Heather Skyler

UGA students gain insight into future career possibilities through Big Apple experiences.

Jon Michael McKinnon’s summer internship at Chase Park Transduction involves a lot of basic tasks such as doing dishes and sweeping the floor. “But I’m sweeping the floor around crazy, awesome equipment that I can nerd out about,” he said.

In seventh grade, a few teachers who had noticed Richard Wilson’s artistic talent asked him to draw several Black leaders, including portraits of Martin Luther King Jr. and Harriet Tubman. He completed the drawings, and when he came back to school after the weekend, they were pinned up on the bulletin board by the principal’s office above a sign that said “By future artist Richard Wilson.”

Renowned artist and Athens native Harold Rittenberry Jr. was there the day Charlayne Hunter (now Hunter-Gault) and Hamilton Holmes arrived at the University of Georgia. He had just left his girlfriend’s house on the east side of Athens and was walking through downtown when he saw two vehicles pull up in front of the Arch with an unruly crowd pressing in on the cars.

When Luetrell Sims began working as a baker at the University of Georgia’s Savannah Room in 1963, the strawberry ice cream pie was already being made, but hadn’t yet become a “famous” dessert that drew people to Athens from across the state and beyond.

Emelynn Arroyave was dead set on getting out of Georgia after high school graduation. She grew up in Dacula, and was hoping to go someplace different than her home state. “I wanted to go to New York or maybe Boston,” she said. “I had this idea that I could go somewhere new and be a new person.”

It’s a Wednesday evening in September, and about 35 University of Georgia students gather in a Driftmier Engineering Center classroom.

Anne Noland works as senior director of football communications for the Miami Dolphins, but when she enters her workplace – Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida – on Dec. 31, it will be as a fan of the Georgia Bulldogs

When University of Georgia professor Jason Locklin met Daniel Carraway over 10 years ago, neither of them knew their professional relationship would result in a substantial economic development investment in Athens.

Megan Prescott made a video detailing the ways tuberculosis influenced fashion from the Victorian era to the present day for her application. (Think skirts that didn’t drag on the ground and gather bacteria, for example) Kristen Lear secured a grant to build bat houses all over the University of Georgia’s campus.

There is no technical definition of a tiny house, but the working understanding is a home that is 400 square feet or smaller. So what is a “Kinda Tiny” home? Well, it’s a little bit bigger, but not much.

Feminist mothers raise more feminist daughters who are able to stand up for themselves in their close relationships, according to new research from the University of Georgia.

The preserved remains of the old St. Mark’s A.M.E. Church rise up in the center of Atlanta’s English Avenue neighborhood like an ancient ruin.

Dan Geller moved to Atlanta from Waukesha, Wisconsin, to attend Georgia Tech. He made it as far as orientation and decided it just didn’t feel right.

Fashion has more of an influence on your daily life than you might realize. Just ask Monica Sklar, who is dedicated to studying the many ways fashion, history and culture intersect.