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Record high: Research funding from external sources surpasses $173 million mark
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Research funding at UGA reached a record high last year, with researchers receiving more than $173 million from external sources.
“This is a very welcome indication that our efforts to enhance UGA research are paying off,” said David Lee, vice president for research. “Through the efforts of many across campus, we have worked to build interdisciplinary themes, leverage our strengths and recruit outstanding faculty. In current times, academic research is extraordinarily competitive, so that if you’re not moving forward, you’re inevitably slipping behind. We’d rather move forward.”
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Rita Dove, former U.S. poet laureate, will visit campus
The Georgia Review, UGA’s prize-winning quarterly journal of arts and letters, marks its long association with Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. poet laureate Rita Dove by hosting the renowned writer for three public appearances in Athens on Oct. 8 and 9. |
GCC symposium will showcase recent cancer research findings
UGA will host “Connecting Point,” the 2009 Georgia Cancer Coalition Research Symposium on Nov. 5 and 6 at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education Conference Center and Hotel. The event showcases recent research findings, honors outstanding investigators and gives researchers from across the state a chance to exchange ideas on the prevention, early detection and treatment of cancer. This is the first year the symposium has been held at UGA. |
Two from UGA will be inducted into Georgia Writers Hall of Fame
Four writers, including two UGA faculty members, have been selected for induction into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame. |
Power down: University’s efforts to save energy
are beginning to pay off
A three-year effort to conserve energy on the Athens campus is beginning to pay off. |
Khan, Indian sitar virtuoso, will visit campus as inaugural Patel Professor
Internationally recognized Indian musician and sitar virtuoso Shujaat Husain Khan will be on campus Oct. 9-11 as the first Gordhan L. and Virginia B. “Jinx” Patel Distinguished Visiting Professor in Indian Musical Arts. |
Senior Teaching Fellows announced
The Center for Teaching and Learning has announced its 2009–2010 Senior Teaching Fellows. |
Female monarch butterflies becoming scarce in U.S
Female monarch butterflies in eastern North America have significantly declined throughout the past 30 years, a new UGA study reveals. |
‘Above and beyond’: UGA staff win Chancellor’s Award for excellence in customer service
University System of Georgia Chancellor Erroll B. Davis Jr. recently recognized three UGA teams and two individual staff members with customer service awards for going “above and beyond” their normal job responsibilities in consistently demonstrating customer service excellence. The UGA honorees were selected from a pool of more than 275 nominations for teams, individuals and institutions for the Chancellor’s Annual Customer Service Awards. |
BFSO speaker: Increasing diversity
at UGA needs to begin in grade school
If UGA wants a more diverse student body, it needs to start working with elementary school children, said Janice Mathis, vice president of the charitable research and educational organization Citizen Education Fund, at the seventh annual Black Faculty and Staff Organization’s Founders Day Luncheon. |
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Around
Academe
• Retired U. of North Carolina professors offer to teach for free
• M.B.A. applications on the rise
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Research
News
When breast cancer strikes young: Researcher studies how the disease affects ‘understudied and overlooked’ women
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Digest
• Alumna receives MacArthur Fellowship
• Artist to bring ‘Cyborg Nation’ to campus
• Dawgtoberfest scheduled for Oct. 14
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UGA
Guide
• Curtain will rise Oct. 13 on University Theatre’s ‘Grapes of Wrath’ |
Faculty
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Marcus Lay, Chemistry
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