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$18.7 million grant to improve control of parasitic disease
The UGA Research Foundation has received a five-year, $18.7 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to research ways to reduce the morbidity rate from the parasitic disease schistosomiasis in low- and middle-income countries in Africa, the Middle East and the Americas. Researchers will develop and evaluate research-based approaches and diagnostic tools to identify, control and even eliminate schistosomiasis where feasible.
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‘A real hero of Georgia history’: Henry King Stanford, president emeritus, dies at age 92
Henry King Stanford, who died Jan. 1 in Americus at the age of 92, was a sprightly, highly regarded veteran of nearly 30 years as a college president when he came out of retirement in 1986 at age 70 to lead the University of Georgia through a year of healing as interim president. |
Eminent Scholar will expand bioenergy research efforts
Harry Gilbert, who has worked extensively on carbohydrate enzymes while focusing primarily on how these biocatalysts contribute to plant cell wall degradation, has joined UGA’s Complex Carbohydrate Research Center as the latest Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar. |
11,600 apply for admission through early-action program
UGA’s early-action admissions program continues to prove popular with prospective students, with some 11,600 applications submitted by the Oct. 15 deadline. About half of those applicants were notified in December that they were accepted to UGA, while most of the rest learned that a final decision had not yet been made and that they needed to submit additional material by the Jan. 15 regular-decision deadline. |
University Alliance grants support outreach, recruitment, retention efforts
The University Alliance, a partnership between UGA and the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, has awarded
10 University Alliance Grants for the 2008-2009 academic year. |
Former speaker of U.S. House teaches judicial review course
at law school this semester
Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, has joined the School of Law as a Carl E. Sanders Political Leadership Scholar this spring. He is teaching a course on judicial review. |
Honors student named UGA’s first George Mitchell Scholar
Christina Faust, a UGA Honors
student, is one of 12 national
recipients of the 2009-2010 George J. Mitchell Postgraduate
Scholarship. |
Civil rights activist to speak at 2009 Freedom Breakfast
A leader of the civil rights movement and a U.S. Congressman, Rep. John Lewis will deliver the keynote speech at the sixth annual Freedom Breakfast, which honors the life and work of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. |
Lineup announced for fifth annual Robert Osborne Classic Film Festival
Goldfinger, E.T. and The Godfather are among the films selected for Robert Osborne’s Fifth Annual Classic Film Festival, to be held March 19-22, at the Classic Center in Athens. |
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• Obama taps Ohio professor as new chief White House photographer
• Coastal Carolina goes on probation
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The write track: New interdisciplinary certificate program launched to teach students crucial composition skills
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• NBAF goes to Kansas State University
• UGA signs international cooperative agreement with Mexican university
• UGA’s ‘Fact Book’ wins award
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• Month of events scheduled to celebrate ‘The Power
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Misha Boyd, Odum School of Ecology
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UGA partners with nine colleges to improve public service and outreach
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