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• UGA Griffin Students Take Part in Annual Stream Cleanup

  Ashley Biles

  November 5, 2021

  

  Getting up early on a Saturday morning to do physical labor is not necessarily every person’s idea of fun, especially when your bed is beckoning you to roll over for […]

  Posted in: Campus, Community

• New Master’s Degree Opportunity for UGA Griffin Undergraduates

  Ashley Biles

  October 20, 2021

  The University of Georgia Griffin Campus has added another Double Dawg opportunity for students: a joint Bachelor of Arts (AB) and non-thesis Master of Arts (MA) program. The AB degree […]

  Posted in: Academics, Campus

• UGA-Griffin Student Scores Job Testing Turf at PGA Tour Championship

  Clint Thompson

  October 8, 2021

  

  When professional golfer Patrick Cantlay sank the birdie that won him the 2021 PGA TOUR Championship, he did it on turf that had been tested that morning by a student […]

  Posted in: Academics, Campus, Community, Crop and Soil Sciences, Turfgrass and Weed Science

• Georgia Highlands College and UGA Griffin Campus are Working Together to Help Students Succeed with Guaranteed Admission from GHC to UGA! #TakingCharge 

  Melissa Todd

  October 7, 2021

  

  Georgia Highlands College and UGA Griffin Campus are working together to help students succeed with guaranteed admission from GHC to UGA! #TakingCharge Thanks to an exclusive articulation agreement between Georgia […]

  Posted in: Academics, Campus

• All The Buzz on The Third Annual Great Georgia Pollinator Census

  Leslie Matos

  August 30, 2021

  

  Thousands of Georgians came together on August 20 and 21 to count pollinator insects in their local gardens for the third annual Great Georgia Pollinator Census.  Coordinated by University of Georgia Cooperative […]

  Posted in: Community, Entomology, Extension, Master Gardener, Research

• Evidence of Study Suggests Source of Pandemic Foodborne Illness

  Jennifer Reynolds

  August 30, 2021

  

  Researchers at the University of Georgia have provided multifaceted evidence to suggest the likely origins behind the global spread of Salmonella Enteritidis, which has caused recurring outbreaks of the foodborne pandemic linked […]

  Posted in: Center for Food Safety, Research

• UGA Food Scientists Get Creative with Georgia Commodities

  Ligaya Figueras

  August 20, 2021

  

  As farmers across the state swelter in the summer heat tending crops and livestock, food scientists inside a state-of-the-art 14,500-square-foot facility on the University of Georgia campus in Griffin are laboring over […]

  Posted in: Campus, Community, FoodPIC, Research

• From Food Desert to Community Oasis

  Ashley Biles

  August 12, 2021

  

  Labeled a food desert by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Fairmont community in Griffin, Georgia, has historically had slim options for sourcing fresh, nutritious food nearby. But this desert is becoming […]

  Posted in: Center for Urban Ag, Community, Extension

• UGA Professor Earns Award from American Phytopathological Society

  Ashley Biles

  July 27, 2021

  

  It is said that if you find a job you love, you will never work a day in your life. For Alfredo Martinez-Espinoza, this has come true through his work […]

  Posted in: Campus, Crop and Soil Sciences, Extension

• Burnham Named ABWA Scholarship Recipient

  Ashley Biles

  July 27, 2021

  

  Each year the Iris Chapter of ABWA (American Business Women’s Association) presents a scholarship to a student who is pursuing a degree in business or a business-related field on the […]

  Posted in: Academics, Campus, Community