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• High school students complete one-year mentorship program at UGA-Griffin

  Sharon Dowdy

  April 28, 2017

  

  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 […]

  Posted in: Campus, Center for Food Safety, Food Science and Technology, Horticulture, STEM Students

• Weeklong tour teaches UGA CAES students about diversity of agriculture

  Clint Thompson

  March 10, 2017

  

  Agriculture is Georgia’s top industry, and students from the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences are learning about the diversity of agriculture during a weeklong tour across […]

  Posted in: Academics, Campus, Research

• Native prairie grasses bred as colorful landscape plants, wildlife habitats

  Sharon Dowdy

  February 22, 2017

  

  Landscapers can soon add a bit of Georgia’s historical Piedmont and native prairies to their designs thanks to the creation of three new little bluestem perennial grasses, released through a […]

  Posted in: Horticulture, Research, USDA

• New UGA facility in Griffin will help launch new food products

  Sharon Dowdy

  February 1, 2017

  

  University of Georgia scientists are now better equipped to help businesses launch new food products with the opening of the Food Technology Center, locally known as the FoodPIC building, on […]

  Posted in: Campus, FoodPIC, Research

• Seventeen UGA employees retire Dec. 1, 2016

  UGA Columns

  December 5, 2016

  Seventeen UGA employees retired Dec. 1. Retirees, their job classification, department and years of service are:  Gregory A. Ashley, IT associate director, COE Centers, 26 years; Robert Earl Bell, public service […]

  Posted in: Campus, Extension

• 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 Cooperative Extension experts available to speak on the drought

  Merritt Melancon

  November 19, 2016

  

  After months of abnormally dry and warm conditions, 52 north Georgia counties are now facing water use restrictions in accordance with Gov. Nathan Deal’s Level 2 drought response designation. Fifty-eight […]

  Posted in: Extension, Master Gardener, Turfgrass and Weed Science

• Smoke From Georgia’s Wildfires Spreading Across Northern Georgia

  Pam Knox

  November 18, 2016

  

  If you’ve walked outside during the last week, you’ve probably noticed the smell of smoke in the air. The current exceptional drought covering much of northern Georgia and surrounding states […]

  Posted in: Extension

• 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