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UGA English professor featured in public radio series “Shakespeare in American Life” airing on WUGA
In celebration of its 75th anniversary in 2007, the Folger Shakespeare Library has produced “Shakespeare in American Life” – a series of three one-hour radio…
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UGA pharmacists offers strategies to improve medication compliance
In Patient Compliance with Medications: Issues and Opportunities (Pharmaceutical Products Press, $32.95), Jack Fincham, A.W. Jowdy Professor of Pharmacy Care at the University of Georgia…
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Service-learning fellow applications
The Office of Service-Learning is accepting applications for the 2007–08 Service-Learning Fellows Program. The deadline to register is April 30. This year-long faculty development program…
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Learning in retirement meeting
Learning in Retirement will hold its annual meeting April 13 at the Holiday Inn-Express at 513 W. Broad St. from at 10 a.m.–noon. Officers and…
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Benefit fund established
A fund has been established to provide financial assistance to the family of late graduate student Yongsheng Li, who had been missing for two weeks…
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EITS provides one-stop technology news
UGA’s Enterprise Information Technology Services has launched a weekly news site, bundling together local, national and campus-specific technology information in one place. The site provides…
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Book examines American foreign policy
American Foreign Policy: A Framework for Analysis William O. Chittick CQ Press $64.95 How can students best understand the ideas that animate U.S. foreign policy…
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Trading up: Physical Plant program offers employees a chance to learn new skills
In a first-of-its-kind program designed to fill positions at the Physical Plant and train Athens-area residents, the university recently launched an apprenticeship program.
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Gwynn Powell, American Camp Association
Gwynn Powell, an associate professor of recreation and leisure studies, has been elected to the national board of directors of the American Camp Association. She…
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R. Baxter Miller, keynote paper
In February, R. Baxter Miller, professor of English and African-American Studies, completed a course of lectures in Minsk and Bobruisk Belarus. Invited by the Belarusian…
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David P. Landau, invited plenary talk
On March 27, David P. Landau, Distinguished Research Professor of Physics and director of the Center for Simulational Physics, presented an invited plenary talk at…
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William U. Eiland, Lifetime Achievement Award
William U. Eiland, director of the Georgia Museum of Art, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Georgia Association of Museums and Galleries during its…
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Laura Dean, Annuit Coeptis Senior Professional Award
Laura Dean, an assistant professor in the department of counseling and human development services, is one of only three people in the nation to receive…
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Diane L. Cooper, Senior Scholar Award
Diane L. Cooper, a professor in the department of counseling and human development services and coordinator of UGA’s master’s degree program in college student affairs…
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Kansas professor named new director of bands at UGA
John Lynch, the current director of bands at the University of Kansas, has been named new director of bands in UGA’s Hugh Hodgson School of…
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International affairs professor studies underlying causes of war
Jaroslav Tir was finishing his last term of high school in the U.S. when war broke out in Croatia and Bosnia.
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Women’s studies director to deliver 13th annual Coley Lecture
Chris Cuomo (above), director of UGA’s Institute for Women’s Studies and professor of philosophy and women’s studies, will give the 13th annual Andrea Carson Coley…
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University Theatre finale honors late playwright August Wilson
When playwright August Wilson died in October 2005, he left a literary legacy that includes a celebrated cycle of 10 plays, of which two—Fences and…
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‘Take Back the Night’ set for April 12
As part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, campus and community organizations will hold a “Take Back the Night” rally and march on April 12. The…
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Ga. Writers Hall of Fame to induct five
The first Georgian to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, a physician and best-selling novelist, a newspaper columnist, a novelist whose works focus on the…
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Artist to lecture for Lanier Speaker Series
Jondi Keane, artist and researcher, will present two talks on April 10 and 11. Keane’s presentations, part of the Lanier Speakers Series sponsored by the…
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UGA will recognize student employees
The Career Center will honor more than 100 student workers and their departmental nominators during a luncheon on April 10 as a part of UGA’s…
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Germ of an idea
A surprising finding by a team of UGA scientists suggests that curbing the use of antibiotics on poultry farms will do little—if anything —to reduce…
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Conduct home tornado drills
Tornado drills are common in schools and offices, but they aren’t very common at home. To be prepared for one of nature’s most violent storms,…