The Thursday Scholarship Series opens with “A Golden Age Band Concert,” assembling UGA Hugh Hodgson School of Music faculty and students to create the UGA Golden Age Band and taking the audience on a journey through American band music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 

The Science Learning Center (ScLC) is a brand-new facility scheduled to open in Fall 2016. The ScLC will be open for classes August 11, with an official dedication scheduled for August 17. The Center will provide new modern learning space for core undergraduate science courses and will offer 33 separate instructional labs, including those in the Biological Sciences, Chemistry, and Physics. The Center will also house two 280-seat tiered lecture halls and two 72-seat SCALE-UP classrooms as well as building and lab support areas and offices.

For a smoother check in experience and to alleviate traffic congestion, elevator lines and wait times, resident arrival times will be staggered this year. Specific arrival time information will be communicated to residents via email. Check housing.uga.edu for the latest updates regarding arrival times and move in procedures. Residents not required to be on campus for activities on Aug. 7 are strongly encouraged, but not required, to arrive on Aug. 8.  All residents should arrive by 9 a.m. on Aug. 11.

This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Dr. Susan Mattern. Professor Mattern teaches courses in world history and in the history of Greece, Rome, ancient Egypt, marriage, medicine, disease, women, and law. She has written several books, including most recently The Prince of Medicine, a biography of the ancient physician Galen, and she is currently working on mental disorders in antiquity and a global history of menopause. 

Free admission, free pizza. 

This installment of the Department of History’s undergraduate lecture series features Dr. Benjamin Ehlers. Professor Ehlers teaches courses on the history of early modern Spain and England, European encounters with Islam, and transnationalism. He is the author of Between Christians and Moriscos: Juan de Ribera and Religious Reform in Valencia, 1568-1614. 

Free admission, free pizza. 

The Dodd faculty comprises an array of artists working in a variety of disciplines such as Benjamin Britton a large-scale abstract painter who provokes themes of adventure and awe; or Marni Shindelman a photographer who relies on geo-location to determine her often dead-pan photographs; or Jon Swindler an artist who investigates the process of printmaking through the creation of 3-dimensional collage sculpture. This is just a small example of the exemplary artists and researchers that comprise the Dodd faculty.

Through Aug. 13. While Tom Polk’s professional life was fulfilled as an associate professor and area chairman of art history at UGA, he was also a life-long artist. He earned a combined undergraduate degree from Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design in both art history and studio art. At peace in nature, landscapes were his most frequent subject, and the State Botanical Garden of Georgia was one of his favorite haunts.

Now in its 16th season, the Sunflower Music Series has placed both world-renowned and new-on-the-scene musicians in a world-class botanical environment. Randall Bramblett, a noted singer songwriter with 13 albums of his own original music, will perform. For more information, visit: http://botgarden.uga.edu/

UGA biology professor Robert Wyatt will discuss "Sex in the Garden" in the next event of the Georgia Natural History Museum Lecture Series.

The lecture series is sponsored by the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Natural History, a nonprofit organization that supports and advances the mission and programs of the museum by increasing public awareness, supporting service and outreach programs, fundraising and mobilizing other resources. The series is co-sponsored by the State Botanical Garden of Georgia.

The talk will be preceded by a reception.