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Ghosts and Legends and Lore! Oh My!
October 16, 2024The University of Georgia campus is over 200 years old, and that means it's no stranger to tales of haunted buildings, un/lucky spots, and paranormal activity. Athens, too, has its own library of spooky stories. From friendly ghost sightings to legends surrounding UGA's most iconic landmarks, campus folklore brings the UGA community—both near and far—together through years of storytelling and tradition.
Tony Mallon inspires tomorrow’s nonprofit leaders
October 16, 2024Tony Mallon is a testament to the possibilities, and the need for, higher education in the nonprofit sector. Director of the Institute for Nonprofit Organizations (INPO) from the School of Social Work since 2014, which offers an online Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management and Leadership, Tony has spent the last ten years expanding the institute's programs and offerings, which include financial management, fundraising, grant proposal writing, recruitment and management of volunteers and program evaluation.
Student Spotlight: Vincent Hamilton, Emerging Media Masters
October 14, 2024Meet Vincent Hamilton, one of the New Media Institute's online Master of Arts (M.A.) in Journalism & Mass Communication - Emerging Media students. With a background in graphic design and production, Vincent has enjoyed connecting with and learning from classmates with different skills, like coding, podcasting, influencing, audio/video, and creative directing.
Xiaoming Zhai-led team receives $10 million grant to fund national GenAI center at UGA
October 10, 2024A team led by Xiaoming Zhai, an associate professor in the UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education and instructor in the online Master of Education (M.Ed.) in Science Education program, has been awarded a $10 million grant from the Institute of Education Sciences to establish a research and development center that will provide national leadership on best practices for using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in schools, strengthening competence in GenAI in middle school science classrooms.
Rosalind Bentley produces new documentary focused on Valerie Boyd’s life and research into Black women writers
September 30, 2024Valerie Boyd, biographer of Zora Neale Hurston, Charlayne Hunter-Gault Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication and creator of the Low-Residency MFA in Narrative Nonfiction program, is the subject of a posthumous documentary produced in part by fellow nonfiction mentor Rosalind Bentley.
Instructor Joan Prittie appointed to State Commission on Family Violence
September 20, 2024Congratulations to the School of Social Work's Joan Prittie, who was recently appointed by Georgia Governor Brian Kemp to the State Commission on Family Violence. Prittie is an instructor in the online Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management and Leadership program.
Caree Cotwright, Community Nutrition Faculty, named a 2024 President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition Hero awardee
September 16, 2024Noted chef Michel Nischan and Caree Cotwright Congratulations to the UGA Department of Nutritional Sciences‘s Caree Cotwright, who has been named a 2024 President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition Hero awardee. The President’s Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition (PCSFN) is a federal advisory committee that aims…
Birgisson named inaugural Georgia Power E-Mobility Distinguished Professor
September 12, 2024Bjorn Birgisson, professor in the online M.S. in Civil Engineering program, chair of the UGA College of Engineering’s School of Environmental, Civil, Agricultural and Mechanical Engineering and founding executive director of the Georgia Network for Electric Mobility (GNEM), has been named the inaugural holder of the Georgia Power…
UGA’s dyslexia endorsement, certificate program receives IDA accreditation
September 2, 2024The Dyslexia Endorsement and Certificate program at the University of Georgia, which also offers an online option, was recently accredited by the International Dyslexia Association (IDA). Since its founding in 2016, UGA’s Dyslexia Endorsement and Certificate program—housed in the Mary Frances Early College of Education’s Department of Communication Sciences…
Stories Like Sandwiches: Mentor John T. Edge on the South, Good Food, and the Importance of Sharing Diverse Narratives
August 28, 2024"Compared with dinners that unspool like novels, the best sandwiches, eaten on the fly, are short stories, swift and smart and telling," writes John T. Edge, a mentor in UGA's Low-Residency MFA in Narrative Nonfiction program. "Good sandwiches make good memories." And Edge knows something about memories, and how to craft them into compelling narratives.