The Warnell School held its annual spring graduation ceremony on Friday, May 11. Dozens of students received their bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees and Ph.D.s during the ceremony.

Two University of Georgia doctoral students are participating in the second round of the SciFund Challenge, an experiment in crowd funding for scientific research. Alyssa Gehman, in the Odum School of Ecology, and Sean Sterrett, in the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, are raising money from individuals to fund their research.

Check out the spring 2012 edition of The Log, Warnell’s award-winning alumni magazine.

Sean Sterrett is a PhD student at the Warnell School who is interested in studying why conserving freshwater turtle populations is important from an ecological perspective. He is launching his PhD research on May 1 in a relatively new scientific crowdfunding venture called the #SciFund Challenge.

Landowners, farmers or sportsmen who wish to increase the value and benefits of the that land they own, hunt or manage should make plans to attend the 2012 Agroforestry and Wildlife Field Day on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012 at the University of Georgia campus in Griffin, Ga.

The Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources held its annual Spring Awards Banquet last week to recognize a new crop of scholarship and award winners. Dozens of students attended the banquet and met with scholarship representatives and the donors who fund the education assistance.

Senior Project & Senior Thesis Presentations Spring Semester 2012
Presentations begin Friday, April 20 and continue through Friday, April 27. All presentations are in the Dean’s Conference Room except for Friday, April 20 which will be in Room 4-132.
Complete presentation schedule after the jump.

Researchers from the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources have received a combined $701,000 in state grants to study the black bear population in middle Georgia—of particular concern in light of plans to widen a 15-mile stretch of road through a portion of the animal’s habitat.

The UGA Student Government Association will host a panel discussion and barbecue celebrating the University’s legacy as a land-grant university from 6 to 8 p.m. on April 11 at The Chapel and Herty Field. Their discussion will be moderated by Bob Izlar, director of the Center for Forest Business at the Warnell School of Forest and Natural Resources at UGA.

The Center for Forest Business recently received a data collection program from forest industry consulting firm Forisk Consulting. The firm donated its Wood Demand Research Program, which tracks and analyzes the consumption of raw materials by companies and manufacturers in the forest industry.