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Holiday Concerts

The end of each fall semester at UGA is punctuated by a musical spectacular marking the unoffical beginnig of the holiday season: The Holiday Concerts:

The University of Georgia Holiday Concerts, a tradition of the Athens community, returns Nov. 29-30 at 8 p.m. in Hodgson Hall.

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Photographer Alec Soth at LDSOA

In 2008, Minnesota-based photographer Alec Soth started his own publishing company, Little Brown Mushroom, and began releasing monographs of his images. On Tuesday Nov. 27 at 5:30 p.m., Soth will speak about his work at the Lamar Dodd Schol of Art:

The lecture, part of the ongoing… Read Article


Inaugural AMS Fellows

Our mathematics faculty is a very distinguished group, a fact highlighted in the inaugural class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society:

Five University of Georgia faculty members are among mathematical scientists from around the world named Fellows of the American Mathematical… Read Article


ARCO Chamber Orchestra presents Bach and Beethoven

The ARCO Chamber Orchestra, under the artistic direction of its founder, Franklin Professor of Violin Levon Ambartsumian, is one the gems of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music and the university. Ambartsumain brought the ensemble with him from Moscow years ago and has, over the years,… Read Article


Holland elected Paleontological Society president