An engineering professor Rudolph Driftmier and architect Roy Hitchcock were responsible for the design of several buildings in the neoclassical style, giving the campus a homogeneous and distinctive appearance.

After his loss, a constitutional amendment passed by the state legislature gave the board independence from political interference which led to the schools quickly regaining their accreditation.

On January 6, 1961, the District Court mandated that UGA immediately admit two African American teenagers, Hamilton E. Holmes and Charlayne Hunter, who were previously denied admission in 1959 on the basis of race.

[49] Kemp filed a lawsuit against the university for her termination; it garnered national media attention and led to criticism of instances of lax academic standards for a few students participating in some of UGA's athletic programs.

[61] After his retirement as president, Knapp continued to serve by joining UGA's Institute of Higher Education as a part-time Distinguished Public Service Fellow and as a professor of economics in the university's Terry College of Business.

[76] In August 2015, Outside magazine named Athens sixth on a list of "The 16 Best Places to Live in the U.S."[77][78] The campuses' dominant architectural themes are Federal, Classical and Antebellum style.

Built in 1858 and modeled after the Great Seal of the State of Georgia, the area near the three-columned gate is a popular venue for the staging of demonstrations, gatherings, protests, and rallies.

[96] The President's Club Garden, first planted in 1973 on the opposite side of the Old College building, honors the thousands of families who have made major financial contributions to the university.

Serving as a UGA faculty member for 45 years, Owen was responsible for initiating the university's landscape architecture program, which later grew into the College of Environment and Design.

Containing a thirteen-feet and over-2,500-pound skeleton of a giant North American ground sloth, a foyer connects the Science Library with the Boyd Graduate Studies Building also built in 1968.

[122] Located in the northwest corner, the Fine Arts Building was modeled in the neoclassical architectural style and built in 1941 with funds from the Public Works Administration, part of the New Deal initiated in the 1930s.

The facility, which was purchased by the UGA Foundation with a Delta Airlines grant in 2013, transformed the 20,000-square-foot (1,900 m2) space into a residence hall and learning community where students and faculty can spend a semester at a time in Washington, D.C.[141][142] The university's year-round residential study-abroad program is held at Trinity College of Oxford University in England, where students and faculty study, learn and teach at Trinity College and live in a three-story Victorian house near the heart of the city.

Besides recreation, the area is used as a living laboratory for research and as an interdisciplinary outdoor classroom for faculty and students in visual arts, communication studies, ecology, engineering, forestry and natural resources, landscape architecture, and other fields.

The Health Sciences Campus include classrooms, rooms for small group and clinical skills teaching, lab space for gross anatomy, pathology and histology, a medical library, and faculty offices.

Through in-depth research with faculty members, students can explore questions and issues of interest as lines of inquiry develop through their undergraduate careers, earning academic credit in the process.

[251] Finally, based on outcome-driven factors such as average indebtedness, bar passage, and employment, Georgia Law has been ranked first as the best value in legal education in the entire United States by the National Jurist.

[258] In November 2018, the University of Georgia launched a number of research initiatives funded by a $3 million NSF grant, including a project to transform the school's science education.

Members of the Center have been awarded research grants from both public, government, and private sources including the National Institutes of Health, the American Heart Association, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Defense, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

[358] The university also hosts several non-varsity sports, including wrestling,[359] men's soccer, crew,[360] ultimate frisbee,[361][362] rugby, lacrosse, ice hockey, and sailing.

In 1996, UGA's High Point was selected as the training site for the U.S. Dressage Team, which competed in the Summer Olympic games at the International Horse Park in Conyers, Georgia.

[citation needed] Ugas I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, and IX are buried in marble vaults near the main gate in the embankment of the south stands of Sanford Stadium.

In Georgia football's early days, Herty Field was located only yards from the chapel, and first-year students were compelled to ring the bell until midnight in celebration of a Bulldog victory.

The Emeriti Scholars, a group of retired faculty members especially known for their teaching abilities and continued involvement in the university's academic life, sponsor the Founders Day Lecture.

[381] The Dawg Walk is a Saturday football tradition and celebration at University of Georgia home games when UGA students and fans line up in the Tate Center parking lot to form a tunnel that greets the players and coaches as they enter Sanford Stadium.

Notable alumni include former acting United States Attorney General Sally Yates, Ertharin Cousin who was named to the TIME 100 most influential people in the world list, John Archibald Campbell, a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, and President Pro Tempore of the U.S. Senate Richard B. Russell Jr.[383] Twenty-five University of Georgia alumni have become state governors,[384] including six of the last seven Governors of Georgia: George Busbee,[385] Joe Frank Harris,[386] Zell Miller,[387] Roy Barnes,[388] Sonny Perdue,[389] and Brian Kemp.

[392] Examples of some other alumni who served in high levels of government included Abdul Karim al-Iryani, the former prime minister of Yemen; Lloyd D. Brown, an Army major general who commanded the 28th Infantry Division in World War II;[393] William Tapley Bennett Jr., a U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Portugal, NATO, and the United Nations Security Council; Randy Evans, the former U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg; Eugene E. Habiger, an Air Force four-star general who served as Commander-in-Chief of the United States Strategic Command from 1996 to 1998; Chee Soon Juan, a neuropsychologist, research fellow at universities including the University of Chicago, a politician, and leader of the Singapore Democratic Party;[394][395] and Phil Gramm, an economist and U.S.

[408] Some University of Georgia alumni who have served in the scientific and medical fields include Alfred Blalock, an award-winning chief of surgery, professor, and director of the department of surgery of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine who ushered in the modern era of cardiac surgery; Cornelia Bargmann, an award-winning neurobiologist, who is Wiesel Professor of Genetics and Neurosciences at the Rockefeller University, investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and president of science at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative; Crawford Long, a surgeon and pharmacist best known for the first use of inhaled diethyl ether as an anesthetic; Sir David Baulcombe, FRS, a geneticist who is Professor of Botany at the University of Cambridge; Hervey M. Cleckley, a psychiatrist and pioneer in the field of psychopathy whose published work was the most influential clinical description of psychopathy in the twentieth century and who was co-author of The Three Faces of Eve; Barbara Rothbaum, a psychologist, medical school professor, and pioneer in the treatment of anxiety-related disorders who has played a key role in the development of the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD); Eugene T. Booth, a nuclear physicist who was a member of the historic team that made the first demonstration of nuclear fission in the United States; A. Jamie Cuticchia, a bioinformatics pioneer with expertise in the fields of genetics, bioinformatics, and genomics who was responsible for the groundbreaking collection of data constituting the human gene map and who is director of human genome database; and James E. Boyd, a physicist, mathematician, and founder of Scientific Atlanta, part of Cisco.

They include Henry W. Grady, a journalist and orator from the late 19th-century after whom the College of Journalism was named,[409] and Clark Howell, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who became the namesake of one of the buildings at his alma mater.

[127] More recent journalism alumni include Charlayne Hunter-Gault, a multiple Emmy Award and Peabody Award winning former reporter for The New York Times, PBS NewsHour and CNN,[410] Deborah Blum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, journalist, science writer and professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; John Holliman, a broadcast journalist with CNN, known for his coverage of space exploration and reporting during the Persian Gulf War (and to whom NASA dedicated its Launch Complex 39 Press Site facility at the Kennedy Space Center); Mary Katharine Ham, a journalist, political commentator, and guest host of The View; as well as a CNN and Fox News Channel contributor, Pat Mitchell, media industry CEO, producer, professor, and author who worked at NBC (where she was the first woman to produce and host a national program) and other news broadcasters, and who has taught at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and other universities; Alice Stewart, political commentator for CNN, Emmy Award winner, communications director for presidential campaigns, and a Harvard Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government;[411] Mark B. Perry, a television producer, television writer and Primetime Emmy Award winner; Deborah Norville, an anchor for Inside Edition;[412] and the ABC News television presenters Deborah Roberts and Amy Robach.

[416][417] Other notable UGA alumni in print media include Tom Johnson, a former publisher of the Los Angeles Times;[418] Sherrilyn Kenyon, author of over 100 novels;[419][420][421] and Stuart Woods, a prolific novelist with more than 60 books.