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M. Smith Griffith Auditorium
Formal name of the auditorium in the Georgia Museum of Art. Griffith Auditorium is acceptable on first reference.

Magill Tennis Complex
Formally the Dan Magill Tennis Complex. For internal audiences, Magill Tennis Complex is acceptable on first reference. It includes the Henry Feild Tennis Stadium, the Lindsey Hopkins Indoor Courts and the Collegiate Tennis Hall of Fame.

magna cum laude
“With great distinction”; italicize in formal settings.

Mahler Auditorium
The larger auditorium (the smaller is Masters Hall) in the Georgia Center for Continuing Education Conference Center and Hotel; pronounced MAY-ler.

main library
Formal name of this building is the Ilah Dunlap Little Memorial Library. However, the commonly recognized name for the building is the main library, lower case. The library annex is the taller addition at the back of original building. Main library is acceptable on first reference.

Marine Extension Service
Not a part of Cooperative Extension but a separate program, part of the School of Marine Programs; use lower case marine extension on second reference. Includes the Marine Resources Center on Skidaway Island, which serves as the primary education facility for schools and colleges, and the extension station in Brunswick, which focuses on fishing industries.

Marine Institute
Research unit on Sapelo Island, a unit of the School of Marine Programs.

marine programs
Second reference for School of Marine Programs.

marine sciences building
The newer (west) wing of the building formerly called the physical education building (and, even earlier, the women’s physical education building).

Marketing Studies, Coca-Cola Center for
Instructional and research center in the Terry College of Business. Second reference: the center or the marketing studies center (do not use “Coca-Cola Center,” as there is more than one center in the business college named for Coca-Cola).

Mary Lyndon Hall

master calendar
Campus-wide master calendar for planning and ­publication purposes, source of many events calendars produced for internal and external audiences. Enter events or check those already entered at uga.edu/mastercalendar.

Masters Hall
No apostrophe in the name of this auditorium in the Georgia Center for Continuing Education Conference Center and Hotel; it is named for Hugh B. Masters. It is the smaller Georgia Center auditorium; the larger is Mahler Auditorium.

Matthews Public Service Complex
Full, formal name is the R. Chappelle Matthews Public Service Complex. For internal audiences, Matthews Public Services Complex is acceptable on first reference. The complex includes the Georgia Center for Continuing Education Conference Center and Hotel, Treanor House, the Hoke Smith Building, Hoke Smith Annex and the Fanning Building. Other buildings are planned as well.

May term
One-month academic term sandwiched between spring and summer semesters. Avoid Maymester.

McPhaul Child and Family Development Center
Provides daycare for children in the community, training for UGA students and research opportunities for students and faculty. Some of the center’s materials use the name McPhaul Children’s Center, but that is not the official name. Pronunciation: mc FALL.

McPhaul Marriage and Family Therapy Clinic
Services to the community; training for doctoral students in child and family development. Pronunciation: mc FALL.

McWhorter Hall
The original residence hall by this name was demolished in 2005; one of the East Village residence halls now carries this name.

Media and Society, Peabody Center for
Do not use an ampersand in running text.

Meigs Award for Excellence in Teaching
Now the Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professorship.

Meigs Hall
Pronunciation: MAYGS.

Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professorship
Full, formal name is the Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professorship, but the “Josiah” may be omitted in all but the most formal settings. A recipient is a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor (of Some Field). Second reference: Meigs Professorship, Meigs Professor.

Mell Hall

Memorial Garden
On Sanford Drive northeast of the Student Learning Center, the garden honors both democracy and the students, faculty, staff and alumni who died in service to their country. Those names are listed in a Book of Remembrance.

Memorial Hall

Metalloenzyme Studies, Center for

military building
Houses Army ROTC.

Milledge Hall

Miller Plant Sciences Building

Moore College

Morris Hall

multicultural
No hyphen.

Multicultural Services and Programs, Office of
Formerly the Office of Minority Services and Programs. Second reference: MSP. Based in Student Affairs, the Office of Multicultural Services and Programs ­supports six student organizations: the Asian-American Student Association, the Black Affairs Council, the Black Educational Support Team, the Hispanic Student Association, the Indian Cultural Exchange and InfUSion Magazine.

music building
Acceptable as second reference for the Hugh Hodgson School of Music.

Myers Hall

Myers quadrangle
Bounded by Myers, Rutherford and Mary Lyndon halls. The Quad is acceptable on second reference.

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names and titles
See titles and names.

Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center
Second reference: NanoSEC.

NanoSEC
Second reference for Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center.

NASULGC
Acronym for the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges. Use full name on first reference. Pronounced nuh-SULL-jick.

National Alumni Association
Do not use; “National” was dropped from the title in 2001. The organization is the University of Georgia Alumni Association.

National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges
Second reference: NASULGC.

National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility
A proposed federal facility to be operated by the Department of Homeland Security. Two sites on University of Georgia property are among 18 sites nationally that are vying for the facility. NBAF would conduct research that aims to protect against and respond to threats from bio- and agro- terrorism. The primary Georgia site is off College Station Road adjacent to campus and several existing federal facilities. They include the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Richard B. Russell Research Center and the Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory. The secondary site is on South Milledge Avenue near Whitehall Road on the southern end of campus. Second reference: NBAF.

National Environmentally Sound Production Agriculture Laboratory
Located at the Coastal Plain Experiment Station; second reference, NESPAL.

National Ultraviolet Monitoring Center

Native American Studies, Institute of

NBAF
Second reference for the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility.

NESPAL
Second reference for the National Environmentally Sound Production Agriculture Laboratory.

New College

New Media Institute
On second reference: NMI. Do not confuse with the Dowden Center for New Media Studies, also a unit of the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.

New Media Studies, Dowden Center for
A research unit of the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. On second reference, Dowden Center. Do not confuse the Dowden Center with the New Media Institute.

Newspaper Management Studies, Cox Institute for
Full name is the James M. Cox Jr. Institute for Newspaper Management Studies. For external audiences, use full name on first reference. Cox Institute on second reference.

newspapers
The news service italicizes newspaper names in releases; do not cap the definite article unless it is also italicized. In Chicago (and Columns) style, italicize the name and do not cap (or italicize) the definite article on first and subsequent references.

news release format
For guidance regarding news releases, call the news service, which handles distribution of UGA news, at (706) 542-8083. A sample news release appears at the end of this style guide.

NMI
Second reference for New Media Institute.

non
Follow AP style: The rules of prefixes apply, but in general do not use a hyphen when forming a compound that does not have special meaning and can be understood if not is used before the base word. Use a hyphen, however,
before proper nouns or in awkward combinations, such
as non-nuclear.

nondiscrimination statement
See affirmative action statement.

Nonprofit Organizations, Institute for

North Campus
Capitalize this general term for the original campus area, north of Baldwin Street and between Lumpkin and Jackson streets.

north psychology-journalism auditorium
On second reference, north P-J auditorium.

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observatory
The observatory is located on the physics building roof and is operated by the physics and astronomy department.

offices
Lower case individual offices (see capitalization). Often the “Office of” in a formal office name can be dropped for internal audiences: The public affairs office updates the style guide each year. If lower casing the name of the office causes the sentence to be unclear (Faculty records are handled in aademic affairs), rewrite the sentence: (Faculty records are handled in the academic affairs office).

In this guide, the listed offices are alphabetized under the substantive element in the name (e.g., Office of International Affairs is under International Affairs).

Oglethorpe Dining Commons

Oglethorpe House

OIIT
Second reference for the University System’s Office of Instructional and Information Technology.

OISD
Second reference for the Office of Instructional Support and Development.

Old College
Renovated in preparation for the celebration of the building’s 200th birthday in October 2006.

Olympic gym
Demolished in 2005, it was the large warm-up facility behind (east of) Stegeman Coliseum. It will be replaced in 2007 with a 120,000-square-foot annex that will house separate areas for both the women’s and men’s basketball teams and the gymnastics team.

online
One word in all cases for the computer connection term. The online version of the newspaper is posted weekly. The newspaper appears online weekly.

Outreach
The magazine, formerly known as Prism, that is published twice a year by the Office of Public Service and Outreach. Italicize or enclose in quotation marks according to the style of the publication in which the name appears.

Owens Fountain
In Owens Memorial Plaza.

Owens Memorial Plaza
Acceptable on all references in internal publications for the small plaza with fountain, flanked by Old College, Lustrat House and the administration building. Use the full, formal name, Hubert Bond Owens Memorial Fountain and Plaza, for external audiences. Owens, the founding dean of the School of Environmental Design, developed the design during the 1940s; it was constructed in his memory following his death in 1989.

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Parents and Families Association
Organized through the development office, this group of parents and families of students provides financial and other support for UGA programs.

Park Hall

parking deck
There are currently seven: the North Campus parking deck, the East Campus parking deck, the South Campus parking deck, the West Campus parking deck, the Carlton Street parking deck, the Hull Street parking deck and the East Village parking deck.

parking services
Second reference for University Parking Services.

Partners Program
Members are annual major donors to UGA. On first ­reference, include “the University of Georgia” before “Partners Program.”

Paul D. Coverdell Center for the Biomedical and Health Sciences
Use full, formal name of facility on first reference. Second reference: Coverdell Center. The College of Public Health, the Center for Tropical and Emerging Diseases, the Biomedical Health Sciences Institute, the Developmental Biology Group, the Center for Health and Risk Communications and the Bioimaging Research Center are located in the building

Payne Hall

Peabody Award
The Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at UGA has administered the Peabody Awards program since it was established in 1940. For external audiences use the formal name, the George Foster Peabody Award, on first reference; Peabody Award is acceptable on all references for internal audiences. It ­recognizes excellence in radio, television and cable.

George Foster Peabody was a native of Columbus who gave generously to UGA in the early 20th century. While he gave no money to endow the Peabody Award in ­broadcasting, it is named in his honor. Peabody Hall is named for a different George Peabody.

Peabody Board Room
The conference room in the administration building.

Peabody Center for Media and Society
Do not use an ampersand in running text.

Peabody Hall
UGA has had two benefactors named George Peabody—George Foster Peabody, after whom the Peabody Awards are named, and an earlier George Peabody, a New England merchant who made a fortune in trans-Atlantic trade. He died in 1869, directing in his will that his estate be distributed over a period of time to promote public education in the South. UGA received $40,000 from that estate and constructed a home for the School of Education in 1913, naming it Peabody Hall.

Performing and Visual Arts Complex
On second reference, the arts complex. The three buildings in phase one are the music building, the Georgia Museum of Art and the Performing Arts Center. Fundraising and planning for phase two—to include an addition to the museum and a new visual arts building—is under way. Do not use an ampersand in text, nor the original acronyms PAVAC or PVAC.

Performing Arts Center
The building in the Performing and Visual Arts Complex in which Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall and Ramsey Concert Hall are found.

pharmacy building
Houses the College of Pharmacy. Use the formal name of the building, the Robert C. Wilson College of Pharmacy, when context demands, but pharmacy building (lower case) is acceptable on all other references.

Pharmacy, College of
Second reference: pharmacy college (or the college). See the entry on colleges and schools.

Phi Kappa Hall

Phi Kappa Literary Society
Second reference: Phi Kappa or the society.

physical education
Avoid PE as second reference.

physical master plan
Adopted by UGA and the regents in 1998–1999, the plan will guide development and renovation at UGA over future decades.

physics building

Plant Center
Interdisciplinary research center.

possessives
Users of English disagree on how to form the possessive of singular nouns ending in “s.” AP adds only an apostrophe to singular proper nouns ending in “s” ( Charles’ book ); other style guides take other approaches. Be consistent within the publication.

postdoctoral
No hyphen; adjective only. Avoid in print the noun “­postdoc,” informal academic jargon for a postdoctoral position or research or funding, or for someone engaged in postdoctoral work.

postgraduate
No hyphen; adjective only. Avoid “postgrad.”

Poultry Diagnostic and Research Center

practice field

president
Upper case only before the name: President Abraham Baldwin appeared. Josiah Meigs, president of the University of Georgia, attended. When used without the name, use lower case: The president will attend the meeting.

Presidential Scholar
Capitalize. Students who receive a 4.0 grade point ­average for the semester receive the designation Presidential Scholar; they are not technically on the dean’s list of their school or college, although the two lists are distributed together.

Presidents Club
A category of major donors to UGA; no apostrophe.

Presidents Club Garden

President’s House

President’s Office
Or Office of the President. Always upper case.

prices
For tickets, admission, etc.: list the price to the general public first, followed by that for students or for members. If there is a range of prices, give the lower price first. Admission to Tate theater movies is $2 ($1 students).

printing building
Houses the University Printing Department (not central duplicating, which is in the business services annex).

Private Enterprise, Ramsey Center for
A research center of the Terry College of Business. The full, formal name is the Bernard B. and Eugenia A. Ramsey Center for Private Enterprise, but Ramsey Center for Private Enterprise is acceptable on first reference. Second reference: the center; do not use “Ramsey Center” because of possible confusion with the Ramsey Student Center for Physical Activities.

professor, professorship
There are three basic academic ranks: assistant professor, associate professor and professor (sometimes called “full professor”). Promotion from one level to the next depends on the candidate’s record in fulfilling assigned responsibilities of teaching, research and service; the decision is made by the candidate’s department and submitted to higher levels of the administrative structure for approval or rejection. The complex rules and policies governing the process are overseen by Academic Affairs.

A named professorship, often but not always created by and named for the donor of the funds setting up the endowment which supports it, is called a chair. Titles of named professorships are capped (Grendel Professor of Family Law); regular professorial positions are lower case (She is an associate professor of law).

psychology building

Psychology Clinic

Public and International Affairs, School of
Second reference: SPIA. See colleges and schools.

Public Health, College of
Opened in 2005. Second reference: the public health college (or the college). See the entry on colleges and schools.

public safety building

Pulitzer Prize
Currently, two faculty and five alumni are Pulitzer Prize winners.

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quarters
Academic quarters, like seasons and semesters, are lower case with no comma preceding a year: fall quarter 1996.

R

Ramsey Center for Private Enterprise
A research center of the Terry College of Business. It’s full, formal name is the Bernard B. and Eugenia A. Ramsey Center for Private Enterprise, but Ramsey Center for Private Enterprise is acceptable on first reference. Second reference: the center; do not use “Ramsey Center” because of possible confusion with the Ramsey Student Center for Physical Activities.

Ramsey Concert Hall
Full, formal name of the smaller auditorium in the Performing Arts Center; informally, Ramsey Hall.

Ramsey Student Center for Physical Activities
Acceptable on first reference for the Bernard B. and Eugenia A. Ramsey Student Center for Physical Activities. On second reference, the Ramsey Student Center. Do not use the pre-construction acronym SPACenter, nor the possibly confusing Ramsey Center.

range
Constructions indicating a range (of time, for example, or other inclusive numbers) use an en dash, not a hyphen: 7-10 p.m.; 1995-1997; A-F; pages 211-15. See also from.

Rankin M. Smith Sr. Student-Athlete Academic Center
Full, formal name for the 31,000-square-foot facility that consists of computer labs, a multimedia classroom, 20 large- and small-group tutoring rooms, a writing center, a counselor’s office and a large assembly areas with seating for 250. Rankin Smith Academic Center is acceptable on all references.

Reception Hall
The smaller meeting hall on the bottom floor of the Tate Student Center.

Redcoat Marching Band
Redcoat Band is acceptable on first reference for this group which performs at football games and marches in parades. “Redcoat” is one word. The university’s band program includes several other ensembles, such as the Symphonic Band, the Concert Band and the Jazz Band. The band program is part of the Hodgson School of Music.

Reed Hall

Reed quadrangle
Bounded by Milledge, Reed and Memorial halls.

Regenerative Bioscience Center

regents
See board of regents.

regents’ office
Officially, the University System office.

Regents Professor
No apostrophe; upper case because it is comparable to a chaired professorship.

Regents’ Test
Lower case on second reference.

registrar
Lower case except when used as a title before a name. Jane T. Doe has been registrar at UGA for several years.

registrar’s office
Acceptable on all references.

Remote Sensing and Mapping Science, Center for
Research unit in the geography department.

Research Magazine
Published every three months by the Office of the Vice President for Research (ovpr.uga.edu/researchnews). Italicize or enclose in quotation marks according to the style of the publication in which the name appears.

Research Professor
The UGA Research Foundation has renamed this professorship: Distinguished Research Professor.

residence hall
The preferred term for on-campus student living ­accommodations; do not use “dorm” or “dormitory.”

résumé
Since technology has made it easy to use diacritical marks, there is no need to risk confusion with “resume.”

RFP
Request for Proposal; don’t use the abbreviation.

Rhodes Center
Second reference for the Edgar L. Rhodes Center for Animal and Dairy Science.

Rhodes Scholar

Richard B. Russell Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
“Richard B.” may be omitted in all but the most formal settings; second reference: Russell Awards.

Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies
“Richard B.” may be omitted in all but the most formal settings. Second reference: Russell Library.

River Basin Center
Operated out of the Institute of Ecology, but involving numerous departments and units at UGA.

Riverbend Research Laboratory
The original Complex Carbohydrate Research Center buildings are named Riverbend Research Lab North and Riverbend Research Lab South.

Riverbend Research Village
Construction has begun on this cluster of unrelated research units. It will occupy a 100-acre site south of the Athens Perimeter and west of College Station Road, on both sides of the Oconee River. May be called a research park on second reference.

River’s Crossing Building
Houses several units of the College of Education.

Robert C. Wilson College of Pharmacy
The formal name of the building in which the pharmacy college is located. The pharmacy building is acceptable on all references.

Rock Eagle 4-H Center

Rusk Center
Second reference for Dean Rusk Center—International, Comparative and Graduate Legal Studies.

Russell Hall

Russell Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
Formally the Richard B. Russell Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, but the “Richard B.” may be omitted in all but the most formal settings. Second reference: Russell Awards.

Russell Library for Political Research and Studies
Formally the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, but the “Richard B.” may be omitted in all but the most formal settings. Second reference: Russell Library.

Rutherford Hall