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Rap session: Professor helps future social workers learn to confront abuse
It is not easy to talk about, but people abuse one another. Luckily, Jennifer Elkins finds a way to communicate about this difficult subject with…
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Grant information meeting
A humanities and arts external grants roundtable discussion will be held Nov. 5 from 4-5:30 p.m. in Room 148 of the Miller Learning Center. …
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Artful conversations: GMOA fosters dialogue about provocative murals
A collection of controversial paintings depicting the history of Georgia agriculture now hanging in the Georgia Museum of Art have become the centerpiece of a…
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eLearning Commons transitions to new online software platform
To better meet the needs of faculty and students, UGA is preparing to transition the eLearning Commons software platform from Blackboard Vista to Desire2Learn.
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Online learning proposals
The Office of Online Learning is accepting proposals to encourage the development of innovative, high-quality, fully online offerings of high-demand courses. These online courses are…
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Creative writing sponsors reading at Cine
Poet, memoirist and musician Damon Krukowski will hold a reading Nov. 2 at 7 p.m. in the Cine Lab located at 234 W. Hancock Ave.…
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Guest artistic director to lead National Orchestra of Poland in Nov. 1 concert
The Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra will give a concert Nov. 1 at 8 p.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall of the Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $20-$59…
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Civic-minded
The UGA chapter of the Blue Key National Honor Society will pay tribute to two university alumni and one faculty member at its annual…
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Brass act
For UGA tuba player Simon Wildman, winning at the 2012 Leonard Falcone International Euphonium and Tuba Festival held recently in Twin Lake, Mich., was the…
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Police raid Mexican teaching colleges
Mexican police raided three teacher colleges this month after students hijacked school buses and delivery trucks, according to an Associated Press report. Students, who reportedly…
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Four faculty named to SEC academic leadership program
Four UGA faculty members—Karen Cornell, Marsha Davis, Jeffrey Dean and Susan Thomas—will gain expertise in academic leadership as Administrative Fellows for 2012-2013.
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Atlanta Symphony Orchestra gives campus performance Nov. 4
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra will come to campus to give a concert Nov. 4 at 3 p.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall of the Performing Arts…
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College of Public Health symposium to address health concerns in U.S., Croatia
Injury prevention, occupational health, evidence-based medicine, reproduction and fertility and violence prevention are just a few of the common global health issues to be tackled…
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Bingqian Xu, National Science Foundation
Bingqian Xu, an associate professor in the College of Engineering, was awarded $360,000 from the National Science Foundation to create electrical junction devices using single…
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Maor Bar-Peled, U.S.-Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund
Maor Bar-Peled received $156,000 from the U.S.-Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund to investigate the formation of sugar-polymers, or glycans, that coat the fungus…
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Bram Tucker and Joseph Lanning, National Science Foundation
Bram Tucker, an associate professor of anthropology in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, and graduate student Joseph Lanning received a $22,597 doctoral dissertation…
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Poultry science duo write avian textbook
Birds in Our Lives, Dwelling in an Avian World By Adam Davis and Mia Malloy Cognella Academic Publishing $118.95 Adam Davis, associate professor of poultry…
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Inside tract
New research is revealing surprising connections between animal microbiomes—the communities of microbes that live inside animals’ bodies—and animal behavior, according to a paper by UGA…
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Spotlight on the Arts festival offers breadth of events, activities
When the UGA Arts Council—composed of directors and department heads from various arts units on campus—was convened by Vice Provost Libby Morris in fall 2011, discussions by the group immediately…
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David Moorhead and Chuck Bargeron, Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit Piedmont
David Moorhead, professor of silviculture, and Chuck Bargeron, technology director at the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health in the Warnell School of…
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Avoid energy-sucking ‘vampires’
Electrical devices continue to draw energy when turned off but still plugged in. Pamela Turner, an associate professor and housing extension specialist with the College…
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Angela Gibney, National Space Foundation
Angela Gibney, an assistant professor of mathematics in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, received $110,613 from the National Science Foundation to investigate the…
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Supreme Court hears affirmative action case involving U. of Texas
The Supreme Court heard arguments this month for a case involving a white student alleging unconstitutional racial bias against the University of Texas in its…
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U.S. Poet Laureate gives reading at alma mater
Being named U.S. Poet Laureate—officially Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for the Library of Congress—is the highest honor this country bestows on a poet. In recent years, the…