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Xiaoming Zhai-led team receives $10 million grant to fund national GenAI center at UGA

October 10, 2024

A 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.

US News Ranks UGA Online Programs Among Nation’s Best

February 7, 2024

U.S. News & World Report released their 2024 Best Online Programs rankings with several of the University of Georgia online programs in the top 10.

Online Science Education program steers alumna toward further degree

December 17, 2020

DeJanna Pressley graduated from UGA’s Mary Frances Early College of Education with a Master’s of Education in Science Education in summer 2019. Currently, Pressley works as a 7th-grade middle school teacher in the Newton County School District.  Because of her full-time employment status, the online…