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Making myths
In a Boston Globe article about the legend of Slender Man—an invented character whose origin can be traced back to an online forum—Shira Chess said…
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Emergency assistance form
To be effective in the event of an emergency, university officials want to be able to identify and support those students, faculty, staff and visitors…
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Prepare emergency plan in advance
National Preparedness Month is a good time to devise an emergency plan. To accomplish this, the UGA Office of Emergency Preparedness suggests that you: •…
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Business boosts
In a Marketplace article discussing the South’s habit of providing tax incentives to businesses, UGA historian James Cobb said the practice started “after the agricultural…
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Veterinary medicine staff member lives life of science, music
Music has been a part of Deb Carter’s life since she can remember.
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UGA set to ‘clear the air’ on its campuses
UGA is launching a “Let’s Clear the Air” campaign to promote the University System of Georgia’s ban on tobacco products on all system campuses.
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All about UGA
On Sept. 4, UGA recognized faculty, staff and retiree donors who gave in fiscal year 2014 with a dessert reception in Grand Hall of the…
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Gym time boosts GPA at Purdue
Purdue University found that first-year students who visited its recreational center 15 or more times a semester held a higher grade point average than those…
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Talking right
In discussing elections across Europe, Cas Mudde, an associate professor in the School of Public and International Affairs, told the Associated Press that the popular…
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Finalists for Graduate School deanship named
Four finalists for the position of dean of the UGA Graduate School will visit campus in the coming weeks to meet with members of the…
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Georgia Museum of Art to host talk with technology-focused artist Sept. 18
The Georgia Museum of Art will host a conversation with artist Tristan Perich Sept. 18 at 5:30 p.m. The question-and-answer session, which will take place…
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University Theatre to open season with ‘Clybourne Park’
University Theatre will present Tony- and Pulitzer-award-winning Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris, a spinoff of Lorraine Hansberry’s classic A Raisin in the Sun. Performances will…
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$1.1M NIH grant to study effectiveness of elephantiasis drugs
UGA researchers have been awarded a three-year, $1.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to determine how two commonly administered drug combinations work…
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Consulting group updates Web presence
The Quantitative Biology Consulting Group, which brings the combined expertise of multiple UGA quantitative biology consultants to bear on a single problem, has a new…
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September 2014 retirees
Fourteen UGA employees retired Sept. 1. Retirees, their job classification, department and length of employment are: Elizabeth J. Bailey, building services worker II, Building Services-South Campus,…
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UGA in top 20 public universities; Terry College moves up six places
UGA continues to rank among the nation’s elite public research universities, according to U.S. News & World Report, which placed the institution at No. 20…
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E-promotion
W. Keith Campbell, a professor and head of the department of psychology in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, was quoted in a New…
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University of Oregon offers running tours
Earlier this month, the University of Oregon began offering campus running tours as a supplement to its existing walking tour. According to a news release…
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Retired staffer pens autobiography
The Village and Beyond: Memoirs of a Cotton mill Boy William Hale iUniverse $26.26 A former associate director at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education…
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University announces plans to stop summer Commencement
UGA is returning to a traditional graduation schedule. The decision was made after a thorough assessment of the summer semester Commencement ceremony, which included attendance…
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Award nominations
The Office of Service-Learning currently is accepting nominations for the 2015 Service-Learning Teaching Excellence and Service-Learning Research Excellence Awards. All full-time, permanent UGA faculty members…
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UGA scientists part of team that sequences complex canola genome
An international team of scientists including researchers from UGA recently published the genome of Brassica napus—commonly known as canola—in the journal Science. Their discovery paves…
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Students lean on experience to learn leadership
The students in the Institute of Higher Education’s executive Ed.D. program are learning from the top.
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UGA’s Pavlić awarded National Poetry Series prize
The National Poetry Series recently announced the five winners of its 2014 Open Competition, which included “Let’s Let That Are Not Yet: Inferno” by the…