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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…

  • Health Sciences Campus opens to local community

    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…

  • Breaking down barriers

    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…

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    Record number of UGA students offered Fulbrights

    Seventeen UGA students were offered international travel-study grants from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program for the 2012-2013 academic year. Fourteen of these accepted the scholarships.…

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    Walking study participants

    The Body Composition and Metabolism Lab in the kinesiology department is seeking women ages 25-45 to take part in a supervised walking study. The nine-week…

  • Giant slide

    Giant slide

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    Economic Development Leadership Council a finalist for national award

    UGA’s Economic Development Leadership Council has been selected as one of three national finalists in the University Economic Development Association’s 2012 Awards of Excellence competition…

  • Concert premiere of ‘Things Fall Apart’ to be held Sept. 6

    Concert premiere of ‘Things Fall Apart’ to be held Sept. 6

    Things Fall Apart, a song cycle by  professor emeritus Roger C. Vogel will premiere Sept. 6 at 8 p.m. in the Ramsey Concert Hall of…

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    Volunteer fair

    The Athens Volunteer Fair will be held Sept. 13 from noon to 6 p.m. in Grand Hall of the Tate Student Center. More than 50…

  • Associate provost for academic planning named

    Associate provost for academic planning named

    Jerome Legge, who has served as interim associate provost for academic planning at UGA since January, has been named to the post on a permanent…

  • New book focuses on democratic history

    New book focuses on democratic history

    The Political Education of Democratus: Negotiating Civil Virtue during the Early Republic Brian Dotts Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group $80 Brian Dotts, a lecturer in…

  • Performing Arts Center website wins award

    Performing Arts Center website wins award

    The Performing Arts Center has received the Interactive Media Award for outstanding achievement in website design.  The PAC’s new site, which allows visitors to find…

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    Emory admits ‘misrepresenting’ data

    Officials at Emory University acknowledged that administrators intentionally misreported admissions data to third-party groups dating back more than a decade. The false data was sent…

  • Poet laureate to give Charter Lecture during arts festival

    Poet laureate to give Charter Lecture during arts festival

    Natasha Trethewey, U.S. poet laureate for 2012-2013, will deliver this year’s Charter Lecture as one of the signature events of UGA’s Spotlight on the Arts…

  • Researcher offers farmers ‘heads-up’ on ways to adapt to climate change

    Researcher offers farmers ‘heads-up’ on ways to adapt to climate change

    There are a few conversational topics that are best not mentioned around the dinner table in some households: religion, politics and climate change.