University of Georgia

By David Hale(noreply@blogger.com) All games in which Georgia may be selected to play will be listed. William C. Hartman Jr. Fund contributors should request only the venues in which they are willing to travel. The Athletic Association will not charge your card until the bowl bid has been officially determined. Orders will be fi...

By David Hale(noreply@blogger.com) The Southeastern Conference has reviewed and accepted the disciplinary actions taken by the University of Florida regarding football student-athlete Brandon Spikes. The university suspended Spikes for the first half of its next game (vs. Vanderbilt, Nov. 7) for an unsportsmanlike ac...

By Laura Diamond The Georgia Traffic Injury Prevention Institute at the University of Georgia received a grant from the Governor's Office of Highway Safety worth about $836,000 to continue programs for senior citizens and teenagers and their parents.

By ldiamond@ajc.com Kelsey Shaul had no intention of going to a women’s college. She had set her sights on Georgia Tech, the University of Georgia, Emory University or Duke University.

By Laura Diamond The University of  Georgia will hold a conference this month focused on issues surrounding immigration and education.

ATHENS -- An underage University of Georgia baseball player has been arrested on alcohol-related charges.

By Theresa Walsh Giarrusso Editor’s Note: I’ve complained a lot on this blog about my husband abandoning me on the weekends to go to the University of  Georgia football games. Finally, here’s HIS view on the subject. Ever since our first child was born, my wife has had a hate-hate relationship with college football, a...

By David Hale(noreply@blogger.com) The University of Georgia Athletic Association Board of Directors at its regular quarterly meeting Wednesday approved a recommendation by Director of Athletics Damon Evans to move forward with negotiations to extend the contract for the annual Georgia-Florida game to be held in Jac...

By ktorres@ajc.com University of Georgia officials ended a national search Friday by promoting one of their own to the second-highest job in the university’s administration.

By listen@ajc.com ATHENS, -- An 18-year-old University of Georgia fraternity pledge says he was hazed and forced to drink alcohol.

ATHENS, GA (AP) -- The University of Georgia may not score high for environmental friendliness, but officials say the school is making progress.

By Theresa Walsh Giarrusso Here’s a quote from the front of UGA Greek Life page that interested me: “The 2008 UGA National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) found that students who are members of UGA social Greek letter organizations report higher levels of …

 GA Kristen Petersen and Alexis Steinhart have been best friends for 14 years and will share a room at the University of Georgia. "I've known her all my life practically, so I know it won't be too hard to get used to her quirks that I don't know about," ...

 GA That's what University of Georgia journalism student Brittany Cofer is hoping. The Conyers native said she could have graduated this May but chose to return to UGA for another semester this fall to take more classes and gain more editorial experience ...

 GA The University of Georgia Alumni Association is collecting nominations for 100 Best Bulldog Businesses, a new program created to spotlight fast-growing companies owned or operated by UGA alumni. The top 100 businesses will be announced at the program's ...

 GA We are excited to have Sarah join our soccer program here at the University of Georgia," Baker said. "We enjoyed watching Sarah play as a youth player for many years as she became one of the most heralded players in the 2008 recruiting class. ...

 GA The census findings did not surprise John McKissick, an agricultural economist at the University of Georgia. Some of the state's top counties in terms of agricultural production, and specifically poultry production, are in Northeast Georgia, ...

  USA By TIM TUCKER Athens — The University of Georgia, which has been scrambling to find two opponents to complete its 2010 home football schedule, has found one: the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. The Bulldogs will play the Ragin' Cajuns, ...

  USA Cadaver dogs found the body of the University of Georgia marketing professor last weekend. The motive for the April 25 shootings remained unclear. Authorities also said they found directions to the home of another UGA professor in Zinkhan's Jeep. ...

 GA A look back at the top stories of the week in the Athens Banner-Herald and onlineathens.com. • Former Bulldogs quarterback Quincy Carter arrested in Abilene - Former University of Georgia quarterback Quincy Carter was arrested in Abilene, Texas, ...

 GA Homicidal poisoning is on the upswing and infants are the most common victims, two University of Georgia researchers found in a review of deaths blamed on toxins and overdoses. Fortunately, the number of homicides by poisoning is very low - only 523 in ...

 GA Lawyers for fired University of Georgia journalism dean John Soloski have asked a federal judge to find UGA President Michael Adams and the state Board of Regents in contempt because UGA officials have not removed a finding of sexual harassment against ...

 GA ATLANTA - Faculty at the University of Georgia and other public colleges in the state now face the possibility of furloughs when the economy goes south. The University System Board of Regents on Tuesday voted to empower UGA President Michael Adams and ...

 GA In business and in life, people respond best to those they can trust and in whom they have confidence. • Archie Carroll is professor emeritus in the Terry College of Business, University of Georgia. He may be contacted at acarroll@uga.edu.

A team of scientists is set to visit Athens to comb over the preparations for the new medical campus scheduled to open next year near the University of Georgia campus. A good review by the Liaison Committee for Medical Evaluation could give the partnership between the Medical College of Ge...

By David Hale(noreply@blogger.com) The Georgia Lady Bulldogs received an at large bid to the 2009 NCAA Women's Basketball Championship on Monday evening. The bid is Georgia's 26th overall and moves the Lady Bulldogs into sole possession of second place all-time nationally. Georgia has now earned spots in the last 15th NCAA...

By David Hale(noreply@blogger.com) Former NFL head coach Tony Dungy and University of Georgia head football coach, Mark Richt will hold a joint news conference on Wednesday, March 18, 2008 in the team meeting room at Butts-Mehre Heritage Hall at 2:00 p.m., on the University of Georgia campus in Athens. The men will announce th...

By MaconDawg While the major media focus has been on the Ringer/Moreno matchup, it's the Georgia passing attack that I think presents a serious matchup problem. This is the group that made Penn State's Daryll Clark look like Peyton Manning. Matt Stafford will need no help looking like Manning, as he's a...

By Paul Basken Among the findings, according to SmartMoney, is that the University of Georgia delivers a “payback” nearly three times that of Harvard University, and that the Universities of Delaware and of Rhode Island both outperform every Ivy League institution in the ranking.

Today's teenagers and young adults are far more likely than their parents to believe they're great people, destined for maximum success as workers, spouses and parents, suggests a report comparing three decades of national surveys.And these so-called Millennials or Gen Y young peopl...

At the University of Georgia researchers are discovering that the biological clock of organisms is tied to a much larger set of genes than was previously thought. Though the research was performed on bread mold, the finding points to the importance of time on an organism, and may lead to a b...

By mole333 Saxby Chambliss: a dishonorable Bush Republican who even Republicans think cheated and lied his way into office. Jim Martin: an honorble Veteran respected by both Democrats and Republicans. You can learn more about Jim Martin at his website.

By Clay Travis Tired of struggling to find enough teachers to staff its classrooms on the Friday before the annual Georgia-Florida football game, the Clarke County (Ga.) School District — which includes Athens, home of the University of Georgia — decided to cancel school altogether.

By Mike Millikin First-time recipients of PGRP awards include California State University-Long Beach, Case Western Reserve University, North Carolina Central University, University of Minnesota-Duluth, University of Southern California and Western Illinois University.

By mole333 Jim Martin has been endorsed by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The article goes on to discuss probable Republican fraund in Ohio in 2004. Saxby Chambliss: a dishonorable Bush Republican who even Republicans think cheated and lied his way into office.

By MaconDawg But I also love Auburn because of this game. It is the Deep South's Oldest Rivalry. It is a game that was played when my grandfather was an undergraduate, when people who didn't wear ascots and drive Peugeots cared about the score of the Yale/Harvard game and couldn't find Athens on a map. It is a...

By MaconDawg Unless you have been bunkered down with Mike Vick discussing legal options, you probably know that the University of Georgia's college football season kicks off in earnest in a mere 12 days. In honor of this auspicious 12th day before kickoff, I'd like to present the "countup" of things yo...

By T Kyle King For the record, it was 10 years ago this month that Susan and I were married in the Chapel . . . and, yes, we rang the bell after the ceremony. (Photograph from University of Georgia Office of the Vice President for Instruction.) I hate Auburn.

By MaconDawg Al.com has taken a break from its coverage of SEC Media Days to bring you, the southern sporting public, the hands down weirdest sports news story of the year. First, the University of Alabama-Huntsville has a hockey team. I know, I know, Georgia has one too. But UAH has an honest to goodness, co...

By moniqueleonard In late March, a University of California at San Francisco server that stored the names, contact information and Social Security numbers of about 3,000 cancer study subjects and potential subjects was stolen from a locked office. In May, the names and Social Security numbers of almost 9...

By T Kyle King The next logical step in that progression is to meet Michigan between the hedges in 2017 (when the Bulldogs will play Georgia Tech in Atlanta and the Wolverines will play Ohio State in Ann Arbor) and in the Big House in 2018 (when the Red and Black will face the Yellow Jackets in Athens and the...

By MaconDawg However, I think I've mustered a little more indignation. University of Georgia freshman tailback and tacklebreaking, hole-hitting machine Caleb King was arrested in Athens last night. For having a suspended license. And going the wrong way on a one way street. On his moped. His flipping mo...

By Mike Millikin The DOE BioEnergy Science Center, led by the DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The Center Director will be Martin Keller, and collaborators include: Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia; DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden...

By T Kyle King How do I love this hire? Let me count the ways. Native Georgian? Check. University of Georgia graduate? Check. Previous experience as a Georgia assistant? Check. Prior S.E.C. head coaching experience? Check. Leadership in her field as both a student and a coach? Check. Highly unlikely to complim...

By T Kyle King Last Wednesday, I had the opportunity to sit down with Kevin "Chappy" Hynes, the chaplain for the University of Georgia football team, to discuss his ministry. As should have been apparent from the first part of our interview, Chappy is outgoing and forthright when discussing the ways in...

By T Kyle King Naturally, I leapt at the opportunity. Chappy was a gracious host, guiding us through the lower floors of Butts-Mehre Heritage Hall and showing Thomas and me the coaches' offices, the team meeting room, the locker room, the weight room, and the practice field. We were unable to meet Coach R...

By T Kyle King This brings me to the N.C.A.A. men's tennis tournament. Earlier this evening, top-ranked Georgia claimed a 4-0 victory over No. 19 Florida to advance to the quarterfinals. The Bulldogs ran their record to 29-0 by beating both Auburn and the Gators in consecutive rounds.

A judge denied bond Thursday to a University of Georgia graduate student who frightened fellow students and a professor with talk about guns.

Even before the shootings at Virginia Tech, the University of Georgia was looking at ways to improve their system of alerting students of emergencies.

Grade: A College towns across America have long been the birthplace of great music. From Athens, Ga., home to the University of Georgia as well as R.E.M. and The B-52’s, to Austin, Texas, the location of University of Texas and birthplace of Spoon and You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, countle...