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Making a scene
Shelly Stover, a senior majoring in advertising and drama,
was one of about 125 undergraduate students who participated
in the annual statewide Center for Undergraduate Research
Opportunities Symposium in April. The symposium allows students
to address research issues, discuss their scholarly and creative
works and learn from one another. Participants included students
from UGA, Agnes Scott College, Emory University and Gainesville
College. Stover's presentation, created as her honors thesis,
consisted of a one-woman show performed in the style of commedia
dell'arte, an Italian comic form. Her performance - during
which she played seven archetypal characters - explored how
a person can have different social identities.
CURO, part of
UGA's Honors Program,
seeks to promote opportunities for undergraduates to engage
in research with premier research faculty. The center operates
on the premise that it is possible for both young students
and faculty members to cooperatively engage in the creation
of knowledge. Research faculty members who participate in
the CURO program consider students as partners in a learning
community, and many students find that they develop mentoring
relationships focused on conducting research.
The new learning environment is a place where the best of
Georgia’s students and their peers from across the nation
and around the world come to challenge themselves academically.
At the University of Georgia, the new learning environment
is taking shape in facilities such as the Student Learning
Center, the 200,000-square-foot electronic library and classroom
facility at the heart of campus, designed to operate around
the clock and to function for the way today’s students
learn, with fully wired study carrels and plenty of group
study rooms, plus a coffee shop. It is taking shape with the
East Campus Village and dining commons, the first residence
halls at UGA in 30 years, located adjacent to the Ramsey Center,
one of America’s best student activity centers.
But more importantly, the new learning environment is an academic
and intellectual community on the campus of the University
of Georgia which hums with the vibrancy of the true college
experience - bright and talented students working with brilliant
faculty formally in the classroom and informally over a cup
of coffee or lounging in the greenspace which stretches from
one end of campus to the other. It is a place which recognizes
that new information technologies are transforming traditional
academic disciplines and embraces those opportunities.
As a residential university, UGA is maximizing the unique
and beautiful physical campus in the manner outlined in the
newly adopted physical master plan to promote the creation
of a true community of scholars. The historic buildings of
North campus - Meigs Hall, Moore College, Demosthenian Hall
- are being renovated, restored to their glory yet functioning
in the 21st century. We are integrating in-class and out-of-class
experiences by placing academic advisors in residence halls,
creating classroom space in both existing and new residence
halls, updating campus computer networks and bringing cultural
experiences into residential areas.
Through the quality of facilities, the caliber of faculty
and the credentials of the student body, the University of
Georgia will continue its rise into the upper echelon of American
public universities.
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