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UGA-TIFTON CAMPUS UPDATES

Effective July 15, the UGA Tifton campus will require all faculty, staff, students, and visitors to wear an appropriate face covering while inside campus facilities/buildings where six feet social distancing may not always be possible.

Faculty, staff and students should watch email for additional updates.

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Dawgs in Tifton
Complete the Find the Dawgs challenge for a free shirt
Take pics with each of the dawgs around Tifton and post to social media with the hashtag #NiftyTifty. When you're done, follow the paw prints to NESPAL South (Pal's home) on the UGA Tifton campus and pick up your FREE T-SHIRT.
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Conference and Event Services
South Georgia's ONLY full service conference center
At the UGA Tifton Campus Conference Center we promise a high quality, competitively priced experience. From training seminars to wedding receptions — whether your event has 20 guests, or 2,000 — we can meet your needs.
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The HACCP Roundtable is designed to discuss food safety and operational opportunities in poultry and meat processing. Registration deadline is June 28th.
Jun 30
10:00AM - 2:00PM Virtual HACCP Roundtable for Poultry & Meat Processors
Summer Conference registration system is now open and ready for you to register.  Please complete your online registration by June 25th.
Jul 11
4:00PM - 6:00PM Georgia Vocational Agriculture Teachers Association Summer Conference (4-Day Event) Tifton Campus Conference Center, Tifton, GA
Summer Conference registration system is now open and ready for you to register.  Please complete your online registration by June 25th.
Jul 12
8:30AM - 5:15PM Georgia Vocational Agriculture Teachers Association Summer Conference (4-Day Event) Tifton Campus Conference Center, Tifton, GA
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CAES News from UGA-Tifton

Professor David Bertioli and senior research scientist Soraya Leal-Bertioli work together with peanut plants in their greenhouses at the Center for Applied Genetic Technologies. CAES News
Professor David Bertioli and senior research scientist Soraya Leal-Bertioli work together with peanut plants in their greenhouses at the Center for Applied Genetic Technologies.
New peanut has a wild past and domesticated present
The wild relatives of modern peanut plants have the ability to withstand disease in ways that modern peanut plants can’t. The genetic diversity of these wild relatives means that they can shrug off the diseases that kill farmers’ peanut crops, but they also produce tiny nuts that are difficult to harvest because they burrow deep in the soil.
The UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences will celebrate its graduates virtually on the CAES YouTube channel at 6 p.m. Thursday, May 13. Faculty, staff, students, friends and family are encouraged to tune in and cheer on the college's newest alumni in the live chat. CAES News
The UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences will celebrate its graduates virtually on the CAES YouTube channel at 6 p.m. Thursday, May 13. Faculty, staff, students, friends and family are encouraged to tune in and cheer on the college's newest alumni in the live chat.
CAES convocation ceremony will remain virtual for spring
While plans for spring commencement at the University of Georgia will now include unlimited guests and the option for students to sit on Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium, the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES) will proceed with plans for a virtual Convocation ceremony for its undergraduate and graduate candidates at 6 p.m. Thursday, May 13.
Peggy Ozias-Akins, a global leader in the application of biotechnology for crop improvement, has been named UGA’s recipient of the SEC Faculty Achievement Award. She is pictured in her greenhouse surrounded by Pennisetum (pearl millet) hybrid plants. CAES News
Peggy Ozias-Akins, a global leader in the application of biotechnology for crop improvement, has been named UGA’s recipient of the SEC Faculty Achievement Award. She is pictured in her greenhouse surrounded by Pennisetum (pearl millet) hybrid plants.
Ozias-Akins receives SEC Faculty Achievement Award
Peggy Ozias-Akins, D.W. Brooks Professor and Distinguished Research Professor in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, has been named the University of Georgia’s recipient of the Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Award.  
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