of…
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University signs new agreement to allow study exchange in Turkey
The University of Georgia and Istanbul Technical University have signed a new international cooperative agreement that will allow faculty and students from the UGA department…
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Water works
Not being able to water the pansies in the Herty Field flower bed is nothing new to Dexter Adams, director of the Physical Plant’s grounds…