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Energy expenditure study
Non-smoking, overweight females between the ages of 25 and 45 are sought for a 12-week study to examine the effects of a nutritional product on…
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Wheelchair-user study
The kinesiology department is seeking research participants for a study to develop methods for measuring physical activity among manual wheelchair users with a spinal cord…
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Award nominations
The Office of Service-Learning is accepting nominations for the Service-Learning Teaching Excellence Award and the Service-Learning Research Excellence Award. These two new awards recognize UGA…
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Lilly Fellow applications
The Center for Teaching and Learning is accepting applications for the 2011-2013 CTL Lilly Teaching Fellows from faculty currently in the first, second or third…
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Observatory open house
The UGA Observatory will hold its monthly open house Feb. 25. At 7 p.m. in Room 202 of the Physics Building, Roger C. Hunter, an…
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eLC town hall meetings
The Learning Management Systems Executive Committee, charged with evaluating the “next generation” of Commons, invites faculty, staff and students to attend a town hall meeting…
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Digital Library archives historic newspapers
An archive of historic Athens newspapers is now available online via UGA’s Digital Library of Georgia. The Athens Historic Newspapers Archive provides online access to…
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Professors edit book on place-based, indigenous focus in science education
Cultural Studies and Environmentalism: The Confluence of EcoJustice, Place-based (Science) Education and Indigenous Knowledge Systems Deborah J. Tippins, Michael P. Mueller, Michael van Eijck and…
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Renaissance man: UGA police staffer also teaches criminal justice classes
Dan Silk has guarded diplomats in Afghanistan. He’s advised police in the United Kingdom. And he’s apprehended criminals in Athens.
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Gwynn Powell, 2011 Hedley S. Dimmock Award
Gwynn Powell, an associate professor of recreation and leisure studies, has been named the recipient of the 2011 Hedley S. Dimmock Award from the American…
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Jerome E. Morris, Feldman Award
Jerome E. Morris, a professor of social foundations of education and a Research Fellow in UGA’s Institute for Behavioral Research, will receive the Feldman Award…
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Jennifer Graff, research fellowship recepient
Jennifer Graff, an assistant professor in the department of language and literacy education, is one of only two U.S. scholars to receive a research fellowship…
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Erv Garrison, 2010 Ripp Rapp Award
Erv Garrison, a professor in the department of anthropology, received the 2010 Ripp Rapp Award from the Archeological Geology Division of the Geology Society of…
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Gayle Andrews, new president of the National Forum to Accelerate Middle-Grades reform
Gayle Andrews, an associate professor of middle grades education, is the new president of the National Forum to Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform, an alliance of more…
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University competes in 10-week RecycleMania Tournament
UGA will compete in the 2011 Recycle-Mania Tournament. Over a 10-week period, campuses compete in different contests to see which institution can either collect the…
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CCRC to host international two-day symposium on glycan action in disease
On March 14-15, a group of international scientists, including 32 speakers and session chairs, will convene at UGA’s Complex Carbohydrate Research Center to discuss the…
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Historian Peter Wood to give lecture Feb. 24 at Georgia Museum of Art
Peter Wood, an author and former professor at Duke University, will present a lecture and book signing at the Georgia Museum of Art on Feb.…
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German & Slavic Studies to host documentary screening with filmmaker
Documentary filmmaker Dmitry Trakovsky will be on campus for a screening of his film Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky Feb. 22 at 7 p.m. in Room 265…
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Stay safe during lightning storms
The Office of Security and Emergency Preparedness has offered some lightning safety tips. To prepare for lighting, keep the 30/30 lightning safety rule in mind:…
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Wake Forest University baseball coach donates kidney to player
Wake Forest University baseball coach Tom Walter recently donated a kidney to one of his freshman outfielders to save his life, The Chronicle of Higher…
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Baldwin-Wallace College sells art
Baldwin-Wallace College, a liberal arts institution in Berea, Ohio, recently sold 1,700 donated works of art for about $1.4 million, The Chronicle of Higher Education…
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‘A new way of doing physics’
David Landau remembers when the use of computer power in physics was a novelty—something promising, perhaps, but not yet of any practical value. How times…
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Klopfenstein, telecommunications faculty member, dies
Bruce C. Klopfenstein, 53, a faculty member in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, died Feb. 8 of natural causes.