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Odum Environmental Grants awarded to 10 Athens-area school projects
The Eugene Odum Environmental Grants Program, which is administered by the University of Georgia Office of Sustainability, awarded funding to 10 schools in the Athens…
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UGA College of Education hosts mathematics workshop series June 24-27
A four-day workshop for area educators focusing on the teaching of common core standards in mathematics will be hosted by the University of Georgia College…
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Ryan Nesbit named interim vice president for finance and administration at UGA
Ryan Nesbit, an administrator who has overseen the budget planning process at the University of Georgia for the past 13 years, has been named interim…
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Georgia Museum of Art to participate in military discount program
The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will participate this summer in Blue Star Museums, a program that offers free admission and…
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UGA graduate student awarded Google scholarship
University of Georgia graduate student Jennifer Rouan recently received the 2013 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship, an award that honors its namesake by encouraging women…
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Russell Library opens new exhibit, ‘Now and Then: 1973’
The Russell Library for Political Research and Studies at the University of Georgia will look back at 1973, a pivotal year in modern American history…
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UGA grad student and Wilkes County teacher Jennifer Lance receives $10,000 scholarship
Jennifer Lance, a doctoral candidate in science education and a high school science teacher in Wilkes County, has received a Berneta Minkwitz Scholarship of $10,000…
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Dean Emeritus Andy Horne receives 2013 University of Florida Distinguished Alumnus Award
Arthur M. (Andy) Horne, dean emeritus and former Distinguished Research Professor in counseling psychology in the University of Georgia College of Education, has received the…
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Virginia Tech vice president selected to be dean of College of Engineering
Donald Leo, a Virginia Tech vice president, has been named dean of the College of Engineering.
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Legion Pool opening
Legion Pool will open May 23 for the summer season. Hours of operation are 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. through July 31, and 2-7 p.m.…
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Roker entertains audience, talks race in Holmes-Hunter lecture
Television host and weatherman Al Roker entertained an audience at the Chapel with jokes and anecdotes about his career on April 25 for the 28th…
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Sociology study: Digital fluency key to classroom inequality
Elementary school students bring varied skills and experience, commonly referred to as cultural capital, to the classroom. And when teachers notice and value these skills,…
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Pratt Cassity received Award for Excellence in Service-Learning
The Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture awarded Pratt Cassity, director of the College of Environment and Design’s Center for Community Design and Preservation, with…
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Laine Bradshaw awarded 2013 Outstanding Dissertation Award
Laine Bradshaw, an assistant professor of educational psychology, has been awarded the 2013 Outstanding Dissertation Award for the Cognition and Assessment Special Interest Group by…
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‘Columns’ summer publication
During the summer, Columns will be published on June 3 (deadline: May 22), June 17 (deadline: June 5), July 1 (deadline: June 19), July 15…
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Executive leadership training
The Executive Leadership Program for Nonprofit Organizations is accepting applications for its next session, which runs June 9-14 at the Georgia Center. At ELPNO-a partnership…
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U. of Texas administrator named dean of School of Public and International Affairs
Stefanie A. Lindquist, an associate dean at the University of Texas, has been named dean of the School of Public and International Affairs.
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UGA Press book provides a tour of Etowah
Etowah River User’s Guide By Joe Cook UGA Press $18.95 From its headwaters on the southern slope of the Tennessee Valley divide near Dahlonega to…
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Peter Smagorinsky selected as 2013 outstanding reviewer
Peter Smagorinsky, Distinguished Research Professor of English Education, was selected as the 2013 outstanding reviewer for Review of Education Research, the American Educational Research Association…
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Congress looks at NSF grant criteria
A draft bill written by Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, chairman of the House of Representatives science committee, proposes replacing the existing peer review process for…
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Director of Copyright Advisory Office to give Lecture on Scholarly Communication
Kenneth D. Crews, director of the Copyright Advisory Office at Columbia University, will give the 2013 Lecture on Scholarly Communication, sponsored by the UGA Libraries.…
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NASA gives planetary system nickname of UGA-1785
The nation’s first state-chartered university recently became the world’s first university to have a star system named after it.
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Stephen Berry and William Kretzschmar awarded 2013 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships
Two faculty members in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences are among seven recipients nationally of the 2013 American Council of Learned Societies Digital…
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Obituary: Robert Bruce Hollett
Dr. Robert Bruce Hollett, UGA alumnus and a professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine, died April 23 after battling pancreatic cancer. He was 66.