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Marine Debris Tracker named one of Apple’s ‘Apps We Can’t Live Without’
UGA assistant professor Jenna Jambeck usually isn’t surprised when an email telling her Marine Debris Tracker, the smartphone application she created in collaboration with the…
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School of Music’s Hodgson Singers win top award at international choral competition
The Hodgson Singers, the flagship choral ensemble of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, won both first prize and the Grand Prix Ave Verum at…
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Memorial service to be held June 30 for late Obesity Initiative director
Clifton A. “Cliff” Baile, a D.W. Brooks Distinguished Professor and GRA Eminent Scholar in Biotechnology at UGA whose recent research focused on the physiology and…
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Technology Commercialization Office honors 55 inventors at luncheon
The Technology Commercialization Office recognized 55 university employees named as inventors on U.S. patents at a recent luncheon. A total of 36 patents naming UGA…
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Work begins on Science Learning Center
[Editor’s note: This information was updated on June 23, 2014]. Preliminary work for the Science Learning Center on South Campus started June 3 with blasting…
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Fall course reserve deadline
The course reserve guarantee date for fall semester is July 29. More information on using course reserves including guidelines, submission forms, processing priorities, deadlines and…
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University Health Center receives $1M for alcohol education
UGA has received a $1 million gift to support the John Fontaine Jr. Center for Alcohol Awareness and Education. The funding will help the University…
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Ecology school dean named UGA Foundation Professor
John L. Gittleman, founding dean of the Odum School of Ecology, has been named the University of Georgia Foundation Professor in Ecology.
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Parking registration
Registration for 2014-2015 parking permits is now open at www.parking.uga.edu. The deadline to register and be considered in the first and largest round of permit…
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Zooarchaeology professor named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Elizabeth J. Reitz, a zooarchaeology professor in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, has been named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.…
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National search underway for next law school dean
Pamela Whitten, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost, has appointed a committee to begin a national search to fill the position of dean…
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Georgia Museum of Art displays masterworks spanning 200 years
The exhibition Picturing America: Signature Works from the Westmoreland Museum of American Art is on display at the Georgia Museum of Art through Aug. 24.…
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PSO leadership class graduates, gives back
Seventeen UGA faculty and staff graduated from the public service and outreach leadership academy June 2, then turned the tables on academy leaders, presenting them…
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Chancellor’s award nominations
The University System of Georgia Service Excellence Program Recognition Committee now is soliciting nominations for the 2014 Chancellor’s Service Excellence Awards. The program was created…
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Finding nature
Tracy Chiu, a teacher in Oconee County, points at milkweed while Kathy Venable, a teacher in Jackson County, writes the plant down during the Garden…
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Summer Poetry Reading Series to be held
UGA will host five of the top poets in Georgia in a poetry reading and discussion series this month. The poets will participate in the…
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‘Century of service’
UGA Extension joined with the university community and Georgians across the state last month to celebrate 100 years of community-centered information, education and service.
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Student team places third in national weather forecasting competition
A team of UGA students in the atmospheric sciences program placed third overall in an online weather forecasting competition for students, faculty and alumni of…
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Performing Arts Center to host flute festival
The UGA Performing Arts Center will host the Sir James Galway Flute Festival June 26 through July 1.
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Zack Kroll
Zack Kroll found his calling in life through Teach for America and is getting even more hands-on experience as he pursues his master’s in the…
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Elizabeth Andress
Elizabeth Andress, professor of foods and nutrition and director of the National Center for Home Food Preservation, shares her knowledge of food processing and safety…
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Researchers make fuel production breakthrough
UGA team finds a way to economically break down biomass into biofuel.
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Walk Georgia fighting obesity a step at a time
Free, Web-based program has reached 50,000-plus Georgians, plans to reach 100,000 by 2016.
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UGA law school alumni association presents highest honor to Morehead, Knox
The University of Georgia School of Law’s alumni association recently presented UGA President Jere W. Morehead and Augusta attorney Wyckliffe “Wyck” A. Knox Jr. with…