Dr. Sharmistha Basu-Dutt, chair and professor of chemistry at the University of West Georgia, has received a grant of $40,425. The University of Georgia awarded Basu-Dutt the Teacher Quality grant, and the money is intended to be used on a 50 hour, 5 PLU workshop for 24 teachers from Fulton, Coweta and Douglas counties.
It has been said that nursing is a form of art. Nursing students in the May 2018 cohort recently put their nursing skills on display in the form of an aesthetic art exhibit at UWG's Tanner Health System School of Nursing. Their assignment was to create something--a painting, a poem, a story, or literally anything they desired--to depict how they view themselves as professional nurses.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta President & CEO Missy P. Dugan, a UWG alumna, has been awarded the 2017 Thomas G. Garth Character and Courage Award by the Boys & Girls Clubs of America.
West Georgia Technical College and the University of West Georgia have signed a new articulation agreement that will allow students to transfer credits from one institution to the other in pursuit of a bachelor's degree in psychology from UWG.