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Phinizy lecture April 19

UGA welcomes author and journalist Mellisa Fay Green to campus on April 19 to give the 20th Ferdinand Phinizy Lecture at 1:30 p.m. in the Chapel: Greene's lecture on "The Literature of Fact and Why Good Writing Still Matters" is free and open to the public. A brief reception will follow. "Like…

UGA iPhone app

EITS and, importantly, some of our best students, have been building a campus app set to roll out next week: The app, available to anyone using iPhone, iPad or iPod devices, will allow users to track campus buses, plan their meals at dining halls and catch the latest athletic scores, among other…

April kudos

Honors and awards of every stripe have been announced for faculty, staff and students.  Vincent Starai was awarded $1,503,565 by the National Institutes of Health to investigate how the bacterium that causes Legionnaires’ disease, Legionella pneumophila, overcome the body’s defenses. Starai is…

In the News, April

Franklin College faculty continue to be widely quoted and featured in the news media. A sample from April: UGA researcher Vincent Starai, an assistant professor of microbiology, has been awarded a $1.5 million National Institutes of Health grant to study Legionnaires’ disease. …

Franklin student Philip Grayeski named Goldwater Scholar

Franklin's Philip Grayeski becomes UGA's 44th Goldwater Scholar: Grayeski, a junior Honors student majoring in genetics and chemistry at the University of Georgia, has been named a 2013 Barry M. Goldwater Scholar. Grayeski is among a group of 271 recipients of the one- and two-year scholarships…

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