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  • Food Services dishes up its annual Taste of Home

    Food Services dishes up its annual Taste of Home

    On Dec. 7, the four ­dining halls across campus will offer up the 18th serving of its annual “Taste of Home” event. Open to meal-plan…

  • Brenda J. Cude elected to board of directors for Insurance Marketplace Standards Association

    Brenda J. Cude, professor of housing and consumer economics, has been elected to a three-year term on the board of directors for the Insurance Marketplace…

  • Electronic purchasing

    The responsibility of managing the ­Purchasing-Campus Entry System was transferred Dec. 1 from the Administrative Services Division to the Procurement Office. The new data custodian for…

  • Class schedule

      In order to equalize class sessions for fall semester, the university will operate on a Friday class schedule on Tuesday, Dec. 6.

  • Professor immerses himself in college life both in, out of classroom

    Professor immerses himself in college life both in, out of classroom

    Doug Toma is so enthusiastic about the University of Georgia that he would probably make a good admissions counselor or development officer if he didn’t…

  • Adviye Ergul named Fellow of American Heart Association

    Adviye Ergul, an associate professor in clinical and administrative pharmacy, has been named a Fellow of the American Heart Association. Selection is based on academic…

  • Search committee appointed to find next FACS dean

    A 15-member search committee has been appointed to identify potential successors to Sharon Nickols, who will step down as dean of the College of Family…

  • Campus Scenes

    Campus Scenes

    As fall semester winds down, the university community is busy welcoming visitors, tasting the fruits of its labor and preparing to say good-bye. Gresham began…

  • Researchers seek volunteers for marriage, prayer study

    UGA researchers are seeking volunteers for a study aimed at finding the best ways for African-American couples to keep their relationships strong and to reach…

  • Kim Coder selected to receive Lifetime Achievement Award

    Kim Coder, professor of community forestry, was selected by the Georgia Urban Forest Council Inc. to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award. Coder is a founding…

  • Fundraiser will support film festival

    Patterson Hood, of Drive By Truckers fame, will perform with several of his friends on Dec. 7 at 10 p.m. Proceeds from the concert will support…

  • Asking better questions about the world

    Jude Preissle didn’t set out to start one of the best qualitative research methods programs in the world, but that is what happened.

  • Hunt and peck

    Hunt and peck

    Cornell University’s Ken ­Rosenberg visited UGA’s Warnell School of Forest Resources last month to give a first-hand description of the rediscovery of the ivory-billed woodpecker.…

  • All in the same boat

    All in the same boat

    A small class of UGA education students stood by the instructional pool in the Ramsey Student Center recently, chatting among themselves and giggling nervously as…

  • Carole Henry named 2006 Distinguished Fellow by National Art Education Association

    Carole Henry, an associate professor in the Lamar Dodd School of Art, has been named a 2006 Distinguished Fellow by the National Art Education Association…

  • Textbook probes conservation problems

    Textbook probes conservation problems

    Principles of Conservation Biology By C. Ronald Carroll, Martha J. Groom and Gary K. Meffe Sinauer Associates $89.95 In Principles of Conservation Biology, C. Ronald…

  • Matthew Haney

    Matthew Haney

    As a co-founder and vice president of community service for the Foundation for International Medical Relief of Children (FIMRC) at UGA, Matthew Haney has grown…

  • Kelly Proctor

    Kelly Proctor

    For the past three years at UGA, Kelly Proctor has been working toward her goal of becoming a foreign media correspondent in Asia. She completed…

  • Mahlet Endale

    Mahlet Endale

    Mahlet Endale has lived on 3 continents in her 25 years. She was born in Africa, moved to Europe, and finally landed in North America,…

  • Jenny Trout

    Jenny Trout

    Senior Jenny Trout takes her work as an advocate for cancer patients seriously. Besides serving on numerous committees for her sorority, she also has participated…

  • Mary DeScenza

    Mary DeScenza

    If there’s one thing Mary DeScenza can do, it is swim. In 2003, she was the NCAA champion in the 200 yard butterfly and she…

  • Jimmy Davis

    Jimmy Davis

    Doctoral student Jimmy Davis has worked to make UGA a better place for minority students. He wrote and received a grant from the American Psychological…

  • Rakesh Parekh

    Rakesh Parekh

    Law student Rakesh Parekh has lived his whole life in the United States. Last year when he was awarded a fellowship that took him to…

  • Amanda McMahan

    Amanda McMahan

    Amanda McMahan plans to be a residential architect when she finishes her studies. After she graduates from UGA in 2006, she wants to get a…