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Sunflower Concert Series: Klezmer Local 42

Summer was made for outdoor concerts - and so were the amphitheater and terraced lawns in the Flower Garden at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia at the University of Georgia. Now in its 16th season, the concerts have placed both world-renowned and new-on-the-scene musicians in a world-class botanical environment. The garden has partnered with the UGA Terry College of Business's Music Business program to also present current and past students…


2nd Thursday Concert Series: UGA British Brass Band

The UGA British Brass Band, under the direction of professor and retired New York Philharmonic principal trumpet Philip Smith, will bring the 2015-16 2nd Thursday Series to  a close.  $18; $5 with a UGACard Sponsored by: Hugh Hodgson School of Music Contact: Clarke Schwabe 706-542-4752


Faculty Recital Series: Milton Masciadri, double bass

Faculty Recital Series: Milton Masciadri, double bass


2nd Thursday Concert Series: UGA Symphony Orchestry

Join the UGASO, under the direction of Mark Cedel, for an outstanding inaugural concert featuring Holst’s The Planets and Haydn’s Symphony No. 100, Military.

archeology dig on the coast
Uncovering Ossabaw Island

UGA faculty and students are engaged up and down the barrier islands of Georgia this summer. One of the many projects to protect and explore is an archaeological field school  through July 17 on Sapelo and Ossabaw Island:  Led by the Georgia Dept. of Natural Resources' Archaeology Division and the University of Georgia, this excavation at the former Buckhead Plantation site on Ossabaw Island is serving as a Field School for UGA’s…


Climate Change Road Trip

Seeking to better understand the environmental dangers posed by global climate change, U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D - Rhode Island) is making a multi-state tour of the Southeast coast that included a visit to Sapelo Island and the UGA Marine Institute: Whitehouse toured several sites along Sapelo Island's salt marshes and tidal creeks, learning about climate-related research projects being conducted on the Georgia coast. Organized by the…


The Marine Institute at Sapelo Island

The appointment of Alber reflects a renewed focus on the pristine marine laboratory as a field station that supports world-class research and education in coastal ecosystems. UGAMI's international reputation, dating back to the 1950s, is based on groundbreaking ecological research by scientists from UGA and beyond.  An undeveloped barrier island on Georgia's coast, Sapelo is a national treasure as well as a unique living laboratory for…


NSF renews coastal research grant

The UGA Marine Institute on Sapelo Island was founded in 1953 and has been at the center of ecological research on salt-marsh coastal ecoystems ever since. That work, lead by our department of marine sciences, continues apace with the renewal of an important NSF grant: A consortium of universities headed by the University of Georgia will continue ecological field research on the marshes and estuaries of the Georgia coast following the renewal of…


The Marine Institute on Sapelo Island

From North to South along Georgia's 100-mile-long coast, 14 islands of sand, beach ridge and maritime forest serve as a barrier between sea and land. Four of these are developed ( St. Simons, Tybee, Sea Island and Jekyll) and connected to the mainland by bridges. The rest are accessible only by boat (or plane): Blackbeard, Wassaw, and Wolf islands are national wildlife refuges. Little Tybee, Ossabaw, and Sapelo are owned by the state of Georgia…
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