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Award-winning poet speaks at Chapel
Poet and essayist Sherod Santos will give a lecture and reading entitled “Lyric Poetry and the Language of Memory” Oct. 17 at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel. His latest book, A Poetry of Two Minds, was recently published by the University of Georgia Press.
Santos is the author of four volumes of poetry, The City of Women, The Southern Reaches, Accidental Weather and The Pilot Star Elegies, which was nominated for the National Book Award and for the New Yorker Prize in Poetry. A former Robert Frost Poet and Poet-in-Residence at the Robert Frost House in Franconia, N.H., Santos is currently a professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Santos, who comes to UGA as a Center for Humanities and Arts Distinguished Lecturer, will sign books following the reading.
Emeritus prof provides invited lecture to international symposium
William P. Flatt stepped in for ailing Nobel Prize Laureate Jens Christian Skou and provided the invited lecture at this year’s Symposium on Energy Metabolism in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Flatt, professor emeritus of foods and nutrition in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences, focused his lecture on developments in energy metabolism during the past century and perspectives for the new millennium.
“I was invited to provide the closing talk,” said Flatt, one of two people in attendance to have been at the first symposium in 1958.“But when Dr. Skou became ill, they asked if
I would also provide the invited lecture.”
Skou received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997 for his discovery of an ion-transporting enzyme.
Every three years, the symposium brings together from around the world researchers who study energy metabolism, the effects of dietary, genetic, environmental and physiological variables on how animals--particularly domestic livestock--use energy.
Law fraternity brings home awards
The School of Law’s A.H. Stephens chapter of Phi Alpha Delta received four major awards at the group’s 53rd Biennial Convention in Miami. Phi Alpha Delta is a service fraternity whose international motto is “Service to the Students, the School, the Profession and the Community.”
The UGA chapter captured two second-place awards for the overall chapter and two first-place individual awards: second place in the Professional Program of the Year category and in the Law-Related Education Chapter of the Year category; LRE Coordinator of the Year to third-year student Kelly Miller, last year’s LRE coordinator; and the Phi Alpha Delta Outstanding Service Scholarship to third-year student Michele Harris, last year’s PAD justice.
“I think one of the goals of the past year was to combine efforts so we could get more accomplished around the school, and I think that went well for the fraternity and for the other organizations as well,” says Harris.
The law-related education award was presented in recognition of Phi Alpha Delta’s active program in the local Athens-Clarke County schools, through which law student volunteers visit elementary, middle and high school classrooms to talk about the judicial system and law. The professional program award was presented for PAD’s collaboration with the School of Law’s Legal Career Services Office to produce a seminar for law students to help define their career interests. The students took an on-line Keirsey Sorter character test to identify attributes and fields that they might not otherwise have considered; their responses were analyzed at the seminar. Those who could not attend the seminar could still take the test online and receive interpretative information from the Web site. |
