University of Georgia#Bioenergy Systems Research Institute

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In 1784, Lyman Hall, a Yale University graduate{{CongBio|H000061|access-date=August 23, 2018}} and one of three medical doctors to sign the Declaration of Independence,{{Cite journal|last=Rosen|first=George|date=April 1976|title=Benjamin Rush on Health and the American Revolution|journal=American Journal of Public Health|volume=66|issue=4|pages=397–398|doi=10.2105/ajph.66.4.397|pmid=773197|pmc=1653277}} as Governor of Georgia persuaded the Georgia legislature to grant {{convert|40,000|acre|km2}} as an endowment for the purposes of founding a "college or seminary of learning." Besides Hall, credit for founding the university goes to Abraham Baldwin who wrote the original charter for University of Georgia.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/georgiaslandmark21knig|title=Georgia's Landmarks, Memorials, and Legends...|publisher=Published by the author.|last=Knight|first=Lucian Lamar|year=1913|pages=[https://archive.org/details/georgiaslandmark21knig/page/139 139]–45|chapter=Franklin College: The Oldest State University in America, Chartered in 1785}} Originally from Connecticut, Baldwin graduated from and later taught at Yale before moving to Georgia.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LYEjvos3vD8C|title=A Pictorial History of the University of Georgia|last=Boney|first=F. N.|date=2000|publisher=University of Georgia Press|isbn=978-0-8203-2198-1|page=2}} The Georgia General Assembly approved Baldwin's charter on January 27, 1785, and the University of Georgia became the first university in the United States to gain a state charter.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofamerica0000thel|url-access=registration|title=A History of American Higher Education|last=Thelin|first=John R.|date=May 3, 2004|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=978-0-8018-7855-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/historyofamerica0000thel/page/45 45]}}{{Harvnb|Boney|2000|p=ix, 8}} Considered one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, Baldwin would later represent Georgia in the 1786 Constitutional Convention that created the Constitution of the United States{{Harvnb|Boney|2000|p=2}} and go on to be President pro tempore of the United States Senate.{{cite web|last1=Smith|first1=Gerald J.|title=Abraham Baldwin (1754–1807)|url=https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/abraham-baldwin-1754-1807|website=georgiaencyclopedia.org|publisher=a program of Georgia Humanities|access-date=January 17, 2019}} The task of creating the university was given to the Senatus Academicus, which consisted of the Board of Visitors – made up of "the governor, all state senators, all superior court judges and a few other public officials" – and the Board of Trustees, "a body of 14 appointed members that soon became self-perpetuating." The first meeting of the university's board of trustees was held in Augusta, Georgia, on February 13, 1786. The meeting installed Baldwin as the university's first president.

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For the first 16 years of the school's history, the University of Georgia only existed on paper.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VdRiAQAAQBAJ|title=Through the Arch: An Illustrated Guide to the University of Georgia Campus|last=Dendy|first=Larry B.|date=2013|publisher=University of Georgia Press|isbn=978-0-8203-4248-1|page=2}} By the new century, a committee was appointed to find suitable land to establish a campus. Committee member John Milledge purchased 633 acres of land on the west bank of the Oconee River and immediately gave it to the university. This tract of land, now a part of the consolidated city–county of Athens-Clarke County, Georgia, was then part of Jackson County.{{Harvnb|Boney|2000|p=3}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F3jXcKhBqnsC|title=Antebellum Athens and Clarke County, Georgia|last=Hynds|first=Ernest C.|date=August 1, 2009|publisher=University of Georgia Press|isbn=978-0-8203-3446-2|pages=3–4}} {{as of|2013}}, 37 acres of that land remained as part of the North Campus.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=21}}

Because Baldwin was elected to the U.S. Senate, the school needed a new president. Baldwin chose his former student and fellow professor at Yale, Josiah Meigs, as his replacement. Meigs became the school's president, as well as the first and only professor. After traveling the state to recruit a few students, Meigs opened the school with no building in the fall of 1801. The first school building patterned after Yale's Connecticut Hall was built the year later. Yale's early influence on the new university extended into the classical curriculum with emphasis on Latin and Greek. By 1803, the students formed a debate society, Demosthenian Literary Society.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=3}} Meigs had his first graduating class of nine by 1804. In 1806, the school dedicated the first legacy building, Franklin College (named after Benjamin Franklin). The building is now known as Old College.

After the tenure of the next two presidents, John Brown (1811–1816) and Robert Finley (1817),{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=8}} a timeframe that saw enrollment drop, presidents Moses Waddel (1819–1829) and Alonzo Church (1829–1859) worked to re-engage new students. By 1859, enrollment had risen to 100 students, and the university employed eight faculty members and opened a new law school.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=4}} During this timeframe, the university erected the New College building followed by the Chapel in 1832. Church was the longest-serving president in UGA history.{{Harvnb|Boney|2000|pp=38–40}} In 1859, the state legislature abolished the Senatus Academicus, leaving the board of trustees as the only official governing body. When Church retired,{{Harvnb|Boney|2000|p=40}} Andrew A. Lipscomb was appointed to the newly renamed position of chancellor in 1860.

The University of Georgia closed in September 1863 due to the Civil War and reopened in January 1866 with an enrollment of about 80 students{{Harvnb|Boney|2000|p=45}} including veterans using an award of $300 granted by the General Assembly to former soldiers under an agreement that they would remain in Georgia as teachers after graduation.{{Harvnb|Boney|2000|p=49}} The university received additional funding through the 1862 Morrill Act, which was used to create land-grant colleges across the nation. In 1872, the $243,000 federal allotment to Georgia was invested to create a $16,000 annual income used to establish the Georgia State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (A&M), initially separate and independent from the University of Georgia. However, A&M's funding was considered part of the university, which helped save it from bankruptcy during the Reconstruction era. As a land-grant school, UGA was required to provide military training, which the university began to offer in the 1870s.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=5}}

Several of the university's extracurricular organizations began in the late 1800s. In 1886, fraternities at UGA began publishing the school's yearbook, the Pandora. The same year, the university gained its first intercollegiate sport when a baseball team was formed, followed by a football team formed in 1892. Both teams played in a small field west of campus now known as Herty Field. The Demosthenian and Phi Kappa literary societies together formed the student paper, The Red & Black, in 1883. In 1894, the University of Georgia joined six other southeastern schools to form the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA).{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZyqWE2wlYJ4C|title=How the SEC Became Goliath: The Making of College Football's Most Dominant Conference|last=Glier|first=Ray|date=September 25, 2012|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-1-4767-0328-2|page=23}}

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The turn of the century brought many changes in the administration and organization of the university including the naming of a new chancellor in 1899. Walter B. Hill became the first UGA alumnus to lead the university. A progressive leader, his six-year tenure, before his death from pneumonia, was marked with increased enrollment, expansion of the university's course offerings, and the addition of state funding through appropriation, for the first time bringing the university's annual income to over $100,000 in 1902. Hill and his successors David C. Barrow (1906–1925), Charles Snelling (1926–1932), and Steadman Sanford (1932–1935) would grow the school to take on the role of a true university. Many of the university's schools and colleges were established during Barrow's tenure. The College of Education (1908), the Graduate School (1910), the School of Commerce (1912), the School of Journalism (1915), and the Division of Home Economics (1918) were all established during this period. In 1906, UGA also incorporated the College of Agriculture by bringing together A&M (agricultural and mechanical) courses. The college of science and engineering continued as formed in the previous century. Conner Hall became the first building built in South Campus and first of several buildings that housed the university's agriculture programs on what came to be known as "Ag Hill". In 1914, the first Phi Beta Kappa chapter in the state of Georgia was founded at UGA.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=6}} In 1923, another honor society, Phi Kappa Phi, established a chapter at the university.{{Harvnb|Boney|2000|p=113}} In 1920, UGA's athletic program was among 14 of the 30 universities to leave the SIAA to form the Southern Conference.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cm1TZA6jCSgC|title=SEC Football: 75 Years of Pride and Passion|last=Scott|first=Richard|date=September 15, 2008|publisher=Voyageur Press|isbn=978-1-61673-133-5|page=16}}

With students limited to white males for the first century of its history, the University of Georgia began admitting white female students during the summer of 1903 as postgraduate students to the State Normal School established in 1893 a few miles west of the campus. When the University of Georgia established a graduate school in 1910, female students were permitted to attend summer classes and some were also unofficially allowed to attend regular classes, as well.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|pp=6–7}} However, at that time only junior college transfers majoring in Home Economics were integrated into regular courses. Before official admission of women to the university, several women were able to complete graduate degrees through credit earned during the summer sessions. The first white woman to earn such a degree was Mary Dorothy Lyndon. She received a Master of Arts degree in 1914.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=7}} Women were admitted as full-time undergraduates in 1918. Mary Ethel Creswell earned a Bachelor of Science in home economics in June 1919, becoming the first woman to earn an undergraduate degree at the university.{{Harvnb|Boney|2000|p=131}} Two UGA dormitories were later named after these graduates: Mary Lyndon Hall{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=123}} and Creswell Hall.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=150}}

File:Mary Lyndon Dormitory for Girls, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga. (8342840185).jpg Hall (built in 1938), named after the first female student at UGA to earn a graduate degree.]]

In 1932, the reorganization of the university's administrative structure continued through the establishment of the University System of Georgia (USG), which brought UGA along with several other public colleges in the state under the control of a single board of regents. The State Normal School (later State Teachers College) was fully absorbed by the College of Education, with the former's previous campus becoming UGA's Coordinate Campus. UGA and Georgia Tech traded several school programs; all engineering programs (except agriculture) were transferred to Georgia Tech and UGA received Georgia Tech's commerce program in return. The title of the university's lead administrator was changed from chancellor back to the original title of president. Sanford was named UGA's first president since 1860 and was succeeded by Harmon Caldwell (1935–1948). In 1933, the Division of Home Economics was reorganized as the School of Home of Economics,{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=9}} with UGA's first female graduate, Creswell, appointed as dean. The university also became a founding member of the Southeastern Conference{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FJUIUzD4joAC|title=Games Colleges Play: Scandal and Reform in Intercollegiate Athletics|last=Thelin|first=John R.|date=June 1, 2011|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=978-1-4214-0391-5|at=Chapter 2}} and established the University of Georgia Press in 1938.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=11}}{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=45}}

Throughout this period, UGA's enrollment grew every year with student population reaching 3,000 by 1937 and almost 4,000 by 1941. Through President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, UGA received a $2 million infusion of funding and an additional $1 million from the state legislature. The university used the new funds to make a number of improvements to the campus from 1936 to the early 1940s. Many renovation projects were undertaken including the establishment of five new residence halls, a dining hall, eight new academic buildings, a nursery school, and several auxiliary facilities. An engineering professor Rudolph Driftmier and architect Roy Hitchcock were responsible for the design of several buildings in the neoclassical style, giving the campus a homogeneous and distinctive appearance. The funds were also used to pave roads, build sidewalks, and improve the campus's landscaping.

{{See also|University of Georgia desegregation riot}}

The dean of the College of Education in 1941, Walter Cocking, was fired by Georgia Governor Eugene Talmadge in a controversial decision known as the Cocking affair.{{cite encyclopedia|last=Cook|first=James F|url=http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-594|title=Cocking Affair|encyclopedia=New Georgia Encyclopedia|publisher=Georgia Humanities Council and University of Georgia Press|year=2002|access-date=December 23, 2010|archive-date=June 6, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606150716/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-594|url-status=dead}} Talmadge was motivated by his belief that Cocking favored racial integration. The governor's interference in the workings of USG's board of regents prompted a response by the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, which stripped UGA and nine other schools in the system of their accreditation. The issue became a major point of contention in Talmadge's 1942 re-election campaign. After his loss, a constitutional amendment passed by the state legislature gave the board independence from political interference which led to the schools quickly regaining their accreditation.

As the United States entered World War II, enrollment among male students dropped significantly, allowing female students to outnumber male students for the first time in the school's history. The United States Navy set up a Navy Pre-Flight School on the campus, occupying many of the university's buildings and constructing many new buildings and athletic facilities used by generations of students in the following decades.

In 1945, UGA accepted a donation of about 100 paintings from the New York art collector Alfred Holbrook and created the Georgia Museum of Art. In 1946, the School of Veterinary Medicine was re-established as a separate school, 13 years after it was discontinued as part of the agricultural college.

The following year, the quarterly literary journal The Georgia Review began publication in 1947. After Jonathan Rogers' brief tenure as president (1949–1950), Omer Clyde Aderhold started his 17-year-long stint as UGA president. During his tenure, the university sold Coordinate Campus to the U.S. Navy. He opened the school's main library, the Ilah Dunlap-Little Memorial Library, in 1952, and in 1964, established the School of Social Work. The university also built a new Science Center on South Campus consisting of six buildings.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|pp=13–14}} After UGA's pharmacy school moved to the new facility on the South Campus, the two portions of the campus took on distinct characteristics, with North Campus focused on arts, humanities, and law, and South Campus focused on natural sciences and agricultural programs.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=14}}

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Until January 1961, Georgia state law required racial segregation in publicly funded higher education. On January 6, 1961, the District Court mandated that UGA immediately admit two African American teenagers, Hamilton E. Holmes and Charlayne Hunter, who were previously denied admission in 1959 on the basis of race. This court order was quickly followed by an injunction preventing the enforcement of the segregation-mandating state law. On January 11, a riot formed outside Charlayne Hunter's dormitory window, which "shouted racial insults, and tossed firecrackers, bottles and bricks at the dormitory window". Dean Williams suspended the two students for "their personal safety", but they returned to classes on January 16 following a court order. The university faculty subsequently formed a night patrol to help ensure the peace.{{cite web|title=University Archives :: Hargrett Library :: University of Georgia Libraries|url=https://www.libs.uga.edu/hargrett/archives/integration/integration1.html|access-date=November 28, 2020|website=www.libs.uga.edu|archive-date=November 2, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201102092839/https://www.libs.uga.edu/hargrett/archives/integration/integration1.html|url-status=dead}} Holmes graduated Phi Beta Kappa and was the first African-American student to attend the Emory University School of Medicine, where he earned his MD in 1967 and later became a professor of orthopedics and associate dean at Emory, the medical director at Grady Memorial Hospital, and a trustee of the University of Georgia Foundation, the university's private fund-raising organization.{{cite news|last1=Van Gelder|first1=Lawrence|title=Hamilton E. Holmes Dies at 54|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/28/us/hamilton-e-holmes-dies-at-54-helped-integrate-u-of-georgia.html|access-date=January 3, 2019|newspaper=The New York Times|date=October 28, 1995}} Hunter (later, Hunter-Gault) graduated with a degree in journalism and was awarded two Emmys and a Peabody for excellence in broadcast journalism. Commemorating the 40th anniversary of when Holmes and Hunter "walked through the Arch and into the Academic Building" to register for classes on January 9, 1961, the university renamed the campus building where they registered as the Holmes-Hunter Academic Building. The university now presents the Holmes-Hunter Lectures series, which brings noted African-American speakers to the campus each year to discuss racial issues.

In June 1961, Holmes and Hunter were joined by another African American, Mary Frances Early, who transferred to the school as a graduate student. Before Holmes and Hunter, Early became the first African American to graduate from UGA in 1962. The College of Education later established a professorship in her honor.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|pp=11–13}} In February 2020, the UGA College of Education was officially named in honor of Mary Frances Early.

File:Zell B Miller.jpg, UGA alumnus and former Governor and U.S. Senator who helped establish the HOPE Scholarship]]

In 1968, Fred Davison was appointed UGA president and served in the position for 19 years.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|pp=11, 14}} During his tenure, the school's research budget increased from $15.6 million to more than $90 million. UGA inaugurated the School of Environmental Design, was designated as a Sea Grant College, and built 15 new buildings on campus. By the 1970s, the University of Georgia ranked among the top 50 research universities in the U.S. and in 1973, the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education designated UGA as a "Research 1 Doctoral University with very high research activity".{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/universityofgeor0000dyer|url-access=registration|title=The University of Georgia: A Bicentennial History, 1785–1985|last=Dyer|first=Thomas G.|date=December 1, 1985|publisher=University of Georgia Press|isbn=978-0-8203-2398-5|pages=[https://archive.org/details/universityofgeor0000dyer/page/357 357]}} By the time the school celebrated its bicentennial with a 15-month-long celebration, student enrollment had grown to about 25,000.

In the end, Davison's tenure as president was marred by controversy surrounding the dismissal of Jan Kemp, a faculty member who also tutored student athletes. Kemp filed a lawsuit against the university for her termination; it garnered national media attention and led to criticism of instances of lax academic standards for a few students participating in some of UGA's athletic programs.{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1986/02/15/jan-kemp-and-the-georgia-judgement/2b999dd0-3d73-406a-b8a7-4b412b2c26cd/|title=Jan Kemp and the Georgia Judgement|date=February 15, 1986|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=July 16, 2018}}{{cite web|url=http://www.espn.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=forde_pat&sportCat=ncf&id=3761411|title=Forde: Death of a college football whistle-blower|last=Forde|first=Pat|date=December 11, 2008|website=ESPN|access-date=July 16, 2018}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/12/education/12kemp.html|title=Jan Kemp Dies at 59; Exposed Fraud in Grades of Players|last=Goldstein|first=Richard|date=December 11, 2008|work=The New York Times|access-date=July 16, 2018}} The courts finally awarded Kemp more than $1 million, leading to Davison's resignation in 1986 and student athlete academic standards revisions.

Henry King Stanford served as interim president before the appointment of Charles Knapp in 1987.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|pp=14–15}} Together with UGA alumnus and Georgia Governor Zell Miller, Knapp helped establish the state's HOPE Scholarship in 1993 with funds appropriated from the new state lottery.{{Harvnb|Boney|2000|p=263}} Knapp also was a founding member of the Georgia Research Alliance, and construction projects totaling more than $400 million were started during his administration, including the Biological Sciences Complex (1992), Ramsey Student Center for Physical Activities (1995), the Performing Arts Center, Hodgson Hall (1996), the music building (1996), the Georgia Museum of Art (1996), Dean Rusk Hall (1996), and the UGA Welcome Center (1996). The campus hosted four events in the 1996 Summer Olympics: rhythmic gymnastics, volleyball, women's Gold Medal football match, and men's Gold Medal football match.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=15}} In 1997, Knapp was succeeded by Michael Adams, who served as UGA president for 16 years, well into the 21st century.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=16}} After his retirement as president, Knapp continued to serve by joining UGA's Institute of Higher Education as a part-time Distinguished Public Service Fellow and as a professor of economics in the university's Terry College of Business.

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Adams began a strategic plan to grow the university's academic programs in the new century. In 2001, UGA inaugurated the College of Environment and Design and the School of Public and International Affairs, the first new schools to open since 1964.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=17}} The strategic plan also chose medicine and health sciences as a major focus of growth and development. Together with Provost Karen Holbrook and Arnett Mace (who succeed Holbrook), Adams opened the Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute, the UGA Cancer Center, the Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, and the Regenerative Bioscience Center. In 2005, the College of Public Health was created to bring together the various medical and health sciences programs. In 2011, UGA purchased back the former campus of the State Normal School from the U.S. Navy to create the UGA Health Sciences Campus. The Health Sciences Campus provides additional medical and health sciences programs, some in partnership with the Medical College of Georgia. The newly reacquired campus also became home to the College of Public Health. The Odum School of Ecology (2007) and the College of Engineering (2012) became the fourth and fifth schools to open during Adams's tenure.

After Adams's retirement on June 30, 2013, Jere Morehead was appointed as UGA's 22nd president. Morehead is an alumnus of UGA's law school and previously served as provost and vice president of academic affairs.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=18}} Under Morehead, UGA continues its focus on research with a $458 million budget as of the 2017 fiscal year, placing 54th on the National Science Foundation rankings.{{Cite news|url=http://www.onlineathens.com/news/20180228/morehead-uga-running-out-of-research-space|title=Morehead: UGA running out of research space|last=Shearer|first=Lee|date=February 28, 2018|work=Athens Banner-Herald|access-date=July 18, 2018}} In 2015, the College of Veterinary Medicine moved its teaching hospital to a new off-campus facility, leaving its previous building available for research and other uses.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=115}} In September 2017, UGA used a combination of private and public funds to complete the second of three phases to build the Terry College of Business complex. The project has four buildings completed and will include a total of six buildings upon completion of the third phase.{{Cite news|url=http://www.onlineathens.com/local-news/2017-04-27/uga-raises-will-average-25-percent-year-university-president-jere-morehead|title=UGA raises will average 2.5 percent this year, university President Jere Morehead says|last=Shearer|first=Lee|date=April 27, 2017|work=Athens Banner-Herald|access-date=July 18, 2018}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.onlineathens.com/local-news/2017-09-15/uga-dedicates-second-phase-new-business-school-complex|title=UGA dedicates second phase of new business school complex|last=Shearer|first=Lee|date=September 15, 2017|work=Athens Banner-Herald|access-date=July 18, 2018}} In 2020 the university concluded its fundraising campaign, after raising $1.45 billion.{{cite web |title=THE MOST IMPORTANT NUMBER IN $1.45 BILLION IS ONE |url=https://give.uga.edu |website=give.uga.edu |publisher=University of Georgia |access-date=July 27, 2020}}

The university has eighteen schools and colleges, the titles "college" or "school" not indicating any distinction between them for the university. Until the School of Medicine is staffed, in addition to the colleges and schools, the university is home to the University of Georgia/Medical College of Georgia Medical Partnership that provides education leading to the Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree from the University of Georgia as well as extensive facilities for medically related education and research at the University of Georgia.{{cite web|url=http://www.uga.edu/profile/facts/|title=UGA by the Numbers|website=www.uga.edu|publisher=University of Georgia|access-date=December 9, 2016}} In the construction phase is a $100 million facility set to open in 2026 to provide training for at least 60 more University of Georgia medical students.{{cite news |last1=Page |first1=Fletcher |title=UGA breaks ground for medical school set to open in 2026 |url=https://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-news/uga-breaks-ground-for-medical-school-set-to-open-in-2026/VLXTS4C6YFFHBCSIMWMOVP7QUU/|access-date=April 20, 2024 |work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=April 19, 2024}}

The President of the University of Georgia (Jere Morehead) is the head administrator and is appointed and overseen by the Georgia Board of Regents. University of Georgia has had 22 presidents since its founding in 1785. Each individual college and school is headed by a dean. The university has a student-to-faculty ratio of 17 students per faculty member.{{cite web|url=https://www.admissions.uga.edu/why-uga/academics/fast-facts|title=Fast Facts|publisher=UGA Undergraduate Admissions|access-date=November 2, 2016}}

According to the 2018–2019 estimated cost of attendance, based on a nine-month academic year for an average undergraduate student, the tuition and fees for Georgia residents is $11,830, and $30,404 for non-residents. The tuition and fees for an average international undergraduate student (based on a nine-month academic year) is $30,392.

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{{Main|Campuses of the University of Georgia}}

The University of Georgia's main campus is made up of 465 buildings covering an area of about {{convert|762|acres|hectare}}. The university owns an additional {{convert|39,743|acres|km2}} of land in 31 counties across Georgia. As of October 2020, UGA employed 11,127 people of which more than 2,500 are faculty members.{{cite web |title={{!}} Faculty and Staff {{!}} UGA Fact Book {{!}} Office of Institutional Research |url=https://oir.uga.edu/factbook/facultyandstaff/S08Fac76/ |website=oir.uga.edu}}{{cite web|url=http://www.uga.edu/profile/facts/|title=UGA By the Numbers|website=University of Georgia|access-date=November 18, 2012}} The main campus sits across from Athens, a consolidated city–county located 60 miles northeast of downtown Atlanta, Georgia. The city is the hometown of several popular musical artists including the American rock bands the B-52's and R.E.M. Rolling Stone magazine named UGA among "Top Ten Schools that Rock".{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/top-ten-schools-that-rock-180452/|title=Top Ten Schools that Rock|last=Eliscu|first=Jenny|date=August 11, 2005|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=November 14, 2018}} In August 2015, Outside magazine named Athens sixth on a list of "The 16 Best Places to Live in the U.S."{{Cite news|url=https://www.outsideonline.com/2006426/americas-best-towns-2015|title=The 16 Best Places to Live in the U.S.: 2015|date=August 18, 2015|work=Outside|access-date=November 14, 2018}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.ajc.com/news/one-america-best-places-live-only-hour-away/yP6jX9qNr7PU5SoxeyHBTK/|title=One of America's 'best places to live' is only an hour away|last=Clanton|first=Nancy|date=August 25, 2015|work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|access-date=November 14, 2018}}

The campuses' dominant architectural themes are Federal, Classical and Antebellum style. Though there have been many additions, changes, and augmentations, the University of Georgia's campus maintains its historic character.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=ix–xi|ps=. "Foreword by F. N. Boney"}} In 2000, the entire campus was designated as an arboretum, the University of Georgia Campus Arboretum. It is estimated to be home to about 9,000 trees with over 154 identified species including native trees such magnolias, red oaks, white oaks, and beeches, as well as non-native trees such as the North Africa Atlas cedar, the Chinese parasol and royal paulownia, and the Japanese zelkova and black pine.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=31}}

The North Campus is bounded by Baldwin Street to the south, Lumpkin Street to the west, Broad Street to the north and traditionally by Jackson Street to the east, but also extends past Jackson Street to East Campus Road. Several of the buildings that make up the old campus are designated as historic,{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|pp=21–23}} covering part of the {{convert|37|acres|hectare}} originally gifted to the university in 1801. The entire Old North Campus of the University of Georgia is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district.

Located at a central location in North Campus and constructed in 1806 as the first permanent building, Old College is the oldest building in Athens and one of the oldest in Northeast Georgia. The building closely resembles Yale University's Connecticut Hall. It was designed with identical front and back to allow the university to grow in either direction. Currently housing the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, the building originally served both instructional and residential purposes.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|pp=37–38}} New College was built in 1823 as a residence hall and was rebuilt in 1832.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=34}}

Other historic buildings in the National Historic District include Waddel Hall, Demosthenian Hall, The chapel, Phi Kappa Hall, Lustrat Hall, Moore College, and Holmes–Hunter Academic Building. Named after UGA's fifth president, Waddel Hall is the second-oldest building on campus. Built in the Federal style of architecture in 1821, it is also one of the smallest buildings on campus.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=40}} Home to the oldest student organization and debate society at UGA, the 1824 Demosthenian Hall houses the Demosthenian Literary Society named after the Greek orator Demosthenes.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=26}} Founded in 1803, the Demosthenian is among the oldest literary societies in the English-speaking world.{{cite web |first=Matt |last=Sheahan |url=http://www.knotmag.com/?article=584 |title=Demosthenian, Notes from a Polite New Yorker |work=Knot Magazine |date=March 15, 2003 |access-date=August 22, 2023 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070611093932/http://www.knotmag.com/?article=584 |archive-date=June 11, 2007 }} Located between New College and Demosthenian Hall, The chapel is a Greek Revival-style building which resembles a classic temple. Considered "the most beautiful building on campus", the interior features a large painting of the nave and aisles of the St. Peter's Basilica, painted by the artist George Cooke.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=28}} Also built in the Greek Revival style in 1836, Phi Kappa Hall is home to the university's second-oldest student organization and debate society, Phi Kappa Literary Society, founded in 1820 to rival the Demosthenian Literary Society.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=27}}

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The seventh-oldest building on campus, Lustrat Hall was originally built in 1847, north of its current location. Named after its last faculty occupant, it is the only remaining faculty residence house from Old North Campus. Used for a variety of purposes in the past, the building most recently houses the Office of Legal Affairs. Built in 1874, Moore College is the only remaining building constructed during post-Civil War Reconstruction. Originally home to the College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Moore College currently houses the university's Honors Program.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=50}} The Holmes/Hunter Academic Building was simply known as the Academic Building when it was originally assembled in 1905. Following a Beaux-Arts architectural design by engineering professor Charles Strahan, the building was constructed by inserting a new building in between the older Ivy Building and Old Library. In 2001, the building was renamed after the first two African-American students at UGA. It houses the Office of the Registrar, and several other administrative offices.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|pp=25–26}} Also listed in the National Register of Historic Places is the Founders Memorial Garden which is named in honor of the Ladies Garden Club of Athens. Founded in 1891, it was the first garden club in the United States.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=58}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.myajc.com/lifestyles/garden-clubs-serious-force-georgia-and-throughout-nation/TfbnlqcWtWWPmKpt4wwt9L/|title=Garden clubs: A serious force in Georgia and throughout nation|last=Vejnoska|first=Jill|date=March 28, 2018|work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|access-date=November 17, 2018}}

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Throughout the historic buildings, several architectural, sculptural, and landscape features adorn the North Campus. Chief among them is The Arch which serves as the traditional entrance to the campus. Built in 1858 and modeled after the Great Seal of the State of Georgia, the area near the three-columned gate is a popular venue for the staging of demonstrations, gatherings, protests, and rallies.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=24}} Although the Seal's three pillars represent the state's three branches of government,{{cite web|url=http://sos.georgia.gov/state_symbols/state_seal.html|title=State Seal|website=Georgia Secretary of State|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080905173425/http://www.sos.ga.gov/state_symbols/state_seal.html|archive-date=September 5, 2008|url-status=dead|access-date=January 25, 2008}} the pillars of The Arch are usually taken to represent the Georgia Constitution's three principles of wisdom, justice, and moderation, which are engraved over the pillars of the Seal.{{cite web|url=http://www.uga.edu/profile/arch.html|title=University of Georgia: History|date=August 5, 2003|website=The University of Georgia|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030823125607/http://www.uga.edu/profile/arch.html|archive-date=August 23, 2003|url-status=dead|access-date=August 12, 2015|postscript=, reprinted from Athens Magazine}} On the opposite side of the Arch Quad, at the front of the Old College building sits a statue of the university's founder Abraham Baldwin, installed by the University of Georgia Alumni Association.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=37}} The President's Club Garden, first planted in 1973 on the opposite side of the Old College building, honors the thousands of families who have made major financial contributions to the university.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=41}} A fountain named after Hubert B. Owens and built in 1989 is tucked in the space between Old College, Lustrat House, and the Administration Building. Serving as a UGA faculty member for 45 years, Owen was responsible for initiating the university's landscape architecture program, which later grew into the College of Environment and Design.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|pp=23, 39}}

The Administration Building is another one of the later additions to the North Campus built in 1905 with $50,000 donated to the university from a major contributor, the philanthropist George Foster Peabody. It was the first building on campus designed to be fireproof in light of the fact that several fires in UGA's history have destroyed key buildings. Originally used as the location for a library, it houses the offices of the university president and other senior administrative offices.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=35}} Hirsch Hall was built in 1932 in Georgian style and named after Harold Hirsch who for a long period served as general counsel to The Coca-Cola Company. The building is home to the School of Law and the Alexander Campbell King Law Library located in a north-side addition built in 1967. Hirsch Hall connects by way of an overhead bridge to the J. Alton Hosch Law Library Annex built in 1981 and named after the former dean of the law school.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|pp=42–43}}

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The university's main library, the Ilah Dunlap Little Memorial Library, was built with funds bequeathed by its namesake, the wife of a UGA alumnus who stipulated several design requirements including that it face north across the mall towards Old College. Home to the University of Georgia Press and the Georgia Review, the library serves as the headquarters to a network of secondary libraries located throughout the campus. Following the addition of a seven-story annex in 1974, the library became the third-largest academic building at UGA and the largest in North Campus.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|pp=44–46}} The main library is part of a quad consisting of Hirsch Hall, Old College, Waddell Hall and Peabody Hall.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=23}} Although the aforementioned George Foster Peabody also contributed to funds used to build Peabody Hall, the building is actually named after George Peabody who in an 1869 testamentary trust created a $2.25-million fund to benefit several universities in the South. The University of Georgia combined $40,000 from this fund with other contributions to construct Peabody Hall which houses the Departments of Religion and Philosophy and the Institute of Native American Studies.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=43}}

Located across Field Street from Central Campus to its north, South Campus is encircled by East Campus Road to its east, Pinecrest Drive to the south, and Lumpkin Street to the west. It is connected to the areas to its north by way of the Jim Gillis Bridge, named after the former director of the Georgia State Highway Board.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|pp=82–83}} South Campus is the largest of the five segments of the UGA campus, latitudinally stretching for more than a mile. Originally begun as an expansion to accommodate the growing agricultural programs in an area known as "Ag Hill", it is home most of the university's science and engineer programs.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=85}} In 2006, work was completed on D. W. Brooks Mall to give the campus a more green aesthetic similar to North Campus, replacing parking lots and a section of the street by the same name which bisected the area lengthwise.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|pp=100–101}}

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Lumpkin House, also known as "Rock House", is the oldest building on South Campus, built in 1844. The building is named after its original owner, Wilson Lumpkin, the former Georgia congressman, governor, and U.S. Senator who designed and built the house as his retirement home. In 1970, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=101}} The second-oldest building, named after the state legislator James J. Conner, sits on one of the highest points in Athens. Built in the Renaissance Revival style, Conner Hall also serves the CAES. Barrow Hall, built in 1911, is the third-oldest building in South Campus and serves a variety of academic programs. Originally known as the Farm Mechanics Building, the building was renamed after Chancellor David C. Barrow, during whose tenure it was constructed.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=103}}

Home to the College of Family and Consumer Sciences, Dawson Hall was built in 1932 to house the university's growing home economics department, then part of the College of Agriculture. In 1971, the school added an annex to Dawson Hall and later renamed it after Mary Spiers who was dean of the School of Home Economics from 1954 to 1971.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=92}} The College of Family and Consumer Sciences also has five other buildings, built in 1939 and 1940, known collectively as the McPhaul Center.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|pp=96–97}}

On the curved hill between Dawson Hall and Sanford Stadium, a plan envisioned in 1953, proposed the construction of a Science Center to house the university's various scientific programs. Between 1959 and 1960, six buildings were constructed to each house studies in physics, Food Sciences, Geography–Geology, Chemistry, Biological Sciences, and Poultry Science.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|pp=90–92}} Located south of the Food Sciences Building, the Museum of Natural History manages several collections of artifacts and specimens from archaeology, biology, geology, and paleontology located throughout the buildings on campus.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|pp=105–106}} The Science Library was built south of Dawson Hall in 1968 to supplement the Science Center complex. Containing a thirteen-feet and over-2,500-pound skeleton of a giant North American ground sloth, a foyer connects the Science Library with the Boyd Graduate Studies Building also built in 1968.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=94}}

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Named after U.S. Senator Paul D. Coverdell, the Paul D. Coverdell Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences is a $40-million facility with {{convert|172,180|sqft|m2|sigfig=4}} of space, giving enough room for about 275 scientists, staff and graduate students. The center was specifically designed to maximize energy efficiency and it was built with local and recycled materials.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|pp=113–14}} Laboratory intensive groups at the Coverdell Center include the Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases,{{cite web|url=https://www.onlineathens.com/article/20120223/NEWS/302239938|title=Researcher works on dog vaccine to save human lives|last=Shearer|first=Lee|date=February 23, 2012|website=Athens Banner-Herald|access-date=December 23, 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://www.onlineathens.com/news/20180315/uga-researchers-battle-neglected-diseases|title=UGA researchers battle neglected diseases|last=Beeson|first=Leigh|date=March 15, 2018|website=Athens Banner-Herald|access-date=December 23, 2018}} and the Biomedical Health Sciences Institute. Former President George H. W. Bush spoke at the center's grand opening in 2006. In 2016, the university also opened the Science Learning Center, a {{convert|116000|sqft|m2|adj=mid}} facility located near Stegeman Coliseum.

The Driftmier Engineering Center, named after a campus engineer and the head of the former Agricultural Engineering Division of the College of Agriculture. Partnering with Roy Hitchcock, Rudolph H. Driftmier was responsible for the design and construction of 15 buildings on campus from 1930 to 1965. The {{convert|110000|sqft|m2|adj=mid}} building renamed after Driftmier in 1982 was constructed in 1966 and is now home to the College of Engineering.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|pp=115–17}}

The Georgia Center for Continuing Education & Hotel{{cite web | url=https://www.georgiacenter.uga.edu | title=Georgia Center – UGA}} is also located on South Campus. The building hosts many seminars and conferences every year. The Georgia Center was built in 1957.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|pp=118–19}} The center is also home to the WUGA, an affiliate of the National Public Radio.

Bounded by Lumpkin Street to the west and East Campus Road to the east, Central Campus was developed on the remaining woodland area between the larger and older North and South Campuses. Development began in 1910 with Memorial Hall which remained unfinished until 1925 due to financial constraints.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=67}} Originally envisioned as a student athletic facility and constructed with a swimming pool and gymnasium, Memorial Hall has served a wide variety of purposes before becoming home to the offices of the vice president of student affairs and several other administrative offices.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=79}} Several former athletic facilities were located in this area before they were replaced by newer academic buildings, student life centers, and residence halls. Of these athletic facilities, only Sanford Stadium remains and continues to dominate Central Campus.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|pp=67–68}}

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Located in the northwest corner, the Fine Arts Building was modeled in the neoclassical architectural style and built in 1941 with funds from the Public Works Administration, part of the New Deal initiated in the 1930s. The building covers an area about the size of a city block, and the interior features a giant mural by French-American artist Jean Charlot. At the time of its construction, it was the largest and most expensive academic building on campus.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|pp=70–71}} The Zell B. Miller Learning Center became the largest academic building in Central Campus when it was built in 2003 with a footprint of {{convert|6.5|acre|hectare}}. With 26 classrooms and lecture halls and a total of 2,200 seats, the Learning Center is also probably the most heavily used by students. In 2009, the building was renamed in honor of UGA alumnus Zell B. Miller who went on to serve as the 79th Governor of Georgia and later as the U.S. Senator from Georgia.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|pp=72–73}} Another heavily used building is the Dean Tate Student Center built in 1983 and expanded in 2009. The LEED Gold-certified building features a green roof and 75,000 gallon cistern to catch rainwater for use in irrigation and flushing toilets. The building was named after William Tate, the former dean of men.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|pp=74–75}}

The Psychology and Journalism Building was built on grounds which formerly housed the university's tennis courts and gymnasium, Woodruff Hall. In 1967, a $6.1 million construction project created the building to house two of the largest departments at the university, the psychology department, part of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, and the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, named after the former editor of The Atlanta Constitution.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=76}} Other buildings in the area include Clark Howell Hall, built in 1937 as a dormitory but which later became home to the UGA Career Center,{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=90}} and the UGA Bookstore built in 1968.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=73}}

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Several residential halls are located in what is known as West Campus. It is made up of eight residence halls built in the 1960s and a pre-existing private residence hall, Oglethorpe House, which the university purchased in 1979. Lipscomb Hall, Mell Hall, Creswell Hall, Russell Hall, Brumby Hall, Hill Hall, Church Hall, and Boggs Hall are all named after former UGA presidents, deans, and administrators.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|pp=150–51}} Other notable buildings west of the campus include the Wray-Nicholson House, which was built in 1825, named after two businessmen who previously occupied the house and now home to the UGA Alumni Association;{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=146}} The Richard B. Russell Jr. Special Collections Libraries Building, built in 2012, was named after the former Georgia governor and senator, and currently houses several archives and special collections.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|pp=147–49}}

In 2013, the university began construction on Terry College of Business Complex.{{cite web|url=https://www.onlineathens.com/article/20130108/NEWS/301089951|title=Atlanta co. picked to build on to UGA biz school|author= |date=January 8, 2013|website=Athens Banner-Herald|access-date=December 30, 2018}} A total of six buildings were to be completed in a three-phase construction project. The first phase completed in 2015 led to the opening of Correll Hall.{{cite web|url=https://www.onlineathens.com/business/local-news/2017-05-13/two-uga-business-learning-community-buildings-named-donors|title=Two UGA Business Learning Community buildings named for donors|author= Reports|date=May 13, 2017|website=Athens Banner-Herald|access-date=December 30, 2018}} Phase II was completed in September 2017, opening Amos Hall, Benson Hall and Moore-Rooker Hall. All of the buildings were named after major contributors to the business school.{{cite web|url=https://www.onlineathens.com/local-news/2017-09-15/uga-dedicates-second-phase-new-business-school-complex|title=UGA dedicates second phase of new business school complex|last=Shearer|first=Lee|date=September 15, 2017|website=Athens Banner-Herald|access-date=December 30, 2018}} Construction then began on the third phase of the project in 2018 to include two more buildings named Ivester and Orkin Hall which were completed in 2020.

The newest addition to the campus, East Campus is demarcated by College Station Road to the south, East Campus Road to the west, River Road to the north and stretches to the Athens Perimeter or Loop 10 to the east. Its most northern building is the Performing Arts Center. Its main concert hall, the 1,100-seat Hodgson Hall, has hosted the performances of notable orchestras such the Royal Philharmonic and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, and regularly hosts seasonal performances by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. The center also holds the smaller Ramsey Hall, which stages performances by solo and small chamber groups.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=130}}

East Campus is also home to the Georgia Museum of Art located just south of the Performing Arts Center. The museum's collection began with a donation of paintings by American artists from the art collector Alfred Heber Holbrook who developed a close friendship with the head of UGA Art Department, Lamar Dodd. Holbrook subsequently moved to Athens to become the museum's director, donated more than 900 works, and served as director for 25 years. In 1982, the Georgia General Assembly designated the museum as the official state museum of art. The current building in which the museum is located was built in 1996 and expanded in 2011. The building received a Gold LEED certification its "use of materials and construction strategies to achieve environmental sustainability."{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|pp=130–31}}

The Ramsey Student Physical Activities Center is located on East Campus. It was built in 1995 and named in honor of Eugenia A. and Bernard Ramsey. The building has a footprint larger than Sanford Stadium and is the largest single structure on UGA's campus.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|pp=186–87}} The Ramsey Center has two gyms, three pools (one Olympic-sized, a {{convert|17|ft|m|adj=on}} diving well, and a lap pool), a {{convert|1/8|mile|m|adj=on}} indoor suspended rubberized track, a {{convert|44|ft|m|0|adj=on}} high climbing wall, {{convert|14|ft|m|adj=on}} outdoor bouldering wall, ten racquetball courts, two squash courts, bicycle repair stands, eight full-length basketball courts, and {{convert|19000|sqft|m2|-1}} of weight-training space.{{cite web|url=http://www.recsports.uga.edu/pdfs/2010brochure.pdf|title=UGA RecSports Guide|website=Department of Recreational Sports|publisher=University of Georgia|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110112180750/http://www.recsports.uga.edu/pdfs/2010brochure.pdf|archive-date=January 12, 2011|url-status=dead|access-date=August 12, 2015}} The Ramsey Center also contains the Gabrielsen Natatorium, home to the university's varsity swimming and diving programs.

Located south of the Ramsey Center, the University Health Center provides health services to the university's student and faculty with a staff of more than 200 health professionals.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=137}}

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The State Botanical Garden of Georgia is a 313-acre preserve set aside by the University of Georgia in 1968 for the study and enjoyment of flora, fauna and geographic systems. Located three miles south of campus, it is a living laboratory serving educational, research, recreational, and public service roles for the University of Georgia. The garden contains a number of specialized theme gardens and collections, over five miles of nature trails, and four major facilities including a tropical conservatory. In 1984, the Georgia General Assembly designated the area as Georgia's official botanical garden.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|pp=159–61}}

Delta Hall is the UGA facility in the Capitol Hill neighborhood on the east side of Stanton Park in Washington, D.C. The facility, which was purchased by the UGA Foundation with a Delta Airlines grant in 2013, transformed the {{convert|20,000|sqft|m2|abbr=|adj=on}} space into a residence hall and learning community where students and faculty can spend a semester at a time in Washington, D.C.{{cite web|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/morning_call/2015/02/uga-program-in-washington-d-c-funded-by-5m-delta.html|title=UGA program in Washington, D.C., funded by $5M Delta Air Lines grant|last=Caldwell|first=Carla|date=February 26, 2015|website=Atlanta Business Chronicle|access-date=January 8, 2019}}{{cite web |title=Delta Hall (DC) |url=https://dcsemester.uga.edu/about/delta-hall-dc/#:~:text=Delta%20Hall%20is%20the%20home,base%20for%20Washington%20Semester%20students. |website=dcsemester.uga.edu/about/delta-hall-dc |publisher=University of Georgia |access-date=16 November 2024}}

The university's year-round residential study-abroad program is held at Trinity College of Oxford University in England, where students and faculty study, learn and teach at Trinity College and live in a three-story Victorian house near the heart of the city.

The University of Georgia also owns one other international residential center in Cortona, Italy. The university previously owned a residential center in Monteverde, Costa Rica, sold it in 2019, but it still serves students from UGA and other colleges and universities.{{cite web | url=https://news.uga.edu/uga-foundation-sale-costa-rica-campus/ | title=UGA Foundation approves sale of Costa Rica campus | date=February 25, 2019 }}

Oconee Forest Park, Lake Herrick, and the Herrick Creek Loop are facilities for use and enjoyment of UGA students and staff. Lake Herrick was commissioned by the School in 1982 as a recreational resource for UGA. Besides recreation, the area is used as a living laboratory for research and as an interdisciplinary outdoor classroom for faculty and students in visual arts, communication studies, ecology, engineering, forestry and natural resources, landscape architecture, and other fields.{{cite web|title=Lake Allyn M. Herrick reopened for recreational boating on Wednesday, October 17, 2018|url=https://sustainability.uga.edu/lakeherrick/|website=sustainability.uga.edu|publisher=University of Georgia|access-date=February 6, 2019}}{{cite web|title=Lake Herrick and Herrick Creek Loop|url=https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/georgia/lake-herrick-and-herrick-creek-loop|website=AllTrails, Inc.|access-date=February 6, 2019}}

The 56-acre UGA Health Sciences Campus has a landscaped green space with more than 400 trees and several historic buildings. The Health Sciences Campus include classrooms, rooms for small group and clinical skills teaching, lab space for gross anatomy, pathology and histology, a medical library, and faculty offices. The Medical Partnership administration is housed in Winnie Davis Hall, which was built in 1902.{{cite web|url=http://medicalpartnership.usg.edu/about_us/welcome_to_the_future_of_medical_education|title=UGA-GHSU Medical Partnership: About Us|publisher=UGA-GHSU|access-date=November 19, 2012|archive-date=October 25, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025102843/http://medicalpartnership.usg.edu/about_us/welcome_to_the_future_of_medical_education|url-status=dead}} In the construction phase is a $100 million facility set to open in 2026 to provide training for at least 120 University of Georgia medical students.

{{Anchor|University of Georgia 4-H Service Centers}}UGA has facilities in almost every county in Georgia. The university has extended campuses in Atlanta and Gwinnett County,{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=xiii}} as well as Griffin and Tifton.{{cite news|url=https://www.tiftongazette.com/news/uga-tifton-celebrates-years-of-research/article_f6aac074-a706-11e8-bb6e-13ba30d01226.html|title=UGA-Tifton celebrates 100 years of research|last=Copeland|first=Eve|date=August 25, 2018|website=The Tifton Gazette|access-date=January 8, 2019}} The University of Georgia operates five 4-H centers around the state: Fortson 4-H Center, in the southern Atlanta metropolitan area, Jekyll Island 4-H Center and Tybee Island 4-H Center on the Georgia coast, Rock Eagle 4-H Center in Eatonton, and Wahsega 4-H Center in the North Georgia mountains.{{cite web|url=http://georgia4h.org/public/facilities/|title=College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Georgia 4-H Facilities|publisher=Georgia 4-H|access-date=January 12, 2013|archive-date=February 21, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130221091243/http://georgia4h.org/public/facilities/|url-status=dead}} The university is also responsible for two other land holdings. These centers, operated in part by the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, serve as educational facilitates for youth. Georgia 4-H specializes in educating young people about agricultural and environmental issues, agriculture awareness, leadership, communication skills, foods and nutrition, health, energy conservation, and citizenship.{{cite web|url=http://georgia4h.org/main/about4h.htm|title=About Georgia 4-H|publisher=Georgia 4H|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130129123117/http://www.georgia4h.org/main/about4h.htm|archive-date=January 29, 2013|url-status=dead|access-date=January 12, 2013}}

Built for $360,000 to replace the former Sanford Field in nearby Central Campus, Sanford Stadium was inaugurated on October 12, 1929, with a 15–0 victory over the Yale Bulldogs football team. Originally constructed to accommodate 30,000 fans, a double deck addition in 1967 added 19,000 more seats, and a 1981 addition to encircle the field added another 19,000 seats. After several more renovations, the stadium now holds more than 93,000 spectators, making it one of the largest collegiate stadiums in the country and the thirteenth largest stadium in the world. The stadium is named for Steadman Sanford, a former president of the university and chancellor of the University System of Georgia.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|pp=170–71}} Besides being the home of the Georgia Bulldogs football team, the stadium also serves as an event venue, the location of undergraduate graduation ceremonies, and was used for the medal competition of men's and women's Olympic football (soccer) at the 1996 Summer Olympics.[http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1996/1996v1.pdf 1996 Summer Olympics official report.] Volume 1. p. 543.[http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1996/1996v3.pdf 1996 Summer Olympics official report.] Volume 3. p. 455.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=81}}

File:Stegeman Coliseum UGA.jpg at UGA hosted 1996 Summer Olympics events.]]

UGA's other athletic facilities are located in South Campus.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|pp=172–74}} The South Campus athletic complex consists of the Foley Baseball Field, Butts–Mehre Heritage Hall,{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|pp=174–75}} Woodruff Practice Fields,{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=177}} (both used by the football team), William Porter Payne Indoor Athletic Facility (for indoor football and other sport practices),{{cite news |title=Georgia to name indoor practice facility after Billy Payne |url=https://www.ajc.com/sports/college/georgia-name-indoor-practice-facility-after-billy-payne/SXmQnCVs5NpjJVVjRVHTZJ/ |newspaper=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |publisher=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution / Cox Media Group |access-date=April 18, 2019|last1=Towers |first1=Chip }} Stegeman Coliseum,{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|pp=179–81}} the Coliseum Training Facility,{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|pp=181–82}} and Spec Towns Track.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|pp=175–77}} Built in 1964, Stegeman Coliseum is one of the oldest college basketball, gymnastics and volleyball venues in the South. Named after the former football coach Herman J. Stegeman and home to the Georgia Bulldogs basketball, Georgia Lady Bulldogs basketball, the women's gymnastics program, Georgia Gymdogs, and the women's volleyball teams, Bulldogs Volleyball, the Coliseum has a seating capacity of 10,523.

The basketball, volleyball, and gymnastics teams also have a practice facility in the adjacent Coliseum Training Facility. Stegeman Coliseum was the venue for the 1996 Summer Olympics Volleyball and Rhythmic Gymnastics,{{cite web|title=Finding Aid for The 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games at the University of Georgia Collected Papers 1984–2009|url=http://www.libs.uga.edu/hargrett/archives/ugaolympics1996.html|publisher=UGA Libraries|access-date=February 24, 2013|archive-date=May 18, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130518152817/http://www.libs.uga.edu/hargrett/archives/ugaolympics1996.html|url-status=dead}}

A large black marble Olympics Monument on the west lawn of Stegeman Coliseum, erected in preparation for the 1996 Summer Olympics, commemorates the more than 115 UGA students who participated in the Olympics, including Forrest "Spec" Towns.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=179}} The Spec Towns Track located nearby was constructed in 1964 and is home to UGA's track and field teams.

The Dan Magill Tennis Complex, located south of Stegeman Coliseum, includes sixteen tennis courts with seating for a total of about 5,000 spectators.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|pp=184–85}}

UGA also has its own University Golf Course that is a par 71 Robert Trent Jones designed golf course.{{cite web |title=UGA Golf Course |url=https://golfcourse.uga.edu/course-info |website=golfcourse.uga.edu |publisher=UGA Golf |access-date=June 3, 2019}}

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|year = 2023

|admit rate = 37.2%

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|yield rate = 38.1%

|yield rate change = -6.5

|SAT Total = 1230–1410
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The university considers many factors in admissions decisions: high school grades, particularly the rigor of high school study—a student's studying in a school's "advanced" or "most difficult" curriculum, taking of advanced placement, College Board Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, early college enrollment and other rigorous classes; scores on standardized tests (SAT or ACT); academic and personal achievements; extracurricular activities; the mandatory school counselor evaluation letter as well academic letters of recommendation from teachers; the student's personal statement.{{cite web |title=First Year Admission Criteria|url=https://www.admissions.uga.edu/admissions/first-year/first-year-admission-criteria/ |website=admissions.uga.edu|publisher=University of Georgia|access-date=May 1, 2021}} University admissions are need-blind for domestic applicants.{{cite web|url=https://www.admissions.uga.edu/blog/the-language-of-admissions/|title=Blind/Neutral|date=September 6, 2018 |publisher=University of Georgia|access-date=May 1, 2021|archive-date=May 1, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210501040536/https://www.admissions.uga.edu/blog/the-language-of-admissions/|url-status=live}}

As a state university, UGA automatically admits applicants that graduate first or second in their class at an SACS-accredited high school in Georgia.{{cite web|url=https://www.admissions.uga.edu/admissions/first-year/valedictorians-and-salutatorians/|title = Valedictorians and Salutatorians}} For others who go through the traditional application process, UGA is considered to have "Very High" undergraduate admissions standards. The Princeton Review gives the university an "Admissions Selectivity Rating" of 96/99.{{cite web|title=University of Georgia|url=https://www.princetonreview.com/schools/1023767/college/university-georgia|website=Princeton Review|access-date=November 5, 2017}} The ACT Assessment Student Report places UGA student admissions in the "highly selective" category, the highest category.{{cite web |title=Predictive Modeling Data in the ACT Electronic Student Record |url=https://www.act.org/content/dam/act/unsecured/documents/PredictiveModelingData.pdf |website=act.org |publisher=ACT, Inc. |access-date=March 18, 2019}} In the 2020–2021 academic year, 69 freshman students were National Merit Scholars.{{cite web|url=https://www.nationalmerit.org/s/1758/images/gid2/editor_documents/annual_report.pdf|title=National Merit Scholarship Corporation 2019-20 Annual Report|publisher=National Merit Scholarship Corporation|access-date=December 7, 2022}}

In 2023, the university received 43,416 applications. It extended offers of admission to 16,729 applicants, or 37.2%. 6,150 accepted students chose to enroll at the university, a yield rate of 38.1%. Of the 70% of incoming students in 2023 who submitted SAT scores, the interquartile range was 1230–1410 with an average of 1320; of the 47% of incoming students in 2023 who submitted ACT scores, the interquartile range was 27–32 with an average of 29. Of all matriculating students, the average high school GPA was 4.14. The average enrolled student had completed an average of ten Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, or college duel-enrollment courses in high school.{{cite journal |title=Welcome Class of 2028 |journal=Georgia |date=Winter 2024 |volume=104 |issue=1 |page=9}}

For the class beginning in fall 2025, the university received nearly 48,000 applications. It extended offers of admission to over 15,800 applicants, or 32.9%. Of admitted students, the middle 50% had a core GPA between 4.08-4.35, SAT scores between 1,300-1,470 and ACT scores between 30-34, while taking 8-14 AP, IB or dual enrollment courses. The accepted students cumulatively occupied more than 16,500 volunteering roles and over 23,000 leadership roles.{{cite web |last1=Murry |first1=Kendall |date=March 19, 2025| title=University of Georgia sees record number of applications, over 15,000 incoming freshmen |url=https://www.wabe.org/university-of-georgia-sees-record-number-of-applications-over-15000-incoming-freshmen/ |website=wabe.org |publisher=WABE |access-date=26 March 2025}}

Incoming students include those from every state and 57 countries around the world. Among admitted students in the class of 2024, 20% were out-of-state, and the top three states other than Georgia were California, Florida, and Maryland.{{cite web|title=Admission Statistics|url=https://www.admissions.uga.edu/admissions/admission-statistics/|access-date=March 1, 2021|website=UGA Undergraduate Admissions}}{{cite news|last1=Stirgus|first1=Eric|title=UGA Acceptance Getting Tougher|url=https://www.ajc.com/news/education/uga-acceptance-getting-tougher/372Xsw4o4bRxz2A77E6ECM/|newspaper=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|access-date=November 4, 2018}}{{cite web|title=First-Year Class Profile|url=https://www.admissions.uga.edu/prospective-students/first-year/fy-profile|website=admissios.uga.edu|publisher=University of Georgia|access-date=February 6, 2019}}

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The university has a student-to-faculty ratio of 17 students per faculty member, and 46 percent of its classes have fewer than 20 students.{{cite web |title=University of Georgia – Profile, Rankings and Data |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-georgia-1598 |magazine=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=May 9, 2019}} The average freshman retention rate is 95 percent.{{cite web |title=University of Georgia Academics |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-georgia-1598/academics |website=usnews.com |publisher=U.S. News & World Report, LP |access-date=October 21, 2019}} As of 2024, the university is ranked five stars out of five and in the top 37 out of 439 Best National Universities in the United States for "Best Undergraduate Teaching" as scored by U.S. News & World Report.{{cite web |title=Best Undergraduate Teaching |publisher=U.S. News & World Report, LP | url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/undergraduate-teaching}}{{cite web |title=University of Georgia Athens, GA #37 in Best Undergraduate Teaching |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/undergraduate-teaching?schoolName=University+of+Georgia&_sort=rank&_sortDirection=asc |website=usnews.com |publisher=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=February 22, 2024}}{{cite web |title=439 results National Universities |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities |website=usnews.com |publisher=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=February 22, 2024}}

As an adjunct to classroom, laboratory, clinical, and experiential learning, in 2009 the university began to provide a new online learning system, the eLearning Commons (eLC),{{cite news |last1=Stepp |first1=Jordan |title=UGA students, faculty adjusting well to eLearning Commons |url=https://www.redandblack.com/news/uga-students-faculty-adjusting-well-to-elearning-commons/article_bce3d624-90bb-50bd-b8f5-f8facde44fd7.html |access-date=March 13, 2024 |work=The Red & Black |date=February 12, 2010}} that is exploitable by both students and faculty.{{Cite web |last=Rivera |first=Alex |date=March 6, 2024 |title=Welcome to ELC UGA: University of Georgia eLearning System 2024 - Infools |url=https://blog.infools.com/elc-uga/ |access-date=March 23, 2024 |language=en-US}} eLC is unique, jointly supplied and supported by the university's Center for Teaching and Learning and Enterprise Information Technology Services,{{cite web |title=eLC Support Requests |url=https://uga.teamdynamix.com/TDClient/2060/Portal/Requests/ServiceDet?ID=10246 |website=uga.teamdynamix.com |publisher=Enterprise Information Technology Services |access-date=March 13, 2024}} and is part of the university's digital technology in education program.{{cite web |last1=Amy |title=eLC UGA (eLearning Commons at University of Georgia) |url=https://elcuga.com/ |website=elcuga.com |publisher=eLC UGA |access-date=March 13, 2024}} The system includes discussion boards, workspaces, polling, communication and announcements, course materials, learning activities and resources, critical thinking prompts, assignments, quizzes, submission grading, and learning progress tracking.{{Cite web |last=Rivera |first=Alex |date=March 6, 2024 |title=ELC UGA: University of Georgia eLearning System |url=https://infools.com/elc-uga/ |access-date=March 12, 2024 |publisher=Infools}}

{{as of|2024}}, 29 UGA students have been named Rhodes Scholars including eleven since 2008.{{cite journal |last1=Schupska |first1=Stephanie |title=Honors Scholarships |journal=Honors Magazine |date=February 22, 2024 |volume=2024 |page=24,25}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.ajc.com/news/local/uga-economics-and-religion-major-named-2017-rhodes-scholar/lkA5DUKePAgz8bYW1ZOK4M/|title=UGA economics and religion major named 2017 Rhodes Scholar|last=Eldridge|first=Ellen|date=November 20, 2016|work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|access-date=July 18, 2018|archive-date=July 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180717070704/https://www.ajc.com/news/local/uga-economics-and-religion-major-named-2017-rhodes-scholar/lkA5DUKePAgz8bYW1ZOK4M/|url-status=dead}}{{cite news |last1=Bentley |first1=Rosalind |title=Two metro Atlantans named Rhodes Scholars |url=https://www.ajc.com/life/two-metro-atlantans-named-rhodes-scholars/YQ6HJKWSVVD67LFCGN3X5CRFOA/ |access-date=November 23, 2020 |work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=November 22, 2020}} The University of Georgia is one of the nation's top producers of Rhodes Scholars over the past three decades.{{cite web |title=Achieving Excellence |url=https://par.uga.edu/ar/2024/achieving-excellence.php |website=par.uga.edu |publisher=University of Georgia |access-date=October 15, 2024}} UGA is also home to hundreds of other major scholarship winners including 204 Fulbright Scholars{{cite web |title=FULBRIGHT Scholar Program {{!}} University of Georgia |url=https://fulbrightscholars.org/institution/university-georgia |website=fulbrightscholars.org |publisher=Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Exchange Programs, U.S. Department of State |access-date=October 15, 2024}} (the most of any U.S. university, exceeding universities such as Stanford), 59 Goldwater Scholars, 49 Boren Scholars, 20 Truman Scholars, 19 Udall Scholars, six Gates Cambridge Scholars, nine U.S. State Department Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowships,{{cite news |last1=Schupska |first1=Stephanie |title=UGA breaks record with three Pickering Fellows |url=https://news.uga.edu/uga-breaks-record-with-three-pickering-fellows/ |access-date=January 19, 2024 |work=UGA Today |date=December 20, 2023}} five Schwarzman Scholars, three Mitchell Scholars, three Carnegie Endowment Gaither Fellows, two Soros Fellows, two Beinecke Scholars, a Knight-Hennessy Scholar, a Churchill Scholar, and students earning Marshall Scholarships, Payne Fellowships, Voyager Scholarships, Phi Kappa Phi Fellowships, Quad Fellowships, LAF Ignite Scholarships, and the MacArthur Fellowship (known as the "Genius Grant").{{cite web |title=Recent Graduate Scholarship Recipients |url=https://honors.uga.edu/c_s/scholarships/ext/external.html |website=honor.uga.edu |publisher=Honors Program – External Scholarships |access-date=April 18, 2019}}{{cite news |last1=Schupska |first1=Stephanie |title=International Recognition Through Scholarship |work=Honors Magazine |agency=Honors Program |volume=6 |issue=1 |publisher=University of Georgia |date=Spring 2019}} The University of Georgia has been among only seven of all universities nationwide with recipients of all three of the Goldwater, Truman, and Udall scholarships,{{cite web |title=Recent Graduate Scholarship Recipients |url=https://honors.uga.edu/c_s/scholarships/ext/external.html |website=honor.uga.edu |publisher=Honors Program – EXTERNAL SCHOLARSHIPS |access-date=April 18, 2019}} and it joined Harvard, Yale, and Brown universities as the only schools with recipients of the most prestigious scholarships awarded to American undergraduates: Rhodes, Marshall, Truman, and Goldwater.{{cite web |last1=Dendy |first1=Larry B. |title=University of Georgia |url=https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/education/university-of-georgia/#:~: |website=georgiaencyclopedia.org |publisher=New Georgia Encyclopedia |access-date=11 March 2025}}

The University of Georgia has an honors college that must be applied to separately after gaining acceptance to the university. Foundation Fellows and the Ramsey Scholars programs are housed within Morehead College. For the class of 2022 (enrolling at UGA in August 2018), the average GPA of entering honors freshmen was 4.12, the average SAT score was 1530 out of 1600 and the average ACT Composite score was 34.{{cite web |title=First-Year Class Profile |url=https://www.admissions.uga.edu/prospective-students/first-year/fy-profile |website=admissions.uga.edu |publisher=UGA Undergraduate Admissions |access-date=May 11, 2019}} Based on academic rigor, selective admissions, and comprehensive program benefits methodology, the college was ranked the No. 1 honors program in the United States by College Transitions, publishers of the best-selling guide Colleges Worth Your Money.{{cite web |last1=Belasco |first1=Andrew |title=50 Best Honors Colleges – 2024 |url=https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/best-honors-colleges/ |website=collegetransitions.com |date=May 9, 2024 |publisher=College Transitions |access-date=4 December 2024}}{{cite web |title=Publication ranks UGA's Jere Morehead Honors College as nation's best |url=https://www.onlineathens.com/story/news/education/2024/06/27/publication-ranks-ugas-morehead-honors-college-as-nations-best/74235545007/ |website=onlineathens.com |publisher=Athens Banner-Herald |access-date=4 December 2024}}{{cite web |title=Purdue's John Martinson Honors College ranked among nation's best by College Transitions |url=https://honors.purdue.edu/news/jmhc-top-8.php |website=honors.purdue.edu |publisher=Purdue University |access-date=4 December 2024}}{{cite web |last1=Scott |first1=Savannah Celeste |title=Morehead Honors College named No.1 in the nation |url=https://www.redandblack.com/uganews/morehead-honors-college-named-no-1-in-the-nation/article_7a6c8b8c-3553-11ef-9040-fba50a821089.html |website=redandblack.com |date=June 28, 2024 |publisher=The Red & Black |access-date=4 December 2024}}{{cite book |title=Colleges Worth Your Money |date=April 15, 2020 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1475853964 }}

Through the Honors College, students are able to participate in early registration for classes and register for special honors-only courses. Honors courses are taught by specially selected faculty with an average class size from 17 to 20 students.{{cite web|title=Why Honors?|url=http://honors.uga.edu/p_s/why_honors.html|publisher=UGA Honors|access-date=February 10, 2013}} Those wishing to graduate with High or Highest Honors must complete a capstone experience consisting of graduate courses, a senior thesis, or a special project prior to graduation. Honors students may elect to reside in the Myers Hall, which is reserved for honors students, or apply to reside in Rutherford Hall of the Franklin Residential College (FRC), a residential college based on the Oxford and Cambridge model. The program allows qualified undergraduates to pursue a curriculum leading to a bachelor's (AB/BS) and a master's (MA/MS) degree in four years. The Honors International Scholars Program (HISP) provides honors students with opportunities to study abroad on paid scholarship and internships.{{cite web|title=Honors International Scholars|url=http://honors.uga.edu/c_s/travel_study/hisp/hisp.html|publisher=UGA Honors|access-date=February 10, 2013}}

The Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities (CURO), which is administered by the Honors Program, promotes opportunities for all of the undergraduate students at the University of Georgia to engage in research with faculty regardless of discipline, major or GPA. Through in-depth research with faculty members, students can explore questions and issues of interest as lines of inquiry develop through their undergraduate careers, earning academic credit in the process.{{cite web|url=https://www.onlineathens.com/news/20180409/uga-undergraduates-display-their-research-in-curo-symposium|title=UGA undergraduates display their research in CURO Symposium|last=Shearer|first=Lee|date=April 9, 2018|website=Athens Banner-Herald|access-date=February 15, 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://www.onlineathens.com/news/20181006/uga-recognizes-11-new-curo-honors-scholars|title=UGA recognizes 11 new CURO Honors Scholars|last=Schupska|first=Stephanie|date=October 6, 2018|website=Athens Banner-Herald|access-date=February 15, 2019}}

{{See also|UGA Costa Rica}}

UGA is among the top-ranked universities in the US for the number of students studying abroad, with more than 100 programs in about 70 countries, and 25% of the student body participating in the program before graduation.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=147}} UGA has faculty study abroad programs on every continent, including Antarctica. Additionally, UGA has signed agreements with several outside study abroad organizations: the American Institute For Foreign Study, GlobaLinks Learning Abroad, the Institute for Study Abroad (IFSA), International Studies Abroad (ISA), The School for Field Studies, and the Innsbruck International Summer School.{{cite web|url=http://www.uga.edu/oie/sa_prog_affiliates.htm|title=Study Abroad|publisher=uga.edu|access-date=December 3, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100820225950/http://www.uga.edu/oie/sa_prog_affiliates.htm |archive-date=August 20, 2010 |url-status=dead}} Just over 2,000 students, or 6% of the entire campus enrollment (graduate and undergraduate) study abroad in a given year.

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The university began its first year-round residential study-abroad program at Trinity College of Oxford University in England, where students and faculty live in a three-story Victorian house owned by UGA and located in the heart of the city of Oxford. Founded in 1987, the UGA at Oxford program began as a summer option and expanded to include spring in 1994. With the purchase of the house in 1999, the program became available throughout the academic year.{{cite web|url=https://www.globalatlanta.com/uga-students-arrive-oxfords-study-abroad-program-historic-moment-u-k-eu-relations/|title=UGA Study-Abroad Students Arrive in Oxford at a Historic Moment in U.K.-EU Relations|last=Bolton|first=Phil|date=July 4, 2016|website=Global Atlanta|access-date=February 15, 2019}}

The University of Georgia owns another international residential center in Cortona, Italy, and has access to a large center in Monteverde, Costa Rica along with other universities. The Costa Rica campus comprises {{convert|155|acre|km2}}{{cite web|url=https://www.globalatlanta.com/costa-rican-president-visits-local-uga-campus/|title=Costa Rican President Visits Local UGA Campus|date=February 13, 2013|website=Global Atlanta|access-date=February 15, 2019}} and over {{convert|36000|sqft|m2}} of built space nestled in the country's mountainous Monteverde Cloud Forest. In 2012, the Certification for Sustainable Tourism (CST) program in Costa Rica recognized the campus in Costa Rica as one of its "Four Leaves" level institutions operating in the country. Run by the Costa Rican Tourism Board, the CST awards excellence in natural, cultural, and social resource management.

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| THE_WSJ = 143

| Forbes = 69

| THES_W = 351-400

| QS_W = 551-600

| USNWR_NU = 47

| USNWR_W = 303

| Wamo_NU = 93

| ARWU_W = 201–300

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For 2024, U.S. News & World Report ranked Georgia's undergraduate program 47th out of 443 Best National Universities, tied for 30th of Most Innovative Schools, and tied for 16th among 227 Top Public National Universities.{{cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-georgia-1598/overall-rankings|title=U.S. News Best Colleges Rankings – University of Georgia|magazine=U.S. News & World Report|access-date=October 14, 2024}} For 2019–2020 worldwide ranked universities, Georgia is ranked in the top 20% of the 1,000 top ranked universities in the entire world by the Center for World University Rankings,{{cite web |title=CWUR – World University Rankings 2019–2020 |url=https://cwur.org/2019-2020.php |website=cwur.org |publisher=Center for World University Rankings |access-date=September 10, 2019}} is ranked as an A+ university, and in the top 12% of top world universities ranked by University Ranking by Academic Performance based on indicators of research performance,{{cite web |title=University Ranking by Academic Performance – University of Georgia |url=http://old.urapcenter.org/2018/university.php?q=University+of+Georgia |website=old.urapcenter.org |publisher=Informatics Institute[2] of Middle East Technical University |access-date=September 27, 2020 }}{{Dead link|date=July 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} and is ranked 79th of the top 200 universities in the entire world in the [https://www.4icu.org/reviews/5358.htm uniRank University Ranking].{{cite web |title=Top 200 Universities in the World |url=https://www.4icu.org/reviews/5358.htm |website=4icu.org |publisher=uniRank™ |access-date=September 10, 2019}} WalletHub, in its 2020 ranking of the top-performing schools in the country that had the lowest possible costs to undergraduates, ranked the University of Georgia as 69th out of 1,003 schools with a 93 Percentile Score (with 99 being the maximum possible Percentile Score).{{cite web |last1=McCann |first1=Adam |title=2020's College & University Rankings |url=https://wallethub.com/edu/e/college-rankings/40750/ |website=wallethub.com |publisher=Evolution Finance, Inc. |access-date=October 22, 2019}} The university is listed as a "Public Ivy" in Greene's Guides{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lV8QJDzrcSoC|title=Public Ivies|last1=Greene|first1=Howard|last2=Greene|first2=Matthew W.|publisher=HarperCollins|year=2001|isbn=9780060934590|series=Greenes' Guide to Educational Planning}} as "successfully competing with the Ivy League schools in academic rigor ... attracting superstar faculty and competing for the best and brightest students of all races."{{cite journal |date=Autumn 2005 |title=Comparing Black Enrollments at the Public Ivies |journal=The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education |url=http://www.jbhe.com/news_views/49_blackenrollment_publicivies.html |access-date= September 3, 2006 }} The Princeton Review named the university as one of its "Top 10 Best Value Public Colleges" with UGA being one of the colleges designated as a best overall bargain based on cost and financial aid among the most academically outstanding colleges in the nation.{{cite web|title=University of Georgia|url=http://www.princetonreview.com/schools/college/CollegeRankings.aspx?iid=1023767|publisher=Princeton Review|access-date=December 7, 2012}} In 2018, Kiplinger ranked the University 12th in its list of the "100 Best Values in Public Colleges."{{cite web|url=https://www.kiplinger.com/tool/college/T014-S001-find-best-colleges-value-rankings/end_page.php?school=9189|title=Best Values in Colleges – University of Georgia|date=2017|website=Kiplinger|publisher=The Kiplinger Washington Editors|access-date=February 15, 2019}} SmartMoney, a publication by The Wall Street Journal, named UGA as having the fourth best salary return on tuition as of October 2019.{{cite news|title=SmartMoney College Rankings|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/college-inc/post/smartmoney-college-rankings-gauge-value-of-public-private-schools/2011/08/12/gIQA2lDyAJ_blog.html|last=De Vise|first=Daniel|date=August 12, 2011|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=February 15, 2011}} The Daily Beast named the university in its "25 Amazing Colleges" listing.{{cite web|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2013/02/25/25-most-overlooked-colleges-from-grinnell-to-olin.html#ca073de5-3005-4264-892c-f0bbe1039107|title=Amazing but Overlooked: 25 Colleges You Haven't Considered but Should|date=October 16, 2013|website=The Daily Beast|access-date=March 1, 2013}} Niche ranks UGA as an overall A+ university including high rankings for individual subjects taught at the university as well as ranking it #5 of 1,579 colleges in Best Student Life, #10 of 1,417 colleges in Best College Campuses, #13 of 1,385 colleges in Best College Food, and overall #14 of 132 colleges in Best Big Colleges as well as #14 of 668 universities in Best Public Universities.{{cite web |title=University of Georgia #14 in Top Public Universities in America |url=https://www.niche.com/colleges/university-of-georgia/rankings/ |website=niche.com |publisher=Niche.com Inc. |access-date=July 27, 2020}}

In the 2019–2020 ranking, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni ranked the University of Georgia one of only 23 “A” colleges and universities (grading was “A” through “F”) in its What Will They Learn? study, an evaluation of the curricula of 1,070 U.S. colleges and universities.{{cite web|url= https://www.whatwilltheylearn.com/schools/compare?grade=A| title=What Will They Learn -A guide to what college rankings don't tell you – "A" List|website=American Council of Trustees and Alumni|access-date=March 17, 2020}}

In 2022, the Association of American Medical Colleges ranked UGA 7th in the U.S. among undergraduate institutions supplying applicants to medical school, including 7th for the most white applicants, 10th for the most African American applicants, 23rd for the most Asian applicants, and 50th for the most Hispanic and Latino American applicants.{{cite web |title=2022 FACTS: Applicants and Matriculants Data |url= https://www.aamc.org/data-reports/students-residents/data/2022-facts-applicants-and-matriculants-data |publisher=Association of American Medical Colleges |access-date=June 17, 2023}}

The University of Georgia School of Public and International Affairs was ranked fourth in the nation, while the Public Management Administration program was ranked first by U.S. News & World Report in 2019. The school has had a top ten ranking for over two decades.{{cite web |title=SPIA Maintains Top-Ten Ranking for Over Two Decades |url=https://spia.uga.edu/spia-maintains-top-ten-ranking-for-over-two-decades/ |website=spia.uga.edu |publisher=University of Georgia |access-date=18 April 2025}} The Academic Ranking of World Universities has ranked the school seventh in the world.Paczkowski, Caroline (May 5, 2021). "[https://wethepeople.spia.uga.edu/article/spia-ranked-in-the-top-ten/ SPIA Ranked in the Top Ten]." We The People – UGA SPIA. Retrieved on June 11, 2021.

In 2019, the university was ranked fifth in the entire nation in terms of number of Congressional staffers produced out of undergraduate universities.{{cite web |last1=Burgat |first1=Casey |last2=Billing |first2=Trey |title=Everything you've ever wanted to know about educational pipelines to Capitol Hill |url=https://www.legbranch.org/everything-youve-ever-wanted-to-know-about-educational-pipelines-to-capitol-hill/ |website=legbranch.org |date=November 4, 2019 |publisher=LegBranch / R Street Institute, Washington, DC |access-date=January 24, 2024}}

For the 2018–2019 season, a team from the University of Georgia was the top university varsity debate team in the United States in both the American Debate Association and the National Debate Tournament team rankings.{{cite journal |last1=Flurry |first1=Alan |title=Georgia Debate – Phi Kappa Literary Society Finishes 2019 as Top Team in Nation |journal=Honors Magazine |date=Spring 2019 |volume=6 |issue=1 |page=19}} The university has two of the oldest literary societies in the English-Speaking world focused on extemporaneous debate, the Demosthenian Literary Society and the Phi Kappa Literary Society.

In 2019, Businessweek named the executive MBA program in the university's Terry College of Business 14th in the nation.{{cite web|title=Current Rankings|url=http://www.terry.uga.edu/news/rankings/|publisher=Terry College of Business|access-date=March 1, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130304002106/http://www.terry.uga.edu/news/rankings/|archive-date=March 4, 2013|url-status=dead}} In 2023, Terry College had eight programs that had top ten rankings.{{cite web|title=Rankings |website=www.terry.uga.edu |url=https://www.terry.uga.edu/about/rankings/ | access-date=January 24, 2024}} In 2023, PRWeek ranked the university's Advertising and Public Relations program in the top five Outstanding Education Programs in the nation.{{cite news |last1=Freeman |first1=Sarah |title=UGA's Advertising and Public Relations program named top five in nation |url=https://grady.uga.edu/news/ugas-advertising-and-public-relations-program-named-top-five-in-nation/ |access-date=January 19, 2024 |work=Grady College |date=December 18, 2023}}

In the 2020 ranking, the School of Environment and Design was ranked first among programs for undergraduates in the nation.{{cite web|url=https://www.di.net/articles/americas-best-landscape-architecture-schools-2015/|title=America's Best Landscape Architecture Schools 2015|date=December 5, 2014|website=DesignIntelligence|access-date=February 15, 2019|archive-date=February 15, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190215215713/https://www.di.net/articles/americas-best-landscape-architecture-schools-2015/|url-status=dead}}

According to the study by Law School Transparency, the University of Georgia School of Law is ranked in the top ten nationally for employment outcomes,{{cite web |title=National Report |url=https://www.lstreports.com/national/ |website=Law School Transparency |access-date=March 2, 2019}} while the law school has been ranked 13th of the top best law schools by the National Jurist.{{cite web|title=Best Law Schools Revisited|url=http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/cypress/nationaljurist0313/index.php#/28|website=NXTBook|publisher=The National Jurist|access-date=April 7, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820234816/http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/cypress/nationaljurist0313/index.php#/28|archive-date=August 20, 2018|url-status=dead}} Georgia Law was ranked 20th of 196 American Bar Association (ABA) approved law schools in the 2023-24 edition of U.S. News & World Report rankings placing it in the top 10% of ABA law schools.{{cite magazine|title=Best Law Schools Ranked in 2023|url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/university-of-georgia-03042|magazine=US News & World Report|access-date=June 17, 2023}} The Law School has sent six law clerks to serve justices of the United States Supreme Court in the last twelve years,{{cite web|last1=Rice|first1=Cindy|title=Sixth UGA School of Law grad selected to clerk for U.S. Supreme Court|url=http://news.uga.edu/releases/article/sixth-uga-school-of-law-grad-selected-to-clerk-for-us-supreme-court-in/|website=news.uga.edu|publisher=University of Georgia|access-date=July 28, 2016|date=March 28, 2013}} is fourth among law schools for supplying these clerks for these prestigious Supreme Court positions from 2005 to 2020,{{cite web|last1=Mauro|first1=Tony|title=SCOTUS Clerks: The Law School Pipeline|url=https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/sites/nationallawjournal/2017/12/11/scotus-clerks-the-law-school-pipeline/?slreturn=20180019174332|website=law.com|publisher=ALM Media Properties, LLC|access-date=November 4, 2018}} and is tenth among all law schools in the country for the total number of federal court clerks accepted from Georgia Law.{{cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/college-rankings-blog/2014/06/12/grads-of-these-law-schools-get-the-most-judicial-clerkships|title=Grads of These Law Schools Get the Most Judicial Clerkships|last=Morse|first=Robert|date=June 12, 2014|website=U.S. News & World Report|access-date=July 28, 2016}} Serving as a judge's law clerk is considered to be one of the most prestigious positions in legal circles, and tends to open up wide-ranging opportunities in academia, law firm practice, and influential government work.{{cite web |url=https://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/college-rankings-blog/2009/09/03/new-law-school-ranking-judicial-clerkship-jobs |title=New Law School Ranking: Judicial Clerkship Jobs |work=U.S. News & World Report |last=Morse |first=Robert |date=September 3, 2009 |access-date=April 22, 2022}} Finally, based on outcome-driven factors such as average indebtedness, bar passage, and employment, Georgia Law has been ranked first as the best value in legal education in the entire United States by the National Jurist.{{cite web |last1=Murphy |first1=Heidi |title=UGA School of Law named best in nation for return on investment |url=http://law.uga.edu/news/50719 |website=law.uga.edu |publisher=University of Georgia School of Law |access-date=December 22, 2018 |archive-date=April 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190418054652/http://law.uga.edu/news/50719 |url-status=dead }}

The College of Veterinary Medicine was ranked tenth in the nation, and College of Pharmacy was ranked 25th in the nation, in the 2019 edition of U.S. News & World Report rankings. Two UGA pharmacy students were selected for the U.S. Navy's Health Services Collegiate Program Medical Service Corps, a selective program that accepted only five recipients from applicants across the country.{{cite web|title=UGA pharmacy students selected for Navy's Health Services Collegiate Program|url=http://news.uga.edu/releases/article/uga-pharmacy-students-navys-health-services-collegiate-program-020413/|publisher=UGA Today|access-date=February 24, 2013|date=February 4, 2013}}

University of Georgia's economic impact was $8.1 billion in 2023.{{cite news |last1=Wooten |first1=Mike |title=UGA economic impact hits new high of $8.1 billion |url=https://news.uga.edu/uga-economic-impact-hits-new-high-of-8-1-billion|access-date=February 16, 2024 |work=UGA Today |date=February 1, 2024}}

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The University of Georgia is classified in the highest ranking, "R-1: Doctoral Universities – Highest Research Activity" with "comprehensive" doctoral programs across the arts, sciences, engineering, law, and medicine according to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.{{cite web|title=The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education|url=http://classifications.carnegiefoundation.org/|publisher=Carnegie Foundation|access-date=November 19, 2012}} According to the National Science Foundation, the university spent $453 million on research and development in 2018, then ranking it 57th in the nation,{{cite web |title=Table 20. Higher education R&D expenditures, ranked by FY 2018 R&D expenditures: FYs 2009–18 |url=https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/herd/2018/html/herd18-dt-tab020.html |website=ncsesdata.nsf.gov |publisher=National Science Foundation |access-date=July 24, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/profiles/site?method=rankingBySource&ds=herd|title=Rankings by total R&D expenditures|date=2017|website=National Science Foundation|access-date=March 22, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170113144205/https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/profiles/site?method=rankingBySource&ds=herd|archive-date=January 13, 2017|url-status=dead}} spent $495 million on R&D in fiscal year 2020,{{cite web |title=Honors Program to become Morehead Honors College |url=https://news.uga.edu/uga-honors-program-named-morehead-honors-college/ |website=news.uga.edu |date=May 11, 2021 |publisher=University of Georgia |access-date=July 31, 2021}} and the latest report by The Center for Measuring University Performance ranked the University of Georgia 37th among the top research universities in the nation.{{cite web |title=The Top American Research Universities – 2018 Annual Report |url=https://mup.umass.edu/sites/default/files/mup-2018-top-american-research-universities-annual-report.pdf |website=mup.umass.edu |publisher=The Center for Measuring University Performance |access-date=July 27, 2020}} The university has increased overall research and development funding by 41% since fiscal year 2013. In 2024, the university was the No.1 recipient in National Institutes of Health funding for universities without a medical school.{{cite web |title=Promoting Human Health |url=https://par.uga.edu/ar/2024/promoting-human-health.php |website=par.uga.edu |publisher=University of Georgia |access-date=October 15, 2024}}

More than 1,200 different products originating from UGA research are on the market.{{cite web |last1=Ward |first1=Brandon |title=UGA again ranks No. 1 in new research-based products |url=https://research.uga.edu/news/uga-again-ranks-no-1-in-new-research-based-products/ |website=research.uga.edu |date=October 30, 2024 |publisher=University of Georgia |access-date=14 November 2024}} As of 2024, the university again was ranked No. 1 nationally for the number of research-based products brought to market—the university's ninth consecutive year it was ranked either first or second, and UGA has never appeared out of the Top 5 of the AUTM rankings.{{cite web |title=Research@UGA – Fast Facts |url=https://research.uga.edu/fast-facts/ |website=research.uga.edu |publisher=Office of Research – Univ. of Georgia |access-date=July 31, 2021}} The University of Georgia Research Foundation (UGARF) has over 1000 active licenses with technologies licensed in countries on all continents. In 2020 UGARF held more than 684 US and foreign patents.{{cite web |title=UGA Innovation Gateway |url=https://ipcypris.com/patents/organization/77d0e4d7-9420-47c3-881c-8630fb65791d |website=ipcypris.com |publisher=IPCypris; Office of Research – The University of Georgia |access-date=July 31, 2021}} The University of Georgia consistently ranks in the top ten among all universities for most licenses and options with industry as well as for the most licensing income.{{cite web|title=UGA Research Fast Facts|url=http://www.ovpr.uga.edu/communications/facts/|publisher=University of Georgia|access-date=November 19, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121028084712/http://www.ovpr.uga.edu/communications/facts/|archive-date=October 28, 2012|url-status=dead}} As of 2021, based on university research, over 200 companies have been launched by the University of Georgia, placing the university in the top 20 of universities for active startups.

In November 2018, the University of Georgia launched a number of research initiatives funded by a $3 million NSF grant, including a project to transform the school's science education.{{cite web|url=https://www.onlineathens.com/news/20181128/uga-launches-project-to-transform-stem-education|title=UGA launches project to transform STEM education|last=Fahmy|first=Sam|date=November 28, 2018|website=Athens Banner-Herald|access-date=March 22, 2019}} The university also added a new $143.6 million Interdisciplinary Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (I-STEM) building that was completed in 2023.{{cite web |title=Second Phase of UGA STEM Research Complex Complete |url=https://www.123doorshield.com/second-phase-of-uga-stem-research-complex-complete/ |website=123doorshield.com|date=March 27, 2023 |access-date=November 13, 2024|publisher=Construction Protection Systems}}

As of 2024, Georgia had 90 research centers and institutes that include the following examples among the many others.{{cite web |title=Centers & Institutes |url=https://research.uga.edu/centers-institutes/ |website=research.uga.edu |publisher=University of Georgia |access-date=14 November 2024}}

Founded in fall 2002,{{cite web|title=A Brief History of IOB|url=http://iob.uga.edu/about-us/history/|publisher=UGA IOB|access-date=January 12, 2013}} the institute is responsible for supporting campus-wide bioinformatics research at UGA. Institute members conduct bioinformatics research in a wide range of areas, ranging from structural genomics and bioinformatics, plant genomics, microbial genomics, biomedical and cancer bioinformatics and computational and statistical sciences for bioinformatics.{{Citation needed|date=March 2019}}

The institute grants Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in bioinformatics as well as a graduate certificate in bioinformatics.{{cite web|title=Applications for Admission to the Bioinformatics Program|url=http://iob.uga.edu/masters-phd/|publisher=UGA IOB|access-date=January 12, 2013}} In 2012, IOB Director Jessica Kissinger and IOB and Mathematics assistant professor Juan B. Gutierrez joined a collaborative effort on a malaria host-pathogen interaction research center that was awarded up to $19.4 million by a National Institutes of Health contract. The collaborative project is in conjunction with Emory University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory's Yerkes National Primate Research Center and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).{{cite web|title=UGA partners with Emory, GA Tech and CDC on malaria systems biology research center|url=http://iob.uga.edu/news/uga-partners-with-emory-ga-tech-and-cdc-on-malaria-systems-biology-research-center/|publisher=UGA IOB|access-date=January 12, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130210112011/http://iob.uga.edu/news/uga-partners-with-emory-ga-tech-and-cdc-on-malaria-systems-biology-research-center/|archive-date=February 10, 2013|url-status=dead}}

Founded in 2011 by History Department faculty, eHistory[https://www.ehistory.org/ eHistory] University of Georgia. is a digital collective. Projects include "Mapping the People of Early America," funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities,Karin Wulf,[https://www.neh.gov/article/vast-early-america Vast Early America] Humanities 40 (Winter, 2019) National Endowment for the Humanities "CSI:Dixie" funded by the American Council of Learned SocietiesKahn, E. M. (2016). New databases offer insights into the lives of escaped slaves. New York Times, February 18, 2016. and the inter-active time lapse map, "The Invasion of America," which shows nearly 500 cessations of Native Lands.Marc Perry, "[https://www.chronicle.com/article/digital-history-center-strives-to-connect-with-the-public/ Digital History Center Strives to Connect with the Public.] Chronicle of Higher Education September 8, 2014. The UGA & Slavery site{{Cite web|url=https://slavery.ehistory.org/|title=UGA & Slavery|website=slavery.ehistory.org}} explores the university's entanglements with slavery and legacies in Athens, Georgia. It aligns with the research of institutions across the South that have joined the Universities Studying Slavery consortium.[https://provost.uga.edu/uss/ Universities Studying Slavery Consortium] University of Georgia, Office of the Senior Vice President for

Academic Affairs and Provost. December 12, 2019.

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Sapelo Island, off the Georgia coast, is home to the University of Georgia Marine Institute, a nearshore ecological and geological research institute. The mission of the institute is to support and conduct research on coastal processes involving the unique ecosystems of coastlines.{{cite web|url=http://ugami.uga.edu/visit/about.htm|title=University of Georgia Marine Institute|access-date=September 22, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140706070215/http://ugami.uga.edu/visit/about.htm|archive-date=July 6, 2014|url-status=dead}}

In 2012, UGA acquired the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (SkIO), the marine science research institute that was founded in 1968, to join the University of Georgia Marine Institute that was founded in 1953.{{cite news|title=Skidaway Institute to Become a Part of UGA|url=http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2012-11-13/skidaway-institute-become-part-uga|access-date=November 19, 2012|newspaper=Online Athens}}

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The Coastal Plain Research Arboretum ({{convert|38|acre|m2|disp=semicolon}}) is an arboretum in Tifton, Georgia, located on the grounds of the Tifton Campus of the University of Georgia.{{cite web |url=http://www.exploregeorgia.org/Listing/Overview/400266/Coastal-Plain-Research-Arboretum |title=Coastal Plain Research Arboretum |website=Explore Georgia |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121207021909/http://www.exploregeorgia.org/Listing/Overview/400266/Coastal-Plain-Research-Arboretum |archive-date=December 7, 2012 |access-date=April 22, 2022}}

The arboretum was established in 1987, with plant development and selection starting in 1991.John M. Ruter, [http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/fletcher/programs/nursery/metria/metria12/ruter/index.html Development of New Ornamental Plants at the University of Georgia Tifton Campus] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111028121200/http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/fletcher/programs/nursery/metria/metria12/ruter/index.html |date=October 28, 2011}}, METRIA 2002: Landscape Plant Symposium: Plant Development and Utilization, Program and Selected Papers. Asheville, North Carolina. May 23–25, 2002. It consists of stream-side forest and wetland, and is dedicated to native plant species of the Georgia coastal plain.

The arboretum contains pine woods, a native azalea collection, and approximately 280 taxa of native trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants. It is one of several institutions active in efforts to conserve the endangered Torreya taxifolia.Hank Bruno, [http://www.uga.edu/gpca/project1.html Research Project: Safeguarding Torreya taxifolia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111008051238/http://www.uga.edu/gpca/project1.html |date=October 8, 2011}}, Georgian Plant Conservation Alliance website, accessed June 22, 2011 The arboretum director is John M. Ruter, professor of horticulture at the university's Tifton campus.[http://www.hort.uga.edu/personnel/faculty/profile/FacJMR.html John M. Ruter, Faculty Biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930225045/http://www.hort.uga.edu/personnel/faculty/profile/FacJMR.html |date=September 30, 2011}}, University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, accessed June 22, 2011

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In 2010, the University of Georgia partnered with the Medical College of Georgia (MCG) at Augusta University (formerly Georgia Health Sciences University) to create a four-year medical education program in Athens providing for the granting of M.D. degrees at UGA to increase the number of opportunities for excellent students to become qualified physicians, as well as to increase research on disease prevention and treatment. The Augusta University's College of Nursing has a satellite campus in Athens, and the UGA College of Pharmacy has a satellite campus in Augusta.{{cite web |title=College of Nursing / Contact Us – Athens (Green Acres Center, Kellett Building) |url=https://www.augusta.edu/nursing/ |website=augusta.edu |publisher=Augusta University |access-date=May 28, 2019}}{{cite web |title=Locations UGA College of Pharmacy |url=https://rx.uga.edu/about/locations/ |website=rx.uga.edu |publisher=The University of Georgia College of Pharmacy |access-date=May 28, 2019}}

First and second-year UGA medical students study medical science and clinical skills in a program that is a hybrid curriculum that makes extensive use of small group learning, supplemented by large group interactive sessions. Then third and fourth-year rotations are provided at private practices, community clinics, and hospitals. In addition to increasing the number of opportunities for excellent students to become qualified physicians, the partnership will expand research collaborations between MCG and UGA, and create new insights by UGA into the prevention and treatment of diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, viral disease, and cancer.{{cite web|title=Medical Partnership: About us|url=http://medicalpartnership.usg.edu/about/about-us|publisher=GRU-UGA Medical Partnership|access-date=February 6, 2015}} UGA medical students, graduate students from UGA's College of Public Health, and visiting scholars reside on the University of Georgia's recently reacquired Health Sciences Campus in Athens.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|pp=157–58}}

The 56-acre UGA Health Sciences Campus has an extensive landscaped green space with more than 400 trees and many historic buildings. The nearly 63,000 square-feet of building space on the new Health Sciences Campus include large and small classrooms, rooms for small group and clinical skills teaching, lab space for gross anatomy, pathology, histology, etc., a medical library, and faculty offices. The medical program administration is housed in Winnie Davis Hall which was built in 1902.{{cite web|title=UGA-GHSU Medical Partnership: About Us|url=http://medicalpartnership.usg.edu/about_us/welcome_to_the_future_of_medical_education|publisher=UGA-GHSU|access-date=November 19, 2012|archive-date=October 25, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025102843/http://medicalpartnership.usg.edu/about_us/welcome_to_the_future_of_medical_education|url-status=dead}}

The Regenerative Bioscience Center provides resources, and involves researchers in many disciplines, coming together to develop new cures for diseases and treatment modalities centered around regenerative bioscience and regenerative medicine. Members of the Center have been awarded research grants from both public, government, and private sources including the National Institutes of Health, the American Heart Association, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Defense, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The center has institutional collaborators including MIT, Emory University, and Harvard Medical School.{{cite web |title=Regenerative Bioscience Center at UGA |url=https://issuu.com/stemcellresearch/docs/rbcprint77 |website=issuu.com |date=October 30, 2015 |publisher=Issuu |access-date=February 16, 2024}}{{cite web |title=About Us |url=https://rbc.uga.edu/about-us/ |website=rbc.uga.edu |publisher=University of Georgia |access-date=February 16, 2024}}{{cite web |title=Research|url= https://rbc.uga.edu/research/ |website=rbc.uga.edu |publisher=University of Georgia |access-date=February 16, 2024}} Research interests of the Center include Advanced Imaging, Aging, ALS, Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia, Models of Injury and Disease, Blood Diseases, Brain Injury, Cancer, Cardiovascular Diseases, Diabetes, Drug Discovery, Environmental Health, Eye Diseases, Medical Robotics, Musculoskeletal Diseases, Nervous System diseases, Non-Invasive Imaging, Obesity, Parkinson's Disease, Stem Cell Therapy, Stroke, Tissue Regeneration and Repair, and Toxicology.{{cite web |title=Research Interests|url= https://rbc.uga.edu/research-interests/ |website=rbc.uga.edu |publisher=University of Georgia |access-date=February 16, 2024}} One example of the results of Center research is a new drug that is the first neural stem cell therapy that targets brain inflammation of ischemic stroke patients that will enter clinical trials having been cleared by the Food and Drug Administration.{{cite news |last1=Hataway |first1=Leigh |title=UGA stroke treatment headed to clinical trial |url=https://news.uga.edu/uga-stroke-treatment-headed-to-clinical-trial|access-date=February 16, 2024 |work=UGA Today |date=January 31, 2024}} In addition, the Center faculty educates national and international researchers, as well as graduate and undergraduate students.{{cite web |title=Brain glue; Exosomes; Cells to cure disease; Growing back the lymph system;Translational Biomedical Center of Excellence |url=https://rbc.uga.edu/files/2022/06/RBC-1-pager.pdf |website=rbc.uga.edu |publisher=UGA Regenerative Bioscience Center |access-date=February 16, 2024}}

The Bioenergy Systems Research Institute conducts research in bioenergy that recognize the entire lifecycle and environmental impact of biomass production, harvesting, transport, treatment, conversion, and recycling.{{cite web|title=About us|url=http://bioenergy.ovpr.uga.edu/about/|publisher=UGA Bioenergy|access-date=February 13, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130729104325/http://bioenergy.ovpr.uga.edu/about/|archive-date=July 29, 2013|url-status=dead}} In 2013, the Institute received a $20 million from the United States Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) and the Golden Field Office (GFO).{{cite web|title=Funding|url=http://bioenergy.ovpr.uga.edu/opportunities/funding/|publisher=UGA Bioenergy|access-date=February 13, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130729075417/http://bioenergy.ovpr.uga.edu/opportunities/funding/|archive-date=July 29, 2013|url-status=dead}} The institute was established to help bolster the university's research expenditure in environmental science.

The 2013 SEC Academic Symposium, an academic conference-type event intended to address a scholarly issue in an area of strength represented by all SEC universities, was organized and led by the University of Georgia and the UGA Bioenergy Systems Research Institute in Atlanta, Georgia. The topic of the Symposium was titled, the "Impact of the Southeast in the World's Renewable Energy Future."{{cite web|title=UGA Today|url=http://news.uga.edu/releases/article/sec-symposium-to-address-role-of-southeast-in-renewable-energy/|publisher=University of Georgia|access-date=February 13, 2013|date=February 6, 2013}}

File:UGAArtBuilding.jpg certified structure that features 72 solar panels and water reclamation technology.]]

In 2007, the Odum School of Ecology became the first-stand alone college or school within a university dedicated to the study of ecology and environmental science. The school was named after UGA professor and ecologist, Eugene Odum, who pioneered the modern study of ecology.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JfBmDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA44|title=Clays in the Critical Zone|last=Schroeder|first=Paul A.|date=June 30, 2018|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-108-69185-7|page=44}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OerGtfLKvtUC&pg=PT11|title=Ecologists: From Woodward to Miranda|last=Housel|first=Debra J.|date=2009|publisher=Capstone|isbn=978-0-7565-4076-0|pages=20–23}}

The university has since made several advancements in sustainability.{{cite web|url=https://www.onlineathens.com/mobile/2016-07-13/six-years-ugarden-thriving-making-friends-uga-and-feeding-people|title=Six years on, UGArden thriving, making friends for UGA and feeding people|last=Shearer|first=Lee|date=July 13, 2016|website=Athens Banner-Herald|access-date=February 15, 2019}} Under the UGA Facilities Management Division, the Office of Sustainability was initiated in 2010 as part of a strategic directive to enhance conservation of resources and long-term sustainability at the university. Through long-term environmental initiatives, under President Michael F. Adams the university established the office after support from students and faculty and residents of the Athens area. The Office of Sustainability's mission is to continue to improve environmental sustainability in many different areas on campus.{{cite web|url=https://www.onlineathens.com/article/20160111/NEWS/301119966|title=University's Office of Sustainability awards grants to fund student projects|last=Service|first=UGA News|date=January 11, 2016|website=Athens Banner-Herald|access-date=February 15, 2019}}

The initiative was a result of a 2009 Report of the Working Group on Sustainability at the University of Georgia and the Green Initiative Fund (TGIF) student-led campaign. The Green Initiative Fund modeled their funding campaign after a similar campaign by students at the University of California-Berkeley.{{cite web|title=History|url=http://sustainability.uga.edu/about/history/|publisher=Office of Sustainability|access-date=February 9, 2013}} {{as of|2016}}, the Office of Sustainability has awarded a total of $170,000 to fund 47 student-initiated sustainability projects at UGA The Campus Sustainability Grants Program has helped foster several student initiatives, including water bottle refilling stations in the Zell B. Miller Learning Center, "Dawgs Ditch the Dumpster" residence hall move-out donation program, Tanyard Creek Chew Crew prescribed grazing project for invasive plant removal and Material Reuse Program, which uses salvaged items to construct school and community gardens.{{cite web|title=UGA awards sustainability grants to seven student projects|url=http://news.uga.edu/releases/article/uga-sustainability-grants-seven-student-projects-011613/|publisher=UGA Today|access-date=February 9, 2013|date=January 16, 2013}}

The university and Athens-Clarke County established a bicycle master plan to improve the mobility of students on campus while remaining environmentally consciousness.{{cite web|url=https://www.architects.uga.edu/sites/default/files/documents/UGA-Bikes_DRAFT.pdf|title=Bicycle Facility Study|publisher=UGA Architects|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015020044/https://www.architects.uga.edu/sites/default/files/documents/UGA-Bikes_DRAFT.pdf|archive-date=October 15, 2012|url-status=dead|access-date=February 9, 2013}}

In 2009 the University of Georgia earned LEED certification from the U.S. Green Building Council with high marks for the expansion of the Tate Student Center. The renovated Tate Student Center became the sixth building on a university campus in the state of Georgia to be certified at the gold level and the second to be so designated in Athens.{{cite web|url=http://news.uga.edu/releases/article/university-of-georgia-earns-leed-certification/|title=University of Georgia earns LEED Certification|last=Pharr|first=Kathy|date=November 23, 2009|website=UGA Today|access-date=February 9, 2013}} In 2012, Building 1516, a university housing complex constructed in 2010, became the first LEED-certified housing complex at the University of Georgia.{{cite web|url=https://news.uga.edu/uga-residence-hall-building-1516-receives-honors/|title=UGA residence hall Building 1516 receives honors|last=Coley|first=Tracy|date=March 7, 2012|website=UGA Today|access-date=February 15, 2019}}

In 2012, the College of Environmental Design's Visual Arts Building (now known as the Jackson Street Building) after a $9.9 million renovation became the first UGA building to incorporate a water reclamation system and the first to utilize solar harvesting technology through solar panels.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|pp=63–64}}

In 2013 the university hosted the inaugural SEC Symposium in Atlanta. The topic is the Southeast's impact on the future of renewable energy, and the participants are the 14 universities of the SEC, as supported by its new academic initiative, SECU.{{cite web|url=http://www.redandblack.com/ugalife/green-between-the-hedges-uga-hosts-sec-sustainability-symposium/article_49a7792a-6f2c-11e2-8916-0019bb30f31a.html|title=Green between the hedges: UGA hosts SEC sustainability symposium|last=Kazmierczak|first=Jeanette|date=February 5, 2013|website=Red & Black|access-date=February 9, 2013}}

In the same year, the university was named by the National Arbor Foundation as a designated Tree Campus USA for the third time in a row as a result of the university's continued commitment to maintaining and adding new foliage. The University of Georgia has more than 9,000 trees on campus, according to an ongoing tree-mapping project being conducted by the University Grounds Department. The number will continue to grow due to a partnership between Select Sustainable Tree Trust and UGA.{{cite web|url=https://www.onlineathens.com/article/20120321/NEWS/303219999|title=UGA receives second Tree Campus USA designation from Arbor Day Foundation|last=Schupska|first=Stephanie|date=March 21, 2012|website=Athens Banner-Herald|access-date=February 15, 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://news.uga.edu/arbor-day-foundation-gives-uga-third-tree-campus-usa-designation-01311/|title=Arbor Day Foundation gives UGA its third Tree Campus USA designation|last=Schupska|first=Stephanie|date=February 1, 2013|website=UGA Today|access-date=February 15, 2019}} In 2009, the Select Sustainable Tree Trust selected the university to receive a $1 million tree donation to "re-green" and impact the university campus with large-scale, sustainable shade trees.{{cite web|title=Select Sustainable Tree Trust to donate $1 million|url=http://news.uga.edu/releases/article/select-sustainable-tree-trust-to-donate-1-million/|publisher=UGA Today|access-date=February 24, 2013|date=July 15, 2009}}

As of April 2019, UGA has entered into a contract to add up to 19 new electric buses.https://sustainability.uga.edu/uga-to-get-19-new-electric-buses/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221211103356/https://sustainability.uga.edu/_resources/error_docs/404/ |date=December 11, 2022 }} The 19 buses were put into service on campus in February 2020. In December 2019, as the university was awarded $7.46 million under the Federal Transit Administration's Grants for Buses and Bus Facilities Program, it was announced that 13 additional electric buses would be added to the fleet, which will bring the total number of electric buses on campus to 33.{{cite web|last=Brannen|first=Allison|date=December 5, 2019|title=UGA to buy 13 more electric buses with federal grant|url=https://news.uga.edu/uga-buys-13-more-electric-buses/|access-date=January 22, 2022|website=UGA Today}} The electric buses will account for a third of the total fleet in 2021, when UGA begins to phase out and decommission older diesel buses.{{cite web|author=|first=Erin |last=Schilling |title=UGA to have more electric buses than any other university in the nation|url=https://www.redandblack.com/uganews/uga-to-have-more-electric-buses-than-any-other-university-in-the-nation/article_6c8bd774-5250-11ea-986d-771d0cd89ac3.html|access-date=January 22, 2022|website=The Red and Black|date=February 18, 2020 }}

The University of Georgia Small Satellite Research Laboratory (SSRL) was founded in 2016 by students with the help of researchers, scientists, and faculty associated the Center for Geospatial Research. The SSRL is funded by the NASA USIP{{cite web|title=NASA Selects Proposals for Student Flight Research Opportunities|url=http://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-selects-proposals-for-student-flight-research-opportunities|publisher=NASA|access-date=May 5, 2016|date=April 6, 2016}} (Undergraduate Student Instrument Project) to build a Cube Satellite for Low Earth Orbit. The SSRL is also part of the Air Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL) University Nanosatellite Program (UNP).{{cite web|title=UGA team selected by NASA, Air Force to build and launch two cube satellites|url=http://news.uga.edu/releases/article/cubesat-nasa-air-force-build-launch-two-cube-satellites-0516/|publisher=UGA|access-date=May 8, 2016|date=May 5, 2016}} The SSRL is student-led and will be building UGA's first satellite, a Cubesat, which will be sent to the International Space Station for deployment in late 2018.{{cite web|url=https://www.redandblack.com/uganews/small-satellite-research-laboratory-seeks-students-passionate-about-space/article_c994c1ea-d5ff-11e6-b657-e3be78ce1333.html|title=Small Satellite Research Laboratory seeks students passionate about space|last=Hammel|first=John|date=January 9, 2017|website=The Red and Black|access-date=March 22, 2019}}

The Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry (CCQC) is a research center in the department of chemistry, founded in 1987 by Professor Henry Schaefer, who continues to work there. Research at the CCQC employs computational chemistry to elucidate and/or correlate many areas of chemical research.{{cite web |url=https://www.chem.uga.edu/research/content/computationaltheoretical-chemistry |title=Computational/Theoretical Chemistry |publisher=Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry (CCQC) |access-date=April 22, 2022}}

The University of Georgia has registered almost 800{{cite web |title=5 tips to help newcomers navigate the UGA involvement fair |url=https://www.redandblack.com/culture/tips-to-help-newcomers-navigate-the-uga-involvement-fair/article_7299da7e-a5bf-11e8-aa65-2f7b8bcc3bd7.html |website=redandblack.com |date=August 22, 2018 |access-date=June 3, 2019}} student organizations, academic associations, honor societies, student government organizations, cultural groups, sport teams, religious groups, publications, social groups and fraternities, volunteer and community service programs, philanthropic groups, and others that are all run by both graduate and undergraduate students and are integral parts of student life.{{cite web |last1=Asher |first1=Beckner |title=Joining UGA organizations allows students to find their passions |url=https://www.redandblack.com/opinion/opinion-joining-uga-organizations-allows-students-to-find-their-passions/article_8da094b0-a1d8-11e8-ac64-eb19e0f0e3b9.html |website=redandblack.com |date=August 17, 2018 |access-date=March 24, 2019}}{{cite web |title=Center for Student Activities and Involvement |url=https://uga.campuslabs.com/engage/organization/CSAI |website=uga.campuslabs.com |publisher=Campus Labs |access-date=March 24, 2019}} In 2015 (the latest year), UGA was recognized by the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll by the Corporation for National and Community Service. The honor is the highest federal recognition a college or university can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning and civic engagement. The latest designation marks the ninth consecutive year UGA was named on the honor roll.{{cite web|title=UGA earns recognition for community service projects|url=http://onlineathens.com/uga/2013-04-02/uga-earns-recognition-community-service-projects|publisher=OnlineAthens|access-date=April 3, 2013}}{{cite web|title=2015 HONOR ROLL GENERAL CATEGORY|url=https://www.nationalservice.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Honor%20Roll%202015%20General%20Category.pdf|website=nationalservice.gov|publisher=Corporation for National and Community Service|access-date=January 4, 2019}}

{{Main|Housing at the University of Georgia}}

Housing at the university is managed by the Department of University Housing. Student on-campus housing is divided into several communities: Brumby, Russell, Creswell, Black-Diallo-Miller, Hill, Myers, Reed, and the East Campus Village.{{cite web|url=https://housing.uga.edu/site/housing_undergraduate|title=University Housing|publisher=The University of Georgia|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181125143340/https://housing.uga.edu/site/housing_undergraduate|archive-date=November 25, 2018|url-status=live|access-date=March 23, 2019}}

Brumby, Creswell, and Russell halls are collectively known as the "freshman high-rises" due to their similarities in design and function. All three are located just off Baxter Street on West Campus.{{cite web|url=https://www.redandblack.com/uganews/tricks-treats-and-tradition-resident-halls-host-haunted-high-rises/article_b400c3a8-ba4f-11e7-ac12-4b5d8dd04c87.html|title=Tricks, treats and tradition: Resident halls host 'Haunted High-Rises'|last=Styrdom|first=Lara|date=October 26, 2017|website=The Red and Black|access-date=March 23, 2019}} These are the biggest residence halls on campus and each house about 1,000 freshmen. The Hill community of residence halls consists of six building in West Campus near the freshman dorms. The community has a females-only residence (Hill Hall) and six coed residences: Boggs, Church, Lipscomb, Mell, and Oglethorpe Halls.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=145}}

The Myers community consists of four buildings in a quad located on South Campus. They are the coed residence halls Myers, Rutherford, and Mary Lyndon, along with Soule Hall which is reserved for female students.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|pp=89, 93, 121–24}} The Reed community is made up of four coed residence halls in North and Central Campus: Morris, Payne, Reed, and Building 1516.{{cite web|url=https://housing.uga.edu/site/housing_community_reed|title=Housing – Community Page – Reed|website=housing.uga.edu|publisher=The University of Georgia|access-date=March 23, 2019|archive-date=March 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190323090625/https://housing.uga.edu/site/housing_community_reed|url-status=dead}}{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|pp=22, 59, 68, 80–82}} The East Campus Village consists of the apartment-style coed residences: Busbee, McWhorter, Rooker, and Vandiver.{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|pp=128–29, 139–40}}

The University of Georgia maintains one of the South's oldest Greek systems. The fraternities and sororities maintain homes both on and off campus. There are a number of secret societies that exist at the university, such as Palladia and Gridiron. The first Greek letter fraternity to charter at the university was Sigma Alpha Epsilon in 1865, and the first sorority was Phi Mu in 1921. In 2023 24% of undergraduate men and 37% of undergraduate women were active members in UGA's Greek system.{{cite web |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-georgia-1598/student-life |title=University of Georgia Student Life |work=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=April 22, 2022}} There are twenty sorority chapters.{{Cite web |title=Panhellenic Council Chapters |url=https://greeklife.uga.edu/panhellenic-council/panhellenic-council-chapters/ |access-date=March 17, 2024 |website=Greek Life |language=en-US}} There are twenty-eight fraternity chapters.{{Cite web |title=IFC Chapters |url=https://greeklife.uga.edu/interfraternity-council/ifc-chapters/ |access-date=March 17, 2024 |website=Greek Life |language=en-US}}

Under the Morrill Act, as a land-grant university, UGA is required to include a military program as part of its available curriculum, which program is now known as the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC). Many universities that are not land-grant have established ROTC programs such as the one at Harvard University. The University of Georgia ROTC is the official officer training and commissioning program at the university. Prior to the 1862 Morrill Act, UGA founded its military program in 1801, and it is one of the oldest such programs in the nation. Memorial Hall was built with funds that Georgia alumni raised following World War I and was dedicated in 1924 to those alumni and students who had given their lives in the war.{{cite web|title=Battalion History|url=http://www.armyrotc.uga.edu/page.asp?pg=Battalion_History|publisher=University of Georgia ROTC|access-date=May 3, 2013}} Departments of the Army and the Air Force each maintain an ROTC detachment on campus.

Executives of the University of Georgia's Student Government Association (SGA) make up the Student Advisory Council, which is composed of Student Government Presidents from every public college or university within the University System of Georgia. The Student Advisory Council is organized to advise the Georgia Board of Regents, through the Chancellor, on issues that are important to students.{{cite web|title=Freshman Programs|url=http://sga.uga.edu/about/freshman.html|publisher=UGA SGA|access-date=January 6, 2013|archive-date=October 30, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121030071316/http://sga.uga.edu/about/freshman.html|url-status=dead}}

{{Main|The Red and Black}}

The Red & Black (R&B) is UGA's independent daily newspaper. Established in 1893 and independent of the university since 1980, The Red & Black is the largest college newspaper in Georgia and the tenth largest newspaper in the state of Georgia. Students published its first issue on November 24, 1893, from offices in the Academic Building on North Campus. The paper is self-sufficient through the sale of advertising making it one of the few student newspapers to do so.{{cite web|title=About us|url=http://www.redandblack.com/about_us/our_history/history.html|publisher=Red & Black|access-date=February 9, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130222021343/http://www.redandblack.com/about_us/our_history/history.html|archive-date=February 22, 2013|url-status=dead}} The Red & Black has won numerous awards nationally. In 2012, the Princeton Review named The Red & Black tenth among the nation's best student newspapers.{{cite web|title=Princeton Review's 'Best College Newspapers' list|url=http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/185703/penn-state-tops-princeton-reviews-best-college-newspapers-list/|publisher=Poynter.rog|access-date=February 9, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130219005441/http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/185703/penn-state-tops-princeton-reviews-best-college-newspapers-list/|archive-date=February 19, 2013|url-status=dead}}

R&B-TV is the photos and videos division of The Red & Black. R&B-TV publishes various videos relating to the University of Georgia and the community at large.{{cite web|title=R&B-TV: Videos|url=http://www.redandblack.com/rbtv/videos/|publisher=The Red & Black|access-date=February 9, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130222021534/http://www.redandblack.com/rbtv/videos/|archive-date=February 22, 2013|url-status=dead}}

WUGA-FM is the radio station run by students of the University of Georgia. Just before 6:00 a.m. on the morning of August 28, 1987, WUGA-FM signed on for its first day of broadcasting to Athens and the surrounding area.{{cite web|title=WUGA: A Tale of a Radio Station|url=http://www.wuga.org/about_history.html|work=WUGA's 10th Anniversary program guide, August 1997|publisher=WUGA|access-date=February 9, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140326090936/http://www.wuga.org/about_history.html|archive-date=March 26, 2014|url-status=dead}} WUGA-FM broadcasts with 6000 watts in an "omni-directional pattern." WUGA-FM radio is the third most listened to station in Athens market out of 18 stations reported. It is the most listened to station for people with managerial, administrative or professional occupations.{{cite web|title=About WUGA|url=http://www.wuga.org/about_wuga.html|publisher=WUGA.org|access-date=February 9, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130217035322/http://www.wuga.org/about_wuga.html|archive-date=February 17, 2013|url-status=dead}}

Launched in 2011, Ampersand Magazine is a UGA monthly publication catered to Athens residents. The magazine is a subsidized by The Red and Black.{{cite web|title=Ampersand|url=http://redandblack.com/ampersand/|publisher=The Red & Black|access-date=February 27, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130312132643/http://www.redandblack.com/ampersand/|archive-date=March 12, 2013|url-status=dead}}

Stethoscope Magazine (formerly, PreMed Magazine) is a “student-run publication at the University of Georgia dedicated to promoting science and providing relevant healthcare-related news.” It also has a website, as well as Linktree, Facebook, and Instagram accounts. The magazine further aims to help pre-medical and other pre-health students at the university achieve success in the medical field. Staffing for the magazine is open to students of all majors and concentrations. Topics range from student achievement in medicine and health science, to health science news, to recent innovations in biomedical sciences.{{cite web|title=Stethoscope Magazine|url= https://stethoscopemagazine.org/|publisher=Students of the University of Georgia|access-date= May 20, 2022}}{{cite web|title=About Premed Magazine |url=http://www.premedmag.com/about/|publisher=Students of the University of Georgia|access-date=May 3, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130530193611/http://www.premedmag.com/about/|archive-date=May 30, 2013|url-status=dead}}

Georgia Political Review (GPR) is a student-run magazine and website focusing on political science, international affairs, history, and economics at the local, state, national, and international levels while providing timely commentary on politics and foreign affairs. In addition to its magazine and website, it publishes a weekly newsletter called GPR Digest, which offers short summaries of recent political and cultural events,{{Cite web |last=Review |first=Georgia Political |title=About - The GPR Digest |url=https://gprdigest.substack.com/about |access-date=February 8, 2024 |website=gprdigest.substack.com |language=en}} every year hosts The Great Debate, a moderated debate among college political groups,{{Cite web |last=Hurley |first=Sam |date=October 26, 2023 |title=PHOTOS: The Great Debate |url=https://www.redandblack.com/multimedia/photos-the-great-debate/collection_7d1065d6-7422-11ee-8f11-cb313d599007.html |access-date=February 8, 2024 |website=The Red & Black |language=en}} and has X, Facebook, and Instagram accounts. It was founded in 2011 by 6 undergraduate students at UGA and is a student publication unique in the state university system.{{Cite web |title=Mission & History – Georgia Political Review |url=https://georgiapoliticalreview.com/mission-history/|access-date=February 8, 2024 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120328100138/https://georgiapoliticalreview.com/mission-history/ |archive-date= March 28, 2012|language=en-US}}{{cite web |title=Main Library & McBay Science Library - Politics - Georgia Political Review |url=https://guides.libs.uga.edu/c.php?g=349699&p=5180183 |website=guides.libs.uga.edu|publisher=University of Georgia Libraries |access-date=February 9, 2024}}{{cite web |title=Georgia Political Review |url=https://uga.campuslabs.com/engage/organization/gpr |website=uga.campuslabs.com |publisher=Involvement Network |access-date=February 9, 2024}}{{cite web |title=Georgia Political Review |url=https://issuu.com/georgiapoliticalreview |website=issuu.com |publisher=Issuu |access-date=February 9, 2024}}{{cite news |last1=Hurley |first1=Sam |title=The Great Debate |url=https://www.redandblack.com/multimedia/photos-the-great-debate/collection_7d1065d6-7422-11ee-8f11-cb313d599007.html#2 |access-date=February 9, 2024 |work=The Red & Black |date=October 26, 2023}}{{cite web |title=School of Public & International Affairs - Student Organizations - Georgia Political Review |url=https://spia.uga.edu/undergraduate/student-organizations-2/ |website=spia.uga.edu |publisher=UGA School of Public & International Affairs |access-date=February 9, 2024}}{{cite news |last1=Liang |first1=Sherry |last2=Donovan |first2=Spencer |title=ACT campaign cleared of charges following complaints against UGA SGA debate moderator |url=https://www.redandblack.com/uganews/act-campaign-cleared-of-charges-following-complaints-against-uga-sga-debate-moderator/article_5d3568fe-3ee6-11e9-b73b-172e5d211612.html |access-date=February 9, 2024 |work=The Red & Black |date=March 4, 2019}}

Law students publish four legal journals: Georgia Law Review, the Journal of Intellectual Property Law, the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, and the Georgia Criminal Law Review.{{cite web |title=Journals |url=https://www.law.uga.edu/journals |website=law.uga.edu |publisher=University of Georgia |access-date=February 9, 2024 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240204034945/https://www.law.uga.edu/journals|archive-date= February 4, 2024}} In addition to the Georgia Law Review, students publish the online component, the Georgia Law Review Online, which features essays by practitioners, judges and professors focused primarily on timely legal issues in the U.S. Courts of Appeals.{{cite web|url=http://www.law.uga.edu/journals|title=Journals|publisher=University of Georgia|access-date=April 24, 2016}}

Pandora is the yearbook of the University of Georgia; its first issue was published in 1886.{{cite web|title=Official Yearbook Pandora 1886|url=https://www.pandorayearbook.com|website=Pandora Yearbook|publisher=The University of Georgia|access-date=January 3, 2019}}{{cite web|title=Pandora: Yearbook of the University of Georgia from the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library|url=https://www.galileo.usg.edu/scholar/databases/pand/?Welcome|website=galileo.usg.edu|publisher=Galileo Scholar|access-date=January 3, 2019}}

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{{See also|Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate|Auburn–Georgia football rivalry|Florida–Georgia football rivalry}}

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The University of Georgia varsity athletic teams participate in the NCAA's Division I FBS as a member of the Southeastern Conference. Since the 1997–1998 season, UGA has seven top ten rankings in the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) Directors' Cup, a numerical ranking based on the success of universities in all varsity sports.{{cite web|url=http://nacda.cstv.com/directorscup/nacda-directorscup-previous-scoring.html|title=National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics – Directors Cup |access-date=May 25, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207101234/http://nacda.cstv.com/directorscup/nacda-directorscup-previous-scoring.html |archive-date=February 7, 2009 |url-status=dead}} The university has won national championships in football, women's gymnastics, women's equestrian, baseball, tennis (men's and women's), golf (men's and women's), indoor and outdoor track & field, and women's swimming and diving. The Gym Dogs, the university's women's gymnastics team, have an NCAA-leading 10 national championships in gymnastics, including five consecutive championships from 2005 to 2009.

The Bulldogs' most historic rivalry is with the nearby Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. However, major rivalries have grown since, including the rivalry with the Florida Gators, and with the Auburn Tigers, referred to as the "Deep South's Oldest Rivalry" in reference to the first football game played between the two teams in 1892 and the more than one hundred meetings since. In 2011, The Huffington Post named the Florida–Georgia football rivalry one of college football's top 10 rivalries.{{cite news|title=The 10 Best College Rivalries|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/01/the-10-best-college-rival_n_944635.html#s346519&title=Florida_vs_Georgia|work=The Huffington Post|access-date=November 19, 2012|first=Rebecca|last=Harrington|date=September 1, 2011}}

The university also hosts several non-varsity sports, including wrestling,{{cite web|url=http://wrestling.uga.edu/|title=UGA Wrestling|publisher=Wrestling.uga.edu|access-date=August 12, 2015}} men's soccer, crew,{{cite web|url=http://www.ugacrew.org/|title=The University of Georgia Rowing Club|access-date=November 16, 2008|archive-date=December 22, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081222194105/http://www.ugacrew.org/|url-status=dead}} ultimate frisbee,{{cite web |url=http://www.uga.edu/womensultimate/ |url-status=dead |title=UGA Hodawgs |publisher=University of Georgia Ladies' Ultimate |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724023203/http://www.uga.edu/womensultimate/ |archive-date=July 24, 2008}}{{cite web|url=http://www.uga.edu/ultimate/|title=Jojah Intro|publisher=Uga.edu|access-date=December 3, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527215429/http://www.uga.edu/ultimate/|archive-date=May 27, 2010}} rugby, lacrosse, ice hockey, and sailing. Georgia's men's lacrosse team has won the South Eastern Lacrosse Conference three times, in 1998, 2007, and 2008, and received an automatic bid to the Men's Collegiate Lacrosse Association national tournament, while the women's team earned an at-large bid to the WDIA National Tournament in 2007.

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The University of Georgia played an instrumental role in Atlanta's bid for the 1996 Summer Olympics. The University of Georgia conducted a majority of the preliminary studies for the economic impact of bringing the Olympic Games to Atlanta, and hosted many Olympic events.{{cite web|title=The Economic Impact on the State of Georgia of Hosting the 1996 Summer Olympic Games|url=http://www.terry.uga.edu/selig/docs/olympics.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130319093743/http://www.terry.uga.edu/selig/docs/olympics.pdf|archive-date=March 19, 2013|work=Selig Center for Economic Growth|publisher=The University of Georgia's Terry College of Business|access-date=February 24, 2013}} In 1987, Atlanta attorney and former football player at the University of Georgia, William "Billy" Payne, conceived the idea of hosting the 1996 Summer Olympic Games. Atlanta mayor Andrew Young was among the first to join Payne in the quest to develop a bid and sell the proposal, first to local business leaders, then to the U.S. Olympic Committee, and finally to the members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).{{cite web|title=1996 Olympic Games|url=http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2042|publisher=Georgia Encyclopedia|access-date=February 24, 2013}} The home of the Bulldogs hosted the medal round of the men's and women's Olympic football (soccer) in July 1996. Sanford Stadium was temporarily converted into a soccer stadium which saw the removal of the privet hedges surrounding the playing field. The hedges had been symbolic to UGA since the early 1930s. The hedges were restored after the Olympic games. In 1996, UGA's High Point was selected as the training site for the U.S. Dressage Team, which competed in the Summer Olympic games at the International Horse Park in Conyers, Georgia.{{cite web|title=UGA Equestrian Complex|url=http://www.nmnathletics.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=8800&ATCLID=301045|publisher=NMN Athletics|access-date=February 24, 2013|archive-date=July 21, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130721152441/http://www.nmnathletics.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=8800&ATCLID=301045|url-status=dead}} The university's basketball stadium, Stegeman Coliseum, was the venue for Volleyball and Rhythmic Gymnastics.

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The University of Georgia's original colors included old gold, until the intense rivalry between Georgia Tech and Georgia around 1891 resulted in a skirmish over colors. Georgia students and alumni declared yellow an unfit color for the Georgia Bulldogs, deeming it a cowardly color. After the 1893 football game against Georgia Tech, University of Georgia President, Charles Herty, removed old gold as an official school color. Crimson (also referred to as "Good Old Georgia Red") and black have been the official colors ever since.{{cite web|title=Origins of SEC School Colors|url=http://www.secsportsfan.com/origins-of-sec-school-colors.html|publisher=SEC Sports Fan|access-date=February 9, 2013}}

The decision to include crimson red is also thought to be a tribute to the state of Georgia and a reminder of the university's flagship status. Kaolinite, commonly referred to as "Georgia red clay" is commonly found throughout the state, especially in the Red Hills Region. The red color that is so evident in Georgia soils is due primarily to iron oxides.

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Bulldogs have been on the sidelines for UGA athletic events since at least the 1800s.{{cite news |last1=Towers |first1=Chip |title=Ugh! Uga Won't Patrol Bulldogs' Sideline This Season |url=https://epaper.ajc.com/popovers/dynamic_article_popover.aspx?guid=5373a45b-4d4f-4b08-98fc-8d87f10fb51e&pbid=8e0858ee-1443-484d-9e94-f8b8a1eaaaff|access-date=September 11, 2020 |work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |date=September 10, 2020}} The origin of the English Bulldog representing UGA athletic teams came from Yale University, with whom UGA had strong ties in its early years. Many early buildings and campus plans followed the layout of Yale. The bulldog mascot stems from the university's founding father and first president, Abraham Baldwin, who was a graduate of Yale. The Bulldog mascots were thought to be a tribute to Baldwin's alma mater. The term "Georgia Bulldogs" to identify a Georgia team was first coined on November 3, 1920, by Atlanta Journal-Constitution writer Morgan Blake. After a 0–0 tie with the University of Virginia in Charlottesville on November 6, 1920, Atlanta Constitution writer Cliff Wheatley used the name "Bulldogs" in his story five times. This name for UGA teams caught on and has been used ever since.{{cite web|title=Georgia Traditions|url=http://www.georgiadogs.com/ot/geo-traditions.html|publisher=University of Georgia Georgiadogs|access-date=February 9, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130118124224/http://www.georgiadogs.com/ot/geo-traditions.html|archive-date=January 18, 2013}}

Uga the Bulldog is the official live mascot of the Georgia Bulldogs. Uga is from a line owned by Frank W. (Sonny) Seiler of Savannah, Georgia since 1956. The current line began with Uga I, a solid white English Bulldog who was the grandson of a former Georgia mascot who made the trip to the 1943 Rose Bowl. Perhaps the most famous Uga was Uga V who made appearances in the movie Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Uga V was also featured on the cover of the April 1997 edition of Sports Illustrated.{{cite news|title=Sports Illustrated cover page|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/toc/9584/index.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121114032553/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/toc/9584/index.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 14, 2012|publisher=SportsIllustrated|access-date=February 9, 2013}} Uga XI became the mascot in 2023.

The University of Georgia is the only major college that buries its mascots within the confines of its stadium.{{citation needed|date=February 2020}} Ugas I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, and IX are buried in marble vaults near the main gate in the embankment of the south stands of Sanford Stadium. Epitaphs to the dogs are inscribed in bronze, and before each home game, flowers are placed on their graves.{{cite web|title=History of Uga|url=http://www.georgiadogs.com/uga/|website=University of Georgia|access-date=March 26, 2017}}

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The Chapel Bell is a historic monument and long-standing tradition of the University of Georgia. The Chapel Bell is located on the historic North Campus. Built in 1832, when Protestant orthodoxy dominated the campus region, the chapel was a center of campus activities. A daily religious service, which students were required to attend, were held there, as were assemblies and commencements. The bell was also rung to mark the beginning and the end of class.{{cite web|title=History of the Chapel|url=http://chapel.myweb.uga.edu/history.html|publisher=University of Georgia|access-date=February 9, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060821212705/http://chapel.myweb.uga.edu/history.html|archive-date=August 21, 2006|url-status=dead}}

Over the years, the Chapel Bell has served as an athletic tradition at the University of Georgia. The ringing of the Chapel Bell after a Georgia victory is a tradition that has endured since the 1890s. In Georgia football's early days, Herty Field was located only yards from the chapel, and first-year students were compelled to ring the bell until midnight in celebration of a Bulldog victory. Today, students, alumni, fans and townspeople still rush to the chapel to ring the bell after a victory. The bell is also utilized for University meetings and events, weddings and remembrance ringing. The bell was rung in memory of victims of the September 11 attacks in 2001. After the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting, the University of Georgia partook in a nationwide mourning by ringing the Chapel Bell in honor of the victims of the shooting.{{cite web|title=Bells will ring in Athens, across U.S., for Conn. shooting victims|url=http://onlineathens.com/uga/2012-12-19/bells-will-ring-athens-across-us-conn-shooting-victims|publisher=OnlineAthens|access-date=February 24, 2013}}

On October 27, 2007, as tradition warrants, Georgia fans rang the Chapel Bell to celebrate the 42–30 win over the university's archrival, the Florida Gators. The excitement caused the yoke holding the 877 lb. bell to give way, and it fell from the support platform. The university has returned the bell to its historic post and {{as of|2017|November|lc=y}}, it still rings daily across campus.

January 27, 1785, is the date the University of Georgia became the first public university to have a charter granted. Each year, January 27 is commemorated to honor UGA's place in the history of American colleges and universities. The tradition began in 2002 and is now celebrated as Founders Week. During Founders Week, a series of celebrations are hosted by various campus departments including the Student Alumni Association and the Student Government Association.

The Emeriti Scholars, a group of retired faculty members especially known for their teaching abilities and continued involvement in the university's academic life, sponsor the Founders Day Lecture. The lecture is held in the UGA Chapel and has become a Founders Day tradition, drawing alumni, students, faculty, esteemed guests and members of the community.

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In 1857, the University of Georgia constructed a cast iron representation of the architectural elements featured on the obverse of the Great Seal of the state of Georgia. It stands at the north entrance of the campus, and has become known as The Arch. Fashioned from existing material, The Arch is a representation but not an exact replica of the architectural elements of the Seal. Originally serving both symbolic and practical functions, it was connected to a barrier which kept cows from roaming over parts of the campus, and was initially known as The Gate.{{Cite web|url=https://www.uga.edu/profile/arch/|title=The Arch|website=www.uga.edu|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111015084844/https://www.uga.edu/profile/arch/|archive-date=October 15, 2011}} It serves as the official icon and a historic landmark for the university. Since the 1900s, tradition has held that students may not pass beneath the Arch until they have received a diploma from the University of Georgia. Those who walked under the Arch prior to graduation commencement were said never to graduate. The tradition began when Daniel Huntley Redfearn, Class of 1910, arrived as a freshman from Boston, Georgia and vowed not to pass beneath the Arch until he had graduated. One of Redfearn's professors heard the vow and repeated it to his class, and the tradition has stood ever since. Many freshmen, learning of the tradition during orientation or from other sources still choose to honor the century-old tradition. Years of following the tradition are visible on the concrete steps leading to the Arch. Steps to each side have been worn down over the years as undergraduates have kept their vows.{{cite web |url=http://www.redandblack.com/uganews/the-arch-tradition-explained/article_9715edda-2ced-11e7-835a-433c10460414.html |title=The Arch tradition explained | UGAnews | redandblack.com |website=www.redandblack.com |access-date=January 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170503164618/http://www.redandblack.com/uganews/the-arch-tradition-explained/article_9715edda-2ced-11e7-835a-433c10460414.html |archive-date=May 3, 2017 |url-status=dead}}

The Arch has been a site of historic political demonstrations. In 1961, when UGA officials desegregated the university with the admission of its first two African-American students, Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter-Gault. The Arch was a witness to students protesting both for and against segregation in the protesting the Persian Gulf War and a demonstration following the 1970 shootings at Kent State University. In 2001, along with the Chapel Bell, the Arch was the site of a memorial to the victims of the September 11 attacks.

"Glory, Glory" is the rally song for the Georgia Bulldogs. "Glory, Glory" is sung to the tune of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic". It was sung at games as early as the 1890s, but arranged in its present form by musician-composer Hugh Hodgson in 1915. There have been many Bulldog songs through the years and at least two collections dating back to 1909 have been published, but "Glory, Glory" has been the most accepted among students and alumni. The only known original reference to the piece is in a history of the Redcoat Band written in 1962, which briefly mentions the march as "Georgia's first original school song" and notes that "all copies of the work have been lost." The document is kept in the university's Hargrett Library for rare and historic documents.{{cite web|title=Glory, glory, old march discovered|url=http://uga.edu/gm/ee/index.php?/single/2008/09/172/|publisher=University of Georgia|access-date=February 9, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130518141302/http://uga.edu/gm/ee/index.php?%2Fsingle%2F2008%2F09%2F172%2F|archive-date=May 18, 2013|url-status=dead}}

Although "Glory, Glory" is generally thought to be the school's fight song, the official fight song is "Hail to Georgia." Both are performed at football games by the Georgia Redcoat Marching Band, which plays the fight song after field goals and extra points, and "Glory, Glory" after touchdowns, interceptions, and victories. First stablished in 1905 as a military band, the Redcoat Band now has over 430 members and represents the university in sporting and community events.{{Cite web |title=University of Georgia Athletics |url=https://georgiadogs.com/sports/2018/10/16/redcoat-marching-band |access-date=2024-12-10 |website=georgiadogs.com}}

The "Alma Mater", the official school song of the University of Georgia, is set to the tune of "Annie Lisle", a popular 1857 ballad by H. S. Thompson. The lyrics to "Alma Mater", penned by J.B. Wright Jr., and Gail Carter Dendy, are unique to UGA. The song is sung at commencement and various official events of the University of Georgia.{{cite web|title=HISTORY & TRADITIONS – SINGING OF THE ALMA MATER|url=https://commencement.uga.edu/history|website=commencement.uga.edu|publisher=uga.edu|access-date=January 17, 2019}}

Sanford Stadium is the on-campus playing venue for football at the University of Georgia in Athens. The 92,746-seat stadium is the seventh largest stadium in the National Collegiate Athletic Association and has a grass (versus synthetic) field. The stadium is the eighth largest non-racing stadium in the United States and the 14th largest such stadium in the world. The stadium played host to the Olympic medal competition of men's and women's Olympic football (soccer) at the 1996 Summer Olympics.[https://web.archive.org/web/20080528011846/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1996/1996v1.pdf 1996 Summer Olympics official report.] Volume 1. p. 543.[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927222634/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1996/1996v3.pdf 1996 Summer Olympics official report.] Volume 3. p. 455.

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The University of Georgia playing "Between the Hedges" is a reference to Sanford Stadium that dates back to the early 1930s. The famous Chinese privet hedges that surround Sanford's playing field were only one foot high when the stadium was dedicated in 1929 and were protected by a wooden fence. Sports writers, referring to an upcoming home game, were said to observe "that the Bulldogs will have their opponent "between the hedges." The phrase was coined by the Atlanta sportswriter Grantland Rice.{{cite web|title=Georgia Traditions|url=http://www.georgiadogs.com/ot/geo-traditions.html|publisher=Georgia Dogs|access-date=December 2, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130118124224/http://www.georgiadogs.com/ot/geo-traditions.html|archive-date=January 18, 2013}} Games played there are said to be played "Between the Hedges" due to the privet hedges, which had stood around the field since 1929, but removed in the summer of 1996 so that soccer could be played for the 1996 Summer Olympics; new, albeit considerably shorter, hedges were restored in the fall of 1996. The hedges have been dubbed Hedges II by UGA fans.{{cite web|title=Ranking the 5 All-Time Greatest Traditions in Georgia Bulldogs Football History|url=http://bleacherreport.com/articles/911035-ranking-the-5-greatest-all-time-traditions-in-georgia-bulldog-football-history/page/4|website=Bleacher Report|access-date=February 9, 2013}}

The Dawg Walk is a Saturday football tradition and celebration at University of Georgia home games when UGA students and fans line up in the Tate Center parking lot to form a tunnel that greets the players and coaches as they enter Sanford Stadium. The team enters the stadium through Gate 10 at Sanford Stadium to the music of the Redcoat Marching Band. The march is often led by the team's costumed mascot Hairy Dawg.{{cite web|title=Ranking the 5 All-Time Greatest Traditions in Georgia Bulldogs Football History|url=http://bleacherreport.com/articles/911035-ranking-the-5-greatest-all-time-traditions-in-georgia-bulldog-football-history/page/3|publisher=BleacherReport|access-date=February 9, 2013}}

The Dawg Walk is preceded by two show section shows. The Redcoat Sousaphones perform a warm up concert in the Tate Center assembly area, while the Redcoat Drumline performs a drumshow in the parking lot.

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University graduates include over 110 state and federal legislators, 70 federal judges, and numerous state supreme court justices, government officials, and ambassadors. Notable alumni include former acting United States Attorney General Sally Yates, Ertharin Cousin who was named to the TIME 100 most influential people in the world list, John Archibald Campbell, a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, and President Pro Tempore of the U.S. Senate Richard B. Russell Jr.{{cite web|url=http://www.law.uga.edu/about |title=About the School of Law |publisher=University of Georgia School of Law |access-date=February 28, 2022}} Twenty-five University of Georgia alumni have become state governors,{{cite web|url=https://alumni.uga.edu/notable/|title=Notable Alumni|website=UGA Alumni Association|access-date=March 6, 2019}} including six of the last seven Governors of Georgia: George Busbee,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KvCjCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA96|title=Memories of the Mansion: The Story of Georgia's Governor's Mansion|last1=Deal|first1=Sandra D.|last2=Dickey|first2=Jennifer W.|last3=Lewis|first3=Catherine M.|date=October 2015|publisher=University of Georgia Press|isbn=978-0-8203-4859-9}} Joe Frank Harris,{{Harvnb|Dyer|1985|p=243}} Zell Miller,{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2002/10/17/mountain-to-hill/7cb4d49a-04c7-4ff0-aded-a09da0efce85/|title=Mountain to Hill|last=Hendrix|first=Steve|date=October 17, 2002|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=March 6, 2019}} Roy Barnes,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wl9DwjdLfrYC&pg=PA24|title=Behind the Hedges: Big Money and Power Politics at the University of Georgia|last=Whitt|first=Rich|date=August 2011|publisher=NewSouth Books|isbn=978-1-60306-096-7|page=24}} Sonny Perdue,{{cite news|url=https://www.myajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/trump-taps-perdue-agriculture-chief/sBixvQJApY44lrZ1awpS5L/|title=Trump taps Perdue as agriculture chief|last1=Salzer|first1=James|last2=Bluestein|first2=Greg|date=January 19, 2017|website=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|access-date=March 6, 2019|last3=McCaffrey|first3=Shannon}} and Brian Kemp.{{cite news|url=https://www.myajc.com/news/solid-republican-brian-kemp-plays-rural-roots-business-bonafides/OTAHo7LgnwgnnwKQG2CyFI/|title='Solid': Republican Brian Kemp plays up rural roots, business bonafides|last=Brett|first=Jennifer|date=October 12, 2018|website=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|access-date=March 6, 2019}} Miller also served as United States Senator as did several other UGA alumni including Johnny Isakson,{{cite web|url=https://news.uga.edu/johnny-isakson-spring-commencement-0314/|title=Johnny Isakson to deliver UGA's spring commencement address|last=Schupska|first=Stephanie|date=March 20, 2014|website=UGA Today|access-date=March 6, 2019}} and Saxby Chambliss.{{cite web|url=https://www.onlineathens.com/article/20160414/NEWS/304149949|title=UGA Alumni Association to present annual awards during Friday luncheon|date=April 14, 2016|website=Athens Banner-Herald|access-date=March 6, 2019}} Examples of some other alumni who served in high levels of government included Abdul Karim al-Iryani, the former prime minister of Yemen; Lloyd D. Brown, an Army major general who commanded the 28th Infantry Division in World War II;{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GbsKmW6xPnIC&pg=PA438|title=Normandy to Victory: The War Diary of General Courtney H. Hodges and the First U.S. Army|last=Greenwood|first=John|date=September 26, 2008|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|isbn=978-0-8131-2642-5}} William Tapley Bennett Jr., a U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Portugal, NATO, and the United Nations Security Council; Randy Evans, the former U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg; Eugene E. Habiger, an Air Force four-star general who served as Commander-in-Chief of the United States Strategic Command from 1996 to 1998; Chee Soon Juan, a neuropsychologist, research fellow at universities including the University of Chicago, a politician, and leader of the Singapore Democratic Party;{{cite news|last1=Suparto|first1=Idayu|title=GE2015: SDP's Chee Soon Juan says 'crowd kept him going' at first rally speech in 15 years|url=http://www.straitstimes.com/politics/ge2015-sdps-chee-soon-juan-says-crowd-kept-him-going-at-first-rally-speech-in-15-years|access-date=September 18, 2015|agency=The Straits Times|newspaper=The Straits Times|date=September 4, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906225250/http://www.straitstimes.com/politics/ge2015-sdps-chee-soon-juan-says-crowd-kept-him-going-at-first-rally-speech-in-15-years|archive-date=September 6, 2015|url-status=live}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2WnsjvFxk_oC&pg=PA12230|title=Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 107th Congress Second Session|publisher=Government Printing Office|year=1998|volume=144|issue=8|page=12230}}{{Dead link|date=August 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} and Phil Gramm, an economist and U.S. Senator from Texas.

University of Georgia alumni who pursued a career in investing and banking include Eugene R. Black Sr., the President of the World Bank from 1949 to 1963;{{cite web|url=http://www.worldbank.org/en/about/archives/history/past-presidents/eugene-robert-black|title=Eugene Robert Black|website=World Bank|access-date=March 6, 2019}} Eugene Robert Black, Chairman of the Federal Reserve; economist Robert D. McTeer, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas; and Brown L. Whatley, chairman of Arvida Corp. and president of the Mortgage Bankers Association.{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1990/09/05/baltimore-regulator-named-to-head-fed-bank-in-dallas/8b7ff26a-db7d-48c7-9859-be44fc4ff070/|title=Baltimore Regulator Named to Head Fed Bank in Dallas|date=September 5, 1990|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=March 6, 2019}} Examples of others in the business world include Bernard Ramsey, an executive with the brokerage firm Merrill Lynch,{{Harvnb|Dendy|2013|p=186}} Daniel P. Amos, the chairman and CEO of Aflac,{{cite web|url=https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2019/02/12/3m-donation-to-uga-law-school-targets-first.html|title=$3M donation to UGA law school targets first-generation students|last=Williams|first=Dave|date=February 12, 2019|website=Atlanta Business Chronicle|access-date=March 6, 2019}} M. Michele Burns, board member of Wal-Mart, Cisco Systems and Goldman Sachs, D.W. Brooks, founder and chairman of Gold Kist, A.D. "Pete" Correll, chairman of Georgia-Pacific and director of SunTrust Bank, Mirant and Norfolk Southern, and Tom Cousins, a real estate developer, sports patron, and philanthropist. Cousins is the owner of the Atlanta Hawks.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pLoyDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA124|title=Humanizing the Education Machine: How to Create Schools That Turn Disengaged Kids Into Inspired Learners|last1=Miller|first1=Rex|last2=Latham|first2=Bill|last3=Cahill|first3=Brian|date=November 7, 2016|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-119-28310-2|page=124}}

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William Porter Payne, who played football at UGA and was Vice Chairman of Bank of America became president and chief executive officer of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games and later chairman of Augusta National Golf Club. Payne was largely responsible for bringing the 1996 Summer Olympics to Atlanta and the University of Georgia.{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/1996-04-28/the-virtual-olympics|title=The Virtual Olympics|date=April 29, 1996|website=Bloomberg|access-date=March 6, 2019}} In sports, particularly in the NFL, notable UGA alumni include Mike Macdonald, the Seattle Seahawks head coach, who was the youngest head coach in the NFL,{{cite news |last=Condotta |first=Bob |date=January 31, 2024 |title=Seahawks hire Mike Macdonald as coach to replace Pete Carroll |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/seahawks/reports-seahawks-expected-to-hire-mike-macdonald-as-head-coach-to-replace-pete-carroll/ |work=The Seattle Times |accessdate=February 1, 2024}} and Terrell Davis, a two-time Super Bowl champion with the Denver Broncos who was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.{{cite news|url=https://www.myajc.com/sports/football/canton-bound-davis-pays-homage-uga/01ataaewYgXeUYj8R6H1lK/|title=Canton-bound Davis pays homage to UGA|last=Ledbetter|first=D. Orlando|date=July 20, 2017|website=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|access-date=March 6, 2019}} Other Bulldogs that went on to a professional career include Hines Ward, a wide receiver who played the Pittsburgh Steelers for 15 seasons,{{cite news|url=https://www.myajc.com/sports/football/the-hall-fame-case-for-hines-ward/aj6m93O1E94z5S7oNk1jDI/|title=The Hall of Fame case for Hines Ward (with poll)|last=Vivlamore|first=Chris|date=November 22, 2017|website=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|access-date=March 6, 2019}} Champ Bailey, a consensus All-American drafted by the Washington Redskins in the first round of the 1999 draft,{{cite web|url=https://www.cantonrep.com/special/20190127/6-days-until-selection-saturday-first-year-eligible-finalists-champ-bailey-richard-seymour|title=6 days until Selection Saturday: First-year eligible finalists Champ Bailey, Richard Seymour|last=Porter|first=Todd|date=January 27, 2019|website=The Repository|access-date=March 6, 2019}} and Reggie Brown, drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the second round of the 2005 draft.{{cite web|url=https://bleacherreport.com/articles/154992-nfl-draft-rewind-philadelphia-eagles-class-of-2005|title=NFL Draft Rewind: Philadelphia Eagles Class of 2005|last=Ten Take|date=April 12, 2009|website=Bleacher Report|access-date=March 6, 2019}} Alumni with careers in professional sports include Mitchell Boggs, a former baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals,{{cite web|url=https://www.onlineathens.com/article/20160107/SPORTS/301079974|title=MLB pitcher Mitchell Boggs returns to UGA as student assistant|date=January 7, 2016|website=Athens Banner-Herald|access-date=March 6, 2019}} and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, a professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers.{{cite web|url=https://www.myajc.com/sports/uga-kentavious-caldwell-pope-agrees-deal-with-lakers/1EJ5oQH2PflEnoub79O3VI/|title=UGA's Kentavious Caldwell-Pope agrees to deal with Lakers|last=Culpepper|first=JuliaKate E.|date=July 12, 2017|website=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|access-date=March 6, 2019}}{{Dead link|date=July 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Some University of Georgia alumni who have served in the scientific and medical fields include Alfred Blalock, an award-winning chief of surgery, professor, and director of the department of surgery of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine who ushered in the modern era of cardiac surgery; Cornelia Bargmann, an award-winning neurobiologist, who is Wiesel Professor of Genetics and Neurosciences at the Rockefeller University, investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and president of science at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative; Crawford Long, a surgeon and pharmacist best known for the first use of inhaled diethyl ether as an anesthetic; Sir David Baulcombe, FRS, a geneticist who is Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge; Hervey M. Cleckley, a psychiatrist and pioneer in the field of psychopathy whose published work was the most influential clinical description of psychopathy in the twentieth century and who was co-author of The Three Faces of Eve; Barbara Rothbaum, a psychologist, medical school professor, and pioneer in the treatment of anxiety-related disorders who has played a key role in the development of the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD); Eugene T. Booth, a nuclear physicist who was a member of the historic team that made the first demonstration of nuclear fission in the United States; A. Jamie Cuticchia, a bioinformatics pioneer with expertise in the fields of genetics, bioinformatics, and genomics who was responsible for the groundbreaking collection of data constituting the human gene map and who is director of human genome database; and James E. Boyd, a physicist, mathematician, and founder of Scientific Atlanta, part of Cisco.

UGA alumni have made significant contributions to the field of journalism and media. They include Henry W. Grady, a journalist and orator from the late 19th-century after whom the College of Journalism was named,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JegLXYrq1bMC&pg=PA177|title=The New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion to Georgia Literature|last1=Ruppersburg|first1=Hugh|last2=Inscoe|first2=John C.|date=August 15, 2011|publisher=University of Georgia Press|isbn=978-0-8203-4300-6|page=177}} and Clark Howell, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who became the namesake of one of the buildings at his alma mater. Howell succeeded Grady as managing editor of the Atlanta Constitution. More recent journalism alumni include Charlayne Hunter-Gault, a multiple Emmy Award and Peabody Award winning former reporter for The New York Times, PBS NewsHour and CNN,{{Cite news|url=https://www.myajc.com/news/local/charlayne-hunter-gault-integrating-uga-was-just-the-start-her-news/8kuerjoBLQ9cVBnmyX6CcP/|title=Charlayne Hunter-Gault: Integrating UGA was just the start of her news|last=Habersham|first=Raisa|date=February 16, 2018|website=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|access-date=March 7, 2019}} Deborah Blum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, journalist, science writer and professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; John Holliman, a broadcast journalist with CNN, known for his coverage of space exploration and reporting during the Persian Gulf War (and to whom NASA dedicated its Launch Complex 39 Press Site facility at the Kennedy Space Center); Mary Katharine Ham, a journalist, political commentator, and guest host of The View; as well as a CNN and Fox News Channel contributor, Pat Mitchell, media industry CEO, producer, professor, and author who worked at NBC (where she was the first woman to produce and host a national program) and other news broadcasters, and who has taught at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and other universities; Alice Stewart, political commentator for CNN, Emmy Award winner, communications director for presidential campaigns, and a Harvard Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government;{{cite web |title=Alice Stewart Resident Fellow |url=https://iop.harvard.edu/fellows/alice-stewart |website=iop.harvard.edu |publisher=The President and Fellows of Harvard College |access-date=March 7, 2024}} Mark B. Perry, a television producer, television writer and Primetime Emmy Award winner; Deborah Norville, an anchor for Inside Edition;{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/12/nyregion/about-long-island-deborah-norville-on-the-rebound.html|title=Deborah Norville on the Rebound|last=Ketcham|first=Diane|date=October 12, 1997|work=The New York Times|access-date=March 7, 2019|issn=0362-4331}} and the ABC News television presenters Deborah Roberts and Amy Robach. Both Roberts and Robach appear on 20/20 and Good Morning America.{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/2020/abc-news-correspondent-deborah-roberts/story?id=123929|title=Deborah Roberts: ABC News Correspondent|date=October 14, 2016|website=ABC News|access-date=March 7, 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/local/abc-names-brookwood-high-grad-amy-robach-co-anchor/article_721958f0-345a-53ec-9572-c5fd9f52881e.html|title=ABC names Brookwood High grad Amy Robach '20/20' co-anchor|date=April 24, 2018|website=Gwinnett Daily Post|access-date=March 7, 2019}}

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A total of nine UGA graduates have received the Pulitzer Prize,{{cite web|url=https://news.uga.edu/uga-alumna-wins-pulitzer-prize/|title=UGA alumna wins Pulitzer Prize for collection of poetry|last=Dendy|first=Larry B.|date=June 4, 2007|website=UGA Today|access-date=March 7, 2019}} including Natasha Tretheway, winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, who was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 2012 and again in 2014.{{Cite news|url=https://www.myajc.com/entertainment/celebrity-news/emory-professor-named-poet-laureate/TcIdJ4DBzVPPdoWI8Q8PqK/|title=Emory professor named U.S. poet laureate|last=Bentley|first=Rosalind|date=June 6, 2012|website=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|access-date=March 7, 2019}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.ajc.com/news/local/natasha-trethewey-former-poet-laureate-leaving-emory-university/K62x49m3tyAhfcPHZZDX5O/|title=Natasha Trethewey, former U.S. Poet Laureate, leaving Emory University|last=Bentley|first=Rosalind|date=November 17, 2016|website=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|access-date=May 16, 2022}} Other notable UGA alumni in print media include Tom Johnson, a former publisher of the Los Angeles Times;{{Cite news|url=https://www.ajc.com/business/tom-johnson-your-best-the-front-lines/1CbJPuJGwmtym9DN1RjBuJ/|title=Tom Johnson: 'Do your best to go to the front lines'|last=Unger|first=Henry|date=November 20, 2014|website=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|access-date=May 16, 2022}} Sherrilyn Kenyon, author of over 100 novels;{{cite web|url=https://www.sherrilynkenyon.com/did-you-know/|title=Did you know..?|work=Sherrilyn McQueen}}{{cite web|url=https://www.hercampus.com/school/gcsu/sherrilyn-kenyon-bestselling-alumnus|title = Sherrilyn Kenyon: Bestselling Alumnus|work= Her Campus|date = April 13, 2013}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.ajc.com/lifestyles/author-dark-tales-escape-from-darkness-her-own-life/x9A9EBMVXVdVwr8vLkC9vN/|title = This Life: Author's dark tales an escape from darkness in her own life|newspaper = The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|last1 = Staples|first1 = Gracie Bonds}} and Stuart Woods, a prolific novelist with more than 60 books.{{cite web|url=https://www.oklahoman.com/story/entertainment/books/2016/04/03/conversation-with-author-stuart-woods-who-will-featured-edmond-as-his-latest-book-launches-tuesday/60682733007/|title=A conversation with author Stuart Woods, who will be featured in Edmond as his latest book launches Tuesday|last=Raymond|first=Ken|date=April 3, 2016|website=The Oklahoman|access-date=March 7, 2019}}

Former UGA students in the music industry include Danger Mouse,{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/2016/11/01/danger-mouse-30th-century/|title=Inside Danger Mouse's Label, 30th Century Records|last=Brown|first=Eric Renner|date=November 1, 2016|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=March 7, 2019}} Dave Haywood and Charles Kelley of Lady Antebellum,{{cite web|url=http://www.cmt.com/news/1791860/charles-kelley-dave-haywood-graduate-to-uga-speakers/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180307014842/http://www.cmt.com/news/1791860/charles-kelley-dave-haywood-graduate-to-uga-speakers/|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 7, 2018|title=Charles Kelley, Dave Haywood Graduate to UGA Speakers|last=Bonaguro|first=Alison|date=March 6, 2018|website=CMT News|access-date=March 7, 2019}} and several members of the bands the B-52's, R.E.M. and Widespread Panic.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F4LlDAAAQBAJ|title=Party Out of Bounds: The B-52's, R.E.M., and the Kids who Rocked Athens, Georgia|last=Brown|first=Rodger Lyle|date=2016|publisher=University of Georgia Press|isbn=9780820350400}}{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-b-52s-mission-accomplished-231021/|title=The B-52s: Mission Accomplished|last1=Azerrad|first1=Michael|date=March 22, 1990|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=March 7, 2019}}{{cite book|chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Kp5sCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA94|pages = 90–97|title = Secret Societies Vol. 3: The Collegiate Secret Societies of America|first = Arthur Morius|last = Francis|publisher = Lulu Press, Inc|year = 2015|isbn = 9781312932852|chapter = 2.27 Greek Life at the University of Georgia}} After studying film at the university, Alton Brown became the director of photography on the music video for R.E.M.'s "The One I Love". Brown went on to create the Food Network television show Good Eats.{{Cite news|url=http://onlineathens.com/stories/051210/liv_637614879.shtml|title=Brown talks TV, food, R.E.M.|last=Melancon|first=Merritt|date=May 12, 2010|work=Athens Banner-Herald|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130815065337/http://onlineathens.com/stories/051210/liv_637614879.shtml|archive-date=August 15, 2013|url-status=dead}} Examples of some other notable alumni in film, television, and radio include Kim Basinger, an actress winning the BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, as well as Sonny Shroyer,{{cite web|url=https://qconline.com/sports/duke-s-deputy-enos-general-lee-at-speedway/article_88725ba3-0a5b-5eec-a5f2-a91e4d7ba9b6.html|title=Duke's deputy Enos, General Lee at speedway|last=Ruthhart|first=Roger|date=July 13, 2011|website=The Dispatch–Argus|access-date=March 7, 2019}} Fred Newman,{{cite web|url=https://people.com/archive/by-talking-both-straight-and-silly-to-teens-fred-newman-is-cables-pied-piper-of-puberty-vol-20-no-1/|title=By Talking Both Straight and Silly to Teens, Fred Newman Is Cable's Pied Piper of Puberty|last=Kahn|first=Toby|date=July 4, 1983|website=People|access-date=March 7, 2019}} Matt Lanter,{{cite web|url=https://www.timesenterprise.com/news/local_news/lanter-lands-role-in-drama/article_7626df18-f161-58f8-b4d9-e7fc40b5138a.html|title=Lanter lands role in drama|last=Dozier|first=Patti|date=December 9, 2005|website=Thomasville Times-Enterprise|access-date=March 7, 2019}} Kyle Chandler,{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bar-hopping-kyle-chandler-friday-777332|title=Bar-Hopping With Kyle Chandler: 'Bloodline' Star on His "Dark, Evil" Period, Comedy Dreams and Return to TV|last=Rose|first=Lacey|date=February 25, 2015|website=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=March 7, 2019}} IronE Singleton,{{Cite news|url=https://www.myajc.com/news/streetwise-and-camera-ready/tvcBpAvErSG0bwRY5xxKDK/|title=Streetwise and Camera Ready|last=Bill|first=Torpy|date=May 11, 2013|website=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|access-date=March 7, 2019}} Wayne Knight,{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2009/mar/07/wayne-knight-newman-seinfeld|title=Is this it? Wayne Knight, aka Newman, doesn't really see the Seinfeld gang anymore|date=March 7, 2009|work=The Guardian|access-date=March 7, 2019|issn=0261-3077}} Tituss Burgess, Parvati Shallow,{{cite web |title=Parvati Biography – Survivor: Cook Islands |url=https://www.cbs.com/shows/survivor/cast/20399/ |website=CBS |access-date=May 21, 2020}} and Ryan Seacrest.{{Cite news|url=https://www.myajc.com/news/local-education/university-georgia-graduates-get-advice-from-ryan-seacrest-updated/DZXLgeOfJJm2dRAonAGJTL/|title=University of Georgia graduates get advice from Ryan Seacrest (updated)|last=Davis|first=Janel|date=May 14, 2016|website=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|access-date=March 7, 2019}}

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