THE PLANT CENTER fosters and supports interactions among those members of the University of Georgia research community who share common interests in cellular and molecular aspects of plant growth and development, in plant genome organization and function, in the application of molecular and genetic tools to improve cultivated plants, and in organisms that interact with plants. The Plant Center hosts a regular seminar series, organizes an annual scientific retreat to encourage the development of interdisciplinary research, and sponsors symposia and technical workshops. 

THE POULTRY DIAGNOSTIC RESEARCH CENTER carries out basic and applied disease research programs, which are of economic importance to Georgia’s poultry industry. Diagnostic, laboratory, and consultative services are provided to individuals and groups in all phases of poultry production. The center houses the Department of Avian Medicine of the College of Veterinary Medicine. The department teaches courses in avian medicine to veterinary and poultry science students and directs graduate students in avian medicine, medical microbiology, veterinary pathology, and poultry science. 

THE PSYCHOLOGY CLINIC is an independent community mental health facility operated by the Clinical Psychology Training Program of the Department of Psychology at the University of Georgia. The clinic seeks to provide specialized psychological services to the community and to serve as a training facility for the Clinical Psychology Program. Quality services are provided to faculty, staff, and students and to the surrounding community on a sliding scale basis. The Psychology Clinic offers a wide range of treatment and assessment services to meet the varied psychological needs of the people in the northeast Georgia area. Psychotherapy is available for depression, anxiety disorders (panic, post-traumatic stress, obsessive-compulsive, and social anxiety disorders), marital and family problems, chronic pain, a variety of children's problems, and other problem areas. Specialized neuropsychological and memory assessment services are available. All initial contacts are free of charge. 

THE PUBLIC SAFETY DIVISION administers a program to provide safety and security to members of the University of Georgia community. The University of Georgia Police Department is comprised of employees with full police authority in the State of Georgia and operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. An essential proactive aspect of the Police Department is the Crime Prevention Bureau which provides education and training to the University community in order to eliminate conditions which might lead to criminal acts. Services provided by the Police Department include an Escort Van Service and emergency telephones which are located at strategic points on campus.

THE SAVANNAH RIVER ECOLOGY LABORATORY (SREL) is a research unit of the University of Georgia. The overall mission of the laboratory is to acquire and communicate knowledge of ecological processes and principles. SREL conducts basic and applied ecological research as well as education and outreach programs under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) at the Savannah River Site near Aiken, South Carolina. 

THE SCHOOL OF MARINE PROGRAMS is responsible for the coordination and general management of the Marine Institute, the Marine Extension Service, the Georgia Sea Grant College Program, the Department of Marine Sciences, and the Environmental Ethics Certificate Program. The School conducts a wide range of marine-related programs involving undergraduate and graduate instruction, basic and applied research, and outreach/public service.

The Marine Institute, located on Sapelo Island, was established in 1953 as a research facility for resident staff and for campus-based faculty members. Research has centered mainly on marsh and estuarine ecology to provide an understanding of energy flow, cycling of minerals and nutrients through the marshes and nearby ocean, and factors regulating the metabolism of the salt marsh ecosystem. 

The Marine Extension Service helps to solve problems related to the state's marine resources. The Marine Resources Center on Skidaway Island is the major marine education facility for schools and colleges in the state. At the Brunswick Extension Station, specialists work directly with the fishing and seafood processing industry to increase its efficiency and effectiveness and to develop new industries. 

The Georgia Sea Grant College Program, part of the National Sea Grant College Program, was established in 1971. In an approach roughly analogous to that of the Land Grant System in working with agriculture, Sea Grant promotes the wise use of marine resources through a coordinated program of research, education, and advisory services. Sustained excellence in all three areas of activity earned Sea Grant College status for the University in 1980, when it became the fifteenth institution in the nation to attain that rank. In 1990, the Sea Grant College status of the University was reaffirmed by the National Sea Grant College Program. 

The Department of Marine Sciences a unit of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, is the degree-granting arm of the School of Marine Programs. The department offers an undergraduate major through the Franklin College’s Interdisciplinary Studies major as well as the Ph.D. and Master of Science in Marine Sciences. In addition, a proposal to offer the B.S. in Marine Sciences is currently pending. 

The Environmental Ethics Certificate Program (EECP) is a nationally recognized program offering undergraduate and graduate training in the development of critical decisionmaking on issues of human involvement with the natural environment. In 1996, the EECP joined the School of Marine Programs as its newest unit, creating a uniquely diverse team focusing on ethical questions pertaining to human stewardship of marine resources. 

THE SIMON S. SELIG, JR. CENTER FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH serves the state by issuing economic forecasts, conducting applied economic and marketing research, and publishing research findings and economic statistics. The Selig Center is a major source of information for national, regional, state, and local media. The center also provides information to business leaders, government agencies, and the general public and is an official cooperating agency with the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and the Construction Statistics Division, U.S. Bureau of the Census.

The Selig Center hosts economic forecasting luncheons in Albany, Augusta, Atlanta, Brunswick, Columbus, Macon, Savannah, Swainsboro, and Thomasville. The annual Georgia Economic Outlook publication provides accurate forecasts and detailed commentary on eleven economic sectors: agriculture, biotechnology, communications, construction, hospitality, public utilities, financial markets, manufacturing, services, transportation, and retailing. The Selig Center's quarterly business periodical, Georgia Business and Economic Conditions, features articles on various aspects of the state's economy. Specialized monographs and the Georgia Statistical Abstract also inform the public.

THE SPEECH AND HEARING CLINIC is a self-supporting clinic within the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department providing comprehensive and up-to-date evaluation and therapy services for individuals of all ages with speech, language or hearing problems. The clinic serves as a student training facility and provides services to the community. In addition to providing evaluation or treatment of articulation, including accent reduction, stuttering, voice, language delay/disorder, and hearing impairment, the clinic offers specialized services and clinics including: hearing aid fitting (including programmable hearing aids), Central Auditory Processing testing, the summer Program for Hearing Impaired Children, and other specialized diagnostic services. Individuals may be self-referred, referred by a physician, or by other professionals such as teachers. 

THE STATE BOTANICAL GARDEN OF GEORGIA is a public nonprofit educational facility under the auspices of the University of Georgia. Its mission is to foster appreciation, understanding, and stewardship of plants and nature through research, collections and displays, horticultural gardens, and educational programs. The garden is located at 2450 South Milledge Avenue, one mile south of the Athens South Bypass (U.S. 129/441). Founded in 1968, the garden now encompasses over 300 acres, much of which borders the Middle Oconee River. The garden features a number of specialty gardens and collections plus five miles of nature trails. The Visitor Center/Conservatory features a permanent display of tropical and semitropical plants along with classrooms, offices, a gift shop, and a cafe which serves lunch daily except Mondays. Meeting, conference, and special event facilities are available in the Visitor Center, Callaway Building, Garden Club of Georgia state headquarters building and Day Chapel. The Garden is open daily from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. April through September and 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. October through March except on UGA holidays. The Visitor Center/Conservatory is open Tuesday through Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and on Sundays from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 

THE SURVEY RESEARCH CENTER, a unit of the Institute for Behavioral Research, serves the data collection and analysis needs of the University and the larger community. The center's services encompass all aspects of the design and implementation of survey research projects and includes sampling and measurement, data collection and coding, data management and analysis, and report preparation and interpretation. These combined services are available for the execution of complete studies or any single service or combination of services can be contracted. The center can provide clients with the latest developments in survey interviewing methodologies and computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI), thus substantially shortening the time required for data collection and analysis. The center can also provide clients with the ability to conduct web based and Interactive Voice Recognition (IVR) survey projects. In the fall and spring of each year, the center conducts the Georgia Poll, a regular omnibus survey of the state's population. Individuals unable to justify purchasing an independent survey may subscribe to a particular poll by purchasing a question or series of questions of their choice. Results for each subscriber are reported along with a battery of standard socio-demographic indices of background attributes. 

THE TORRANCE CENTER FOR CREATIVE STUDIES, a unit in the Department of Educational Psychology, is a research and instructional center concerned with the identification and development of creative potential. The center accomplishes its purpose by developing, implementing, and evaluating projects at the local, national, and international levels. Programs sponsored by the Torrance Center include the Challenge Programs, the Georgia Future Problem Solving Program, and the E. Paul Torrance Lecture. The center offers training in creativity testing and in innovative educational programs such as the Future Problem Solving Program and the Schoolwide Enrichment Model. 

THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA BUSINESS OUTREACH SERVICES/GEORGIA SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER NETWORK is an innovative, University-based extension effort that provides management training and technical assistance to small businesses, prospective entrepreneurs, and economic development groups. Services are offered through a statewide network of eighteen offices. Supported by the University System of Georgia and the U.S. Small Business Administration, Business Outreach Services/SBDC provides free consulting services, continuing education programs at minimal cost, and business research. Other business-related activities include: producing studies on local economic development; collecting and disseminating business data statewide; assisting new startup businesses by providing centralized office space and services; promoting international trade among small and medium-sized Georgia firms; advocating minority entrepreneurship and promoting basic services to the minority community; and expanding business development and retention in rural communities.

THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA GERONTOLOGY CENTER coordinates and promotes multi- and inter-disciplinary aging research, training, and outreach at the University of Georgia. The faculty of Gerontology currently number approximately 50 from more than 21 departments and 10 colleges and schools across the University. In addition, a number of nationally and internationally known experts in the field of gerontology provide their expertise as Adjunct Research Scientists through their appointments at the Gerontology Center. The Gerontology Center offers a graduate program of study in the field of gerontology, awarding students a Graduate Certificate of Gerontology. In addition, postdoctoral training opportunities are also available. Undergraduate honors students also have the opportunity to study gerontology through the Aging Studies Program, jointly sponsored by the Gerontology Center and Honor Programs. The center has garnered international recognition for its research on adaptation and survival of the oldest-old (e.g, The Georgia Centenarian Study). The center is the sponsor and hub institution for the Georgia Gerontology Consortium which administers and delivers gerontological programming throughout the University System of Georgia, including: 1) the Distance Learning Partnership in Gerontology, which employs collaborative teaching technologies to deliver four core aging courses to participating universities; 2) a faculty and student Seed Grant Program, which promotes aging research, course, and program development; 3) the Southeastern Regional Student Convention on Gerontology and Geriatrics, which is the nations’s first and largest convention training venue designed for and conducted by students-in-aging; and 4) the Faculty, Instruction, Research, and Outreach Development Program, which is the sponsor of the Master Teacher in Gerontology Workshops series. The Gerontology Center maintains a website that contains additional information about the center, its programs, and its faculty. 

THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA LIBRARIES are composed of three major on-campus libraries: the main library, the science library, and the law library administered by the School of Law. Several small collections include the Curriculum Materials Center (Education), the Georgia Center for Continuing Education library, the Veterinary Medicine reading room, and various lab collections. The UGA libraries system also includes libraries at the experiment stations in Griffin and Tifton and at the marine stations at Sapelo and Skidaway.

The UGA library is the largest library in the state of Georgia and serves as the Regional Depository for federal government publications. It is a member of the prestigious Association of Research Libraries (ARL) consisting of the largest research libraries in North America and ranks in the top 30 of these libraries. The libraries contain more than 3.7 million books, serials, and documents, plus many other items, including manuscripts, photographs, drawings, music scores, audio/video materials, and newspapers. The map collection incorporates nearly 600,000 items, and the microform collection numbers more than 5.6 million. Collections support the University’s instructional, research, and public service activities and are available to users on campus and across the state.

An outstanding feature of the Main Library is the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library which consists of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Georgiana Collection, and UGA Archives and Records Management. Subject interests include Georgia, Book Arts, Theater, Music, History, Literature, Journalism and Genealogy.

The Hargrett Library Rare Book unit contains approximately 120,000 rare books on a variety of subjects. Special emphasis is placed on rare books, maps, broadsides and other printed material dealing with the State of Georgia and the Southeast as the state developed from pre-Colonial times to the present. The manuscripts area of the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library is the repository for over 6 million individual items including family papers, diaries, letters, theatrical papers, corporate and organizational papers. The Georgiana Collection documents the ongoing history of the state of Georgia, its people and culture. It houses approximately 100,000 books by Georgians and about Georgia. UGA archives preserve over two centuries of the history of the University of Georgia in the form of official records, images, correspondence, plats, plans, publications, and artifacts.

The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection holds over 90,000 titles and 5 million feet of newsfilm, making this one of the largest broadcasting archives in the country. This Archives comprises moving image and sound collections that focus on American television and radio broadcasting and the music, folklore, and history of Georgia. There are over 50,500 television programs and 5 million feet of newsfilm and over 39,500 radio programs in the Archives, in addition to audio folk music field tapes and home movies from rural Georgia.

The Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies is the only repository in Georgia directed solely toward support of scholarly research in modern political history, and it is the first repository to document modern politics and policy development in the Southeast. Given the scope and content of its collections, the Library arguably exceeds the importance of presidential libraries, and it has long served as a model for others collecting congressional collections. Some of the significant holdings, in addition to the collection of Senator Russell, are the papers of Secretary of State Dean Rusk; Undersecretary of Agriculture J. Phil Campbell; U. S. Senators Herman E. Talmadge, Mack Mattingly, Hoke Smith, and Thomas Hardwick; U. S. Representatives Dudley M. Hughes, Howard H. "Bo" Callaway, Williamson S. Stuckey, Sanford Bishop, Johnny Isakson; as well as governors, state legislators and officials, and political activists and commentators. The Library is also the repository for the records of the state Democratic and Republican parties, the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, Leadership Georgia, and the ACLU Chapter of Georgia. These highly regarded collections from individuals and organizations involved in politics and public policy are widely used by local, national, and international researchers.

The University libraries offer a variety of electronic databases. The GALILEO system provides access to more than 300 databases, including indexes, abstracts, full-text journals electronic books, government publications, reference sources, and links to additional Internet-based resources. GIL, the libraries catalog, can be accessed in the library and remotely through a web connection. Statistical and government databases are available through the Data Services unit on the 6^th floor of the main library. More than 460,000 volumes are housed in the University’s law library, whose collection of British Commonwealth materials is considered one of the finest of its kind in the nation. 

THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA PRESS was founded in 1938 as the publishing arm of the University of Georgia. Its primary mission is to support and enhance the University's place as a major research institution by publishing significant works of scholarship by national and international scholars and its own faculty. Since its founding the Press has published over a thousand new titles. With more than eight hundred in print, the Press publishes about eighty books each year in fields including American history and literature, African-American studies, legal history, history and culture of the South, environmental studies, and natural history.

THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. (UGARF) was formed to serve the University of Georgia and enhance its excellence as a research institution. UGARF was incorporated under the laws of the State of Georgia as a nonprofit corporation on November 17, 1978. In a Memorandum of Understanding dated February 26, 1979, the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia authorized UGARF to serve as the official grantee for all contracts, grants, and gifts for the conduct of sponsored research at the University. External research grants and contracts are awarded to University faculty through The University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. Other research activities are supported by UGARF through a number of special programs such as Faculty Research Grants, Foreign Travel Grants, and Creative Research Awards.

UGARF is also the University's invention administration organization. The Invention Administration Agreement effective April 1, 1979, between the Board of Regents and UGARF assigns to UGARF all of the University’s right, title, and interest in and to any inventions that result from activities of University personnel. UGARF is organized to assist in the transfer of technology developed through the University's research programs or by University personnel to the benefit of the University of Georgia and the general public. 

THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF GEORGIA (USGA) APPLICANT CLEARINGHOUSE serves as a recruitment aid for the 34 institutions of higher education in the University System of Georgia. Its purpose is to enhance equal employment opportunity by posting faculty and administrative position vacancies, maintaining a computerized registry of potential faculty administrators for search committee review, and cross matching between the two databases on the basis of academic discipline and registrant interest. 

THE VETERINARY MEDICAL EXPERIMENT STATION coordinates and conducts research on disease problems of food- and fiber-producing animals, fish, poultry, and companion animals. The research programs, which have applied, basic, and comparative medical orientation, are divided broadly into four main categories: infectious diseases, noninfectious diseases, diagnostic techniques, and therapeutic procedures. Research facilities are located within the College of Veterinary Medicine at Athens, in the Poultry Diagnostic and Research Center at Athens, and in the Veterinary Diagnostic Assistance Laboratories at Athens and Tifton. Opportunities for graduate training in the biomedical sciences, including biotechnology, are provided by the station's research programs.