Please join Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant for the 2018 Research Symposium. Georgia Sea Grant-funded scientists from across the state will share their latest research on coastal topics, including sustainable fisheries and aquaculture, resilient communities and healthy coastal ecosystems. Cost is $30. Graduate students and Advisory Board members can attend free of charge. To RSVP, email Angela Llewllayn at angelal@uga.edu by May 15, 2018.

For more information, please visit: http://gacoast.uga.edu/event/research-symposium/

A newly-recruited night security guard at the Museum of Natural History discovers that an ancient curse causes the animals and exhibits on display to come to life and wreak havoc. Starring Ben Stiller and Ricky Gervais. (2006, PG, 108 minutes).

Annual staff appreciation reception honoring Franklin College of Arts and Sciences staff. Refreshments will be served. 

All University of Georgia staff are invited to attend UGA’s fourth annual Staff Appreciation Celebration.

An initiative of the Office of the President, the Staff Appreciation Celebration is a way for the university to say thank you to the staff.

Classes Begin

For Thru Term and Short Session I.

This exhibition, organized by Nicolas Morrissey, associate professor of art history, Lamar Dodd School of Art, highlights the Buddhist artistic heritage of ancient Gandhara, a region once heralded as the Crossroads of Asia and now located in present-day northern Pakistan and Afghanistan. Following the conquest of Alexander the Great during the 4th century BCE, the region of Gandhara became a nexus point of diverse and evolving cultural influences.

"Regulation of Synaptic Plasticity by RGS Proteins and the Impact of Human Genetic Variation on this Process," John R. Hepler, professor, Department of Pharmacology, Emory University School of Medicine.

Final exams for students. Through May 3.

The annual exit show for the graduating master of fine arts students at the Lamar Dodd School of Art.

The University of Georgia will host the 2018 Southern Labor Studies Association conference, a biannual gathering of scholars, students, and activists. Keynote presentations include “Heard it on the Grapevine: Slave Labor, Mobility, and Power in Antebellum America” by Susan O’Donovan, the Dunavant University Professor at the University of Memphis, as well as a lunchtime keynote by Maurice Hobson of Georgia State University on the subject of his new book, The Legend of the Black Mecca: Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta.