Community

• Former Young Scholar awarded President’s Fulfilling the Dream Award

  Ashley Biles

  January 19, 2018

  

  Former UGA Griffin Campus Young Scholar, Natalie Morean, was recently recognized by the UGA Office of Institutional Diversity for her work in advancing issues of human rights and race relations. […]

  Posted in: Campus, Community, Young Scholars Program

• $1M gift will transform historic barn at UGA-Griffin

  Sam Fahmy

  October 12, 2017

  

  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 […]

  Posted in: Campus, Community

• CJ Day @ UGA

  Faye Chatman

  October 5, 2017

  

  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, […]

  Posted in: Academics, Campus, Community

• Business Day 2017

  Misty Smith

  October 5, 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 […]

  Posted in: Academics, Campus, Community

• UGA Alumni Association announces eighth annual Bulldog 100 list

  Kelundra Smith

  November 28, 2016

  

  The University of Georgia Alumni Association has released the 2017 Bulldog 100. This annual program recognizes the fastest-growing businesses owned or operated by UGA alumni. More than 500 nominations were […]

  Posted in: Alumni, Community

• UGA engineering students help Spalding County determine infrastructure needs

  Christopher James

  October 27, 2016

  

  University of Georgia senior Mariana Ozier looked like a professional engineer, scribbling notes as she walked a site pegged for redevelopment in Griffin. She and Spalding County Community Development Director […]

  Posted in: Community, Extension

• UGA food science student looks to composting to help protect peanut from aflatoxin contamination

  Allison Floyd

  October 27, 2016

  

  For millennia, farmers used compost to return nutrients to depleted soil. Now researchers are searching for a way composting can help battle aflatoxin. Ghana native Esther Yeboah Akoto, who is […]

  Posted in: Community, Food Science and Technology, Research

• UGA’s presence felt at Sunbelt Agricultural Expo

  Clint Thompson

  October 24, 2016

  University of Georgia President Jere W. Morehead and other university administrators celebrated the opening of the 2016 Sunbelt Agricultural Expo by visiting the opening day of the three-day trade show Oct. […]

  Posted in: Campus, Community, Extension

• 4-H Youth in Governance at Griffin Campus

  Be-Atrice Cunningham

  August 6, 2016

  

  The UGA Griffin campus recently hosted the local 4-H Youth Development program’s Youth in Governance participants. The students toured the Research and Education Garden, Food Science, the USDA Seed Storage, […]

  Posted in: Campus, Community, Extension

• UGA Extension hosts beekeeping basics workshop as part of “Saturday at the Rock”

  Merritt Melancon

  June 16, 2016

  

  A burgeoning interest in the benefits of delicious, local honey and increased concern for pollinator health has led more and more Americans to start keeping their own bees. Bees can […]

  Posted in: Community, Entomology, Extension