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One of the leading scholars in literacy education Elizabeth B. Moje will speak at the University of Georgia College of Education's 2014 Faculty/Graduate Student Research Conference on Friday, April 18 at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education.

National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master and three-time Grammy Award-winning saxophonist Branford Marsalis will deliver the 2014 E. Paul Torrance Lecture at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia on Sunday, April 6.

College of Education instructor Brian Leffler was one of 10 faculty members recently recognized by the University of Georgia Student Government Association as having made a "significant impact on the education of students."

UGA Distinguished Research Professor Peter Smagorinsky writes an op-ed in the March 14 Atlanta Journal Constitution to defend the academic integrity of English classes as compared to STEM subjects.

Mary M. Atwater, a professor of science education in the College of Education, has been voted president-elect of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST). She is the first African American to be elected to this NARST position.

College of Education faculty member Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor has received the 2014 Post-Secondary Leadership Award from the Foreign Language Association of Georgia (FLAG). The award recognizes her for promoting foreign language education in Georgia through professional and academic endeavors.

In the just released _US News and World Report_ rankings, the College of Education has made a significant jump forward -- to 33rd among all schools of education and 23rd among public schools of education

Fred Prasuhn (Ph.D. '11), an instructional designer for Western Governors University, recently published an article in the _American Journal of Distance Education_.