News from the Chronicles - January 2014


Student Reports from Antarctica

 


Focus on the faculty: Lisa Donovan

Great Q & A on the UGA homepage with professor of plant biology Lisa Donovan:   When did you come to UGA and what brought you here? I came to the University of Georgia in 1995 and was attracted by the diversity and excellence of the plant biologists here. What are your favorite courses and why? At the undergraduate level, I enjoy contributing to BIOL 1108, “Principles of Plant Biology II” for biology majors, because it provides…


Lowery to testify on artists' right


Summer research grant opportunity

Enter the 2014 Tinker Graduate Field Research Award Competition   By JESSICA LUTON jluton@uga.edu The Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute (LACSI) recently announced the 2014 Tinker Foundation, Inc. Field Research Grant for students.  The grants are meant to help fund travel and other expenses for highly qualified graduated students with an interest in conducting preliminary field…


Re-scheduled events

Because of the snow and related impediments to travel, a series of scheduled campus events for today have been postponed. These include this morning's Mason Public Leadership lecture, featuring former U.S. secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin, The Willson Center's Global Georgia Initiative public lecture by composer Tania León and the Visiting Artist/Scholar lecture by Luke Syson in the school of art. Our thanks and safe travels to these…


The Athens-Atlanta Connection

Very interesting juxtaposition of forces arrayed this week, highlighted in separate articles, connected by a major weather event and both predicated on an issue critical to the state and UGA: economic development. First, the Columns article, Downtown Connector, about the importance of linking the new Office of Economic Development to important partners in Atlanta: Sixty-five miles is the distance between UGA's hub in Athens and Atlanta, Georgia'…

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