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  1. Jenny Penney Oliver receives the COE Faculty Diversity Award

    The award has recently been renamed the Jenny Penny Oliver Diversity Award in honor of her commitment and record of accomplishment in creating and facilitating partnerships to bridge diversity in Georgia and beyond.

  2. UGA associate professor wins national teaching award

    Dr. Maria Navarro wins the USDA New Teacher Award. This award recognizes undergraduate professors who demonstrate “sustained, meritorious and exceptional teaching” and who have been teaching for less than seven consecutive years.

  3. Miss University of Georgia 2013

    Jenna Jackson, a second-year law student, was crowned Miss University of Georgia 2013 at the annual scholarship pageant.

  4. UGA Amazing Student ValaRae Marie Partee

    ValaRae Partee finds value in conducting research and community service projects that help children. Her ultimate goal is to develop a process by which living organisms are used to clean the air. Given unlimited resources, the environmental engineering junior from Lithonia wants to save the planet.

News

R. Baxter Miller receives creative research award

R. Baxter Miller receives the Albert Christ-Janer Award for distinguished achievements in the arts and humanities R. Baxter Miller is one of the nation's most prominent experts on African-American literature. Much of his scholarship has focused on the Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes. Of the 10 books Miller has written, …

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Events

The University will recognize Mary Frances Early with an honorary doctor of law degree

Approximately 4,164 undergraduates and 1,091 graduate students—a total of 5,255—are eligible to walk in the University of Georgia’s spring Commencement ceremonies on May 10. Undergraduate Commencement is scheduled for 7 p.m. in Sanford Stadium, and U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., will give the graduation address. An estimated 176 doctoral candidates …

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