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Educational psychology professor Stacey Neuharth-Pritchett has been elected president of the Georgia Association on Young Children (GAYC), a non-profit membership organization that promotes quality early care and education for young children.
The Torrance Center for Creativity & Talent Development is hosting two series of weekend activities during the next three months for local elementary students to express their creativity while exploring academics—Friday Night Focuses and Saturdays at the Museum.
Gwinnett County middle school art teacher and UGA alumna Aimée Burgamy has been named one of five finalists in the first annual Great American Teacher Awards.
Counseling professor Diane Samdahl has been elected president of the Academy of Leisure Sciences, a national organization dedicated to the intellectual advancement of leisure sciences.
Two University of Georgia College of Education professors will premiere a new documentary film this week that they produced which focuses on the need for research and effective interventions to reduce homophobia and heterosexism in public schools.
A graduate student and a recent graduate in mathematics education at the University of Georgia at Griffin were recently named Teachers of the Year at their respective schools.
Recreation and leisure professor Douglas Kleiber will receive the Society for Park and Recreation Educators’ Distinguished Colleague Award—the group’s highest recognition—during the National Recreation and Parks Association Congress in October.
A research article by two College of Education professors showing that teachers are inadequately prepared to assist children in the management of their asthma in the classroom was the third most commonly cited article in the Journal of School Nursing over the past three months.
Professor and interim director of the Institute of Women's Studies Juanita Johnson-Bailey has been named to the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame’s Class of 2009.
More than 100 of Georgia’s top education leaders and policymakers are expected to attend the University of Georgia College of Education’s second annual Education in Georgia: A State of the State Report on Thursday, Oct. 1, at UGA’s Gwinnett Campus.
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