Society News from the Chronicles


Kennedy Assassination, 50 years later

It is one of the lowest moments in United States history, a day that stands hallowed for all the wrong reasons, shrouded in mystery and unanswered questions in every direction. On the 50th anniversary of the assassination, the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection present a…
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Criminal Justice at Griffin

The UGA Griffin campus will hold a Criminal Justice information day, CJ Day @ UGA, this Friday Nov. 22 beginning at 8:30 a.m. in the Griffin Campus Student Learning Center: Known as CJ Day @ UGA, the event will feature presenters from all areas of law enforcement, including a keynote address…

Salon from Refuse

More and more, students from the Lamar Dodd School of Art are leading the way in a variety of areas that include thinking about how our society deals with waste: Lindsay Pennington, a senior from Albany majoring in sculpture at the UGA Lamar Dodd School of Art, is challenging the way people think…

The Georgia Virtual History Project: Seen/Unseen

This weekend’s opening reception was just one of over 60 events going on now in conjunction with the “Spotlight on the Arts Festival.” Luckily, if you missed this one, there are plenty of opportunities to experience the wealth of arts in the UGA and Athens community. You can view the Spotlight on…

And now... the weather

One of the 'super hubs' for collaboration and partnership at UGA is our public televisioon station, WUGA TV. The Franklin College has a partnership with the station in the interview show that I host - but the College of Public Health, the College of Veterinary Medicine, the Hugh Hodgson School of…