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Exercise can help when chronic illness gets you down, UGA study finds
Suffering from a chronic illness can drain a person’s quality of life, but add in depression, and the results are debilitating. A new study from…
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UGA student-led event marks Morrill Act’s 150th anniversary
The University of Georgia Student Government Association will host a panel discussion and barbecue celebrating the university’s legacy as a land-grant university on April 11…
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UGA celebrates Honors Week
The University of Georgia will recognize outstanding students, faculty, staff and alumni at various events during Honors Week, April 16-20.
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Georgia Museum of Art at UGA to host Student Night
The University of Georgia Student Association of the Georgia Museum of Art will host a 1940s and 1950s-themed evening of activities in celebration of the…
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UGA Career Center wins Chevron innovation award
The University of Georgia Career Center has received the Outstanding Achievement Award for Innovative Programs in the College Career Services Field from the Chevron Corporation…
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UGA landscape architect program awarded reaccreditation
The bachelor of landscape architecture program in the University of Georgia College of Environment and Design has received reaccreditation status from the Landscape Architectural Accreditation…
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African ambassador to speak at UGA April 4-5
The University of Georgia will host a public talk and other events with the Hon. Maria de Fatima Lima da Veiga, Cape Verde ambassador to…
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Two new associate deans named at family and consumer sciences college
Two new associate deans, one of academic programs and one of Extension and outreach, have been announced in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences.
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University System of Kentucky denies bid to add one more university
The University of Pikeville, a private liberal arts college in Pikeville, Ky., lost its bid to join the University System of Kentucky after legislators said…
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Media matters
Anandam Kavoori, a professor of journalism in Grady College, was quoted in the Spanish newspaper El Pais in an article about YouTube. “In addition to…
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What’s bugging us
In an article on the likelihood of mosquitoes and ticks arriving early this summer, the trade publication PorkNetwork quoted Elmer Gray, a public health entomologist…
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Lecture to focus on image and identity in the African diaspora
The Institute for African American Studies and the Lamar Dodd School of Art will present a lecture by Cameron Van Patterson April 5 at 5…
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New Dialogues in Diversity lunchtime series offered
The first installment of the Office of Institutional Diversity’s lunchtime lecture series “Dialogues in Diversity” will be held April 13 from noon-1:30 p.m. in the…
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Arbor Day Foundation gives UGA its 2011 Tree Campus designation
UGA has repeated its designation as a Tree Campus USA, an honor given by the Arbor Day Foundation to universities and colleges nationwide that show…
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Computer health, security fair
The 2012 Computer Health and Security Fair will be held April 11 from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. in the second floor lobby of the Miller Learning…
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Council approves new academic dates
At its March 22 meeting, the University Council approved changes to the 2013-2014 academic calendar. The new calendar ensures that both fall and spring semesters…
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Working for peanuts
A Southeastern Farm Press article on the need for more funding for peanut research quoted John Beasley, UGA Extension peanut agronomist. “We depend on that…
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Smooth sailing
One public relations class in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication has enriched the state by giving back through a project with UGA’s…
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Plantapalooza sale to be held April 14
Plantapalooza, a multi-location plant sale, will be held April 14 from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. at the State Botanical Garden, the UGA Horticulture Club and the…
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Lower landscape maintenance
To achieve a low-maintenance landscape, UGA’s Cooperative Extension has a few tips. Start by choosing a hardy grass, like centipede. It requires less frequent mowing…
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Geneticists receive $1.8 million in NSF CAREER awards
Two UGA genetics researchers won grants from the National Science Foundation valued at more than $1.8 million for projects that may help combat birth defects…
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Going negative
Ruthann Lariscy, a professor of advertising and public relations in Grady College, was quoted in a CNN.com article about a possible relationship between negative campaigning…
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New book looks at controlling Salmonella
Controlling Salmonella in Poultry Production and Processing Scott M. Russell CRC Press $149.95 Scott Russell, a professor of poultry science in the College of Agricultural…
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This stinks
A Washington Post article about the migration of stink bugs to the deep South quoted Dan Suiter, an associate professor of entomology in the College…