The University of Georgia Graduate School hosted the 10th annual Three Minute Thesis competition in a virtual ceremony on April 8. Better known by the acronym 3MT, the competition requires contestants to explain their thesis or dissertation topic and its significance in three minutes or less using only a single static presentation slide.

This year’s grand prize winner was Judith M. Reyes Ballista, a doctoral student in the Department of Infectious Diseases, for her presentation titled “The Grinch of the Cells.”

Please join us on Wednesday April 21 at 12:40PM EST for a discussion with Dr. Lena Borise, a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Linguistics at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and a Departmental Associate in the Department of Linguistics at Harvard University, as she presents "Focus Projection Need Not be Based on Pitch Accents: Evidence from Georgian".

Please join us on Wednesday April 21 at 12:40PM EST for a discussion with Dr. Lena Borise, a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Linguistics at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and a Departmental Associate in the Department of Linguistics at Harvard University, as she presents "Focus Projection Need Not be Based on Pitch Accents: Evidence from Georgian".

Join us for a discussion with Joy Peltier, PhD Candidate in linguistics at the University of Michigan. She will discuss her research on the pragmatics of multifunctional items in Kwéyòl Donmnik (KD), an understudied French- and English-influenced Lesser Antillean Creole. To access this event, please using the following Zoom link with your UGA credentials: https://zoom.us/s/99029600375

Join us for a discussion with Lars Hinrichs, associate professor of linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin, and Axel Bohmann, assistant professor of English at University of Freiburg in Germany. They will discuss the building of the Digital Archive of Texas English Speech, a legacy archive containing recordings from 1934 to 2020, and how it can be used to map linguistic changes in Texas English over time.

Date the Graduate School will accept theses/dissertations for format checks for future graduations.

Date of degree conferral. Diplomas will be mailed approximately six to eight weeks after graduation. Address changes, if necessary, should be made with the Office of the Registrar to ensure receipt of diplomas. Students completing degree requirements during Summer 2021 will have the option to participate in Fall 2021 commencement ceremony.

Final date for completing all requirements except submission of theses/dissertations (see earlier deadlines).  The Graduate School must receive notification concerning removal of incompletes, final examinations, etc., for Summer 2021 graduation. (This does not include grades for courses in which students are currently enrolled.)

Final date for the receipt of the following by the Graduate School: Final Defense Approval Form & ETD Submission Approval Form (all doctoral, MS, MA, MHP, MLA, MAEE, MUPD) and final corrected ETD for Summer 2021 graduation.