Two summers ago, Carolyn Abney, 62, and her husband moved from Italy to retire in Athens. They traded a land of indulgence for a land of 20-year-olds. And Abney, originally from Atlanta, said Athens is the best city they could have chosen. “We used to think we’d go to Atlanta every other weekend,” she said. [...]

If you check time on your cell phone instead of a watch, drive a Korean car, watch the Syfy Channel or prefer a caramel macchiato to plain coffee, you’re a sign of the times. So says the Beloit College Mindset List, released every August since 1998. The list gives an overview of cultural references and [...]

Just four days after the Muslim month of fasting, Ramadan, began, Abdul Wajid Carter had to break his fast. He is diabetic, and his blood sugar was too low. After meeting his own dietary needs by eating, he and his wife, graduate student Karla Evans Carter, met someone else’s needs. They brought halal meat — [...]

Students in the University’s counseling psychology program may struggle to reconcile their personal beliefs with the needs of a client, according to one University professor. But what if counseling students refused to see certain clients because of their religious beliefs? That’s what happened at Eastern Michigan University and Augusta State University, where two students sued [...]

The University’s International Student Life office is hosting its 10th annual week-long international student orientation. “International Student Orientation: An Archway to UGA” is a program running Aug. 2-6 dedicated to helping new and transfer international students adapt to life in America and adjust as members of the University community. “The ISL orientation is very important [...]

Service-learning study abroad trips are typically thought of as ways for University students to teach others — but for two graduate students, their trip became not only a teaching tool, but a life lesson for themselves. Rachel Hagues, a Ph.D. student in child and family development, was one of these students. After traveling to Tanzania [...]

For Tommy Williams, the road to college has had its twists and turns, but when Williams comes to the University in the fall, he knows his life will be exactly where it needs to be. Williams, now a second year student at Gainesville State College, worries that if the right people had not stepped into [...]

When Rosemary Gerard attended the University in 1953 and ’54, if female students had more than one raincoat, they were considered some of the best dressed on campus. Under those raincoats, after all, were forbidden clothes, such as slacks or jeans. “We were not allowed to wear long pants, jeans, on campus,” Gerard said. “If [...]

You don’t have to go all the way to Thailand to see fancy fruit carvings.  Students walking down College Avenue during the International Street Festival Saturday could see them in Athens. A few hours before Saturday’s G-Day scrimmage game started, several University students and volunteers worked together to set up the stage for the 12th [...]