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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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SPIA will celebrate its first decade of accomplishments
The School of Public and International Affairs, one of the top-ranked public affairs graduate schools in the nation, will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a…
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Study finds firms’ tax rates are tied to CEOs’ politics
Companies run by CEOs who vote Republican tend to pay more in taxes than companies run by CEOs who vote Democratic, according to new research…
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Doctoral student wins education award
Yvette Dupree, a doctoral student in the College of Education, was one of 21 career and technical educators recently honored as Career, Technical and Agricultural…
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‘People first’
Timothy M. Chester, who joined UGA from Pepperdine University one year ago, was recently promoted from chief information officer to vice president for information technology.…
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Ready for anything: OSEP programs will focus on emergency planning
In observance of National Preparedness Month, UGA’s Office of Security and Emergency Preparedness will be asking students, faculty and staff a simple question: “Are…
