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  • 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…

  • Blue fish

    Blue fish

    Researchers in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences have found that low-level exposure to a common class of antidepressants found in streams and ponds…

  • January

    Thirty-six UGA employees retired Jan. 1. Retirees, their job classification, department and length of employment are: Karl McRae Andrews Jr., remote site supervisor II, Enterprise…

  • Native tongue

    Native tongue

    Sonja Lanehart and Bill Kretzschmar, who are both on the English department faculty, are working together on a pilot survey of speech in Atlanta. They explained…

  • Teaching Fellows deadline

    The deadline for electronic submission of the applications and nominations for the 2004-05 Lilly Teaching Fellows program is Feb. 27. Detailed information about the program…

  • Children’s chorus members

    The Georgia Children’s Chorus, in residence at the university, is looking for new members-boys and girls, ages 8-16. Musical instruction and standards are high; children…

  • Weather closing plan reminder

    The university community is reminded of ­procedures for determining operations during periods of inclement winter weather. By policy, the university makes one of three announcements:…

  • Prof’s interest in ecology disease research becomes infectious

    Prof’s interest in ecology disease research becomes infectious

    With the emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome-SARS-in Asia and the surprising severity of the recent influenza season in the United States and Britain, it…

  • Search committee formed to identify deanship candidates

    Arnett C. Mace Jr., senior vice president for academic affairs, has appointed a 20­-member search committee to identify candidates for the position of dean of…

  • UGA hosting gifted education training for Korean teachers

    ATHENS, Ga. – A contingent of 25 Korean science teachers will be going back to school for the next two weeks on the University of…