TODAY’S TOP NEWS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA.
President Jere W. Morehead has directed $25,000 in private discretionary funds to Giving Voice to the Voiceless, an endowment launched by distinguished journalist, author and UGA alumna Charlayne Hunter-Gault and her husband, Ronald Gault.
The six alumni featured here show that there are many paths to entering a career in nonprofits. One that’s growing in popularity is nonprofit management education. It’s an area where the University of Georgia is at the forefront.
The program, supported by funding from The Delta Air Lines Foundation, brings students together from a range of disciplines to solve new and pressing industry-related challenges.
At the recommendation of the Presidential Task Force on Race, Ethnicity, and Community, the University of Georgia has launched a new student advisory board to share information, build community through conversation, and receive student response regarding the university’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.
In the decade since a tsunami washed over the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan, triggering the second-largest nuclear disaster in history, the surrounding towns have struggled to return to normal. But that’s not the case for the wildlife living in the area. For the animals living in this mountainous coastal landscape, the absence of people has allowed them to expand their populations into towns formerly inhabited by people—and, in many cases, thrive in humans’ absence.
The roughly half dozen miles of nature trails at the UGA State Botanical Garden of Georgia are frequented by hundreds of thousands of visitors every year. Now they are accessible to visitors in wheelchairs, pushing strollers or those who have trouble navigating natural terrain.
Every year, sports coaches have to navigate how to safely get their teams in shape to compete while temperatures during outdoor practices soar. New research from the University of Georgia aims to help them do just that.
As states receive more COVID-19 vaccines in the coming weeks, more Americans will become eligible to receive the shots that could get us one step closer to normalcy again. But many still have concerns about the two vaccines currently approved for emergency use in the U.S. and the one pending authorization.
Long overshadowed by the rise of abstract expressionism in the 1950s, magic realism’s reputation is on the way up again. The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will present the exhibition “Extra Ordinary: Magic, Mystery and Imagination in American Realism” from Feb. 27 to June 13. The exhibition seeks to reexamine the definition of magic realism and expand the canon of artists who worked within this category.