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  • Grave matters

    Grave matters

    As part of King Week, members of the UGA and Athens-Clarke County communities took part in a Day of Service at Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery.

  • Ecologist opens symposium, delivers annual Coley Lecture

    Joan Roughgarden, an evolutionary ecologist from Stanford University, will deliver the annual Andrea Carson Coley Lecture at UGA on Feb. 2. Roughgarden will also be…

  • Graduate student conference

    The Graduate Student Association invites members of the UGA community to attend the fourth annual Georgia Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Conference, to be held at the…

  • UGA hosts gifted-education training for Korean teachers

    A contingent of 25 South Korean science teachers is currently visiting the UGA campus to learn how to provide programs for gifted students.

  • Duke campaign gets $72 million gift

    Duke University’s eight-year fund-raising campaign ended with a $72 million gift from two alumni. The gift is the largest in the school’s history. Peter and…

  • Emerita scholar will give this year’s Founders’ Day talk

    The UGA Alumni Association will celebrate UGA’s 219th birthday Jan. 27 by presenting the annual Founders’ Day Lecture at 3 p.m. in the Chapel.

  • Legal scholar will deliver winter Charter Lecture

    Noted legal scholar Lawrence M. Friedman will deliver the winter Charter Lecture at 4 p.m. Jan. 22 in the Chapel. The title of his talk…

  • Grambling’s accreditation restored

    Grambling State University has had its accreditation restored after being on probation for two years because of disarray in its finances. The Southern Association of…

  • Keeping track

    Political science professor Loch Johnson, an expert on CIA matters, was quoted widely in an Associated Press story on the use of “hired guns” by…

  • Texas A&M ends legacy preference

    Texas A&M University will no longer award “legacy” points to applicants who are related to alumni. The announcement earlier this month by Texas A&M president…

  • Research travel grants

    The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies has received a Tinker Foundation field research grant to provide travel funds for graduate students carrying out…

  • Fulfilling the Dream

    The first Fulfilling the Dream Award was presented to four recipients by President Michael F. Adams at the Freedom Breakfast, sponsored jointly by UGA and…

  • Next phase of Brooks Mall begins

    The next phase of the Brooks Mall master plan implementation has begun and will continue through August. This phase includes work along D.W. Brooks Drive…

  • Prof pens global history of WWI

    The Great War: An Imperial History By John H. Morrow Jr. Routledge $27.50 The Great War: An Imperial History revolutionizes readers’ understanding of World War…

  • The progressive sitcom

    Bonnie Dow, associate professor of speech communication, appeared in a New York Times discussion of gender on television. Dow said sitcoms had historically used the…

  • Latin in the cafeteria

    The Detroit News quoted Richard LaFleur of the classics department in a story dealing with the decline of the teaching of Latin in the 1960s…

  • Keeping UGA on track

    The Office of Institutional Effectiveness focuses on planning, evaluation, assessment and other aspects of institutional improvement. Segments of the new Web site for the office…

  • Two education students win scholarships

    Two UGA College of Education graduate students have received scholarships for the 2003-04 academic year from Kappa Delta Pi, an international education honor society. Amy…

  • Beauty: skin-deep and costly

    The San Francisco Chronicle reported that growing prosperity in China has begotten a boom in cosmetic surgery, and quoted UGA women’s studies professor Allaine Cerwonka…

  • Chicken welfare

    The Los Angeles Times reported on the controversy swirling about the Weblog of a former Arkansas poultry worker, who alleges terrified birds and horrible mistakes on…

  • UGA alumnus appointed director of state’s natural history museum

    UGA alumnus appointed director of state’s natural history museum

    Bud Freeman has been appointed director of the Georgia Museum of Natural History at UGA effective Jan. 1, pending approval of the University System of…

  • Longtime alumni director announces his retirement

    David H. Muia, who as director of alumni relations led the transformation of the UGA Alumni Society into the self-sustaining, dues-paying UGA Alumni Association, has…

  • Preparing to protect water supplies

    South Carolina’s lack of water withdrawal regulations will have a negative impact on its ability to forge water agreements with Georgia and North Carolina, Jim Kundell…

  • Genetic variability

    Carolyn Berdanier, a nutritionist is UGA’s College of Family and Consumer Sciences, was interviewed for a Los Angeles Times story about the relationship between carbohydrate…