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Plant pansies like the pros
With their colorful faces and cold-weather tolerance, pansies are an easy landscape edition—unless they are installed incorrectly. Gary Wade, a UGA Cooperative Extension horticulturist, says…
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UGA welcomes new faculty
Below is an alphabetical listing of new tenured and tenure-track faculty who have joined the university since the previous listing was published in Columns a…
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BFSO speaker offers insight on present-day education
Public education has come a long way since Harold Black became the first African-American student to enroll in the Terry College of Business in 1962.
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‘Best kept secret in Georgia’
Founded in 1987 to stem the proliferation of technologies and materials that underlie weapons of mass destruction as well as to promote research, teaching and…
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World Food Prize laureate to present 2011 Brooks Lecture
Jo Luck, 2010 World Food Prize laureate and former president and CEO of Heifer International, will be the keynote speaker at the annual D.W. Brooks…
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Landscape architect to give lecture
The College of Environment and Design’s Cultural Landscape Lab will host a lecture by UGA alumna Nancy Aten on Oct. 3 at 5 p.m. in…
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Embracing diversity speaker: Step outside comfort zone
Jace Weaver, director of the Institute of Native American Studies and religion professor at UGA, spoke about the value of diversity in education and the…
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Learning through service
UGA students are getting valuable life experience connecting academic concepts learned in the classroom with real needs in the community.
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Ariel Garrett
Ariel Garrett believes in living and learning life to its fullest. When she graduates next year with a double major in psychology and English, the…
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Conference on navigating college life postponed until Oct. 18
Athens, Ga. – The student conference Georgia Promoting Student Success (GPS2): Navigating College Life, originally set for Sept. 25, has been rescheduled for Oct. 18…
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Lecture to look at ‘concept of ideal personality’
Athens, Ga. – The University of Georgia African Studies Institute will hold its fall lecture and open house Sept. 29 at 4 p.m. in Adinkra…
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Glenn Miller Orchestra performing Oct. 11 at UGA
Athens, Ga. – Big band sound is coming to the University of Georgia. The UGA Performing Arts Center will present the Glenn Miller Orchestra on…
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UGA Griffin Campus to host open house
Griffin, Ga. – The University of Georgia Griffin Campus will hold a fall open house Oct. 6 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Griffin…
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Lorinc joins WUGA-FM and WUGA-TV as reporter/anchor
John Lorinc, a veteran radio, cable and print writer/reporter, has been named news reporter/anchor for WUGA-FM and WUGA-TV, the University of Georgia’s public radio and…
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Kennedy receives $570,600 NCI award for cancer research
Athens, Ga. – Eileen Kennedy, assistant professor of pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences in the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy, received a National Cancer Institute…
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UGA to host Boy Scout Advance-a-Rama
Athens, Ga. – Hundreds of Boy Scouts will descend upon the University of Georgia on Saturday, Sept. 24 with one goal in mind-earning badges during…
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UGA alumna A.E. Stallings receives MacArthur Foundation “genius award”
University of Georgia alumna A.E. (Alicia) Stallings (A.B. ’90) has been selected as a 2011 MacArthur Fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur…
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Search committee seeks dean for UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
Athens, Ga. – University of Georgia Provost Jere Morehead has appointed a committee to begin a national search to fill the position of dean of…
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Rutherford Hall to be rebuilt with attention to historic details
Athens, Ga. – Rutherford Hall, a 72-year-old residence hall on the University of Georgia’s South Campus, will be razed and rebuilt as a 260-resident hall,…
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Conference helps new students adjust to life at UGA
Athens, Ga. – University of Georgia Multicultural Services and Programs is launching a new program designed to help first-year and transfer students transition to college…
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UGA conference focuses on psychometric models to measure mathematical knowledge
Mathematics education researchers, psychometricians and mathematicians from across the country will discuss the latest research on how best to measure students’ mathematics knowledge and learning…
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UGA dance presents Community Dance Day Celebration
The University of Georgia department of dance will present Community Dance Day Celebration, an afternoon of events designed to share the art of dance with…
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Gulf Coast residents underestimate hurricane destructiveness, UGA study
Three new studies led by University of Georgia weather and climate psychologist Alan Stewart suggest that people living near the U.S. Gulf Coast may systemically…
