Tag: About UGA

Working out – not just for youngsters any more

Elaine Cress’ Exercise and Aging Class, held every spring, is so popular that participants race…
Dawg Camp Adventure

Dawg Camp is a program open to incoming freshmen that guides them through outdoors activities…
Natural beauty

Looking at slime under microscopes and building terrariums for pretend organisms are all part of…
Building Connections and Broadening Horizons

Vietnam, a war-ravaged Southeast Asian nation, provided the perfect testing ground for Kelcie Fincham’s goal…
Making access easier

More than 6,000 students challenged by learning disabilities, visual impairments and mobility may have to…
Home Sweet Home

In celebration of 200 years of on-campus student living at the University of Georgia, the…
Project Promote

An innovative new University of Georgia Web site, Project Promote, offers an online mentoring program…
The little things that matter

Standing on the bank of a salt marsh on Georgia’s Sapelo Island, wearing shin-high rubber…
Taking it slow

On a sweltering summer’s day last year, UGA doctoral student Jeffrey Stoike and a partnership…
Getting jail time

Schnavia Smith Hatcher has never been arrested and yet she’s spent years in jails. She…
Real-life science

A near-moonless Saturday night in September found a group of UGA freshman playing duck-duck-goose in…
Mary Kahrs Warnell Forest Education Center

At the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, experiential learning is the foundation for…
Urban gardening

It is often said that gardening is good for the soul. Gardeners in Bobby Wilson’s…
Preventing bullying

Middle school kids have a reputation for being loud, crude, hormonally unstable, and obsessed with…
JURO@GA: online journal for undergraduate researchers

Undergraduate researchers at the University of Georgia are using web-based technology and mixed media to…
Teaching math effectively

Three University of Georgia education researchers will study how mathematics teachers understand professional development, how…
Across the pond: UGA at Oxford

For these study-abroad students, tailgate parties were traded for double-decker buses and tank tops for…
Turning the page

What do disease investigators from the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and America’s…
Bike for a cure

Seven UGA students will travel about 4,500 miles this summer on a transcontinental bike ride…
Roosevelt@UGA: “Not left, not right, but forward”

Roosevelt@UGA members research and write policy proposals addressing current national issues. The student-run think tank…
Young scientists

Sophomore Tulsi Patel is currently investigating possible biological control agents for Chinese privet, a harmful…
Creative writing meets science

Some people think the divide between North and South campuses at the University of Georgia…
learning together

Norris Armstrong, an assistant professor of genetics who teaches introductory classes, is researching what professors…
Blogging experiences from abroad

This summer, four graduate students who are participating in the 2007 Maymester in Croatia program…