Workforce development is job one for UGA outreach programs

Since 2015, when the Vinson Institute launched its Workforce and Economic Analysis unit, faculty and staff there have been working with communities throughout Georgia to identify ways to connect local employers with the local workforce.
Rock Eagle 4-H Center to make critical facility improvements as recipient of Governor’s Emergency Education Relief Fund

Rock Eagle 4-H Center was announced as a recipient of the Governor’s Emergency Education Relief Fund (GEER II) in a press release from Gov. Brian Kemp’s office on Jan. 10. The release stated that the $2.2 million in funding “will support vitally needed improvements to the facility to increase safety and expand learning experience opportunities.”
Rock Eagle entrance
UGA alumni team up to complete historic restoration in downtown Athens

Andrew Malec was planning to go into photojournalism after he graduated from Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. Zack Brendel majored in environmental economics and management in the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
Andrew Malec and Zack Brendel
UGA and MU awarded $1.2 million NSF-NIFA grant to fight the soybean cyst nematode

University of Georgia plant pathology researcher Melissa Mitchum will co-direct a $1.2 million award from the joint National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NSF-NIFA) Plant-Biotic Interactions Program to help combat a devastating soybean pathogen with colleagues at the University of Missouri.
Truist commits $1.25M to UGA Innovation District

The Truist Foundation and SunTrust Trusteed Foundations have gifted $1.25 million to the University of Georgia Innovation District to establish the Truist Community Innovation Initiative.
Wayne Farms donates over $1M to UGA Poultry Science Building

The 70,000 sq. ft. facility will serve as a centerpiece for recruitment efforts to attract new talent to UGA's top-tier poultry science program.
Three more UGA faculty elected Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors

Faculty members Anumantha Kanthasamy, S. Edward Law and Scott NeSmith are UGA’s newest Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors. The university now has 12 faculty who have received this prestigious honor, all of them elected since 2013.
National Academy of Inventors
Georgia’s economy well on its way “back to normal” by end of 2022

The Georgia economy is on track to exceed its pre-pandemic peak and make a full recovery by the end of 2022, recovering faster than the national economy.
Perdue Foundation provides support for UGA Poultry Science Building

A $200,000 grant from the Franklin P. and Arthur W. Perdue Foundation, the charitable giving arm of Perdue Farms, will help support the construction of the University of Georgia’s new Poultry Science Building, which will begin construction in spring 2022.
Perdue: Delivering Hope to Our Neighbors