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'Good Morning America' meteorologist Ginger Zee

The student chapter of the UGA American Meteorological Society welcomes weekend 'Good Morning America' meteorologist Ginger Zee to campus on Tuesday, Oct. 17 at 4:30 p.m. in room 102 of the Miller Learning Center:

Zee is the Emmy Award-winning weather anchor of the "Good Morning America"… Read Article

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Jazzbandism

From its ongoing series of seminars on Modernism, the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts presents a lecture this afternoon by Franklin's Jed Rasula, Helen S. Lanier Professor of English at UGA, Jazzbandism:

When jazz emerged during the First World War, and rapidly spread around the… Read Article


UGA Observatory Open House Oct. 19

Reach for the stars, or merely gaze upon them from the rooftop of the physics building:

The University of Georgia department of physics and astronomy in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences will host its monthly observatory open house Oct. 19 from 8-9:30 p.m. on the fourth floor of… Read Article


Brent's 'Hoffman'

A terrific article by the Athens Banner Herald on the Hugh Hodgson School of Music's production of 'The Tales of Hoffman" and DMA student Joseph Brent, who stars as Hoffman:

Compromised is too harsh a description for the UGA Opera Theater’s production of “Hoffman,” as only highlights from… Read Article

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University Theatre to present 'The Darker Face of the Earth'

University Theatre will present Rita Dove's powerful "The Darker Face of the Earth" begining on Nov. 1 at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Theatre:

Dove, a former Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner, set "The Darker Face of the Earth" on a pre-Civil War plantation in South Carolina. She… Read Article