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An homage to John Cage's landmark composition of the same name, the 4 Minutes, 33 Seconds Contest highlights University of Georgia student research in the arts. The event offers an opportunity for students to win prizes and to share their creative inquiry with peers, faculty, administrators and alumni throughout the university community. The competition is open to any graduate student or undergraduate student working on an advanced project,…
This competition highlights scholarly research by UGA students about any art form or combination of art forms, including (but not restricted to) visual art, music, theatre, dance, film, literature, media arts or performance art. Focusing on historical, theoretical and critical research in the arts, the competition provides an opportunity for students to present their research to the university community. For more information go to: https://…
Guidelines: Convey a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) concept to a broader audience using any medium of your choice. Deadline: 5 p.m., Dec. 7, 2020 Prizes: The top four submissions receive prizes of $1,000, $800, $600, and $400.   Special Prize: An additional $200 will be made available to the entry that engages most successfully with the topic of either COVID-19 or …
This competition highlights scholarly research by UGA students about any art form or combination of art forms, including (but not restricted to): visual art, music, theater, dance, film, literature, media arts or performance art. Focusing on historical, theoretical and critical research in the arts, the competition provides an opportunity for students to present their research to the university community.
The TEDxUGA Student Council presents the 7th Annual Student Idea Showcase. In this TED-like experience, ten students will take the stage to share their ideas worth spreading. The showcase is an amazing opportunity for great ideas to be celebrated by the entire student body. From these ten speakers, the top participants will be selected to represent the UGA student population on the TEDxUGA stage at the annual event this upcoming March. Everyone…
UGA’s Next Top Entrepreneur is a live pitch competition put on by the Entrepreneurship Program at the University of Georgia. Students from across the country can for the opportunity to pitch their business or business idea to a panel of judges for the chance to win $10,000. A travel stipend of $1,500 is available for teams traveling more than 75 miles from Athens. Application deadline for Next Top Entrepreneur is March 18. The application is at…
What teams will win the grand prize and be crowned the Fabricate winner? All faculty, staff, and students are welcome to come out to enjoy the competition, indulge in heavy hors-d'oeuvres and vote for their favorite team. For more information, visit: http://students.caes.uga.edu/current/fabricate.html
The SIS, or Student Idea Showcase, is an initiative of the TEDxUGA Student Council. Currently enrolled students at the University of Georgia have the chance to enter the showcase and share their “ideas worth spreading” in a TED-like environment. The goal of the SIS is to foster the exploration and sharing of ideas amongst UGA students and serve as the platform for which student presenters are chosen for the TEDxUGA stage. Following the showcase…
This annual competition features student research in the arts. Poster competition entries will be on display Nov. 1–7 in the museum’s education resource center during regular hours. Poster session begins at 5 p.m.; presentations begin at 7 p.m. Prizes will be awarded in both categories. Part of UGA's 2017 Spotlight on the Arts.
It is a coincidence that the Games of the XXXI Olympiad officially begin tonight and students begin their move into the UGA dorms on Sunday? Maybe, and in truth Athens has already begun to fill up with students again (I see parents walking on the lawn outside my window right now) and I watched an Olympic soccer match two days ago. But the Olympic games - featuring many UGA athletes and coaches, reported on by our sports journalists and…
An interesting new study highlighted on the CHE blog, Wired Campus, expands on the expanding reality of the impacts of social media on informed discussions within and beyond the classroom: In a paper released on Monday, Christine Greenhow, an assistant professor of education at Michigan State University, argues that using informal social-media settings to carry on debates about science can help students refine their argumentative skills,…
A special Blue-card and First-year Odyssey event will take place tonight at 6:30 p.m. in MLC 101, the keynote address for Women History Month at UGA - "A New Sisterhood for the Age of Twitter" by noted political theorist, activist and writer Robin Morgan: award-winning poet, novelist, political theorist, feminist activist, journalist, editor and best-selling author, Robin Morgan. She is the founder and president of The Sisterhood is Global…
Lamar Dodd School of Art photography lecturer Marni Shindelman has an interesting new art project that has re-introduced art to social media:   An exhibition of the project, “Geolocation: Tributes to the Data Stream,” opened on Thursday at United Photo Industries in New York and runs through Jan. 28. Ms. Shindelman called Twitter “a huge, vast sea of digital noise.” “But it’s important that it exists,” she said, “and I think our…

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