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Renovations around campus

It's that time of year (in which I start out several posts with 'It's that time of year...') when the town begins to be once again flooded with people and cars, returning students, parents, futons, and hopes (we hope). Instead of showing a picture of a very congested Milledge Avenue during sorority rush, we'll preview some renovations to campus buildings that will soon re-open. The University Architects office does a great job keeping our…


Campus smart streets

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 university has added painted bike lanes around campus as well, all in the service of safer transit in what is a very densely populated area. Look for more…


This week in UGA history

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 encreasing posterity." [Re-]discovered in Nash Boney's excellent A Pictorial History of the University of Georgia. May we be today and always deeply…


$2 million NSF grant to Mathematics

A major new grant to the department of mathematics to help in attracting students to this essential foundational discipline: Behind every facet of digital communication is a well-trained mathematician, and the University of Georgia mathematics department is on the front lines of training for this ever-increasing field of employment. ... "Our objective is to provide an intellectually compelling, pedagogically well-planned and professionally…


Athfest 2014

One of the many great things about UGA is its symbiotic relationship with its hometown of Athens, Ga. The great intermingling between town and gown creates a constant fecund season for creative collaboration in arts, entertainment, education and all the related enterprises that group up around these activities. One of those is Athfest, and our students, staff and faculty will be well-represented this weekend as spectators, organizers, volunteers…

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Art Rox at LDSOA

Beginning May 23, 2014,  the Lamar Dodd School of Art will host a retrospective exhibition of art from the period 1975-85, presented by the Art Rocks Athens Foundation: Athens, Georgia is well known for its vibrant music scene. What is less known, however, is that artists from the era of 1975-85 gave rise to the music, and then their music went on to influence the art. Art Rocks Athens Foundation, a non-profit organization, was formed…

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Spring Commencement 2014

It's a great week on campus. The 2014 Spring Undergraduate Commencement exercise will be held on Friday, May 9, 2014 at 7 p.m. inside Sanford Stadium. Athens is beginning to flow with excited and proud parents, family members as well as the graduates themselves. An exciting time for all involved, and the reason at the center of all activity at the university. Commencement itself then is a spectacle equal to grandeur of the occasion. And in that…


Why support Franklin College?

Privately funded scholarships have a direct and personal impact on UGA students and provide opportunities for them to achieve their dreams. Often the impact is life changing and can best be understood in the words of the students themselves. Below are the words of one of our students, junior psychology major Toni McKoy, whose life has been changed through the generosity of a scholarship donor. This has been a critical past year for me, I've had…


Lampost post

  Maybe because it's Spring Break, but can you resist a lamppost post? Certainly, I cannot. If you every wondered why North Campus has the look and feel of park, it is because UGA has some of the best grounds crew professionals you will find anywhere. They're at it again, this time, taking the time and care to replace the 100-year-old lampposts near the arch: Installed in June 1914 by the Athens Rail and Light Company, the lampposts were…


Careful on campus

Okay and...we're back. Great snow, terrific sense of 'found time,' whether you used it well or not. But now we're back and you need to look out for falling ice - especially Old College, New College, Libraries, Peabody, Administration every building on campus for at least the next few hours. Image: Author photo of Old College on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014


Athens Science Café

And as if on cue from the post below, another terrific collaboration that has been in the work for a while comes to fruition. This one is aimed at taking science into the community - the Athens Science Café: Regular meetings held in various locations around Athens where people can come learn about interesting scientific topics in a fun, interactive environment. Each meeting will be led by a professional scientist who is there to introduce some…


Speak Out for Species

On an episode of Unscripted that aired earlier this summer, we had a guest (neuroscientist and philospher Barry Smith) who talked about how our ideas about animals' perception and ability to feel pain have evolved over time. This lecture tonight by Melanie Joy based on her award-winning book "Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism," will likely take that discussion quite a bit further: Joy explores the…


UGA Wind Ensemble, Concert on Lawn

In what is becoming a terrific campus tradition each fall, the UGA Wind Ensemble, under Director of Bands John Lynch, will present a free Concert on the Lawn on North Campus, Friday, September 20 at 12:30 p.m. Bring your friends and office colleagues (and lunch) and come down to the North Campus quad for some pop selections and light classics from one of the Hodgson School's premiere large ensembles. Here's a video from the first concert in 2011…


Exploring Earth Sciences

By JESSICA LUTON  jluton@uga.edu If interest in the Earth sciences is at your core, two events happening this week may very well provide some insight into the kinds of careers that are possible in meteorology and geography. First up, tonight from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in room 200B of the Geography and Geology building, is an informational meeting entitled “Your Future in Meteorology.”  The UGA Chapter of the American Meteorological Society is…


Women's Studies: Friday Speaker Series

  From a women’s perspective:  Friday Speaker Series brings together diverse women for thought-provoking lectures By Jessica Luton jluton@uga.edu           Beginning later this month, a Friday speaker series in the Franklin College Institute for Women’s Studies will feature female representatives from a variety of disciplines.  Faculty and staff from many areas of campus—marine sciences,…

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Young Dawgs research program

The pipeline that connects university research to the public, from new drug treatments to insights about our own history, is one of the very important functions of higher education. The pipeline that connects young students to one day become those very researchers is just as important: Run by UGA Human Resources, Young Dawgs is doing more than capturing the imaginations of high school students and preparing them for future careers. It's also…


Defining the mix

Diversity on campus can be construed as a conundrum, wrapped around an enigma, especially when we approve the goals but are not quite convinced about the means to achieve them. Absent a clear acceptance of the policies to promote ethnic, socio-economic and/or geographical diversity among the student population, the goals and benefits thereof remain murky and mired in controversy. And there arise additional questions: how can a place be made at…


Big Data

We're told how it's going to change everything, and truly we now exist in a sea of information: This explosion of data is relatively new. As recently as the year 2000, only one-quarter of all the world’s stored information was digital. The rest was preserved on paper, film, and other analog media. But because the amount of digital data expands so quickly -- doubling around every three years -- that situation was swiftly inverted. Today, less…


Performances and lectures today

The object of the blog isn't to be a calendar of events, but sometimes the broader message of our news is simply the volume (and tone!) of activity that wends its way through the Franklin College and UGA. It's that time of year again - which, really could be almost any week in the academic year. But Spring semester seems to bring out our best. This is just one day - today: The department of English hosts a lecture, "'Let Us Have Faith That Right…


Students help in the shift toward sustainability on campus

According to its own waste characterization study in 2006, the state of Georgia estimates that each year it spends $100 million to throw away $300 million worth of recyclables. Now the UGA Office of Sustainability is enlisting, and rewarding, students across campus in the effort to cut down on the waste: The University of Georgia Office of Sustainability has awarded $26,000 to seven student projects as part of its annual Campus Sustainability…

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Reading days and exam week

It's that time again on campus - before we ramp up the holiday festivities and the students head home, the quiet descends, the librairies are full and nerves are on end. Do your best, students. Congratulations to all faculty members of every rank on their hardwork in the classroom this semester, too. Image: photo of the President's Garden Club sundial adjacent to Old College by UGA photographer Dot Paul.


University Theatre announces its 80th season

One of the most dynamic units in the Franklin College, indeed in the entire University, is the department of theatre and film studies. Long a mainstay on our campus, they have engaged our students, faculty and facilities to keep the campus and community entertained and informed for more than a century. Now in 2012, they announce their 80th season as University Theatre: The season's highlights include former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove's play "…


Psychology researchers focus on consequences of binge drinking

It's a perennial issue on college campuses nationwide, one with heavy effects on the health and saefty of students: Binge drinking. A doctoral candidate from psychology has published findings that suggest patterns of binge drinking establish the environment for dangerous situations. The study, recently published in the journal Violence and Victims, found that first-year female college students who drank four or more alcoholic drinks in one day…
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