GRAD OL’ TIME
Former UGA basketball star Teresa Edwards, one of the world’s premier female basketball players, will exchange her jersey and sneakers for a cap and gown when she steps onto her old home court to speak at UGA’s fall semester Commencement Dec. 16.
Two grants will develop prevention programs
Two grants, totaling more than $6 million, will allow child and family development professors to draw on years of research findings in developing preventive programs for adolescents.
Gene Brody and Velma McBride Murry, both of whom are faculty members in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences, have spent the past several years studying how rural African-American children and their families relate on a variety of issues, identifying why some children are quite successful academically, emotionally and socially, despite growing up in challenging circumstances such as living in poverty and in high-crime areas. Including these most recent grants, Brody and Murry have grant projects totaling more than $16 million.
Research center opens for study, presentation of decorative arts
The Georgia Museum of Art has established a new research center devoted to the study and presentation of the decorative arts. Under the direction of curator Ashley Brown, the Henry D. Green Center for the Study of the Decorative Arts will focus on decorative works from Georgia and the South and will place regional arts into the context of American art history and its European influences.
Informational public meeting about landfill cleanup scheduled
Applying research being advanced on its own campus, the University of Georgia is initiating phytoremediation—a unique environmental process—as part of the comprehensive cleanup of a 1960s-era landfill on Milledge Avenue. This process will be a focal point of discussion at a Dec. 5 public meeting set to inform interested residents about the cleanup effort. The meeting will be held in the Callaway Building at the State Botanical Garden between 7 and 9 p.m. Project scientists and university officials will be available to answer questions.
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Georgia Economic Outlook luncheon series tours state
The Georgia Economic Outlook luncheon series, sponsored by UGA’s Terry College of Business, will again tour the state during December and January.
Educators attend summit dealing with school safety
Dozens of Georgia teachers, administrators and support staff will learn strategies on preventing violence and what to do should it occur during the Safe Schools Summit 2000 at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education Dec. 14–15.
New lecture series will bring Peabody award winners to campus
 The George Foster Peabody Awards and the Center for Humanities and Arts have announced a joint lecture series that will bring Peabody Award winners to campus. The Center for Humanities and Arts Peabody Lecture will feature past Peabody winners who will visit classes and deliver public lectures. Lectures will be given during fall and spring semesters.
Christmas on campus
Approximately 100 young northeast Georgia musicians will celebrate the season in the third annual holiday concert by the Georgia Children’s Chorus on Dec. 12 at 7:30 p.m. in Hodgson Hall at the Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $10 and are available at the box office in the Performing Arts Center (542-4400), open weekdays 9 a.m.–5 p.m. and two hours before concerts.
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