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Q&A with Doug Menke: Of lizard genetics & human biology

Three years ago, Doug Menke led a team that became the first in the world to create a gene-edited lizard. A professor of genetics in the Franklin College of Arts & Sciences and director of UGA’s Developmental Biology Alliance, Menke was recognized last spring with a UGA…
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UGA ramps up data science and AI hiring initiative

The University of Georgia is expanding a strategic faculty hiring initiative aimed at attracting leading scholars in the fields of data science and artificial intelligence. UGA initially planned to recruit 50 faculty members when it launched the Presidential Interdisciplinary Faculty…
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Fall Commencement 2022

The University of Georgia will welcome its newest alumni on Dec. 16 as 1,681 undergraduates and 1,521 graduate students—a total of 3,202— met requirements to participate in the university’s fall Commencement ceremonies on a crisp December day. Congratulations and welcome to the many family and…
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Susan Rosenbaum wins MLA Prize

The Modern Language Association of America announced the winner of the thirteenth Modern Language Association Prize for Collaborative, Bibliographical, or Archival Scholarship. Among the two two winning projects is Mina Loy: Navigating the Avant-Garde, created by Susan Rosenbaum, associate…
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Elise Karinshak selected as a Schwarzman Scholar

A senior from Lawrenceville, data science and marketing double major  Elise Karinshak is the University of Georgia’s newest Schwarzman Scholar. A Foundation Fellow in the Morehead Honors College, the Franklin/Terry College double-major also is pursuing a minor in studio art in the…