Previous Events
Panel: Kudzu and the Boll Weevil in Modern Georgia
Join the Russell Library for a panel featuring Drs. James C. Giesen, Associate Professor of History and Grisham Master Teacher, Mississippi State University, and Derek Alderman, Professor of Geography, University of Tennessee. Discussion will include the social, cultural, and economic impact of notorious pests such as the boll weevil and kudzu in modern Georgia. Dr. Brian Drake, Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Georgia, will moderate the event.
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POSTPONED - Labor Trafficking in the United States: A Conversation with Attorney Kent Felty
POSTPONED due to unforeseeable circumstances. Event will be rescheduled, please check back.
Women's History Month Keynote Address
"BLACK WOMEN’S #HISTORICALWELLNESS: Traditions of Connecting Self-Care to Social Justice" presented by Dr. Stephanie Y. Evans, Georgia State University.
IWS Virtual Film Screening for Women's History Month: "Feed the Green - Feminist Voices for the Earth"
FEED THE GREEN: FEMINIST VOICES FOR THE EARTH challenges the cultural imagination surrounding the destruction of the environment and its impact on femicide and genocide. This informative documentary, by Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies professor and scholar Jane Caputi, highlights an active global resistance movement and an alternative imagery communicating resistant green consciousness.
Family Day at Hargrett Library
Join us for an afternoon of family fun highlighting the new exhibit Frankie Welch’s Americana: Fashion, Scarves, and Politics on Saturday, March 26th from 1:00-4:00 p.m. Explore the exhibit with gallery games and activities. Get crafty and make your own scarf design! This event is free and open to the public. Free parking for off-campus visitors is available in the Hull Street Deck. For more information, contact Jan Hebbard at jhebbard@uga.edu, 706-583-0213.
Workshop: Introduction to Basic LaTeX Formatting
LaTeX provides a way to typeset documents in beautiful, clean ways. It can be used to create CVs, format journals, or input mathematics and tables of contents into documents. We will show you how to find LaTeX templates, input text, and handle common problems. To save time, create an Overleaf account before the workshop.
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Workshop: Gather Citations Smarter, Not Harder: Setting up Search Alerts and Saved Searches
Automate the gathering of newly published research for long term projects. Search alerts and saved searches are a great time saving tool. Webinar will demonstrate how to use these resources in major databases.
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Part of the Libraries' Spring into Research workshop series (https://guides.libs.uga.edu/SIR2022).
Workshop: Making Pivot Tables in Excel
Do you know how to enter data into Excel, but have trouble organizing it to create tables and graphs? Learn how to use Excel's Pivot Table function, which allows you to quickly summarize your results and easily break them down into categories
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Part of the Libraries' Spring into Research workshop series (https://guides.libs.uga.edu/SIR2022).
Workshop: Designing a Research Poster
A good research poster isn't a research article on a 4'x3' piece of paper. Learn design tips and tools to make your poster look professional and how to communicate through graphic elements such as maps, charts, and tables. No artistic skill or knowledge of specialized software required!
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Part of the Libraries' Spring into Research workshop series (https://guides.libs.uga.edu/SIR2022).
Workshop: Using Pivot to Find Research Funding
Introduction to using the Pivot database to find grant finding and research collaborators at UGA and beyond!
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Part of the Libraries' Spring into Research workshop series (https://guides.libs.uga.edu/SIR2022).