Summer 2024

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UGA legacy began with a Pontiac and a proposal

A parking lot proposal behind a home management house half a century ago sparked a UGA legacy that now spans three generations.

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Paradigm shift: Opportunity abounds for FACS design students

Furnishings and interiors program continues to grow thanks largely to burgeoning career options.

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From Dawson Hall to Bananaland

FACS grad Katelyn Scott's job in baseball is definitely as fun as it looks.

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Childhood ordeal shaped Schwan’s passion for food microbiology

She didn’t realize it at the time, but Carla Schwan’s passion for food microbiology began in a hospital bed in rural Brazil.

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Transformative gift: Flatt establishes college’s first endowed chair

Connie Rogers, head of the FACS department of nutritional sciences, named first Bill and June Flatt Chair in Foods and Nutrition.

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Laws receives UGA Creative Teaching Award

Carol Britton Laws, clinical professor and executive director of the UGA Destination Dawgs program, has received a Creative Teaching Award from the UGA Office of Instruction.

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Few-Demo named Fellow of National Council on Family Relations

April Few-Demo, professor and head of the department of human development and family science in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences, has been named a Fellow of the National Council on Family Relations.

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‘Revered and feared,’ Cross was a trailblazer for generations of women

Longtime faculty member Aleene Cross inducted into college's Honor Hall of Recognition.

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Laing honored as 2024 Seawell Award recipient

Emma Laing, clinical professor and director of dietetics in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences, is the 2024 recipient of the University of Georgia’s Lee Anne Seawell Faculty Recognition Award.

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Bales honored for commitment to public service and outreach

Diane Bales, UGA Extension human development specialist, Child Life program director and professor of human development and family science, has received the Engaged Scholar Award from UGA Public Service and Outreach.

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