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Dec 19, 2022 · The Ohio State Buckeyes finished the regular season 7-2-1 after tying with rival Michigan 13-13 (Overtime was not instituted in college football until 1996) and were looking to finish the season ...
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Eighteenth Century
In February 1784, just after the close of the Revolutionary War, the General Assembly of Georgia earmarked 40,000 acres of land to endow “a college or seminary of learning.” The following year, Abraham Baldwin, a lawyer and minister educated at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, who had settled in Georgia in 1783, wrote the charter that created the University of Georgia. Reflecting the exuberance of newfound freedom sweeping through the colonies, Baldwin created a populist document th...
Nineteenth Century
For the next sixteen years the university existed only on paper, as Georgia’s leaders, occupied with the more pressing business of creating a state, used the land designated for a college for other purposes. In 1801 interest in the university revived, and John Milledge, a lawyer and legislator, bought 633 acres along the frontier on the Oconee River and donated the land as a site for the school. Josiah Meigs, another Yale graduate, was appointed president and sole faculty member and in Septem...
Twentieth Century
Schools of pharmacy, forestry, education, business, journalism, and home economics and a graduate school were started in the early twentieth century, and in 1918 women were admitted as regular students. The creation of the University System of Georgiain 1932 brought the university and the state’s twenty-five other public colleges together under the centralized administrative control of the Board of Regents and spun off several university branch campuses as separate institutions. The State Col...
As Georgia’s flagship institution, UGA’s first obligation is to educate the state’s young people, and about 82 percent of university students are Georgia residents. With its rising academic stature and moderate costs, UGA is an increasingly popular choice for high school graduates. During the 2000s freshman applications averaged 12,400 for a class ...
As a federal land-grant university, UGA has a mandate to make available its personnel and resources to improve life in Georgia. The public service and outreach program includes nine service units, Cooperative Extension Service faculty and staff in most of the state’s 159 counties, and formalized outreach activities in most of the university’s seven...
With a research budget that exceeds $250 million and more than 50 specialized research centers, UGA research spans virtually every academic field. Areas of particular strength include genetics, molecular biosciences, biomedicine, chemistry, food production, information technology, business, education, and ecology and the environment. In fiscal year...
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Sep 12, 2022 · The University of Georgia shares the No. 16 ranking with Ohio State University and is just ahead of Purdue University at No. 18. UGA’s ranking came in just behind the Georgia Institute of Technology at No. 15 and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the College of William & Mary, which are tied at No. 13. UGA is one of only two ...
A Brief History of the University of Georgia Et docere et rerum exquirere causas. To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things. – University of Georgia motto Figure 2. Campus Map, 1899. (Source: University of Georgia) The history of the University of Georgia (UGA) generally parallels that of the State of Georgia itself.
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Sep 2, 2023 · Georgia Bulldogs mascot Uga X is seen prior to the game against the Ohio State Buckeyes at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on December 31, 2022, in Atlanta, Georgia. ... website titled "History of the UGA ...
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Ground-breaking electrical home research. The Georgia Power Company provided funds for a laboratory to study electrical home equipment. By 1929 the Home equipment laboratory had moved to large rooms on second floor of Barrow Hall. Visitors from 24 states came to observe the modern equipment donated by manufacturers and utility companies.
Ohio restructured its two colleges into five in 1935, establishing the colleges of Commerce, Fine Arts, and Applied Science in addition to the existing colleges of Arts & Sciences and Education. The Graduate College was created in 1936, and the first PhD program was initiated in 1956 in chemistry. [39]
