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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…
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Fish have big nutrient impacts on marine ecosystems
Fish play a far more important role as contributors of nutrients to marine ecosystems than previously thought, according to researchers at UGA and Florida International…
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Goodness grows
Middle school students in Athens are learning to grow their own vegetables in a community garden created as a service-learning project led by UGA horticulture…
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Taking up arms: Professor will advise court about children affected by war
Early in her legal career, Diane Marie Amann was an assistant federal public defender in San Francisco. There she found a significant portion of her…
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Juvenile justice
On Jan. 8, Georgia’s first lady Sandra Deal observed hearings at the Athens Peer Court-a new innovation in juvenile justice in Athens. Peer Court is…
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Four USG college mergers finalized
In its January meeting, the University System of Georgia Board of Regents approved the four institutions created over the last year from the consolidation of…
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UGA historian to launch Willson Center’s Global Georgia Initiative
The Global Georgia Initiative, a program of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, will begin Jan. 29 at 4 p.m. with a lecture in…
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Portuguese program sending first class to Brazil in February
Twelve students seeking to internationalize their UGA education in Brazil will head south of the equator in February where they will spend a year immersed…
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American South historian to deliver Founders Day Lecture
In observance of UGA’s 228th anniversary, James C. Cobb, the B. Phinizy Spalding Distinguished Professor in the History of the American South, will present the…
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‘Making a difference’: UGA employees help victims of Hurricane Sandy
Stories of effective preparation and a commitment to service by disaster relief workers in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy provided some positive news after the…
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UGA ramps up online learning offerings
University preparing to launch new online courses for summer 2013 to help meet demand.