News Archive - 2026

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Thinking about thinking: how life sciences students can become better learners

Learning how to learn is a process—and for college students, that process can take years. New research from the University of Georgia offers one of the clearest looks yet at how students develop the skills to plan and evaluate their own learning throughout their undergraduate careers.  Specifically, researchers were looking at their metacognition skills, or a student’s ability to self-analyze how they learn. Julie Stanton, Meigs…

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“Yes, and”: Inside-Out class uses creativity to build connection

UGA students and Athens-Clarke County Jail residents explored how creativity can challenge assumptions and open new possibilities. A student offered a gesture. The others repeated it, then added their own. Soon the class was dancing, laughing, and responding to one another’s energy. The exercise drew on the improvisational theater principle “Yes, and”: accept what someone offers, then build on it. Over eight weeks, that idea became a way for UGA…

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Russian Flagship Program prepares students for a changing world

One of UGA’s crown jewels for academics, the Russian Flagship Program prepares students to reach advanced language proficiency while developing a nuanced understanding of the Russian-speaking world. Housed in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies, the intensive four-year program is one of only four Russian Flagship programs nationwide. Director Victoria Hasko developed the program’s curriculum and…

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UGA’s Victoria Hasko leads U.S. Department of State-funded English language program

The University of Georgia has received funding from the U.S. Department of State to provide an online American English language program for adult learners abroad. Victoria Hasko of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences serves as principal investigator and director, with Misha Cahnmann-Taylor of the Mary Frances Early College of Education as academic director. Hasko and Cahnmann-Taylor helped launch UGA’s online Graduate…

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The body belongs to a person: Aspiring physician-scientist finds a fuller view of medicine through the Classics

This story is part of Humanities in Practice, a Franklin College of Arts and Sciences series exploring the value of the humanities in work and everyday life. For aspiring physician-scientist Mohammed Q. Al Eethawi, the humanities provide the other half of a medical education. Al Eethawi is working to identify neurodegeneration before symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease appear. A 16th-century anatomy book helped shape how he thinks about the human…