All News
-
Awards
• Don Tadlock, construction director, and Jay Austin, project superintendent, received the Dwight Douglas Service Award. Given to an individual or individuals outside University Housing…
-
Final run-through
In anticipation of their 16-day tour of China starting May 14, the Redcoat Band invites the UGA and Athens communities to a free send-off concert…
-
Public Policy Institute
As part of the 25th anniversary year of National Issues Forums, UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, the Honors Program and Albany State University’s…
-
Family and Consumer Sciences dean plans to step in new direction
Sharon Nickols is not retiring. And, she’s not stepping down as dean of the College of Family and Consumer Sciences.
-
Businesswoman will receive honorary doctoral degree at Commencement
The university will award an honorary degree to Jane Seddon Willson, an Albany businesswoman who, along with her late husband Harry, has provided significant financial…
-
Help yourself to some art
The Performing Arts Center has announced the roster of artists for the 2006-2007 season. The upcoming season will include 30 performances in seven series: Music…
-
University will add degree programs at its Griffin campus
The university will offer two new bachelor’s degree programs at its Griffin campus, as well as a “math leaders” graduate degree program aimed at elementary…
-
UGA again increases minimum salary
The minimum wage paid to salaried employees will be increased to $19,000 per year as part of the pay increases that will be effective Jan.…
-
Poet’s book of essays ‘born of trouble’
The Muse in the Machine: Essays on Poetry and the Anatomy of the Body Politic T.R. Hummer University of Georgia Press $18.95 T.R. Hummer’s collection…
-
Rodney Garner selected to participate in Minority Football Coaches Forum
Rodney Garner, assistant head coach and defensive line coach for the football team, was one of three Southeastern Conference coaches selected to participate in the…
-
Libraries operating hours
The Main and Science libraries will be open as follows during the intersession: 7:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m. May 9; 8 a.m.-6 p.m. May 10-12; 10 a.m.- 6…
-
Civil rights historian warns that democracy is in danger
“We speak like Martin Luther King but govern like Caesar,” said Taylor Branch, addressing the audience crowding the Chapel. “This is because our history is…
-
University of Virginia offers guaranteed admission plan
The University of Virginia will guarantee admission to all qualified students from the state’s 23 community colleges, according to a recent article in the Chronicle…
-
Teresa Pérez-Gamboa named as outstanding teacher at the university level
The Georgia chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese has named Teresa Pérez-Gamboa, an academic professional in Romance languages, as an…
-
Back from the brink
Along with the American dream of going to school, maintaining a home and growing a family comes the American nightmare: financial debt.
-
Basketball camp
Boys aged 8-18 are invited to enroll in the Dennis Felton Basketball Academy. The first session is June 4-7 and the second session is June…
-
Institute of Ecology gets $190,000 grant
A $190,000 grant from Southern Sustainable Agriculture, Research and Education will help the university’s Institute of Ecology study the use of shrubby perennial legumes such…
-
Jack Bauerle named Southeastern Conference Women’s Coach of the Year
Jack Bauerle, head coach of the women’s and men’s swimming and diving teams, has been named the Southeastern Conference Women’s Coach of the Year. Bauerle…
-
Help yourself to some art
Arcadia Revisited: The Architecture of Landscape, an exhibition probing the 18th century’s ideal of rural contentment, will be on view at the Georgia Museum of…
-
Summer publication schedule
Columns begins its summer publication schedule with the May 1 issue. Instead of being printed weekly, the newspaper will be published twice a month. The…
-
Professional and personal development
Ever wanted to write a mystery novel? How about learn photography or brush up on your bookkeeping skills? The Georgia Center for Continuing Education Conference…
-
Honors student is state’s only Morris Udall Scholarship recipient
Lisa Rivard, an Honors student at UGA, has been named a 2006 Morris K. Udall Scholar. Rivard, a junior environmental health science major from Lake…
-
Tenure and Promotions
In accordance with the university’s guidelines for appointment, promotion and tenure, the membership of the University Review Committees and University Appeals Committee on Promotion and…
-
Kissing cousins
Birds do it. Bees do it. Even educated fleas do it, wrote Cole Porter.