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More Hands-On Learning Experiences Could be Coming to UGA
Athens, GA- UGA may be headed to a more hands-on learning system. Originally proposed last Fall, the Director of PR for the Office of Senior Vice-President or Academic Affairs and Provost Sam Fahmy says the proposal for experimental learning would basically require coursework that would involve some type of hands…
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How 3 Minutes Could Save Georgia’s Crops
ATHENS — Entomologists at UGA need Georgians help.
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Driver Asks for Parking Spot Changes
ATHENS — Cletus Stripling says his life is being made harder because people are taking his parking spot.
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UGA Scientists Find Way to Halt Mosquito Reproduction
Athens, GA –UGA scientists have found a new hormone receptor that affects how mosquitoes reproduce and spread diseases. The goal of this research is to one day find a way to stop mosquito reproduction and the spread of malaria and other diseases. The two hormones (insulin-like peptides and ovary ecdysteroid-ogenic hormones)…
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UGA Police Seeking Leads in Staff Member Stabbing
Athens, GA — UGA police are no closer to finding a man who stabbed Elijah Harrison, a UGA staff member who works for the disability resource center. Harrison is a former US Marine and says he was stabbed Monday by an unknown male on Herty Drive near Brooks Hall. The…
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Check Out UGA’s Microscopy Lab
ATHENS - Take a look inside UGA's Microscopy lab facility.
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UGA Service Checks Personal Computers for Viruses
UPDATE: 10:00 am — Reporter Steven Farmer interviews EITS public relations specialist Sarah Pauff and EITS employee Sarah Knutt at the computer health and security fair. Athens, GA — The University of Georgia Enterprise Information Technology Services [EITS] is hosting a computer health and security fair in the Zell B. Miller Learning…
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71 Reported Rapes on UGA Campus: Student Organization Raises Awareness
UPDATE: 11:00 am — Reporter Alison Menhart speaks with the RSVP coordinator Michele Passonno on whether or not false rape claims damage the chances real victims will come forward. Athens, GA — The Relationship and Sexual Violence Prevention group, or RSVP, has a table set up in the University of Georgia Tate Plaza today…
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UGA Greek Life Spring Parties Continue Despite Controversy
UPDATE: 10:10 am — Reporter Mallory Blount interviews Vice President of Public Affairs Tom Jackson who says the UGA Office of Student Affairs has no plans to cancel spring Greek life activities. 11:15 am — President of UGA chapter Sigma Phi Epsilon Garrett Hendricks says the fraternity is fully intending on having its Spring Luau…
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Lawyer Discusses Dos and Don’ts of Social Media
ATHENS — An employment lawyer is telling University of Georgia law students that social media is a double edged sword.