As they trade in the relaxation of summer for the rigor of medical school, all 230 incoming Medical College of Georgia students will join a long-standing tradition, but 40 of them will pioneer something new. This fall, those students will tread uncharted territory as the first class to study at MCG’s Athens campus in association [...]

The crude oil flowing freely into the Gulf of Mexico is no longer a problem for marine science — it’s posing questions for all fields of science, and the University is working to be a key player in the disaster recovery efforts. “The past couple of weeks have been the busiest and most demanding of [...]

David Barbe, a fixture of the Athens music scene and respected producer and engineer, has accepted an offer from the University’s Terry College of Business to become the interim director of the Music Business Certificate Program, which was effective Aug. 1. Barbe succeeds Bruce Burch, the program’s founding co-director who resigned in July to start [...]

An estimated 1,512 students will be eligible to receive degrees at the University’s summer commencement exercises Saturday 9:30 a.m. in Stegeman Coliseum. The exercises are a combined ceremony for undergraduate and graduate students who complete degree requirements at the end of summer semester. About 790 candidates for bachelor’s degrees and 722 candidates for doctoral, master’s [...]

The University has been awarded federal stimulus funding to launch an innovative new program that will help meet the workforce needs of Georgia’s growing biotechnology industry. The three-year, $700,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will create a new Professional Science Master’s program in biomanufacturing and bioprocessing that capitalizes on UGA’s academic strengths, facilities and [...]

Four faculty and staff—Lonnie T. Brown Jr., Paul J. Heald, Paul B. Rollins and Carol A. Watson—were recently named to new positions in the University of Georgia School of Law. Brown has been selected as the new holder of the A. Gus Cleveland Distinguished Chair of Legal Ethics and Professionalism. This chair was previously held [...]

Even though three of the top players in the Music Business program are leaving the University to do work with Kennesaw State University, the dean of the Terry College of Business is not worried. “It will certainly have an impact on us,” Dean Robert Sumichrast said. “I’m sorry they are going, but they built a [...]

Many elementary schools use repeated readings to increase the reading fluency of students, but a University educational psychologist wants to find out if using a wider reading approach might increase fluency while also providing greater vocabulary and content. Scott Ardoin, an associate professor in the College of Education’s department of educational psychology and instructional technology, [...]

Management information systems faculty member Elena Karahanna has been named the L. Edmund Rast Professor of Business in the University of Georgia Terry College of Business. She is best known for her research in the area of technology acceptance, including implementation, adoption and diffusion of information technology. “Dr. Karahanna has earned the respect and admiration [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding the unwritten policy of the University of California Hastings College of the Law could affect how other courts treat schools, including the University, in future religious discrimination cases. On June 28, the Supreme Court issued an opinion upholding Hastings College of the Law’s decision to withhold Registered Student Organization [...]