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Book details other revolutions in 1776
West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776 By Claudio Saunt W.W. Norton and Company, Inc. $26.95 West of the Revolution is a panoramic…
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New Athena email policy
Effective Aug. 1, email communication from the new Athena system to faculty, staff and students goes only to official UGA email addresses. The preferred external…
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Atlanta City Council president will speak at BFSO luncheon
Ceasar C. Mitchell, president of the Atlanta City Council, will deliver the keynote address at UGA’s Black Faculty and Staff Organization’s 12th annual Founders Award…
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New plan makes returning to college easier for 1.1 million Georgians
Gov. Nathan Deal, University System of Georgia Chancellor Hank Huckaby and Technical College System of Georgia Commissioner Ron Jackson announced Georgia’s “Go Back. Move Ahead.”…
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Helping take UGA to the next level
Pamela Whitten joined the University of Georgia as its senior vice president for academic affairs and provost in February 2014 following a national search. She…
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President visits Archway Partnership, SBDC projects
Government, business and community leaders in Washington County welcomed UGA President Jere W. Morehead to Sandersville July 29 and shared highlights of the ways the…
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Grady College study finds that unexpected election results tend to erode trust in government
When asked who is going to win an election, people tend to predict their own candidate will come out on top. When that doesn’t happen,…
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UGA Libraries to celebrate 75th anniversary of ‘Gone With the Wind’ premiere
The special collections libraries will celebrate the 75th anniversary of the premiere of Gone With the Wind with events on Aug. 23, including the opening…
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Photographer to kick off Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series
The Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series in the Lamar Dodd School of Art kicks off with the 2014 Dodd Professorial Chair lecture by Zoe…
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Public health dean appointed to national environmental health board
Phillip Williams, dean of the College of Public Health, was appointed to the board of scientific counselors at the National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for…
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Young children need play time
A full after-school schedule may keep your children occupied, but it’s not necessarily the healthiest option. It turns out children need a little unstructured “play…
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Extension specialist helps growers with peach concerns
As UGA’s new peach specialist, Dario Chavez’s first order of business is to listen. Since joining the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences’ Griffin campus…
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Third annual Spotlight on the Arts festival set for Nov. 6-14
A Tony Award-winning playwright, a Grammy Award-winning soprano, art-making robots and a music composition performed on Google Glass are among the more than 40 events…
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Fresh start
UGA will open its doors today to a first-year class that has broken the high ceiling on academic criteria set by previous classes. The 2014…
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Franklin College professor named environmental superhero
UGA’s J. Marshall Shepherd officially is a superhero.
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$7M in NIH grants to fund UGA health research projects
A team of scientists in the UGA Center for Family Research has received two grants from the National Institutes of Health providing more than $7…
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2014-2015 University Theatre season to include ‘Great Gatsby,’ Shakespeare
University Theatre has announced its 2014-2015 lineup, which includes the 2012 Tony Award-winning A Raisin in the Sun spinoff Clybourne Park, a stage adaptation of…
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Classroom emergency posters
The Office of Emergency Preparedness is distributing customizable posters and podium cards for classrooms and hallways to advise of directions in case of emergency in…
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Interim KSU president accepts lower salary to give 24 workers raises
Raymond Burse returned to Kentucky State University as interim president under the condition that his annual salary be adjusted so other employees would get raises.…
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Georgia Sea Grant helps coastal areas plan for port expansion
As the $706 million Savannah Harbor Expansion Project begins, UGA and Georgia Sea Grant are poised to help coastal residents adapt to changes that are…
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PMIL using Twitter to provide news, info
A new Twitter account has been launched for the USAID-funded Feed the Future Peanut and Mycotoxin Innovation Lab hosted by the UGA College of Agricultural…
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2014-2015 single tickets for Performing Arts Center tickets go on sale Aug. 25
Single tickets for the UGA Performing Arts Center’s 2014-2015 season will go on sale Aug. 25. Tickets can be purchased at the Performing Arts Center…
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Statistics professor named AMA Fellow
Nicole Lazar, a professor in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences’ statistics department, was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. To be…
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July 2014 retirees
Twenty-six UGA employees retired July 1. Retirees, their job classification, department and length of employment are: Harold Chris Adcock, director, communication/technology services, 30 years, 1 month,…