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University Housing launches 2012 Room-of-the-Year contest
University Housing at the University of Georgia has joined the UGA Residence Hall Association in announcing the 2012 Room-of-the-Year and Best Video Tour contest for…
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UGA’s international community to celebrate 40th anniversary of coffee hour
For the past four decades, University of Georgia students, faculty, staff and members of the local community have gathered on campus each Friday to celebrate…
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UGA College of Environment and Design holds dedication ceremony for new building
The University of Georgia College of Environment and Design will host a dedication ceremony and open house for its new building, located at 285 South…
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Myra Moore named director of assessment at UGA’s Terry College
Myra Moore has been named to the newly created position of director of assessment, rankings and undergraduate programs in the University of Georgia Terry College…
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Glen Finland receives the UGA Grady College Dean’s Medal
Glen Finland, author of the memoir Next Stop, was presented the Dean’s Medal for Leadership Excellence in Communication from the University of Georgia Grady College…
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Noted historian, author to deliver Peabody-Smithgall lecture
The fourth annual Peabody-Smithgall Lecture, sponsored by the University of Georgia Peabody Awards, will be presented Sept. 17 at 4 p.m. in room 102 of…
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Museum exhibits large, minimalist sculptures
The Georgia Museum of Art will show an exhibition of large-scale works by the American sculptor De Wain Valentine Sept. 8-Jan. 27. The exhibition, De…
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Eleven students named 2012-13 PSO Scholars
Eleven undergraduate students have been named Public Service and Outreach Scholars for 2012-2013.
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Retired education prof donates papers to university’s archives
The papers of Carl Glickman, a retired UGA education professor, have been donated to the university’s archives and are now housed in the Hargrett Rare…
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More than 100 students begin vet med studies
The College of Veterinary Medicine welcomed 102 members of the Class of 2016 during its annual white coat ceremony. The incoming class is made up…
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Libraries’ media archives receives earliest known home movies in Georgia
The libraries’ Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, the only public institution in the state devoted entirely to preserving moving images, has…
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‘Mirror-kissing’ culture
The Chicago Tribune quoted Keith Campbell, head of Franklin College’s psychology department, in a news story about rampant narcissism in today’s society, which the article…
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Coffee bean balance
The Washington Post quoted food science professor Ronald Pegg in an article about the science of coffee. “Coffee’s main attributes are bitterness, acidity and body,…
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Massive melt
Climate scientist Thomas Mote was quoted in a New York Times article about the once-in-150 years occurrence of melting covering 97 percent of Greenland’s ice…
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Health Sciences Campus opens to local community
The public opening to UGA’s new Health Sciences Campus was nothing if not grand.
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‘Roe’ over caviar
Doug Peterson, an assistant professor of fisheries and aquaculture research in the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, was quoted in a New York…
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Tax-free holiday ‘wash’
Jeff Humphreys, director of Terry College’s Selig Center for Economic Growth, was quoted in Nashville’s The Tennessean about that state’s tax-free holiday during the first…
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Public Service and Outreach award nomination deadline
Nominations are being accepted until Sept. 28 for the 2013 Walter Barnard Hill Award, the Walter Barnard Hill Fellow Award and the Outreach Staff Award…
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Golden girls
After making a splash in London this summer, half of Team USA’s Olympic gold-medal winning 4×200-meter freestyle relay team returned to classes at UGA last…
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University Woman’s Club
The University Woman’s Club will hold its annual “Fall Coffee with the First Lady,” a meeting with Mary Adams, UGA first lady and the club’s…
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Nomination deadline extension
The Office of the Vice President for Public Service and Outreach is accepting nominations for the 2013 Engaged Scholar Award. Originally Sept. 28, the deadline…
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Latino enrollment reaches new high
Latino students became the largest minority group enrolled in four-year colleges and universities in 2011, according to a report from the Pew Hispanic Center. The…
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Breaking down barriers
The single most important barrier to the use of lignocellulosic biomass such as switchgrass, populus, sorghum and miscanthus for production of biofuels is the resistant…
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Protect against West Nile virus
West Nile virus usually peaks between Aug. 15 and Sept. 15 in Georgia, but this year doctors are seeing an earlier start. Elmer Gray, a…