Top of the Hill
Walter Barnard Hill Awards, Fellowship honor service faculty
Helen H. Mills, director of operating services at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education, was named the Walter Barnard Hill Distinguished Public Service and Outreach Fellow for 2000 at the annual UGA public service conference Dec. 16.
Also recognized were the recipients of the Walter Barnard Hill Awards for Distinguished Achievement in Public Service and Outreach: James M. Affolter, State Botanical Garden; Dan W. Durning, Carl Vinson Institute of Government; Henry E. Hibbs, Oconee County Cooperative Extension Service; David P. Mills Jr., Office of Economic Development Assistance; and Reid Larry Torrance, Tattnall County Cooperative Extension Service.
Goizueta Foundation awards university $770,000 child-care training grant
Because of a $770,000 grant from the Goizueta Foundation to UGA’s College of Family and Consumer Sciences, child-care providers throughout Georgia soon will have expanded training opportunities .
The five-year grant will be used to establish the Childhood Development Associate Training Project in support of the Georgia Early Learning Initiative, a program established by Gov. Roy Barnes to improve the quality of child care and early learning opportunities for Georgia’s children.
Bent out of shape
UGA forestry researchers may have discovered why some pines grow straight and tall while others are twisted and bent. A new study, funded by the Georgia Forestry Commission and the USDA Forest Service, shows the culprit could be a bent or J-shaped taproot. Researchers found trees with bent taproots are more than twice as likely to exhibit above-ground deformities like wavy trunks and branches.
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2000 forecast: Economic growth steady but slower
 A soaring stock market and unprecedented wealth and prosperity came to symbolize the U.S. economy of the ’90s. And in spite of the longevity of the decade’s economic expansion, forecasters in the Terry College of Business say the economy still has lots of steam, and the odds of recession in 2000 remain remote.
“The record for uninterrupted economic growth in the United States is eight years and 10 months. That happened in the 1960s, fueled in part by the Vietnam War,” says Terry College Dean P. George Benson. “The current expansion will break that record in February.”
Licensing income, spin-off volume generate more than
$3.3 million
The University of Georgia came out well in terms of adjusted gross license income received and start-up companies formed in 1998 in comparison to peer institutions across the United States, according to a survey released last month by the Association of University Technology Managers.
Tom Rodgers named
interim VP for public service
 Thomas F. Rodgers will serve as interim vice president for public service and outreach until the position is permanently filled.
Karen Holbrook, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost, announced that Rodgers, who has been associate vice president for public service and outreach since 1994, will fill the position until a successor is in place for S. Eugene Younts, who stepped down Dec. 31 after 28 years. A search committee is identifying candidates and plans to recommend a new vice president early this year.
20/20 vision
A symposium called “Year 2020: The Research University in a Global Society” will bring together academic futurists and UGA scholars to discuss the evolution of the research university. Co-sponsored by the Center for Humanities and Arts and the Office of the Provost, the event will take place Jan. 14 in Masters Hall of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education. It will begin at 9 a.m.
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