The Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics awarded 30 scholarships for the 2017-2018 academic year. The following are a few of the outstanding students who were awarded departmental scholarships for their accomplishments. Nicholas Brown is a third-year double major in agribusiness and agricultural and applied economics from Hartwell, Georgia. His passion for agriculture developed in high […]
This article is adapted from a piece written by Kelly Simmons featured in UGA TODAY. ATHENS, Ga. – The University of Georgia State Botanical Garden has hired a designer and a construction manager for the Alice H. Richards Children’s Garden and plans to break ground Sept. 1. UGA, in partnership with the garden’s board of […]
Written by Josh Mixon ’19 Dejana Peric (ABJ ’17) has been awarded the Alfred J. Seaman Award for best undergraduate paper on advertising and society. This is the first time a student of the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication has ever achieved this high honor. Dejana conducted her research on […]
Written by Parker Middleton Athens, Ga. – Award-winning journalist, author and distinguished University of Georgia alumna Charlayne Hunter-Gault has established a new endowment, Giving Voice to the Voiceless. The endowment, created by Hunter-Gault and her husband, Ronald Gault, will provide grants to university students to promote social justice and global understanding by giving voice to […]
Written by Elizabeth R. Elmore (BBA ’08, ABJ ’08) Gainesville, Ga. – The Melvin Douglas and Victoria Kay Ivester Foundation has endowed two scholarships at the University of Georgia that will support UGA students who graduated from high schools in Gainesville or Hall County. The scholarships are being established in memory of the late Howard E. […]
Written by Stan Jackson First published: UGA Today 4/3/17 Athens, Ga. – The University of Georgia will enhance its alcohol education and prevention programs thanks to a $1.5 million gift from Jack and Nancy Fontaine of Houston, Texas. The donation is their latest in nearly $6 million of support to the Fontaine Center for alcohol […]
