The agenda includes faculty award and research presentations, and Faculty Senate meeting.

M. Smith Griffith Auditorium
Georgia Museum of Art

A reception will be held from 4-5 p.m.
M. Smith Griffith Grand Hall
Georgia Museum of Art

Gassner

Nearly 200 speech language pathologists, audiologists, educators and students from across the state will hear about the latest research and best practices in their fields at the UGA College of Education’s fifth annual Communication Sciences and Special Education Summer Institute. The keynote speaker will be Dena Gassner.

The Missing Link: Helping Students with Asperger’s to Embrace and Integrate Self-awareness as a Foundation for Personal Advocacy and Growth

Dena Gassner
Program director and owner the Center for Understanding
Nashville, Tenn.

Georgia Center for Continuing Education

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A group of University of Georgia students taking a service-learning course worked collaboratively with people across the community to bring A Place at the Table, a documentary film focusing on hunger in America, followed by local panel discussion to Cine.

The event kicks off with a reception at 6 p.m. with refreshments provided by local restaurants Five & Ten, The National and Farm 255. The screening of the film will begin at 7:30 p.m. A panel discussion will follow. Panelists include Hugh Acheson (chef, author, restaurateur), Paula Farmer (Clarke County School District Nutrition Director), Spencer Frye (Georgia House Representative, District 118), and Erin Barger (Director, Action Ministries and Our Daily Bread Kitchen). Admission is $20, with the proceeds going to the Athens Farmer’s Market’s Double SNAP Program that doubles the “food stamp” benefits of low-income residents at the Athens Farmer’s Market.

Cine
Reception begins at 6 p.m.
Film Screening — 7:30 p.m.
Panel discussion follows

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U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., will take the podium May 10 in Sanford Stadium for the University of Georgia’s undergraduate Commencement. The spring ceremony will begin at 7 p.m. and will recognize Mary Frances Early, UGA’s first African-American graduate, with an honorary doctor of laws degree.

Chambliss

UNDERGRADUATE

7 p.m.
Speaker: U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss
Sanford Stadium

Hajduk

GRADUATE

10 a.m.
Stegeman Coliseum

Speaker: UGA professor Stephen Hajduk, head of the department of biochemistry and molecular biology in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.

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• 1 p.m. & 4 p.m. (depending on major)
• Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall – Performing Arts Center, 230 River Road, Athens, GA
• Dress: Business Attire
• RSVP/Tickets Required: Students are allotted 3 tickets – Students will receive an information letter sent to their UGA email after March 1.
• RSVPs and ticket requests (closed) – Ticket requests will open in March.
• Contact:  The Office of Student Services at 706/542-1717

The Southeast Moodle Mini Moot Learning Management System for K-12 Conference will focus on how schools systems can use the system for blended and online learning of Common Core standards, organizing a 1:1 initiative or flipping a classroom.

Area school administrators, curriculum directors, technology coordinators,and teachers are encouraged to attend this conference to learn practical, personal perspectives on how to initiate, implement and maintain Moodle for a variety of purposes and audiences.

Speaker: David Millians

Georgia Center for Continuing Education

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Vagle

The Introduction to Phenomenological Research will offer qualitative researchers, instructors of qualitative research methods and graduate students insights on the philosophical and methodological foundations of phenomenology, practice with the core methodological techniques commonly used in descriptive and interpretive phenomenological research and discussions about the presenter’s post-intentional phenomenology.

Instructor: Mark Vagle
Associate professor
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
University of Minnesota

Georgia Center for Continuing Education

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Hamilton

This three-day workshop on the design, implementation and analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) is designed as an introductory session for people with an interest in trials, but with limited experience in undertaking them in educational settings. The goal is to increase the capacity of researchers to develop and conduct rigorous evaluations of the impact of education interventions.

Instructor: Jennifer Hamilton
Senior Study Director
Westat

Georgia Center for Continuing Education

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