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Mileage reimbursement change
The mileage reimbursement rate for travel by state-owned or personal vehicles has been increased. The following reimbursement rates became effective for travel as of Jan.…
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Willson Center roundtable to feature discussion, screening of ‘La Jetee’
The Willson Center for Humanities and Arts will hold the Cinema Roundtable “Science/Fiction/Time Games: Watching Chris Marker’s La Jetee” on Jan. 25 at 3:30 p.m.…
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Bama bashing
In a story on the Time magazine website, James C. Cobb, Franklin College’s B. Phinizy Spalding Distinguished Professor in the History of the American South,…
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Venice Baroque Orchestra will perform concertos
The Performing Arts Center will present the Venice Baroque Orchestra on Jan. 27 at 3 p.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall. Tickets, $20-$39 with discounts for…
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Student organizes ‘Peter Pan’ colloquium
A UGA undergraduate student has organized a colloquium on one of the best-known works of English children’s literature. Sophomore Maria Cox, the Hutchinson CURO Honors…
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Comic musicians ready to bring ‘A Little Nightmare Music’ to Hodgson Concert Hall
The Performing Arts Center will present a night of musical mayhem when Igudesman and Joo perform their show, A Little Nightmare Music, in Hodgson Concert…
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Prof pens new book on Benjamin Franklin
The Unfinished Life of Benjamin Franklin Douglas Anderson The John Hopkins University Press $55 Douglas Anderson, UGA’s Sterling-Goodman Professor of English, has written The Unfinished…
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Noted Russian historian to lecture on ‘memory laws’
Nikolay Koposov, currently a visiting professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, will present a lecture, “ ‘Memory Laws’ in Europe: A New Civil Religion?,” on…
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Two U.S. senators will speak at Mason Public Leadership Lecture on Jan. 28
U.S. Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) will share their views on leadership and public service Jan. 28 at 10:10 a.m. at the…
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Virtual classes
The Office of Online Learning is working with UGA faculty to plan and implement a new online format for high-demand undergraduate courses. Instructional designers in…
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Love story recordings
The First Person Project, an oral history series documenting the experiences of everyday Georgians, is inviting participants to share their personal stories about love, loss…
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Quarterly journal’s winter issue takes readers on literary tour
The just-released winter 2012 issue of The Georgia Review, UGA’s quarterly journal of arts and letters, is a literary tour that touches down on three…
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Poet, author to be inducted into Georgia Writers Hall of Fame
Judson Mitcham, Georgia’s poet laureate, and the late author Toni Cade Bambara, who compiled one of the first anthologies of African-American women’s writing, will be…
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Stranger than fiction
A November article from Education Week explored an argument over the Common Core State Standards in grade school and the introduction of more nonfiction reading…
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Firm picked to build Terry learning center
At its January meeting, the University System of Georgia Board of Regents approved the hiring of the Atlanta firm Hardin Construction to build the planned…
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Public service on display at new website
The Office of Public Service and Outreach has developed a new website to better communicate its service goals and priorities. In addition to highlighting public…
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‘Veterinary Spectrum’ makes debut on WUGA-TV
For those clamoring for a closer look inside the College of Veterinary Medicine, tune in to WUGA-TV for Veterinary Spectrum, which airs in January and…
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Upcoming tax season will be prime time for potential identity theft
January is a prime month for identity theft because criminals may wait to use information they illegally obtained in previous months to submit a fake…
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Obituaries
Herbert Miller Herbert E. Miller, the first director of the J.M. Tull School of Accounting in the Terry College of Business, died Dec. 21 at…
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Community docent program
The Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries is now accepting applications for participants in its docent program. The Docent Corps is a skilled group…
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Southern withdrawal
UGA linguistics professor Bill Kretzschmar, a faculty member in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, was quoted in a Florida Times-Union article about the…
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Live long and prosper
Dr. Toni Miles, director of UGA’s Institute for Gerontology, talked about advances allowing people to live longer in a USA Today article. That story centered…
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Website report: College professors have ‘least stressful job’ for 2013
It may come as a shock to those working in the profession, but being a college professor is the “least stressful job” for 2013, according…
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Free income tax assistance
Georgia United Credit Union is partnering again this year with the Internal Revenue Service and UGA’s College of Family and Consumer Sciences to provide the…