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Issues in Sports
Get to Know: Equestrian Vaulter Melanie Ford
Melanie Ford is a fourth-year communication sciences and disorders major at Georgia. She’s also a national caliber equestrian — but not as a member of the Bulldogs’ NCEA-winning varsity equestrian team. Instead, she is an equestrian vaulter, which means that she competes by performing gymnastic and dance moves on the…
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Northeast Georgia News
Green Labs Uses Freezer Challenge to Aid Energy Costs
UGA’s Green Labs program is working to make research labs more sustainable and efficient. With science labs using much more energy and producing more waste, initiatives such as the Freezer Challenge help reduce energy use and protect research samples. Reducing energy consumption not only encourages responsible resource use, but it…
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Health
The Invisible Enemy: Inside Mental Health Battles Student-Athletes Fight
The signs weren’t obvious. No note was left behind. Many of the details surrounding the pain Tyler Hilinski went through remain unknown to his parents, but they mourn his death every day. The Washington State quarterback was just 21 years old when he died by suicide. Now, Kym and Mark…
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Health
Religious Contacts, Student Volunteers Find Themselves in Midst of Mental Health Crisis
Rylie Hamilton meets on Tuesday evenings with three female University of Georgia students to discuss a range of topics, from spirituality to navigating the dating sphere to test anxiety. Mental health is frequently part of the conversation. Hamilton, whose role in the Wesley ministry is referred to as “student discipler,”…
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Athens-Clarke County
From California to Georgia: Importance of Proactive Wildfire Management
The devastation serves as a reality check,” says Jacqueline Gewert, a 21-year-old psychology and biology student at the University of Georgia from Calabasas, California. She is talking about the ravaging California wildfires she witnessed from a distance this past January. Gewert was already back in Athens on Jan. 7, 2025…
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Diversity
Q&As Reveal Community’s Sense of Hope, Worries for 2025 and Beyond
Reporting I students set out to learn more about Athens-Clarke County and their beats — business and consumer news, city-county government, diversity, local music, sustainability — by conducting research and interviews with business owners, community officials, advocates, musicians and students. The nearly 180 students in the course, which consists of…
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Q&As
Q&A: University Spirit Tries to ‘Stay on Top of the Trends’ as it Celebrates 50 Years
Laura Beaghan, owner of University Spirit, continues her family’s tradition of serving UGA for 50 years despite the rise of online customization. Q: As a well-known, family-owned business here in Athens, what inspired your family to start the business, and how has it evolved since the ’70s? A: This is…
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Q&As
Q&A: Get to Know Country Music Singer, UGA Student Will Slater
Will Slater is a county music singer and University of Georgia student who released his single “Slip Away” on Feb. 7. Q: Your latest song “Slip Away” has been well received. What was the inspiration behind it, and how did you approach the songwriting process? A: Well, the inspiration behind…
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Q&As
Q&A: EcoRep Fights for Sustainability in UGA Dorms
Catherine Jones is a third-year environmental health science major at the University of Georgia and the intern for the EcoRep program, which is currently hosting an energy conservation competition in Black-Diallo-Miller Hall entitled “Watt Wars.” Q: Could you briefly describe your role as intern and what exactly the EcoRep program…
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Q&As
Q&A: UGA’s Hispanic Student Association Strives to Create a Safe Space
Camila Varela is the political action chair of the Hispanic Student Association at the University of Georgia, which represents the Hispanic undergraduate students on campus. Q: What are the goals of HSA here at UGA? A: We basically just represent the interests of Latinos at UGA. We serve to give…