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Cheerleader not defined by physique

Anna Watson had a 50-pound weight swing in the last year. She’s eaten 900-calorie mass gainer shakes, mixed with milk and peanut butter. She’s bench pressed 155 pounds. She’s sculpted four inches of muscles on her arms in ten months — naturally. She’s been on the cusp of a $75,000 fitness-modeling contract.   She’s obsessed [...]

Kickin’ it in the Big Easy

Jonathan Pahlas, a marine science graduate student from Acworth, will step out on the field at the BCS National Championship Game to try to win prizes estimated at more than a $100,000 dollars today. Allstate selected Pahlas through an online competition to attempt a televised 40-yard field goal at halftime of the LSU/Alabama game in [...]

University students step into new era, hundreds attend commencement ceremony

University President Michael Adams said the University awarded more than eight thousand degrees this year to students. Many of them gathered at Stegeman Coliseum on Friday morning for the commencement ceremony. Alice Serres was one of these graduates. She stood outside of the coliseum in her black cap and gown waiting for a friend before [...]

University director of Institute for Nonprofit Organizations creates maps for community resources

Michelle Carney knows maps. Carney, director of the University’s Institute for Nonprofit Organizations, has taught community asset mapping for more than 12 years and is now creating interactive web-based maps for three Georgia counties. “I see it as a resource to know what they have,” Carney said. “It’s a resource to make decisions as a [...]

J. Griffin Doyle named UGA vice president for government relations

Griffin Doyle, the University’s director of federal relations, will serve as the new vice president for government relations. President Michael Adams announced the hire Thursday morning. “I have a long-standing love and affection for this institution,” Doyle said at this morning’s announcement. “More important than my affection for the university is the fact that I [...]

University professors combine ‘robotics with theater’

Brandon Raab, a first-year graduate student in dramatic media from Chicago, said he has to “flip a switch” in his mind between his classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays. He leaves a Ph.D. class discussing innovative playwrights like Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett — and then learns about robots and how to make one theatrically perform. [...]

THREE MINUTE INTERVIEW: Austin Laufersweiler, Student Advocate

Austin Laufersweiler, a sophomore political science and communication studies major from Marietta, advocated for anti-bullying legislation while still in high school. He went to the Cobb County School Board for countless meetings, reached out to his elected representatives and eventually helped produce an enumerated bullying policy, outlining what constitutes bullying and the motivations behind it, [...]

School of Social Work partners with the College of Public Health to offer dual degree

One serves the public on the micro level, the other on the macro. One intervenes in current problems, the other deals largely in prevention. Starting this spring, graduate students can now be trained in both. The College of Public Health and School of Social Work will allow students to pursue a dual master’s degree starting [...]

Sierra Student Coalition protests campus use of coal (w/video)

Kristin Fairchild, a junior international affairs and romance language major from Lawrenceville, speaks frankly when discussing her own breathing problems — she blames the University coal-fired plant’s pollution. Fairchild and other students protested the University’s use of coal during an environmental rally and march on Saturday morning. “I’d say that frankly it is kind of [...]

Students organize Insect Festival to spread awareness of creepy crawlies

Erinn Cohen, a senior digital and broadcast Journalism major from Alpharetta, was not a fan of bugs a few weeks ago, yet found herself volunteering for the 19thannual Insectival — an insect festival — Saturday morning at the University Botanical Gardens. “I’m really not an insect lover, but even after just since the beginning of [...]

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