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Franklin Visiting Scholar Series - Biotech and Public Health

The Franklin Visiting Scholar Series continues in April with a lecture by Obidimma Ezezika on effective strategies for improved public health through the adoption of biotechnology April 3 at 2 p.m. in room S175 of the Paul D. Coverdell Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences.

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IMACS Conference at UGA

The International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (IMACS) will hold its eighth annual international conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena: Computation and Theory at UGA, March 25-28.

The conference will focus on computational and… Read Article


Bela Fleck with UGA Symphony Orchestra

Béla Fleck and the Flecktones are legendary performers with a serious worldwide following. Next week he will perform with our own UGA Symphony Orchestra in what I can only term as an extraordinary concert:

Béla Fleck, the world's premier banjo player, for his second Hodgson Hall… Read Article


Film events this week

There are lots of great opportunities to see extraordinary, new and/or rare films each week at the university. A few from this week include:

Today, the Institute for Women's Studies presentations for Women's History Month continues with a showing of "It's a Girl," a documentary about the… Read Article


How closely meshed

Very nice feature (and cover photo) of professor emeritus of English at UGA and very dear friend of the blog Coleman Barks in our local alt. weekly, Flagpole. 

The article focuses on one of his recent collections of poetry, Hummingbird Sleep. But few contemporary poets have had the… Read Article