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Two faculty members named fall PSO Fellows
Two UGA faculty members have been named Public Service and Outreach Fellows for the 2014 fall semester.
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Sales tax exemption certificates
UGA sales tax exemption certificates are now available at https://t.uga.edu/Te. Departments no longer need to request a certificate from salestax@uga.edu or from Procurement. This change…
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Botanical Garden to hold Insect-ival! Family Festival
The State Botanical Garden will host the 22nd annual Insect-ival! Family Festival Sept. 13 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Visitor Center and…
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State of Public Health conference to convene Sept. 10
The third annual State of Public Health Conference, hosted by the College of Public Health, will be held Sept. 10 in the UGA Hotel and…
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Mutual exchange
It is 7,120 miles across the Pacific Ocean from Athens, Georgia, to Seoul, South Korea. For the past five years, UGA students have traveled to…
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Learning assessment course
The Office of Academic Planning is offering a new course open to any UGA faculty member interested in learning how to better assess learning outcomes…
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UGA Libraries houses items related to national program for gifted students
The UGA Libraries is now the repository of materials relating to the U.S. Presidential Scholars, an addition that will complement collections relating to gifted education.…
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Institute for Women’s Studies to host fall weekly speaker series
The Institute for Women’s Studies’ Friday Speaker Series for fall semester will begin Sept. 12.
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Grady College guest lecturer to look at truth and lies from those in power
The Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication will host Charles Lewis, professor of journalism at American University, for a lecture on Sept. 17 at…
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Faculty member to discuss biblical origins of story of creation
Baruch Halpern, the Covenant Foundation Professor of Jewish Studies in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, will discuss the origins of the story of…
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Scientists grow fully functional organ from transplanted cells
A team of scientists that included researchers from UGA has grown a fully functional organ from scratch in a living animal for the first time.…
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Professor receives Brazilian award to train infectious disease researchers
UGA geneticist Jessica Kissinger recently received a Brazilian Special Visiting Professor Award from Brazil’s national science research agency, the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e…
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Educating leaders of tomorrow key to UGA’s mission
The university offers dozens of leadership programs and opportunities to help give students an edge.
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Nakia Smith
Nakia Smith, a senior majoring in financial planning, found that UGA was the perfect place to overcome some personal obstacles and set herself on a…
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Georgia Museum of Art to host conversation with technology-focused artist
The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will host a conversation with artist Tristan Perich on Sept. 18 at 5:30 p.m.
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UGA dedicates its newest dining facility, the Bolton Dining Commons
The University of Georgia cut the ribbon for Bolton Dining Commons on Sept. 4 in a ceremony that included university students, administrators and members of…
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UGA researchers to use $1.1 million NIH grant to study drug therapies for elephantiasis
Researchers from the University of Georgia have been awarded a three-year, $1.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to determine how two commonly…
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Skidaway Marine Science Day to feature new sea turtle display
A young loggerhead sea turtle will make its public debut at the University of Georgia Aquarium on Saturday, Oct. 25, as part of Skidaway Marine…
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News media losing role as gatekeepers to new ‘social mediators’ on Twitter, study finds
The U.S. government is doing a better job of communicating on Twitter with people in sensitive areas like the Middle East and North Africa without…
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Yellow filters in eye result in higher visibility, UGA research finds
Human eyes naturally contain yellow pigment in the macula, a spot near the center of the retina responsible for high-resolution vision. Those with more yellow…
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Georgia Museum of Art to show Pucci’s American designs
The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will display the exhibition “Emilio Pucci in America” Oct. 18 to Feb. 1. The exhibition…
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University Theatre’s ‘Clybourne Park’ a comedic take on race, real estate
University Theatre at the University of Georgia will present Tony- and Pulitzer-award-winning “Clybourne Park” by Bruce Norris, a spinoff of Lorraine Hansberry’s classic “Raisin in…
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UGA Marine Extension Service to release loggerhead sea turtle
The University of Georgia Marine Extension Service, a unit of the Office of Public Service and Outreach, will release a three-year-old loggerhead sea turtle named…
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Sick gopher tortoises are unusually mobile, could be leading to disease spread, UGA study finds
Assumptions about how much and how far chronically ill gopher tortoises move around could be wrong, a new University of Georgia study has found. Following…