Society News from the Chronicles
It's the lull just before fall semester, but around campus, progress marches on. Though they have been a political hot potato locally, smart streets are a safety innovation the university can and has embraced. Note the new pedestrian islands on Carlton Street in front of Stegeman Coliseum. The…
Creative writing professor and poet Ed Pavlić just returned from the West Bank, where he toured the region with other writers as well as government and NGO officials. He offers some poignant observations about the current conflict in this piece for Africa Is A Country:
I know. It’s the oldest…
213 years ago, by just a few days (July 25, 1801), there appeared a classified ad in the Augusta Chronicle (alas, no link from that year) announcing that:
The Senaticus Academicus had chosen a site for the university, "an institution deeply interesting to the present age, and still more to an…
The summer semester is winding down on campus and that can only mean one thing--summer commencement is quickly approaching. This summer, commencement is being held on Friday, August 1 at 9:30 a.m. at Stegeman Coliseum. The 2014 summer commencement is a combined Graduate and…
The UGA Statistical Consulting Center (SCC) announces its inaugural short course, “Exploratory Data Analysis in Excel”. This two hour mini-workshop will be open to faculty, staff and students from Franklin College. The recommended audience is researchers who are new to quantitative research, and…