From rankings to renovations of beloved campus buildings to welcoming award-winning new faculty colleagues, a rich cohort of accolades and good news ushered in late fall on campus.

A sampling of the terrific stories about our colleagues and alumni:

UGA dedicates first phase of… Read Article

The evolutionary lineage leading to Amborella diverged from all other flowering plant lineages approximately 150 million years ago. In 2013, an international research team co-led by UGA Plant Biology faculty member Jim Leebens-Mack and collaborators announced the newly sequenced genome… Read Article

According to the most recent impact factor ratings, Gender & Society, co-edited by UGA faculty member Patricia Richards, is ranked #1 among Women’s and Gender Studies journals and — also #1 among sociology journals.  

The ranking comes from the Journal Citations Report by… Read Article

Happy Thanksgiving from the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.

UGA alumnus and ESPN executive James Dunn visited the UGA campus in October and spent time with students in Communications Studies, his home department in the Franklin College.

Hometown: From Atlanta, Georgia

Currently: Work in Bristol, CT but lives in… Read Article