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MFP student hopes to start financial planning firm and help first generation Americans
August 25, 2020Master of Science in Financial Planning student, Andrejs Pilajevs was born in Latvia and immigrated to the United States 17 years ago. A father of two with a busy schedule was keen on finding an online program that suited his need for flexibility. With 15 years of experience…
UGA researcher work to improve remote laboratory learning amid sudden shift caused by COVID-19 pandemic
August 20, 2020Dominik May has been researching, studying and evaluating the practice of remote learning for the duration of his academic career. The experience will serve May well given his current circumstances: he’ll be teaching and leading research projects at the University of Georgia remotely this semester from his native Germany.
Crises Like the Pandemic Don’t Make People Less Optimistic
August 18, 2020As humans, we are built to have a positive outlook on our future, and a recent study from the University of Georgia’s Institute of Gerontology shows that the elderly are handling coronavirus the most optimistically out of other age groups. The study specifically shows…
UGA Online Foods and Nutrition Master’s Ranked #6 by Best Health Degrees
August 13, 2020The University of Georgia’s Online Master’s in Foods and Nutrition Program ranked #6 for best online Master’s in Nutrition Programs programs in 2020. BestHealthDegrees.com ranked the universities based on three factors: Alumni Salary, Cost, and Student Satisfaction, using data from IPEDS, College Scorecard, and Niche. The site…
Online Learning Offers Certainty During Uncertain Times
August 10, 2020In the age of COVID-19, uncertainty is still looming in the air. Uncertainty about your job, when social activities, businesses and institutions will take place in-person or when “normalcy” will return to our daily lives. Despite the unknown, one constant remains—online learning. Your online courses and programs were being…
MFA Student Lands Book Deal First Year in the Program
August 6, 2020Pursuing a graduate degree at UGA had been a desire of Brandon Fleming’s for some time. Initially, he wanted to continue his studies in English or Social Science, however, he was recruited by Valerie Boyd, Director of UGA’s Narrative Nonfiction MFA program. “We connected in another capacity and…
UGA Professor Leads Project to Improve Athens’ Needs
August 5, 2020The community-wide Athens Wellbeing Project is partnering with local organizations to enhance the outcomes achieved by local institutions and organizations through collecting and sharing open-access data that is representative of Athens-Clarke County’s population. The project partners with The Unified Government of Athens-Clarke County is partnering with the Clarke County…
Virtual Activities for the UGA and Athens Community
July 30, 2020With campus closed and social distancing guidelines put into place in Athens, the University of Georgia is a lot quieter than usual—even for summertime. Although campus units have had to modify many of their programs, the university still offers a mix of virtual and physical summer activities for community…
UGA Professor Researches Feelings of Loneliness in the Time of COVID-19
July 28, 2020Kerstin Emerson, a clinical associate professor of gerontology at UGA’s Institute of Gerontology and new online Graduate Certificate in Gerontology, said she’s concerned that older adults could be experiencing more exacerbated feelings of loneliness due to social distancing. America’s oldest citizens say they’ve been through worse,…
Financial Planning Student Overcomes Adversity
July 23, 2020Nine months prior to joining UGA’s online Master’s in Financial Planning program, Tom Schorn suffered two brain hemorrhages, one a month before the program started and another, one month into the program. Schorn considered withdrawing from the program, but both times, his professor Dr. Chatterjee encouraged him to…