Online Photo Essay

See How Horned Frogs Ring in the Holidays

The 26th Annual Myaamia Winter Gathering was held January 27-28, 2023. The event doubled as a final celebration of the 50th anniversary of the partnership between the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma and Miami University.

In 2022, UGA students and faculty earned some impressive hardware to fill the trophy shelves in the athletic and academic sphere—a 2nd, consecutive, football National Championship, a Rhodes Scholarship and a MacArthur Genius Grant, to name a few.

So, let’s ring the bell and celebrate the University of Georgia’s athletic and academic success at the highest levels through this immersive photo story.

Reckoning with History: As part of the first-year experience, students explored the history of Black Austin.

This photo page is a digital version of our magazine piece of the same story. The pictures take you through the downtwon tour Javier Wallace of Black Austin Tours led our students through and provides copy for context around the stops.

A Look Back at a Remarkable Semester: Activities, Events and Accomplishments from an Action-Packed Fall 2022

This photo page highlights main moments and events from the fall 2022 semester, and also served as our main webpage for a winter commencement photo roundup!

Winter commencement photo essay.

Our photos-of-the-year essay

A behind the scenes photo essay at The International Quilt Museum. The museum maintains and prepares more than 9,000 quilts—the world’s largest public quilt collection for exhibition, research and enjoyment by local and international visitors. 

Months of travel restrictions due to COVID-19 temporarily grounded Grand Valley’s Study Abroad program keeping students in the United States. But as governments eased their travel requirements, Lakers responded with enthusiasm, ready to see the world again.

 “It’s been great to finally be able to travel,” said senior Alayna Peterson, a social work major who spent nine weeks living and working in Dublin. “Seeing that this opportunity was something that I could do after COVID restrictions eased, it just seemed perfect.”

Researchers from Grand Valley and John Ball Zoo have collaborated on a project to help boost a small, aging Eastern box turtle population at a Barry County nature preserve. The goal, the researchers said, is to speed up the maturation process for young turtles, who are highly susceptible to a disproportionate number of predators, particularly raccoons. Once the turtles have a mature shell, they are nearly impenetrable.