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Risk of developing psychiatric conditions could be shaped by environment

A new University of Georgia research study links a lack of resources in a given area to a higher risk of certain psychiatric conditions for its residents.

Living in low-income, high crime areas correlates with a 79% higher rate of psychotic disorders.

Psychotic disorders such as… Read Article

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Science Comes Alive in Italy – Studying Biology in Cortona

This summer, a group of 40 undergraduate students from the UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences traveled to Cortona, Italy for a special three-week Maymester study abroad program “Biology for Medicine” taught by professors Zachary Wood and Robert Haltiwanger, faculty members in the… Read Article

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Where Code Meets Cobblestones

UGA Students Study Computer Science This Summer at Oxford

Summer 2025, nineteen UGA students swapped their familiar Athens classrooms for the storied halls of Oxford, diving into computing courses that blended academic rigor with cultural immersion. Students were able to take two computer… Read Article

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Gary May, Chancellor of the University of California, Davis, shares insights on the future of higher education in lecture

This Fall, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and the Office of the Provost welcomed Gary May, the Chancellor of the University of California, Davis, to kick off the Fall 2025 Provost Seminar Series. In his lecture, “A Retrospective and Prospective Look at the Value of Higher Education,” May… Read Article

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NSF project to peer into deep space, observe rapid planet formation

University of Georgia faculty member Cassandra Hall is a co-principal investigator on a new project supported by $450,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to learn more about planetary formation by studying a star system over 500 light-years away.

The grant funds a three-year… Read Article