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Authored 43 articles.

Articles

• Georgia’s Economy, Like the Nation’s, Will Hold Steady in 2026

  Features, December 11, 2025

  Georgia’s economy will see growth slowing to about 1.5% in 2026. That slow rate of growth, along with some economic headwinds facing the nation, will keep the risk of a recession at an elevated level next year.

• Terry College: America’s Economy Continued to Grow & Diversify While Recovering from COVID-19

  News, June 12, 2023

• Terry College: Are Robots Wrecking the Workplace?

  News, May 23, 2023

• Georgia Economic Outlook: State is in for a Mild, Short Recession

  Features, December 12, 2022

  While Georgia’s economy made a near-record recovery from the COVID-19 recession in 2022, tighter monetary policy and energy price shocks will likely trigger a mild and brief economic slowdown in 2023.

• UGA Study Offers New Perspective on the 2008 Housing Crash

  News, November 04, 2022

• Study: Private Equity Firms Turn Profits by Boosting Small Businesses

  News, October 31, 2022

• UGA Study Offers New Perspective on the 2008 Housing Crash

  News, September 30, 2022

• Entrepreneurship Researcher Seeking to Find HOPE Scholarship’s Effect on New Business Creation

  News, September 27, 2022

• Report: ‘Service with a smile’ Costs More Than You Think

  News, September 21, 2022

• Study: Wellness Programs Help Employees and Their Companies

  News, June 08, 2022

• Study: How Social Media Posts Could Affect Credit Scores

  News, May 19, 2022

• UGA Study: ‘Power Fluctuations’ Lead to Better People Skills at Work

  News, February 26, 2021

• Georgia’s Choppy Rebound from COVID Recession Smooths Out in 2021

  Features, December 04, 2020

  The COVID-19 economic recession is very likely over in Georgia, but the state still faces a hard slog to reach a full recovery, according to a new forecast from the University of Georgia Terry College of Business.

• Georgia Economic Outlook for 2021 Set for December 3rd

  Features, December 01, 2020

  Economic forecasters from the University of Georgia and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta will provide essential insights for these uncertain times at this year’s Georgia Economic Outlook. For the first time in the program’s 38-year history, the event will be hosted virtually and streamed on YouTube.

• UGA Study: Each College Graduate Adds $2M to Georgia’s GDP

  Features, November 13, 2020

  Georgians have long viewed higher education as the fastest path to a brighter future, but new research shows how college graduates also fuel the state’s economic engine.

• What 2020 Stimulus Plan Can Do for Economy

  Features, April 01, 2020

  The U.S. Congress has passed a $2 trillion emergency relief bill that will expand unemployment insurance, provide $1,200 stimulus checks in emergency financial relief to most American adults and provide life preservers to distressed businesses impacted by the COVID-19 epidemic. The bill, touted as the largest economic stimulus package in U.S. history, was passed by the U.S. Senate and U.S. House this week and is signed by the president.

• University of Georgia is Marshaling its Resources to Battle Farmer Stress

  News, February 21, 2020

• University of Georgia is Marshaling its Resources to Battle Farmer Stress

  News, February 20, 2020

• CAES Hosts Global Food Security Summit

  News, December 02, 2019

• UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences to Host Global Food Security Summit on November 8th

  News, October 28, 2019

• CAES Alumni Association Recognizes Outstanding College Alumni on October 4th

  News, October 01, 2019

• UGA CAES Launches Fourth Semester of Live from the Lab

  News, September 12, 2019

• UGA Extension Training Helps Keep Georgia’s Produce Safe

  News, July 30, 2019

• UGA Peanut Researchers Win Accolades for International Impact

  News, July 22, 2019

• Brent Marable Selected as 2019 President of the UGA CAES Alumni Board

  News, July 10, 2019

• Advancing Georgia’s Leaders in Agriculture & Forestry Selects 2019-2020 Leadership Class

  News, May 30, 2019

• Georgia Agricultural Hall of Fame Renovation Celebrates Legacy and Future of Agriculture

  News, April 05, 2019

• Atlanta’s Beautiful Briny Sea Awarded Grand Prize in UGA’s Flavor of Georgia Food Product Contest

  News, March 21, 2019

• State's Top Food Products Make the Final Round of University of Georgia's 2019 Flavor of Georgia Contest

  Features, February 18, 2019

  Judges selected 33 products to compete in the final round of the University of Georgia’s 2019 Flavor of Georgia Food Product Contest set for March 19th in Atlanta.

• Georgia Ag Forecast and Resource Fair to Offer Assistance to Hurricane-affected Communities

  News, January 15, 2019

• Registration Open for Flavor of Georgia

  News, January 11, 2019

• UGA CAES Professor Receives 2018 New Innovator Award

  News, December 20, 2018

• Lifelong Peanut Farmer and Former President Jimmy Carter Joins the Georgia Agricultural Hall of Fame

  News, November 13, 2018

• UGA CAES Alumni Association Recognizes Outstanding Alumni

  News, November 12, 2018

• Georgia’s Top Food Product Contest Ready for another Year of Delicious Food and Friendly Competition

  Features, November 07, 2018

  From pimiento cheese to prosciutto, Georgians take their food seriously. And they make some seriously good food. Each year the University of Georgia's Flavor of Georgia Food Product Contest highlights the state's burgeoning Georgia-made food industry and helps separate the great products from the good ones.

• University of Georgia Convenes Rural Stress Roundtable to Lay the Groundwork for a Healthier Rural America

  News, September 25, 2018

• UGA Researchers Receive $5M to Help Reduce Energy Costs of Indoor Farming

  News, September 12, 2018

• UGA Extension is Now Recruiting and Training Citizen Scientists for Great Georgia Pollinator Census

  News, August 21, 2018

• UGA Crop Geneticists Awarded $935,000 to Breed Softer Cotton and More Resilient Peanuts

  News, July 24, 2018

• Creamy, Sweet South Georgia Pecan Butter Wins Best in the State at 2018 Flavor of Georgia Contest

  News, March 22, 2018

• State's Top Food Products Make Final Round of University of Georgia's 2018 Flavor of Georgia Contest

  News, February 22, 2018

• UGA Report: Peach Farmers Optimistic about 2018 Crop

  News, February 13, 2018

• Georgian Food Products Earn Their Chance in the Spotlight with 2018 Flavor of Georgia Food Product Contest

  News, November 06, 2017