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Food Evolution screening & workshop

 

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Panel discussions on Films and Food

The extraordinary new films Moonlight and I Am Not Your Negro are the focus of special screenings and panel discussions this week. On Wednesday Feb. 22, Moonlight: A screening of Barry Jenkins’s Oscar-nominated film, followed by a panel discussion with Valerie Babb, professor of English and director of the Institute for African American Studies; Ed Pavlić, professor of English and creative writing; and Channette Romero, associate professor…


Spring Study Abroad Fair

A complement to our annual Fall Education Abroad Fair, the Spring Study Abroad Fair focuses on UGA programs: run by UGA faculty in more than 70 countries;  held at our three international residential centers in Oxford, Cortona & Costa Rica;  exchange programs with partner universities around the globe. Find out about the scholarships available to UGA students studying, interning, conducting research and more abroad.…

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SNAP helps support retail sector

The purpose of government is a much more essential question than the framing we more often use to describe it, much less the criteria we use to select our leaders. But a new study from an interdisciplinary team of UGA researchers sheds some light on the positive effects of a supplemental program as much more broad than typically considered: Increased enrollment in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in Georgia contributed to the growth…

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Bioarchaeologist links medieval diet, childhood survival

 


Thinc. Week Student Marketplace

UGA student entrepreneurs will sell, demonstrate and/or promote their start-up's products or services at the Student Marketplace. In addition, entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to receive critical feedback from the UGA community and perhaps test their market hypothesis. Sponsored by: Research, Office of the Vice President for (OVPR) Contact: Terry Hastings 706-542-5941 For more information, visit: http://thinc.uga.edu/…


Thinc. Open House/Club Fair

Students can attend the Thinc. Open House and Club Fair to meet like-minded students and get involved with entrepreneurship at UGA. Refreshments provided. Sponsored by: Research, Office of the Vice President for (OVPR), Thinc. at UGA Contact: Terry Hastings 706-542-5941


Spring Career Fair

Students can meet with recruiters seeking students to fill both internship and full-time opportunities. Over 220 employers will attend. Students should dress professionally and bring copies of their resume. Shuttles will run from campus to the Classic Center between 11:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. Bus stops for students include: Memorial Hall, Bio-Chem, Physics, across from the Library, Classic Center; For more information, visit: http://career.uga.…


Study Abroad Fair

Students can find out more about UGA faculty-led study abroad and exchange programs. UGA offers more than 100 programs each year, ranging from a couple of weeks to a full year abroad. Participants will be able to meet students who have studied abroad to get the inside scoop and to see how they fit their experiences abroad into their curriculum.  Sponsored by: International Education, Office of Contact: Laura Paris 706-542-…


7th Annual Housing Fair

To feature prizes and giveaways, this event will connect students with on- and off-campus housing opportunities for the next academic year. Students can talk with local and campus-based professionals about housing and roommate options. Sponsored by: University Housing Contact: Joan Collier 706-542-1796

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Athens Science Café

Billed as conversations not lectures, science cafés are meetings held in places like coffee houses, pubs and community centers where everyday people come together and learn about a variety of topics from professional scientists. Tonight, July 9 is the next meeting, and it couldn't be timed better: the science of ice cream. It’s summer in Athens and what screams “summer” more than incessant heat and 100% humidity levels? ICE CREAM! The Athens…

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Table's Edge

Edge is interested in the stories that can be told about people through discussions about food and how those stories may help lead to better understanding across cultural lines. His organization's mission statement reads: "The Southern Foodways Alliance documents, studies and celebrates the diverse food cultures of the changing American South. We set a common table where black and white, rich and poor-all who gather-may consider our history and…


UGA discovery: building better plants

The complexity of natural materials has long been a point of fascination for scientists, and has only increased as the technology to look closer has itself evolved. The structure and development of sea shells, for example, holds great potential for nanotechnology and building light weight materials of great strength. So, too, the cell walls of plants, whose flexibility and strength depend on two critical proteins. Now UGA scientists have…


Improving Sorghum

Through the new Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Climate-Resilient Sorghum, UGA and partner researchers will use new genomics tools to address urgent needs for a more drought-resilient food supply, increase rates of sorghum improvement to better meet long-term population growth, and investigate production systems that promote sustainable farming, particularly regarding preservation or restoration of soil resources and water quality.…


'The Future of Food' workshop, Oct.1

As world population stretches past seven billion, many questions come to the fore about how to support so many people. For example, what if everyone elsewhere in the world consumed meat at the rate of the developed world? Does growing crops for transportation fuel put pressure on food crops? To address these questions and more, The University of Georgia Center for Integrative Conservation Research will host a free workshop to explore the links…

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Genetics a key to better biofuels

In the public realm at least, biofuels have been on a bit of a roller coaster ride over the last 12-15 years, as their promise becomes mired in politics and regional agriculture issues. But in research labs across the country and at UGA, scientists have held steady. A newly published genetic sequence and map of foxtail millet, a close relative of switchgrass and an important food crop in Asia, is giving scientists working to increase biofuel…
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