A meet 'n greet for pets! Introduce your pet to some of your favorite professors while also getting to meet the furry friends that you may see popping up behind your professors during class. Human children and plants also welcome. Come and go anytime during the hour.
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Professor Hale's dog Flossie She is a rescue dog and is a golden retriever/border collie mix (we think). She is the best dog ever.
Join the Wilbanks Child Endangerment and Sexual Exploitation Clinic, the Georgia Justice Project and Street Grace for a webinar on SB435, also known as the Debbie Vance Act. The new law allows vacatur or record restriction of certain convictions for survivors of trafficking in Georgia. The speakers of this webinar will discuss how to identify survivors of trafficking, trauma-informed representation, eligibility and procedure under the Debbie Vance Act, and the required forms from the Georgia Attorney General's office. CLE credit will be available.
The International Human Trafficking Institute will host a webinar titled "The Way Forward: The Intersections of Race, Class, Gender in Sexual and Labor Exploitation" that will feature rising third-year student Victoria T. Hicks and her research, which was conducted while she was working in the Wilbanks Child Endangerment and Sexual Exploitation Clinic.
With blood supplies at a low level, the UGA chapter of the American Red Cross is hosting a blood drive at Memorial Hall. You can sign up for a blood drive appointment at https://forms.gle/9QiH7cZ6RVeaTnvd7 .
Join BLSA for a screening of the timely and powerful documentary 13th, which traces the history and transformation of slavery from the plantation to the prison industrial complex.
The UGA College of Environment and Design's Ferguson Lecture titled "Why Old Places Matter: Heritage, Belonging, and Place" will be delivered by the National Trust for Historic Preservation's General Counsel Tom Mayes. He will explore why old places matter and how saving and reusing the old places in our communities support our sense of well-being. Mayes is a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Rome Prize and author of Why Old Places Matter.
Join Professor Heather Simmons, our Law School Koru Mindfulness Guide, for a quick midday meditation. You can join from home or have your headphones handy to meditate on-campus.
If you are on-campus and need suggested spots for a quiet spot to join, please email Morgan Tickerhoof (mrt@uga.edu).
Keep an eye out for the Fall 2020 Koru Mindfulness Series on 10/28, 11/4, 11/11, and 11/18 from 12:00-1:00PM.
This blood drive is open to all members of the UGA community. In order to properly maintain social distancing, donors will require an appointment and should visit https://www.redcrossblood.org/give.html/donation-time and use the sponsor code: UGA.