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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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:…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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UGA search committee named to identify candidates for Franklin College dean
University of Georgia Senior Vice President and Provost Arnett C. Mace Jr. has appointed a 20-member search committee to identify candidates for the position of…
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2004 State of the University (cont.)
So, how do we do even better as we move into the future? What will be our joint foci as we move through the next…
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2004 State of the University
UGA President Michael F. Adams delivered the 2004 State of the University address to a crowd gathered in the University Chapel yesterday. His remarks, focusing…
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UGA School of Art exhibit features work of Robert Lyon
An exhibition of the work of Robert Lyon, titled “Natural Forces,” will run from Jan. 22 through Feb. 20 at the University of Georgia Lamar…
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UGA’s Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases awarded education grant
A new five-year grant from the Ellison Medical Foundation will provide international research training opportunities of two-to-three months for UGA undergraduates, graduate students and post-doctoral…
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UGA College of Education exhibit to feature partnership work combining art, education and science
What happens when you combine visual arts, science and educational research? One University of Georgia teacher-researcher believes it leads to wonderfully unique learning experiences for…