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Journal wins grand prize
The Georgia Review, the quarterly journal of arts and letters published continuously since 1947 at UGA, won the Grand GAMMA Award and five others in the 2000 Magazine Association of Georgia competition. The Grand GAMMA goes annually to one magazine that stands out overall among all the entrants in all the categories, regardless of circulation, budget or intended audience.
In its own category, The Georgia Review won the gold awards for general excellence and for best single issue (spring 1999); the gold award for best feature writing and reporting for “Tony and the Cows” by Will Baker (winter 1999); and the gold and silver awards for best essay, column or editorial commentary for “Six Degrees of Fluency” by Cecile Goding (fall 1999) and “Under My Skin” by Robert Wrigley (winter 1999).
“We are pleased by all of these awards, and we are proud of our individual authors--Baker, Goding and Wrigley--whose work the Magazine Association of Georgia committees have recognized in particular,” says Stephen Corey, acting editor of The Georgia Review. “Naturally, we are most honored by the Grand GAMMA--because it is a one-of-a-kind prize, but even more because it cuts across all the supposed boundaries dividing various kinds of magazines.”
Four students earn Fulbright Scholarships for study abroad
Four UGA students earned Fulbright Scholarships for year-long study abroad opportunities. Each will receive financial support to cover all living expenses for one year of study as well as travel to and from their respective host countries.
Beth Anderson will complete her master’s degree thesis, “Conservation Ecology and Sustainable Development on the Effects of Hydropower Development” in Sarapiqui, Costa Rica.
Rachel Hildebrandt, a graduate student in the department of historic preservation in the School of Environmental Design, will study and research Sorbian architectural history in Germany.
Colt Valenti, who earned a bachelor’s degree in music, will continue his studies of the guitar in Florence, Italy, with Maestro Flavio Cucci, a world-renowned guitarist and composer.
Stefanie Schlitz, a graduate student in the department of linguistics, will continue her studies of Old Icelandic language and literature at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik while simultaneously conducting research at the Arni Magnusson Institute on the language of several 18th-century saga forgeries. Schlitz also was selected as the recipient of the joint U.S./Icelandic government grant.
“The Fulbright year is more than an educational enhancement, résumé builder or extended travel opportunity,” says Peter Jorgensen, chair of the Fulbright selection committee at UGA. “It is a life-altering experience that will always remain an important part of the recipient.”
Campus Transit buys buses
Campus Transit, in partnership with the procurement department, has successfully accomplished a five-year bus-buying contract that will allow bus replacement as older buses in the fleet become obsolete.
Bidders on this contract, which is for the purchase of up to four buses in each year of the contract, were Orion Bus Industries and NovaBus, the manufacturer of the bus that has been used on campus for the past 22 years. The first eight buses will be delivered in February 2001.
The buses purchased under this contract include the latest technology, such as low-emission diesel engines, multi-plexed wiring systems, which eliminates miles and pounds of copper wiring, LED lighting technology, and digital and programmable information signs.
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