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MAREX employees and volunteers make Earth Day presentation

earthday1-web.jpgEmployees and volunteers from UGA’s Marine Education Center and Aquarium and the Shellfish Research Lab presented “Planet Ocean” — an introduction to living marine creatures such as horseshoe crabs, hermit crabs, spider crabs, and whelks — at the 2008 Earth Day Festival in Savannah’s Forsyth Park on April 19.
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2008 Georgia Science and Engineering Fair Announces Winners

germination-sensation-for-web.jpgAthens, Ga. (April 21, 2008) - Approximately 700 middle and high school students from throughout Georgia exhibited projects at the 60th Georgia Science and Engineering Fair (GSEF), held at the Athens Classic Center April 2-5. The University of Georgia has coordinated this program since 1948.
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University Students Fighting the Spread of HIV with Mobile Media

new-media-institute-logo.jpgATHENS, Ga. – A unique project by the students of the University of Georgia’s New Media Institute may soon make wireless phones a new vehicle for Public Service Announcements in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
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2008 Summer Academy at UGA Youth Camps accepting registration applications

sauga_banner_2008.jpgAthens, Ga. (April 21, 2008) – The University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education Conference Center and Hotel is currently accepting registration applications for the 2008 Summer Academy at UGA. SAUGA is a popular series of summer day camps designed to keep the minds and bodies of 10- to 17-year-olds active during summer break. Camps begin the week of June 2 and are held at the Georgia Center.
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Global Health Symposium

Athens, Ga. (April 14, 2008) — The University Of Georgia College of Public Health and Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute present the first annual UGA Global Health Symposium, April 21-22, 2008 at the Paul D. Coverdell Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences.
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