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Director helps students see and be their best selves February 26, 2021 Cara Winston Simmons leads FACS’ Student Success and Advising Center Cara Winston Simmons’ day usually involves lots of meetings and lots of emails. But what she’s actually doing is connecting with others and, in turn, helping them connect with ways to become the best versions of themselves. “I want to help students see and be their best selves. That is what I’m here to do,” said Simmons, who is the director of t...

University of Georgia graduates will get a spring commencement ceremony — but with COVID-19 modifications. UGA president Jere W. Morehead announced Friday that the university will have not one, but four ceremonies for the spring 2021 graduates, including three undergraduate ceremonies and one ceremony for the master’s, specialists, and doctoral degrees. The decision to split up commencement into multiple days would be to comply with social distancing guidelines. Additionally, this years g...

UGA announces plan for spring Commencement February 26, 2021 UGAs spring Commencement, above, was held in fall 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Andrew Davis Tucker/UGA) In-person events will occur in Sanford Stadium in May The University of Georgia has announced Commencement ceremonies for its spring 2021 graduates, inviting them to join together and celebrate their accomplishments inside Sanford Stadium–provided these gatherings are declared safe by state and local health officia...

February 25, 2021 This rendering of a multispace area is part of UW student Claire Larson’s award-winning design for a veterans’ facility. (Image courtesy of Claire Larson) A veterans’ living facility that addresses the tenets of social sustainability and equity earned a University of Wyoming student third place in the Pacific West region in the Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC) competition. Claire Larson, a senior in UW’s Department of Family and Consumer Sciences from Columbus,...

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OSU Extension: Winter agriculture happenings Trevor Corboy With all that is going on with the pandemic, and orders and recommendations in place, I am still not sure about when we will do pesticide recertification for 2021. I currently have pesticide and fertilizer recertification scheduled for Monday, March 15. The good news is the state legislature passed into law extending the recertification deadline until July 1, so we have time. For those of you who have a license or certificate that expir...

OSU Extension: Winter agriculture happenings Trevor Corboy With all that is going on with the pandemic, and orders and recommendations in place, I am still not sure about when we will do pesticide recertification for 2021. I currently have pesticide and fertilizer recertification scheduled for Monday, March 15. The good news is the state legislature passed into law extending the recertification deadline until July 1, so we have time. For those of you who have a license or certificate that expir...

Senior focuses on fashion design while living with MS February 13, 2021 Nakyra Milner is a senior fashion merchandising major from Locust Grove. She started sewing masks in 2019, before the pandemic. She sews and sells masks—and used the money from summer mask sales to upgrade her sewing machine. Her masks and many of her designs feature flowers. (Photo by Peter Frey/UGA) Nakyra Milner navigates campus with a disability, and advocates for a little more empathy If you ever see someone walking...

University of Arizona offering money to participate in ‘Hijos Project’ Seeking Latino families to participate in COVID-19 survey The University of Arizona is looking for Latino families to participate in an online study for $40. (Source: University of Arizona) By Shelby Trahan | February 12, 2021 at 10:29 AM MST - Updated February 12 at 1:14 PM TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - COVID-19 has affected millions of people across the world, but many minority communities have seen a hig...

There is no risk that COVID-19 can be passed to babies through their mother’s breast milk, and infected mothers may provide some protection to nursing infants against the disease according