University organizations representing the Baha’i faith will come together Monday to raise awareness about persecution of the group in Iran, including limits on higher education, which has affected University students of the Baha’i faith. The event will show the documentary “Education Under Fire” which is part of an international movement to stand alongside Baha’is in Iran, who [...]

Many University students will travel abroad this summer, but only two — funded by the Honors International Scholars Program — will travel to China to study medicine. Junior Muhan Hu and sophomore Matthew Hess, biochemistry majors from Augusta, will leave for Beijing in June. From there they will travel to Kaifeng, China, where they will shadow doctors in the city hospital. The couple will [...]

University students stood in silence at the Tate lawn. They gathered there on Friday to protest the shooting of Trayvon Martin, with the support of the University chapter of the NAACP. Martin, a Florida teenager, was shot and killed as he returned home from a convenience store on Feb. 26. Controversy started after George Zimmerman, [...]

The Multicultural Greek Council may be smaller and less well-known than the University’s other Greek councils, but members tried to change that with Wednesday’s “Taste of MGC” event in Tate Plaza. MGC organizations collaborated on the event, selling foods from their respective cultures. Anthony Prasetio, MGC President, said the point was to raise money for [...]

The University’s Black Affairs Council will be screening a documentary in Tate Student Center on April 16 that draws attention to common stereotypes by shadowing various students and faculty members. The film, titled “Life Swap — Merging Cultures, Killing Stereotypes” follows the experiences of 10 to 12 University students and faculty members as they shadow [...]

Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed’s belief in social justice isn’t just about moral imperatives — he can also see dollar signs. Reed encouraged the audience of Wednesday’s annual Holmes-Hunter lecture to see the need for diversity in a growing world. He said education is an even greater priority for America in an climate of global competition. “The [...]

The University’s IDEA Society and Athens’s Turkish community will bring an exhibit to Tate Student Center this month commemorating 500 years of Jewish-Turkish history. The group said the exhibit, which is on loan from the Quincentennial Foundation Museum of Turkish Jews in Istanbul, will remind students and community members that peace between religions is possible [...]

UGA Miracle’s Dance Marathon raised $321,573.12 this year — passing the $3 million mark of money raised by the organization since it started. Though participants didn’t dance the entire 24 hours straight — a common misconception of the event — the morale committee did teach them an eight-minute long dance throughout the night. Cole Phillips, the morale [...]

With exclamations of “Shabbat Shalom” circling, more than 500 Jewish students gathered to celebrate a traditional dinner together. On Friday evening the Rohr Chabad House, one of the Jewish ministries on campus, hosted a dinner to bring together students to celebrate the weekly holy day, Shabbat. The same event last year drew a crowd of [...]

Approximately 1.4 billion people suffer from extreme poverty worldwide, living on only $1.50 a day, according to a presentation from the Global Poverty Project, and they are trying to bring that number down to zero. The international advocacy group traveled to campus Wednesday as part of its “1.4 Billion Reasons” tour, encouraging students to help break the poverty [...]