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University’s longest-serving dean will step down from post
Sharon Y. Nickols, dean of UGA’s College of Family and Consumer Sciences, announced that she will step down as dean July 1, 2006, ending nearly…
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Life skills: University Housing offers adult education program for staff
It didn’t seem like much to ask. Rosemary Bonner* only wanted to read bedtime stories to her new baby granddaughter. However, for Bonner, the task…
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Classical studies professor will deliver Phi Beta Kappa lecture
Joseph A. Farrell Jr., a noted classical studies scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, will be at UGA Oct. 3-4 to deliver a lecture and…
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No new taxes
UGA law professor Walter Hellerstein, an expert on the state taxation of interstate commerce, is quoted in a New York Times article about ways to…
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Book examines trial of English ‘crusader’
The Times & Trials of Anne Hutchinson: Puritans Divided By Michael P. Winship University Press of Kansas $29.95 (cloth); $12.95 (paperback) Anne Hutchinson was perhaps…
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PPO phone survey
Representatives from A.L. Burruss Research Institute at Kennesaw State University are conducting a telephone survey of University System of Georgia employees and retirees for the…
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Talking ’bout a Revolution
Andrew J. Ward, a professor at UGA’s Terry College of Business, is quoted in a Washington Post story about former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, who…
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Web, design support
A “virtual” support group has been created for designers and Web-masters on campus. “Most designers are dabbling in the Web and most Webmasters are dabbling…
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Campus Closeup: Mary Ann Deom
MARY ANN DEOMAssociate Director Sponsored ProgramsOffice of the Vice President for Research JOB RESPONSIBILITIES: “I supervise all grants specialists and grants officers in the Office…
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Catch and Release exhibition opens in visual arts building; photographer will give lecture about his
Fine art photographer David Hilliard, the second artist in this year’s Lamar Dodd School of Art Visiting Artist/Scholar series, will give a lecture on his…
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Live & Learn
Nancy Williams, like a number of other UGA faculty members, was incorporating service learning into her teaching long before she heard the term and became…
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IHDD hires new outreach, community education coordinator
Zolinda Stoneman, director of UGA’s Institute on Human Development and Disability has announced the appointment of Gwen Ingram O’Looney as outreach and community education coordinator.
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University police sergeant receives 2005 Kassinger Scholarship
Enoch Varner, a sergeant in the UGA police department, has been named the recipient of the 2005 Edward T. and Sarah Laurent Kassinger Scholarship.
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Bush faces critics
UGA political scientist Charles Bullock is quoted in a Kansas City Star story on the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Bush presidency. Assigning blame…
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Organizational meeting
One Campaign, a new student organization, will hold its first meeting Sept. 26 at 6 p.m. in room 267 of the Student Learning Center. A…
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Grant will fund research on salmonella in poultry industry
A team of researchers in UGA’s newly-formed Department of Population Health at the College of Veterinary Medicine has launched a study to determine how to…
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Payola a problem
UGA musicologist Stephen Valdez is quoted in a Fort Wayne Journal Gazette news story about corruption in the music industry. “You know, this whole payola…
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Actress, singer Sandra ReAves-Phillips bring ‘Late Great Ladies of Jazz and Blues’ to Pe
The Performing Arts Center presents award-winning actress and singer Sandra ReAves-Phillips in “The Late Great Ladies of Jazz and Blues” on Oct. 2 at 7:30…
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Prelude to toxicity
Science Now magazine quotes UGA ecologist Judith Meyer in a story about how salt used to de-ice roads is trickling into small streams and gradually…
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Putting down roots
James Cobb, Spalding Distinguished Professor of History, teaches courses in Southern history and culture. A former president of the Southern Historical Association, Cobb has written…
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Worse than kudzu?
David Moorhead, a forester with the University of Georgia Extension Service, is quoted in the Washington Times, Miami Herald and Orlando Sentinel about Cogon grass,…
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University Theatre outreach
In a new community outreach initiative, the theatre and film studies department is launching a special restaurant coupon offer in conjunction with its production of…
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UGA open Monday and Tuesday
In consultation with the Governor’s office, Interim Chancellor Corlis Cummings has ascertained that the Governor’s request does not apply to the University System of Georgia.…
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Nickols to step down as UGA Family and Consumer Sciences dean next July
Sharon Y. Nickols, dean of the University of Georgia College of Family and Consumer Sciences, announced that she will step down as dean July 1,…