Class of 2000
Although ongoing repairs to the field meant there was no green grass as a backdrop, the graduating seniors and their families and guests celebrated as usual. About 3,700 students were eligible to participate, having completed degree requirements at the end of spring semester. Georgia’s senior senator, Paul Coverdell, addressed the new graduates.
Institutional strategic plan ready
for review by senior administrators
 The Institutional Strategic Planning Advisory Group spent their last meeting of the academic year reviewing revised drafts of some unit plans and discussing what happens next with the institutional planning document they have produced. That document, still in draft stage and as thick as a phone book, outlines and makes the case for a series of strategic initiatives that could push the University of Georgia into the top echelon of public research universities over the next decade. The price tag to implement the plan? In the neighborhood of $2 billion.
University Council approves creation of New Media Institute
The university is taking a major step into the fast-evolving world of technology-based communications with creation of a New Media Institute and a certificate program in new-media studies.
Scott Shamp discusses plans in this issue’s Q&A
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Memorial service held
for director
of Peabody Awards
Friends and colleagues of Peabody Awards Director Barry L. Sherman filled Hodgson Hall for a May 5 memorial service where he was remembered for his passionate commitment to his work and to his family--his wife, Candy Sherman, assistant director of student activities at UGA, and his two children.
Committee named to find successor to retiring dean
 A search committee has been named to find a new dean of the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Karen Holbrook, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost, has appointed Kathryn Costello, senior vice president for external affairs, as chair of the committee. The group includes faculty, staff and students from the Grady College and other UGA units and several professional journalists.
Symposium honors late professor’s contributions to science
When Lois Miller was dying last fall, she asked that there be no funeral or memorial service, but friends asked the noted UGA scientist if she’d sanction a research symposium in her honor. She agreed, and the result is a major conference that will attract scientists world-wide to campus May 26-28.
All presentations at the symposium, which will be held in room C-127 of the life sciences building, will be open to the public.
Atelier 17
The Georgia Museum of Art is exhibiting prints from the Paris studio Atelier 17/Contrepoint beginning May 30.
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