Sharon Dowdy

Sharon Dowdy

• Dan Suiter to lead programming at UGA Center for Urban Agriculture

  Sharon Dowdy

  September 10, 2019

  

  University of Georgia Department of Entomology Professor Dan Suiter has been named the chair of the UGA Center for Urban Agriculture Faculty Advisory Committee. Suiter’s appointment will enhance the programming […]

  Posted in: Center for Urban Ag

• Scientists at UGA search for ways to control pathogens on wheat berries

  Sharon Dowdy

  August 7, 2019

  

  Consumers have long been warned against the hazards of eating raw cookie dough. As more cases of foodborne illness are linked to contaminated wheat flour, University of Georgia food safety […]

  Posted in: Center for Food Safety, Research

• UGA-bred Blueberry Plants Now Grow across the Globe

  Sharon Dowdy

  June 9, 2019

  

  A tried and true Georgia “boy,” University of Georgia blueberry breeder Scott NeSmith takes pride in creating new blueberry varieties for farmers in Georgia and across the Southeast. Now he […]

  Posted in: Campus, Community

• Cooperative Extension Faculty named PSO Fellow

  UGA Griffin Campus

  May 14, 2019

  

  Svoboda “Bodie” Vladimirova Pennisi, a full professor and UGA Cooperative Extension Specialist at the UGA Griffin campus, will work with the Small Business Development Center to implement online learning opportunities. […]

  Posted in: Extension, Horticulture

• Students learn about local mentoring opportunities

  Melissa Gordon

  April 18, 2019

  

  Ms. Kathy Rhodes, Mentor Program Coordinator for the Spalding County Collaborative, spoke on Tuesday, April 16, 2019, to students and guests of Dr. Watts Warren’s SOCI 3820S Communities and Crime […]

  Posted in: Academics, Campus

• UGA-Griffin students talk about microbiology at Griffin High School

  Dr. Margie Paz

  April 16, 2019

  

  Students of Dr. Margie Paz, senior lecturer in the Department of Microbiology of the UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, recently fulfilled a service-learning activity related to their Introduction […]

  Posted in: Academics, Community

• McCullough recalls decades of food science work upon retirement from UGA-Griffin

  Sharon Dowdy

  April 12, 2019

  

  In December of 1976, Sue Ellen McCullough took a job at the University of Georgia Griffin campus — then known as the Georgia Experiment Station — on the advice of […]

  Posted in: Campus, Food Science and Technology, Research

• UGA-Griffin names 2019 Classified Employees of the Year

  Sharon Dowdy

  April 11, 2019

  

  Anthony Flint, Julie Peters and Gary Ware were honored as the University of Georgia Griffin campus 2019 Classified Employees of the Year during the annual Classified Employee Recognition Ceremony held […]

  Posted in: Campus, Community

• UGA-Griffin student returns to college after 30-year break

  Sharon Dowdy

  January 3, 2019

  

  At 54, Becky Griffin was the oldest University of Georgia student on the Griffin campus to be awarded a degree this fall, but that fact only fueled her drive to […]

  Posted in: Center for Urban Ag, Entomology, Graduation

• Three UGA Griffin faculty receive prestigious D.W. Brooks Awards

  Sharon Dowdy

  December 5, 2018

  

  Three University of Georgia Griffin campus scientists have been awarded D.W. Brooks Awards for Excellence for their extraordinary commitment to the mission of the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental […]

  Posted in: Campus, Community