UGA is working to address UN Sustainable Development Goals through focused research, teaching, service, and stewardship on campus, across the state, and around the globe. Some examples of how students, faculty, and staff are addressing Goal #4 are listed below.
Launched in Fall 2022, the GradFIRST seminar series supplements discipline specific training in graduate students’ academic programs with focused professional development and engagement / networking opportunities with faculty and other graduate students across UGA’s campuses. Providing an onboarding seminar for new graduate students ensures that regardless of background or academic discipline, students will have access to the resources and information that can support their success at UGA and beyond.
Using a multidimensional, cultural historical framework focused on reducing academic achievement gaps, CLASE provides professional development and resources for K-12 educators, outreach support through mentoring and tutoring, program support in developing a pipeline to post-secondary education, and research to inform educators on ways to improve teaching and learning.
The Interdisciplinary Sustainability Certificate is the 3rd largest certificate at UGA supplementing undergraduate and graduate students’ disciplinary depth with the knowledge, skills, values, aptitudes, and attitudes necessary to address complex sustainability problems. Through courses, seminars, capstones, and portfolios, students develop the key competencies that help them innovate sustainable solutions in a wide range of disciplines.
In October 2024, the University of Georgia received a five-year, $10 million grant to fund generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) education in middle schools. In collaboration with Vanderbilt University, Educational Testing Service, and Albany State University, the National Center on Generative AI for Uplifting STEM+C Education (GENIUS Center) will facilitate the teaching and learning of science through development of GenAI learning agents to both improve competence in STEM subjects and demonstrate how to use GenAI tools responsibly.
The Sustainability Certificate incorporates applied learning in interdisciplinary settings and equips students with critical skills to address global sustainability challenges through real-world solutions.
