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Exhibit looks back on Vince Dooley’s career
An exhibit looking back at former UGA head football coach Vince Dooley’s career opens Aug. 29 at the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries.…
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Tate Center Theatre’s fall lineup includes ‘Maleficent’
The University Union Student Programming Board fall semester movie schedule for the Tate Student Center Theatre includes: • Animal House (1978), Aug. 28 at 8…
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Good cheer
UGA’s latest crop of first-year students began their collegiate careers Aug. 18. But the evening before classes started, thousands of students from the Class of…
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Parents: Don’t bench food safety at your school’s concession stand
Back to school may mean back to sports for children and back to the concession stand for parents. To help enhance the safety of the…
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$1.3M NIH grant to develop new science education software
UGA researchers are developing new science education software to help elementary school students learn about how the body functions and how to make better dietary…
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Wireless installation subsidy
To expand faculty and staff access to the PAWS-Secure wireless network, the Office of the Vice President for Information Technology is offering a 50 percent…
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University community mourns passing of Beaird, law school dean emeritus
James Ralph Beaird, dean emeritus of the School of Law, died Aug. 14 after an extended illness. He was 88.
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Starbucks testing mobile trucks on three university campuses
This fall, Starbucks is testing a new way to reach students and faculty members. The coffee giant is using mobile trucks on three campuses: Arizona…
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Conservationists bring wood stork back from brink of extinction
Thanks to the hard work of conservationists across the U.S., the once imperiled American wood stork has been down-listed from endangered to threatened by the…
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Phone directory verification
All regular, benefits-eligible faculty and staff are encouraged to review their work and home addresses as well as telephone number information prior to the annual…
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U. of Cambridge seeking Ph.D. student who will study chocolate
According to the BBC, the University of Cambridge is seeking a doctoral candidate to focus on chocolate. The degree will be offered through the chemical…
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Franklin College to host Anthropocene Lecture Series
First coined by ecologist Eugene Stoermer in the 1980s, the term anthropocene has come to mean a geological time period in which the actions of…
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Police department provides drop box for safe medication disposal
A large metal drop box occupying space just outside the UGA Police Department has one purpose—to safely collect unneeded or unwanted prescription medications.
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New exhibit showcases political cartoons
A new exhibit now occupies the History Lives Showcase Gallery inside the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries. The exhibit showcases a selection of…
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Tulane University curator to discuss Newcomb Pottery designers Aug. 28
The Georgia Museum of Art will present a lecture by Sally Main, senior curator of the Newcomb Art Gallery at Tulane University, Aug. 28 at…
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UGA Libraries to host Sept. 4 reading by former UGA staffer Phil Williams
Author Philip Lee Williams will read from his autobiography It Is Written: My Life in Letters Sept. 4 at 5 p.m. at the Richard B.…
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Underwater update
CBS News spoke with Samantha Joye, UGA oceanographer, as she led an expedition to examine the seabed near the area of the Deepwater Horizon rig,…
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New book looks at ‘herocrafting’ of baseball players
Inventing Baseball Heroes:Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson, and the Sporting Press in America Amber Roessner LSU Press $39.95 Amber Roessner, a UGA alumna, examines “herocrafting” in…
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2014 Lillian Smith Book Award winners to be honored at Decatur Book Festival
Winners of the 2014 Lillian Smith Book Awards, sponsored by UGA Libraries, will be honored Aug. 31 at the Decatur Book Festival. In Peace and…
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Tschepikow named assistant to president
Kyle Tschepikow will join the Office of the President Sept. 8 as an assistant to the president. Tschepikow is currently the director of student affairs assessment…
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Auxiliary Services administrator to retire after 40 years of service
Mike Floyd greeted customers like old friends at the soft opening of Bolton Dining Commons on Aug. 12.
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Digital Columns
Columns is now available as a PDF that can be read online, on mobile devices or on tablets. In addition to being able to download…
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Groundbreaking ceremony for Science Learning Center to be held Aug. 26
State and UGA leaders will break ground on the 122,500-square-foot Science Learning Center Aug. 26 at 11:30 a.m. at the south end of the S10 parking lot…
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FBI agents to speak about 9/11 during National Preparedness Month
The Office of Emergency Preparedness will observe National Preparedness Month in September with events and expert speakers to remind the university community how to be…