University of Georgia facts for kids
The University of Georgia (UGA) is a big university located in and around Athens, Georgia. It was started on January 27, 1785. UGA was the very first state university created in the United States. However, it wasn't the first state university to actually teach classes or have students graduate. That special honor goes to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
About 34,000 students attend UGA. The university's mascot is a bulldog named "Uga".
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A Place for Everyone: UGA's History of Diversity
For its first 100 years, only white male students could study at UGA. This changed over time.
Women at UGA
UGA started teaching female students in the summer of 1903. However, women were not allowed to be full-time undergraduate students until 1918. Before then, some women earned advanced degrees by taking summer classes.
- The first woman to earn a degree this way was Mary Dorothy Lyndon. She received a Master of Arts degree in 1914.
- Mary Ethel Creswell was the first woman to earn an undergraduate (first level) degree. She got a B.S. in Home Economics in June 1919.
Two student dorms at UGA are named after these important women: Creswell Hall and Mary Lyndon Hall.
African-American Students at UGA
UGA began allowing African-American students in 1961. This happened when Hamilton E. Holmes and Charlayne Hunter were admitted. There was some tension at the time with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
In 2001, 40 years after they first started classes, a main building on campus was renamed in their honor: the Holmes-Hunter Academic Building.
- Even though Hunter and Holmes were the first African-American students to enroll, Mary Frances Early was the first African-American to graduate. She earned her master's degree in music education in 1962.
- In 1963, Chester Davenport became the first African-American student admitted to the University of Georgia School of Law. He was also its first African-American law graduate in 1966.
- Later, in 1974, Sharon Tucker became the first African-American woman to graduate from the law school.
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Lyman Hall, one of the founders of the University of Georgia
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Abraham Baldwin, a founder and the first president of the University of Georgia
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Mary Ethel Creswell, in 1919, the first woman to earn an undergraduate degree at the university
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The Holmes-Hunter Academic Building
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Zell Miller, a UGA graduate and former Governor and U.S. Senator who helped create the HOPE Scholarship
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The Peabody Awards (statuette pictured) started at, and are given out by, the University of Georgia
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Founders Memorial Garden
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The Arch
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Ilah Dunlap Little Memorial Library
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Lumpkin House on Cedar Street on the UGA campus
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Paul D. Coverdell Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences
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Zell B. Miller Learning Center
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Richard B. Russell Jr. Special Collections Libraries Building
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A fountain in the State Botanical Garden of Georgia
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Stegeman Coliseum at UGA hosted events for the 1996 Summer Olympics
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The R/V Savannah research vessel at the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
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University of Georgia dormitories on Sapelo Island.
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Coastal Plain Experiment Station in Tifton.
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UGA Health Sciences Campus Administration Building - Winnie Davis Hall
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The College of Environment and Design building at the University of Georgia is a LEED certified building. It has 72 solar panels and water recycling technology.
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Phi Kappa Hall
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The first football team at the University of Georgia in 1892.
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The Olympic flag waves at the 1996 games.
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Uga VI, the official live mascot of the Georgia Bulldogs 1999–2008
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The Arch at the University of Georgia
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Natasha Tretheway, a United States Poet Laureate
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See also
In Spanish: Universidad de Georgia para niños
