2017

  • The University of Georgia Griffin Campus held the Fall Graduation Celebration and Brick Ceremony for the class of 2017 on Thursday, December 14, 2017 in the Stuckey Auditorium. In total, 24 students received their degrees and became alumni of the oldest state-supported university in the nation. This was the 22nd graduation ceremony held on the Griffin…

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  • Dundee Café also will display archival materials that document campus, community history. A historic structure at the heart of the University of Georgia Griffin campus will undergo a $1 million renovation thanks to a gift from the Dundee Community Association. The nearly 100-year-old facility, which once housed mules that pulled plows and other farm equipment, will be re-purposed…

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  • CJ Day @ UGA

    The University of Georgia’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of  Sociology, in partnership with the Spalding County Sheriff’s Office and the City of Griffin Police Department, will host the 4th Annual CJDay@UGA conference on Friday, November 10, 2017, from 8:30am until 1:00 pm in the Stuckey Auditorium on the UGA Griffin Campus.  The conference,…

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  • Business Day 2017

    Friday, November 3, 2017 The University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business will host the Business Day Conference on Friday, November 3, 2017 with registration beginning at 8:30am in the Stuckey Auditorium on the UGA Griffin Campus. The conference will focus on several areas of small business, such as marketing, investing, financial planning, creative problem solving, and much…

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  • Food safety research usually involves analyzing live populations of foodborne pathogens like Salmonella, Listeria and E. coli, but University of Georgia food scientist Henk den Bakker fights pathogens by developing computer software.  The newest addition to the UGA Center for Food Safety (CFS) in Griffin, Georgia, den Bakker is one of the pioneering researchers in…

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  • The 2017 Spring Graduation Celebration & Brick Ceremony were held at the UGA Griffin Campus on Thursday, May 4 at 10 a.m. A total of twenty-five graduates from the five colleges on campus did not allow the rain to dampen their celebration of their accomplishments.

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  • Daniel Mwalwayo has spent most of his professional career working to ensure a safe food supply in his home country of Malawi. This spring, he’s spending three months focused on that goal while training at the University of Georgia through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Norman E. Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellowship Program.…

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  • University of Georgia food microbiologist Xiangyu Deng’s work in the emerging field of bioinformatics led to his selection as a Creative Research Medal winner for 2017.  The medal is one of the prestigious honors bestowed annually by the UGA Research Foundation. Awards are given to outstanding faculty, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students in recognition of…

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  • The University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES) has tapped Allen Moore, currently serving as the department head of the UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Department of Genetics, to lead the college’s research efforts as the CAES associate dean for research. CAES Dean Sam Pardue announced the decision this week following a…

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  • Last summer, seven seniors from Pike County High School (PCHS) in Zebulon, Georgia, with an aptitude for science made a commitment to work alongside University of Georgia Griffin campus scientists three days a week for the entire school year. This month, they will complete their yearlong partnership. The students, Courtney Bagwell, Dylan Blohm, Abigail Chasteen,…

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