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Shades of black
Everyone knows about the insidious effects of racism in American society. But when it comes to the workplace, African Americans may face a more complex…
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Professor will edit new journal of research in public child welfare
Alberta Ellett, an assistant professor in UGA’s School of Social Work, is the co-editor of the new Journal of Public Child Welfare, a quarterly professional…
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UGA expert: Consumers should avoid bagged greens, vegetables
In the wake of one death and many cases of food-borne illness related to contaminated spinach, UGA microbiologist Michael Doyle recommends avoiding commercially bagged greens…
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Interim senior VP for external affairs is named
UGA President Michael F. Adams announced that Tom S. Landrum, the President’s Office chief of staff, will serve as interim senior vice president for external…
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Fontaine alcohol education center will be dedicated Oct. 6
A dedication ceremony will be held Oct. 6 for an alcohol education center at UGA that was created by a gift from a couple whose…
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Reasons for HOPE
A new study by economists at the Terry College of Business reveals that the lottery-funded HOPE Scholarship has increased enrollment at the state’s colleges and…
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Tickets available for November Marine Band performance
The Performing Arts Center will present “The President’s Own” U.S. Marine Band Nov. 15 at 8 p.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall. The performance is free,…
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Atlanta Symphony Orchestra to perform at UGA on Oct. 8
The Performing Arts Center presents the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at 3 p.m. Oct. 8 in Hodgson Concert Hall. Robert Spano, Atlanta Symphony music director, will…
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College of Education’s site redesigned
Launched in August, coeNEWS serves as the College of Education’s flagship communications vehicle. It is an informative and interactive Web site focused on building and fostering…
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New University of Baltimore freshmen will be offered free tuition
In its move to serve four years of undergraduate education, the University of Baltimore is offering free tuition to all freshmen enrolled in fall 2007,…
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Hanging in there
Visitors to the intramural fields were recently treated to a hang gliding demonstration that was part of a recreational and leisure studies course for incoming juniors in the program.
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Professorship created for late civil rights attorney
Hollowell, who died in 2002, and New York attorney Constance Baker Motley, who died in 2005, led the legal team that in 1961 forced UGA…
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Build your own raingarden
If you’d like to help improve storm water runoff at your own home, you’re in luck-building a raingarden is imminently do-able at a homeowner level.
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Book and CD ‘Supersale’ runs Oct. 5–6
The University of Georgia Press and the Friends of WUGA will sell deeply discounted books and CDs during the jointly sponsored Book and CD Supersale…
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Grant from IBM will be used to launch study of innovation
IBM and the University of Georgia have launched a research initiative to find out how great inventions, business models, technology and profit influence innovation.
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Committees formed to ID candidates for two deanships
Search committees have been formed to identify candidates for two dean positions at UGA.
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Thomas P. Lauth appointed to Comptroller General’s Educators’ Advisory Panel
Thomas P. Lauth, dean of the School of Public and International Affairs, was appointed by U.S. Comptroller General David M. Walker to the Comptroller General’s…
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Down the drain
The casual observer would never guess what was really happening in the garden outside of the physical plant’s grounds department.
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Nobel laureate to lecture as part of chemistry alumni appreciation events
Rudolph A. Marcus, winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, will speak at 5 p.m. Oct. 3 in room 400 of the chemistry building.…
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Bernard C. Patten won 2006 Senior Researcher Prigogine Medal
UGA Regents Professor Bernard C. Patten won the 2006 Senior Researcher Prigogine Medal for his work on nature’s invisible pathways of energy and matter transfer.…
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Jerry Gale awarded 2006 American Family Therapy Award
Jerry Gale, a long-time marriage and family therapy professor, was awarded the 2006 American Family Therapy Award for Distinguished Contributions to Family Systems Research by…
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Task force will gather input, issue recommendation about fall break
A University Council committee has created a task force to study whether fall break should continue to be the Thursday and Friday before the Georgia-Florida…
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New book explores religion in early Spain
Between Christians and Moriscos: Juan de Ribera and Religious Reform in Valencia 1568-1614 Benjamin Ehlers Johns Hopkins University Press $45 In early modern Spain, the…
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Stephen P. Hubbell awarded honorary doctor of science
Carleton College in Northfield, Minn., awarded an honorary doctor of science degree in June to UGA Distinguished Research Professor of Plant Biology Stephen P. Hubbell.…