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Several UGA faculty were in the New York Times in October:
A five-member delegation from the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences traveled to North Korea at the same time Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was visiting the country, accompanied by a Times reporter.
“This trip is a reciprocal visit from a meeting we had with a North Korean agricultural delegation a couple of years ago,” Dean Gale Buchanan told the Times. The agricultural scientists from UGA hope to eventually work with scientists in North Korea to help improve farming in the famine-stricken land.

Also along on the visit to North Korea was Han Park, director of UGA’s Center for the Study of Global Issues, who is frequently quoted by national media on the political situation in both North and South Korea. Park was called for commentary in a recent Times article that examined whether a possible reunification of the Koreas would divide Asia in new ways. China, for example, has never officially favored the American deployment in South Korea, noted the Times, even though it profited from the resulting peace, to the point of establishing lucrative economic ties with South Korea.
“If North Korea is no longer the threat, the Chinese will ask, why are the Americans still on the peninsula,” said Park. “Redefining the role under these circumstances is going to be a formidable task.”

Accounting professor Dennis Beresford, with the Terry College of Business, was quoted in a Times story about accounting rule changes. The story concerned vice presidential candidate Joe Lieberman and other senators weighing in on the elimination of a popular accounting technique, known as pooling of interests, frequently used by large technology companies.
Beresford served as chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board six years ago when Lieberman was credited with derailing the board’s plans to require companies to change their approach to the value of stock options. The board chose instead to require companies to disclose more information about the options they were handing out.
“The board elected to come up with a second-best answer in order to live to fight another day,” said Beresford.

Bonnie Cramond, an associate professor of educational psychology at UGA, was quoted in another Times story about entrepreneur Michael Zan and others who regard attention deficit disorder as an advantage. Cramond has written about overlapping similarities in the behavioral descriptions of creativity and A.D.D.
“For a lot of people,” Cramond told the Times, “having A.D.D. means they have a different way of thinking that can be beneficial. For example, with people who are marked by rapid ideation, some may say that’s not focusing, but in many situations coming up with a lot of ideas is helpful.”

An ABC News report looked at research into the effect of court-ordered programs that bring drunk drivers face to face with those who have lost loved ones in DUI accidents.
Among the researchers called on was Stuart Fors, director of the department of health promotion and behavior in the College of Education at UGA, and a proponent of the so-called victim impact panels. Fors said such panels work because they assign responsibility to the behavior without attacking the person.
“It’s condemning the deed, not the person, in a non-blaming manner,” he explained. “If you start pointing fingers, people shut off.”
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