Parking for the events to be held at University of Georgia on Friday will be available throughout the UGA campus. The events held on Friday, May 11 include the Graduate Commencement at Stegemen Coliseum, the Undergraduate Commencement at Sanford Stadium, the Georgia/South Carolina baseball game and the first and second rounds of the NCAA Tennis [...]

The University Carl Vinson Institute of Government and Georgia Sea Grant are developing a climate adaptation plan for the barrier island community of Tybee Island through funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The recommendations developed by the project, titled the Sea Grant Community Climate Adaptation Initiative, will help the city of Tybee Island [...]

Here is a map of crimes reported by the Athens-Clarke County Police and University Police Department. The red points correspond to burglary and theft by taking The purple points correspond to criminal trespass and suspicious persons The green points correspond to stolen vehicles and entering auto. The light blue points correspond to assault and battery [...]

Cheryl Davenport Dozier, the University’s associate provost for institutional diversity before she was chosen to serve as interim president at Savannah State University in April 2011, was given the position on a permanent basis Wednesday by the Georgia Board of Regents. Dozier spent five years at UGA before rising to the associate provost position. She [...]

University Food Services has received a gold Loyal E. Horton Dining Award for residential dining concepts and honorable mention for catering–online menu from the National Association of College and University Food Services. Named for a NACUFS founder, past president and innovator, the Loyal E. Horton Dining Awards celebrate exemplary menus, presentations, special event planning and [...]

Soybeans are the world’s largest single source of vegetable protein and edible oil, already used to make livestock feed, soymilk, tofu, adhesives, alternative fuels, disinfectants, plastics and particleboard. Using a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation, University of Georgia researcher Wayne Parrott hopes to uncover more uses for the popular legume. “The soybean [...]

It’s the end of the school year, and it’s time to sell those 1,500 page, 20 pounders. But who wants to sell a textbook for $20 when it originally cost $150? The best buy-backs are located around the University’s bookstores or on some websites. The bookstores on or near campus will only buy textbooks if [...]

The University will confer degrees on an estimated 5,400 undergraduate and graduate students at the spring Commencement ceremonies Friday, May 11. About 1,150 candidates for master’s, doctoral and specialist in education degrees will be eligible to participate in the ceremony for graduate students at 10 a.m. in Stegeman Coliseum. Friday evening, approximately 4,250 students will [...]

Loch Johnson, a faculty member in the University School of Public and International Affairs, was announced today as the inaugural recipient of the Southeastern Conference’s SEC Professor of the Year Award. He was selected from among winners of the SEC Faculty Achievement Award presented to one faculty member from each SEC university in April. The [...]

The American Horticultural Society has awarded University faculty member Allan Armitage its Liberty Hyde Bailey Award. Armitage, an authority on flowering plants and gardening, will accept the award June 7 at the Great American Gardeners Awards Ceremony and Banquet, held at the society’s headquarters at River Farm in Alexandria, Va. A professor of horticulture at [...]