September 2015
University Lecture: Bob Inglis
"The Climate Conscience of a Conservative," Bob Inglis, a former U.S. congressman. Inglis' visit is co-sponsored by the Division of Biological Sciences, Georgia Initiative for Climate and Society, the School of Public and International Affairs, the College of Engineering, the Odum School of Ecology, the College of Public Health and the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. From from 1993 to 1999 and again from 2005 to 2011 Inglis represented South Carolina's 4th district in U.S. House of Representatives. …
Find out more »Constitution Day
SPONSOR: SPIA, Law School, and the American Founding Group
"What Did the Constitution Originally Mean? Two Interpretations" presented by Jack Rakove, Pulizer Prize-winning professor of history, political science, and law at Stanford University and a world-renowned expert on the U.S. Constitution For more information visit polisci.uga.edu/events/constitution_day
Find out more »September 2016
Public Lecture on Health Care Reform
Dr. Jonathan Gruber (Department of Economics, MIT) will speak Friday (September 30) in the UGA Chapel. Dr. Gruber is one of the primary architects of the Massachusetts Health Care Reform and President Obama's Affordable Care Act. The lecture will be held in the Chapel from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM and is titled "Health Care Reform: Where to Now?" He will not only discuss the passage of the ACA, but will also discuss how well the implementation has gone and what…
Find out more »September 2017
Constitution Day 2017
SPONSOR: American Founding Group
Constitution Day is the annual celebration of the day that representatives to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia completed and signed the U.S. Constitution in 1787. The observance of this day began as “I am an American Day” in 1940 and later as Citizenship Day in 1952 when the celebration was moved to September 17 to commemorate the signing of the original document. Constitution Day as we observe it today was recognized as a federal holiday in 2004, when Senator Robert…
Find out more »April 2018
2018 Getzen Lecture on Government Accountability – Walter M. Shaub
2018 Getzen Lecture on Government Accountability presented by Walter M. Shaub Tuesday, April 10, 2018 • 2:00 pm UGA Chapel A reception will follow the lecture Walter M. Shaub, Jr., former director of the United States Office of Government Ethics, joined Campaign Legal Center as Senior Director, Ethics in July 2017. On January 8, 2013, President Obama appointed Walter M. Shaub, Jr., as Director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE). He was sworn into office January 9, 2013 and announced…
Find out more »October 2023
Ethics Week Lecture Featuring Gene Dodaro
Dodaro became the eighth Comptroller General of the United States and head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) in 2010, when he was confirmed by the United States Senate. He was nominated by President Obama from a list of candidates selected by a bipartisan, bicameral congressional commission. He had been serving as Acting Comptroller General since 2008. Dodaro has testified before Congress dozens of times on important national issues, including the nation's long term fiscal outlook, efforts to reduce…
Find out more »March 2024
2023-2024 Charter Lecture
"Tools to Improve Human Rights for the Rest of Us" presented by Dr. Amanda Murdie, 2023-2024 Regents' Professor Sponsored by the Provost’s Office, the Charter Lecture series was established in 1988 to honor the high ideals expressed in the 1785 charter that made UGA the birthplace of public higher education in America. The lecture will be given by the 2023-2024 Regents’ Professors. They were each recognized for the national and international reach of their innovative and pace-setting scholarship. Dr. Amanda…
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