Future growth
U.S. agriculture is facing perhaps its biggest revolution since industrialization, according to experts at the National Symposium on the Future of American Agriculture.
“The future of agriculture is secure,” said Gale Buchanan, dean and director of UGA’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. “What’s not secure is who will produce our food and fiber, and where it will be produced.”
Undergraduate scholarship program
names new Senior Faculty Fellows
Three faculty members have been named new Senior Faculty Fellows for the Foundation Fellows program, the university’s premier undergraduate scholarship program.
Judith Ortiz Cofer, Milton Masciadri and Loch Johnson will begin four-year terms serving as mentors and role models to the Foundation Fellows, joining a group of nine other Senior Faculty Fellows from a variety of disciplines. There are currently 80 students in the Foundation Fellows program.
New directions for budding scientists
While some students spent their summer catching some rays or sleeping late, four students came to the University of Georgia to learn the intricacies of a relatively new branch of science called genomics. They took home cutting-edge techniques along with an advantage over other science students.
Mastering
Internet technology
Andy Seila, a professor of management information systems in the Terry College of Business, is director of the proposed master of Internet technology degree program. The M.I.T. degree is planned as a one-year, interdisciplinary graduate program. The Terry College will be the administrative home of the program at the outset. Columns talked to Seila about the new degree.
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UGA will appeal ruling about race as factor in admissions
The University of Georgia--supported by the governor, the state attorney general, the chancellor and the University System Board of Regents--will appeal a July ruling by a federal district court judge in Savannah that challenges the university’s right to use race as a factor in the admissions process.
While the appeal is in progress, the university will suspend the use of race as one of several criteria used to make decisions about applicants with similar academic credentials in determining the final 10-15 percent of the incoming class.
Peabody Awards ceremony airs on Georgia Public TV
For the first time in the program’s 60-year history, the Peabody Awards presentation ceremony will air on television. Georgia Public Television will broadcast the 59th Peabody Awards on Aug. 23 at 8 p.m. The May ceremony was held at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York and was hosted by Matt Lauer, co-anchor of NBC’s Today show.
Modern-dance company opens Forte season
The Performing Arts Division of the University Union has announced the 10th-anniversary season of the Forte performing arts series.
Once in a Blue Moon Live
WUGA-FM 91.7-97.9 will open the academic year with its annual extravaganza “Once in a Blue Moon Live” on Aug. 25 at 8 p.m. in Masters Hall of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education. The evening will include entertainment from a wide variety of performers. The show will be broadcast live across Georgia on the Peach State public radio network.
Football parking changes announced for fall
Scholarship honors Coverdell
Facilities-planning administrator named interim budget director
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