The projects, funded by grants totaling more than $1 million from Georgia’s Race to the Top Innovation Fund, provide additional clinical experiences, collaboration and mentorship that increase the likelihood of developing exceptional teachers and leaders.

Robert Hill, associate professor of adult education, is joining with UGA colleague, Ervan Garrison, a professor of anthropology in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, UGA’s Institute of Native American Studies, and his long-time pottery instructor and elder, Sarah Natani, to create a project for the Navajo Nation to engage in arts and cultural practices.

Researchers in kinesiology are encouraging students to help individuals with disabilities through new wellness courses that partner abled-bodied preclinical undergraduate and graduate students with disabled participants.

On Monday, Georgia became the latest among a handful of states to adopt preseason heat acclimatization guidelines for secondary school athletics after hearing the results and recommendations from a three-year UGA College of Education study of exertional heat illness rates of athletes at 25 high schools across Georgia.

Results from the first randomized controlled trial focused on the effects of exercise training among individuals diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder adds to a growing body of evidence.