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CCSD students build leadership, problem solving skills at UGA summer program

A UGA summer program is equipping Clarke County high school students to lead and look for innovative solutions to challenges they encounter. During InnovateU, around 20 Athens-Clarke County high school students were grouped into teams to develop new solutions for helping high school students transition to adulthood.
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Seven more Georgia organizations selected for UGA leadership initiative

Now in its third year, a University of Georgia leadership initiative will add seven more organizations from around the state that are strengthening their communities through new leadership development programming.
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If students can’t get to the coast, UGA brings the coast to them

For more than 50 years, educators at the UGA Marine Education Center and Aquarium on Skidaway Island have hosted pre-K-12 grade students for hands-on programs about the coastal environment.
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UGA student-designed park comes to life for Hart County Archway Partnership

When Hartwell residents turned out in May to install plants at the site of a new downtown park, UGA alumna Elizabeth Crimmins was right there alongside them in the dirt.
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Teenage inventors win patent assistance

A trio of Atlanta high school students left the 74th annual Georgia Science and Engineering Fair this spring with more than accolades and ribbons—they won a team of lawyers to help shepherd their invention through the patent process.
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Third-grade students are gathered outside, seated in an outdoor classroom to participate in a marine education class. At the front a UGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant staff member. She has asked the class a question and several students have their hands raised. The Marine Extension staff member is pointing at a student to answer the question. The students are learning about crabs in the CrabEcology course.

Athens residents have easy access to food distributions, thanks to UGA

By Emilie Gille / July 8, 2022

Food insecure Athens residents have easy access to meals, thanks to a partnership between UGA and local government One of...

Athens residents have easy access to food distributions, thanks to UGA

Three Georgia Center employees in the PSO spotlight for excellent service

By Emilie Gille / June 1, 2022

Three employees of the UGA Center for Continuing Education & Hotel were presented Public Service and Outreach Employee Spotlight Awards...

Three Georgia Center employees in the PSO spotlight for excellent service

Trawling for trash: Using recycled shrimp nets to remove marine debris

By Emilie Gille / May 4, 2022

UGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant has come up with a creative way to clean up the Georgia coast...

Trawling for trash: Using recycled shrimp nets to remove marine debris

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UGA is a national leader in university outreach with faculty, staff and students in all of UGA’s schools and colleges contributing to Georgia’s short- and long-term prosperity. In addition, eight Public Service and Outreach units focus specifically on serving Georgia.

The State Botanical Garden of Georgia leads in native plant restoration across the state.

Archway Partnership helps communities across the state address critical locally-identified needs.

Carl Vinson Institute of Government trains officials throughout the state.

Center for Continuing Education & Hotel leads in professional development.

Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant educate and help solve critical issues around the Georgia coast.

Small Business Development Center, with 17 offices around the state, helps address challenges for business at all levels.

J. W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development trains leaders across the state from youth to professionals.

Office of Service-Learning coordinates experiential learning for students around campus and throughout the state.

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Using grant money from the University of Georgia Parents Leadership Council and funds raised by the UGA Young Alumni network, the Office of Service-Learning’s Campus Kitchen program was able to purchase a new mobile food trailer — allowing the student-powered hunger relief program to provide fresh, nutritious meals to even more food-insecure Athens area residents.

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Athens residents have easy access to food distributions, thanks to UGA

Three Georgia Center employees in the PSO spotlight for excellent service

Trawling for trash: Using recycled shrimp nets to remove marine debris

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