| 2007
Headlines |
| 12/20/07>> |
The Atlanta chapter of the National Academy of the Recording Arts and Sciences® announces $5,000 scholarship for a student in the UGA Music Business Program |
| 12/19/07>> |
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey to read at UGA |
| 12/11/07>> |
UGA physics professor David Landau wins national award |
| 12/10/07>> |
UGA faculty receive Fulbright Scholar grants |
| 12/7/07>> |
Research by UGA geography professor Marshall Shepherd and colleagues show smaller storms drop larger overall rainfall in hurricane season |
| 12/6/07>> |
UGA boasts 2007-2008 Fulbright student winners and Fulbright-Hays dissertation award recipient; six Franklin College graduates and student among the group |
| 12/5/07>> |
University of Georgia’s Debate Union director named Glen Pelham Coach of the Year |
| 12/4/07>> |
Andrew Ladis, Franklin professor of art history, dies at 58 |
| 12/4/07>> |
ARCS Foundation Scholarships fund seven UGA doctoral students |
| 12/3/07>> |
Three faculty named 2008 Georgia Cancer Coalition Scholars; group includes two Franklin College researchers |
| 12/3/07>> |
The habit of Habitat: Sisters make the goodwill organization a part of their lives |
| 12/3/07>> |
New satellite study shows dramatic melting of Greenland ice during summer of 2007; consistent with global climate change, says author of research |
| 11/29/07>> |
Annual CURO symposium highlights undergraduate researchers’ year-long efforts |
| 11/29/07>> |
UGA marine scientist Mary Ann Moran named winner of prestigious national award by American Society of Microbiology |
| 11/19/07>> |
University of Georgia is only public institution with two Rhodes Scholars for 2008 |
| 11/13/07>> |
Hands-on research part of daily routine for UGA freshmen and sophomores in CURO Apprentice Program |
| 11/12/07>> |
UGA microbiology student wins award at research conference |
| 11/12/07>> |
More UGA students study abroad than ever before |
| 11/8/07>> |
Historian Tom Dyer, geneticist Richard Meagher to speak at UGA fall commencement ceremonies |
| 11/8/07>> |
disPLACEMENTS: Georgia Arc, an exhibition by Athens-based artist RG Brown III comments on the role of archaeological technology in remotely sensing art |
| 11/5/07>> |
Redcoat Band launches “100 Yards for 100 Years” |
| 11/2/07>> |
UGA dance department to present Lelavision |
| 11/1/07>> |
University of Georgia’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences names new administrators |
| 10/30/07>> |
How did chemical constituents essential to life arise on primitive Earth? University of Georgia team suggests new answer |
| 10/28/07>> |
Vicky Smith retires after four decades of service to Franklin College of Arts and Sciences |
| 10/25/07>> |
American Association for the Advancement of Science names four UGA researchers AAAS Fellows; three from Franklin College of Arts and Sciences |
| 10/25/07>> |
University of Georgia signs new agreement to allow study exchange of faculty, students with university in Turkey |
| 10/23/07>> |
Two from department of physics and astronomy win honors |
| 10/23/07>> |
Cal professor to speak at UGA about new book, gender equity in the workplace |
| 10/19/07>> |
Franklin College faculty member’s book wins top prize from South Atlantic Modern Language Association |
| 10/10/07>> |
The Georgia Review presents two Pulitzer Prize winners together on stage, including UGA English alumna Natasha Trethewey |
| 10/2/07>> |
Lamar Dodd School of Art Board of Visitors Share Their “Collective Vision” at Broad Street Gallery in October |
| 10/2/07>> |
Southeastern Renaissance Conference to be held on UGA campus |
| 10/02/07>> |
National Science Foundation awards University of Georgia $865,000 grant to study organic sulfur cycling in oceans; related to greenhouse gases |
| 10/1/07>> |
Anthropology Society at the University of Georgia brings well-known forensic anthropologist Frederick Snow to speak about the Tri-State Crematory incident |
| 9/28/07>> |
Update of Orson Welles’ classic War of the Worlds to be performed as live radio production by University of Georgia theatre students |
| 9/20/07>> |
Institute for Women’s Studies to host inaugural conference on Women and Girls in Georgia |
| 9/18/07>> |
New Lamar Dodd School of Art building rising on University of Georgia’s East Campus, will be ready for students and faculty in fall 2008 |
| 9/17/07>> |
UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences names psychology professor Kecia Thomas as senior advisor to the dean for inclusion and diversity leadership |
| 9/17/07>> |
$2.5 million National Science Foundation grant to UGA will fund research on invasive species in China and U.S., graduate training, undergrad study abroad |
| 9/13/07>> |
Author Adrienne Rich to read at UGA October 11 |
| 9/11/07>> |
Vocal performance major has lead in “Beauty and the Beast” at Classic Center |
| 9/11/07>> |
Numerous activities slated at UGA and the Athens community in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month |
| 9/10/07>> |
Derrick Alridge named director of Institute for African-American Studies in UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences |
| 9/6/07>> |
Professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at University of Georgia named Georgia Power Professor in Biotechnology |
| 9/4/07>> |
UGA Researchers discover how human body fights off African parasite; could lead to new methods of controlling similar parasites that cause endemic diseases |
| 9/4/07>> |
Widely held beliefs about early Cherokee settlement patterns likely incorrect, according to two new studies, says University of Georgia anthropologist |
| 8/30/07>> |
Richard Roth returns to painting, holds first exhibition of abstract works at Lamar Dodd School of Art Main Gallery |
| 8/27/07>> |
UGA’s Marguerite Brickman named winner of teaching award from Regents |
| 8/27/07>> |
Artist David Sandlin, new holder of Lamar Dodd Chair at University of Georgia, to deliver lecture about his work on Sept. 11 |
| 8/27/07>> |
University of Georgia Observatory sets schedule for viewing the planets and stars in the coming months |
| 8/27/07>> |
University of California professor to speak on UGA campus about Jewish revolt against Roman rule |
| 8/24/07>> |
UGA professor wins top honors from American Crystallographic Association |
| 8/24/07>> |
UGA grad student, postdoctoral fellow attend prestigious institute in Colorado |
| 8/22/07>> |
UGA researchers set sights on early detection of pancreatic cancer |
| 8/21/07>> |
Broad Street Gallery launches fall season with type drawings by Brett MacFadden |
| 8/20/07>> |
Educators from Cortona, Italy, Visit the Lamar Dodd School of Art |
| 8/17/07>> |
UGA ranked in top 20 public universities in the U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Colleges” guide |
| 8/14/07>> |
Top folklore expert to speak on UGA campus on “Rumors, Race, and Hurricane Katrina” |
| 8/13/07>> |
Widespread Panic’s Sunny Ortiz and Arvin Scott to guest lecture for UGA’s Music Business Program students Aug. 16 |
| 8/8/07>> |
UGA’s Oxford study abroad program moves to new facility |
| 8/8/07>> |
Twelve UGA freshmen chosen to receive Coca-Cola First Generation Scholarship; Franklin College students among recipients |
| 8/3/07>> |
Lamar Dodd Galleries present “Her Flock” by Martijn van Wagtendonk |
| 8/2/07>> |
UGA again tops $100 million in annual private fundraising |
| 7/31/07>> |
John Keane, producer, engineer, musician and author to teach ProTools Recording for UGA’s Music Business Program students |
| 6/28/07>> |
Deceased UGA scientist’s $1.24 million bequest creates two professorships in botany |
| 6/04/07>> |
“RadioNation” host Laura Flanders to give talk at UGA |
| 6/01/07>> |
Noted University of Georgia writer Judith Ortiz Cofer awarded honorary doctorate by Lehman College in New York |
| 5/23/07>> |
Poet and graduate of UGA’s English department Natasha Trethewey is fifth UGA alumnus to win Pulitzer Prize |
| 5/9/07>> |
UGA to host mini-conference called “Women, Rock and Politics” |
| 5/3/07>> |
Civil War symposium to feature Franklin College graduate student |
| 5/1/07>> |
UGA assistant professor wins 2007 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award |
| 5/1/07>> |
New Barrier Island Research and Learning Center to be dedicated on May 7 at the University of Georgia Marine Institute on Sapelo Island |
| 5/1/07>> |
UGA microbiologist leads $1.8 million U.S. Department of Energy proteomics project to identify biomarkers of mercury exposure |
| 5/1/07>> |
Two faculty members in University of Georgia’s Franklin College elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| 5/1/07>> |
UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences honors faculty for teaching, research, and advising |
| 5/1/07>> |
UGA creative writing professor invited to audience with Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II |
| 5/1/07>> |
Jane Willson Cortona Studies Abroad Fellowship endowed in UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences |
| 4/23/07>> |
UGA math student wins prestigious National Science Foundation Fellowship |
| 4/20/07>> |
UGA researchers design tiny “natural motors” that could one day improve drug delivery |
| 4/20/07>> |
University of Georgia geology professor wins national award |
| 4/20/07>> |
New Wave Cinema, animation are passions in research and teaching for Wheatley Professor Richard Neupert in Franklin’s department of theatre and film studies |
| 4/19/07>> |
Franklin College and Honors student Katrin Usifo receives a 2007 Merage American Dream Fellowship |
| 4/19/07>> |
Franklin College faculty win outstanding instructor awards for First-Year Seminars |
| 4/19/07>> |
UGA student wins award from Classical Association |
| 4/18/07>> |
UGA department of English graduate Natasha Trethewey wins Pulitzer Prize for Poetry |
| 4/17/07>> |
David Williams, professor of religion and director of Honors Program wins Meigs Teaching Award |
| 4/13/07>> |
Top students, teachers to be recognized at UGA Honors Day April 25 |
| 4/13/07>> |
UGA to remember 15 deceased students, faculty and staff at memorial ceremony April 19 |
| 4/12/07>> |
Innovative undergraduate course combining science and creative writing to be taught at UGA this fall |
| 4/12/07>> |
UGA’s department of anthropology graduate student wins international economic anthropology society paper competition |
| 4/11/07>> |
UGA Alumni Association to honor Jack Davis, Tom Dyer, Hank Huckaby, Mary Virginia Terry and McWhorter family |
| 4/09/07>> |
Plant biologist is named inaugural SURA Distinguished Scientist |
| 4/09/07>> |
Dance to be held in Founders Memorial Garden on UGA campus |
| 4/06/07>> |
UGA English professor featured in public radio series “Shakespeare in American Life” airing on WUGA 91.7/97.9 FM |
| 4/6/07>> |
Three UGA faculty win Governor’s Awards in the Humanities; Franklin faculty among the recipients |
| 4/6/07>> |
Graduate student in department of anthropology at UGA wins government fellowship |
| 4/5/07>> |
VOLUME, a series of five week-long solo exhibitions, launches at Lamar Dodd School of Art Main Gallery |
| 4/4/07>> |
66th annual Peabody Awards winners announced; Franklin College theatre alumni Alton Brown and Kyle Chandler star in winning programs |
| 4/4/07>> |
University of Georgia professor of classics wins two major awards |
| 4/3/07>> |
University of Georgia Debate Union caps successful season with Copeland Trophy for best team during year |
| 4/3/07>> |
UGA faculty receive Fulbright Scholar grants |
| 4/3/07>> |
UGA CURO symposium showcases undergraduate research on local and state issues; Franklin College students and faculty among participants |
| 4/2/07>> |
Delivering the 18th Annual Ferdinand Phinizy Lecture, Newsweek editor Jon Meacham issues call for understanding in religion, politics |
| 4/2/07>> |
Chris Cuomo to deliver the 13th annual Andrea Carson Coley Lecture at UGA |
| 4/2/07>> |
UGA Honors students named 2007 Goldwater Scholars |
| 4/2/07>> |
Georgia Museum of Natural History expands with additional 14,000 square feet of research and exhibit space in Athens |
| 4/2/07>> |
Artist and researcher Jondi Keane to speak as part of UGA’s Lanier Lecture Series |
| 3/29/07>> |
Franklin College among those honored for outstanding research and creativity at UGA |
| 3/29/07>> |
Poet and screenwriter James Ragan to read at UGA on April 4 |
| 3/28/07>> |
New women’s studies director wants to address needs of state's women, girls |
| 3/28/07>> |
Four-day conference on algebraic geometry to be held on UGA campus |
| 3/28/07>> |
UGA Honors student Deep Shah receives 2007 Harry S. Truman Scholarship |
| 3/27/07>> |
Takács Quartet at UGA Performing Arts Center April 17; performance serves as third annual Payne Memorial Concert |
| 3/27/07>> |
John Lynch named new director of bands at University of Georgia |
| 3/23/07>> |
Acclaimed lecturer and writer Jonathan Shay to speak in Chapel on University of Georgia campus April 11 |
| 3/22/07>> |
Max Reinhart named to A.G. Steer Professorship in Goethe Studies in UGA's Franklin College of Arts and Sciences |
| 3/20/07>> |
Verse Poetry Festival on UGA campus March 29-30 |
| 3/20/07>> |
Art scholar to present second annual Shouky Shaheen Lecture in Art at the University of Georgia’s Lamar Dodd School of Art |
| 3/20/07>> |
Half-day conference on African American and Latino relations to be held at the Georgia Center in April |
| 3/16/07>> |
Seminar series explores role of engineering in society |
| 3/15/07>> |
Authors Ed Pavlic, Reginald McKnight and Binyavanga Wainaina to give Reading |
| 3/14/07>> |
The Art of Science exhibit presents collaboration, scale in context |
| 3/13/07>> |
New research paper by physicist at University of Georgia may lead to reassessment of some foundations of statistical mechanics |
| 3/08/07>> |
MacArthur Fellowship winner to deliver Cantrell Lectures on UGA campus in April |
| 3/08/07>> |
Research shows that rats are capable of reflecting on their own mental processes; first time ever shown for a non-primate species, opens new areas of study |
| 3/06/07>> |
Noted classics scholar and author Shadi Bartsch to deliver lecture on University of Georgia campus |
| 3/01/07>> |
Author and Newsweek editor Jon Meacham to deliver Ferdinand Phinizy Lecture in UGA Chapel on March 23 |
| 2/28/07>> |
UGA professor named Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Scholar |
| 2/28/07>> |
University of Georgia to host national symposium on bioinformatics in March |
| 2/28/07>> |
Franklin College lecture to focus on Austrian playwright and poet |
| 2/27/07>> |
Delta Air Lines and the University of Georgia to present the Delta Prize for Global Understanding to Nelson Mandela |
| 2/23/07>> |
Franklin College computer database manager and applications developer Michael Brewer selected to deliver lecture at international meeting |
| 2/22/07>> |
Ancestors and Foundlings, featuring the photography of Mary Ruth Moore, to open at the Lamar Dodd School of Art Broad Street Gallery |
| 2/21/07>> |
WUGA and UGA's Music Business Certificate Program hosts Live at Legion Field |
| 2/21/07>> |
Mark Crispin Miller to deliver Leighton Ballew Lecture at UGA |
| 2/20/07>> |
March date for UGA Observatory open house changed |
| 2/19/07>> |
University Theatre will stage production of Heiner Müller's Hamletmachine |
| 2/16/07>> |
Book co-authored by UGA art professor Judith McWillie awarded the James Mooney Prize by the Southern Anthropological Association |
| 2/16/07>> |
UGA adjunct professor named co-winner of 2007 Boltzmann Medal, honoring outstanding achievement in statistical physics |
| 2/14/07>> |
Peabody Awards and Willson Center to screen thought-provoking documentary “The N Word” at Tate Center |
| 2/14/07>> |
Michael Duncan, noted chemist in UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, named Regents Professor |
| 2/13/07>> |
New Voices in American Literature: A Multicultural Symposium celebrates tenth anniversary of multi-ethnic literature studies at UGA |
| 2/13/07>> |
UGA researchers publish first working model that explains how biological clocks work; implications reach from medicine to job performance |
| 2/12/07>> |
Baine Lecture Series presents "Meeting the Monarch: Johnson, Boswell, and the Anatomy of a Genre" |
| 2/12/07>> |
Chief Wilma Mankiller will deliver the 2007 Women’s History Month keynote address at UGA |
| 2/12/07>> |
International physics workshop to be held on UGA campus Feb. 19-23 |
| 2/12/07>> |
Web site established by UGA religion professor Alan Godlas provides wealth of information on Islam |
| 2/08/07>> |
Film and lecture on the perils of illegal immigration to be featured on University of Georgia campus |
| 2/08/07>> |
Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich to present Jack Davis Distinguished Visiting Artist Lecture on UGA campus Feb. 23 |
| 2/06/07>> |
The ICE-man cometh: Franklin’s David Zucker Saltz takes over as director of cutting-edge art consortium at UGA |
| 2/05/07>> |
UGA French and women’s studies professor Doris Kadish analyzes works by little-known 19th-century women to understand attitudes about race and slavery |
| 2/05/07>> |
Poet David Ferry to read from his work Feb. 22 in the UGA Chapel |
| 2/02/07>> |
UGA Department of Dance presents CORE Spring Collection 2007 Feb. 28–March 3 |
| 2/02/07>> |
UGA VOX Reading Series presents Pan-Campus Love Fest |
| 2/02/07>> |
UGA wins Dartmouth College debate tournament |
| 1/31/07>> |
UGA English and law alumnus selected as clerk by U.S. Supreme Court chief justice |
| 1/26/07>> |
New UGA conservation center to focus on needs of nature and humans |
| 1/24/07>> |
Best-selling biographer of Walt Disney to speak on University of Georgia campus |
| 1/24/07>> |
Chevron Foundation makes donation in honor of UGA professor Paul Schleyer |
| 1/23/07>> |
Director of African Studies Institute at University of Georgia named University Professor |
| 1/22/07>> |
Poet Cole Swensen to read at UGA |
| 1/19/07>> |
Pannell to present Founders’ Day Lecture Jan. 25 |
| 1/12/07>> |
The Georgia Review celebrates its 60th-anniversary double issue with a release party and readings |
| 1/11/07>> |
UGA Franklin College professor receives $700,000 grant from the American Cancer Society |
| 1/08/07>> |
Multiple Impressions: Voices in Contemporary Printmaking opens spring 2007 season at UGA's Broad Street Gallery |
| 1/08/07>> |
Office of noted microbiology manual moves to Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at UGA |
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