News Archive - 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 the…


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'…


Just Print Play

Faculty and graduate students of the Printmaking and Book Arts area in the Lamar Dodd School of Art are going to Belgium over spring break (March 5-17) to take part in a collaborative residency with Concordia University at the Frans Masereel Centrum.The UGA contingent was invited to participate in the week-long residency at the Frans Masereel Centrum - an arts center for graphics named for the Flemish painter and graphic artist - based on…


Bray's Plays shorts - University Theatre

Beginning tonight in the lovely Seney-Stoval Chapel on Milledge Avenue, University Theatre presents an evening of short works by theatre and film studies lecturer and award-winning playwright John Patrick Bray: Fairy godmothers, the bluegrass bar that birthed punk, the government's secret Department of Extraterrestrial Findings and other oddities come to life in a series of original short plays by Bray. "Bray's short, quirky works are sure to…


World's Most Influential Scientists

If you wanted to create a list of the 50 most influential scientists in the world today, and someone has, the list would be incomplete without UGA computational chemist Henry F. Schaefer. The Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry and director of the Center for Computational Chemistry, Schaefer was named in thebestschools.org list of influential scientists at number 38. A Humboldt Award winner and slated to receive the Peter Debye Award from the…


Daniel Matt: Jewish Mysticism

The department of religion presents a special guest lecture on Thursday Feb. 6 at 6:30 p.m. in the South P/J Plaza auditorium, "How Kabbalah Reimagines God," by Daniel Matt of the Graduate Theological Union. Matt is a leading authority on the Zohar and Kabbalah. He is the author of the best-selling "The Essential Kabbalah" (HarperSanFrancisco, translated into seven languages); "Zohar: The Book of Enlightenment" (Paulist Press); "God and the Big…