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Earth Week celebrations to be held April 22-25
Each spring, UGA hosts Earth Week to celebrate a more sustainable UGA. The weeklong collection of events centers on Earth Day, which is observed nationally…
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Students to put on Bulldog Classic Horse Show
The UGA Livestock Instructional Arena will be full of horses and their human counterparts April 26 as a group of dedicated students puts on the…
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Roll out
When members of the ConnectUGA project team were assembled two years ago, they were well aware of the arduous yet coordinated effort that lay ahead to…
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Anonymous donor gives $100-million gift to Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College announced it received a gift of $100 million, the largest single donation in the college’s 244-year history, this month. The anonymous gift included…
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James Clapper encourages students to consider public service careers
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper challenged UGA students to consider a job in public service-be that in intelligence services or somewhere else in government-during…
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Safely move houseplants outside
Every year, well-intentioned plant owners decide to move their houseplants outside for the spring and summer. As a result, thousands of houseplants die from too…
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Poultry problems
Denmark has made a 180-degree turn from a nation with a surge of salmonella infections to near eradication of the bacteria in chicken, according to…
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Landrum looks back on more than three decades of service to his alma mater
Tom Landrum’s undergraduate experience at UGA proved to have such an impact on the future vice president for development and alumni relations that he came…
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Costa Rica faculty residence facility to be named in honor of UGA alumnus
The newly constructed faculty residence facility on UGA’s campus in San Luis, Costa Rica is being named in honor of Paul A. Gross, a 1961…
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Home-field advantage
Nathaniel Grow, a legal studies professor in the Terry College of Business, was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article about the antitrust exemption that…
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Reclaimed materials used to renovate athletics practice fields
As part of the universtiy’s effort to create a more sustainable campus, the UGA Athletic Association has renovated two of the Woodruff Practice Fields using…
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Former US Treasury secretary to deliver 2014 Mason Lecture
UGA’s Mason Public Leadership Lecture has been rescheduled for April 22 at 9:45 a.m. in the Chapel. Originally slated for Jan. 30, the talk featuring…
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Gates Foundation provides funding for digital skills training of librarians
The Digital Library of Georgia, based at the UGA Libraries, is receiving $100,000 from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Digital Public Library…
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Chemistry professor receives SEC Faculty Award
Gregory H. Robinson, Foundation Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, has been named UGA’s 2014 recipient of the Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Award.
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FindIT! coordinator aids in surveying state’s cultural resources
As Laura Kviklys was digging through the diaries and letters of Colonial Quaker women from Philadelphia for her undergraduate thesis, she wanted a different way…
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NIH awards Emory, UGA contract to improve pandemic preparedness
A partnership between Emory University and UGA that plays a key role in the nation’s influenza research and surveillance programs has received a $3.6 million…
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Party hard-right
Cas Mudde, an assistant international affairs professor in the School of Public and International Affairs, was quoted in a Reuters story about the Hungarian election…
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University announces initiatives to enhance learning environment
UGA will launch a series of new and expanded initiatives to enhance the academic experience of students and position them for success during their time…
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‘Monsters’ attack The Town & Gown Players in upcoming performance
A plethora of UGA faculty, staff and alumni will be in front or behind the curtain during The Town & Gown Players presentation of the…
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Researchers sequence peanut genome for first time
The International Peanut Genome Initiative-a group of multinational crop geneticists who have been working in tandem for the last several years- successfully has sequenced the…
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Members of promotion, tenure review committees announced
In accordance with UGA Guidelines for Appointment, Promotion and Tenure, the membership of the University Review Committees are being announced.
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STEM enrollment increases
Undergraduate enrollment in science and technology fields is increasing, while professional field enrollments are shrinking, according to a story by Inside Higher Education. The story…
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Fulbright Scholars
Susan C. Quinlan, a faculty member in Franklin College of Arts and Sciences’ Romance languages department, is compiling a list of current and former faculty,…
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Professor identifies parts of brain involved with cost-benefit decisions
Although choosing to do something because the perceived benefit outweighs the financial cost is something people do daily, little is known about what happens in…