The Institute of Higher Education at the University of Georgia will host the 31st Annual Conference on Higher Education and the Law at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education on July 17-18.
June 25 marks the 50th anniversary of the Korean War. University of Georgia historian William Stueck says that the Korean conflict may have served as a substitute for World War III.
Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease in humans, is the first pathogenic bacterium identified that does not need or use iron, according to research in Science from University of Georgia scientists.
Georgia Governor Roy Barnes, North Carolina Governor James Hunt, former Ga. Governor Zell Miller and UVA president John Casteen are among those scheduled to speak at a University of Georgia conference focusing on financing and accountability of public higher education.
A study co-authored by a UGA College of Education researcher has found that exercise resulting in muscle pain did not disturb sleep.
Research from the University of Georgia supports earlier findings linking the popular pain reliever Tylenol(tm) (acetaminophen) with protection against atherosclerosis.
A memorial service for Peabody Awards Director Barry L. Sherman, who died suddenly in Athens May 2, has been scheduled for 3 p.m. Friday, May 5, in Hodgson Hall of the Performing Arts Center on the University of Georgia campus.
For his role in helping end apartheid in South Africa and facilitating reconciliation in its aftermath, Archbishop Desmond Tutu has been chosen the 2000 recipient of the Delta Prize for Global Understanding, which is an international award established by the University of Georgia with funding from Delta Air Lines.
Georgia Governor Roy Barnes will deliver the address at the University of Georgia School of Law's commencement exercises on May 20.
An NSF grant will fund new research by two University of Georgia economics professors into some of the intriguing questions surrounding the impact of Georgia's pioneering HOPE Scholarship program.
Georgia's senior U.S. senator, Paul Coverdell, will speak at the University of Georgia's spring semester commencement on May 13.
The University of Georgia has been awarded a $46,620 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; the grant will be used to provide administrators with techniques to increase the representation of women and racial and ethnic minorities on journalism faculties in the U.S.
A University of Georgia professor will use a U.S. Department of Education grant to develop a Web site, which will provide instructors of Swahili with a tool that will enhance both their teaching and students' learning skills.
The University of Georgia Libraries has launched the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame, a program to recognize past and present Georgia writers for their contributions to the state's literary heritage.
When low-mass stars called red supergiants die, they fade away on a wimpy wind -- or so scientists have thought, but new research suggests that these stars, in fact, may die with a bang and not with a whimper (Science, 4-13-00).
Two researchers at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory have used a computer model to look at the question of what females really look for in a mate (Evolutionary Ecology Research).
"The Tempest," as produced by the University of Georgia's Interactive Peformance Laboratory, will push the boundaries of live theater by combining actors and digitally-created characters using motion capture technology.
Two University of Georgia chemistry professors are working with WebCT -- considered a leader in the e-learning marketplace -- to create the WebCT Chemistry Community.
Welfare reform has been successful in Georgia, according to a new study by researchers in the School of Social Work at the University of Georgia, which focussed on those still receiving Temporary Assistance to Needy Families.
The greatest challenge in the man-insect wars in the new millennium, at least in the United States, may be a swarming little nuisance called the Formosan termite, a UGA researcher reported in the Bulletin of the Royal Entomological Society.
Infectious diseases of free-living wild animals may pose an increasing and significant threat to human health and to global biodiversity, according to a report in Science, 1-20-00.
A faculty member at the University of Georgia is involved in a study that attributes the high infection rates of AIDS along the Trans-Africa Highway to the failure of educational efforts.
The Fyssen Foundation has selected Brent Berlin, Graham Perdue Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Georgia, to receive its International Prize.
Mikhail Gorbachev made his mark on the world a decade ago by helping bring down Communism in the Soviet Union and end the Cold War. Today he is a man with another mission: saving the earth from environmental disaster.
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The University of Georgia's Center for the Study of Global Issues will host a delegation of top government advisers from North Korea who will visit Nov. 29 and 30.
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who helped dissolve Communism in his own country while leading a crusade for global peace, will speak at the University of Georgia Dec. 3.
Much of the information on pollution world-wide is flawed at best and could be entirely wrong, according to a just-published study, led by a visiting scientist at the University of Georgia.
Danny Greenberg, president and attorney-in-chief/CEO of The Legal Aid Society of New York City, the nation's largest private public service law firm, will deliver the University of Georgia School of Law's 90th Sibley Lecture "Pursuing Economic Justice: Agendas for the New Millennium," Wednesday, Oct. 20 at 3:30 p.m.
Scientists once thought that retroviruses, the class that includes HIV, evolved with mammals. A new study by geneticists at the University of Georgia, however, argues that retroviruses may have been lurking around in animal genomes for millennia.
The nation's leading corporate law scholars will share tools of the trade with their peers during a two-day conference aimed at better preparing law students for the realities of corporate practice Oct. 15-16 at the University of Georgia School of Law.
A graduate student at the University of Georgia surprised mathematicians at the University of Illinois Number Theory Conference in Champaign, Ill., on September 17 by announcing his solution to a long-standing open question in mathematics.
The Scopes Trial on evolution never really ended. It just wound on up the bumpers of cars. A new survey of the attitudes of those who stick Darwin fish symbols on their cars shows that some are making fun of religion in general, but many want to wreck a sacred symbol.
GeneMachines, a California-based genomics instrumentation company, has entered into a research agreement with the University of Georgia and the Georgia Research Alliance to test and develop protocols on its most advanced instrumentation.
Freshwater Japanese medaka may soon replace lab mice in chemical screening, toxicity testing, according to research conducted by University of Georgia scientists.
A new study by University of Georgia researchers has shown for the first time that the use of condoms, especially in first-time sex, may lead to closer, more intimate and longer-lasting relationships.
Research by the University of Georgia's Marine Institute strongly suggests that salt marsh plants nearer the equator are less palatable to herbivores than ones considerably farther away, the first time such a preference has been conclusively demonstrated.
Journalism and mass communication graduates continue to face an improved job market -- higher employment rates and increased salaries -- according to the Annual Survey of Journalism and Mass Communication Graduates released by the University of Georgia.
A three-year old boy who swallowed poisonous berries is alive today thanks to quick thinking by a county Extension agent, two UGA botanists, and a computer project intended to save farmers millions of dollars from crop loss to plant disease.
A new study by researchers at the University of Georgia confirms heat causes coral reef damage. Higher temperatures aren't necessarily damaging the reef-building corals directly but instead are degrading the ability of symbiotic algae to convert light into energy.
Nearing the June 18 release date for the final report of the National Gambling Impact Study Commission, a new, non-sponsored university study concludes that counties with casino gambling have an 8 percent higher crime rate on average than counties without casinos. The study found that higher crime rates donÃt occur immediately, but typically begin emerging in the third year after a casino opens in a community.
A dearth of social workers in Georgia schools means that important links between schools, homes and communities aren't being established. Links that could prevent the sort of tragedies that have occurred in Littleton, Colo., Jonesboro, Ark., Paducah, Ky., and, most recently, Conyers, Ga.
The director of UGA's Center for International Trade and Security, who began his academic career with a study of Balkan ethnic relations, discusses NATO's bombing campaign in Kosovo and Serbia.
The Professor of Newspaper Strategy and Management and director of UGA's Cox Institute for Newspaper Management Studies, a former foreign correspondent and vice president of the Associated Press, responded to news coverage of NATO's current bombing campaign in the Balkans.
Former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn were honored April 27 in Atlanta for their efforts to "wage peace," even as the House of Representatives prepares to vote on the U.S. military role in the Balkan conflict.
Until recently, some scientists suggested that the Middle Holocene period in the Southeast was marked by a warm, dry climate somewhat like that of the Upper Midwest. Recent studies by a University of Georgia geographer and his graduate students, however, have found that the climate was, in fact, warm and wet.
UGA researchers have determined that the environmental changes in cities like Atlanta, where trees are replaced by asphault and concrete, are turning into "urban heat islands," where the temperature is higher than surrounding areas and it creates its own weather patterns and thunderstorms.
A consortium of Southeastern universities, coordinated by researchers from the University of Georgia, today signed a memorandum of understanding with the Advanced Photon Source at the Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago.
A new study suggests that the damaging effects of acid rain appear far sooner than scientists knew and threaten the future productivity of forests by quietly dissolving their food reserves in the soil.
University of Georgia's Gerontology Center is co-sponsoring a national conference to address older adults utilizine the Web to increase their own health education. Co-sponsored by the SPRY Foundation in Washington D.C., the conference will be held a tht National Institutes of Health in Bethesday, Md., on March 25.
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