Top of the Hill
 Douglas C. Bachtel, a professor in the department of housing and consumer economics of the College of Family and Consumer Sciences, was named the 2001 Walter Barnard Hill Distinguished Public Service and Outreach Fellow at the annual Public Service and Outreach Conference held at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education on Jan. 30.
Also recognized at the conference were the recipients of the Walter Barnard Hill Awards for Distinguished Achievement in Public Service and Outreach.
Accountants with no backbone
Large-scale logging can often affect the delicate balance of plant and animal life in nearby wetlands. But how much? A UGA scientist says that if you look close enough, some little creatures can tell you big things about wetlands.
Darold Batzer, an entomologist with the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, has spent the past four years hunting the state’s wetlands in search of tiny, sometimes microscopic, invertebrates for answers to such questions.
 Self-study nears completion; UGA makes its case for reaccreditation
After nearly two years of closely scrutinizing virtually every aspect of its operations, the university is confident it deserves reaccreditation from its major accrediting agency, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
Now UGA is ready to make its case to members of a SACS accreditation team who will be on campus later this month.
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$1 million gift will prepare students
for international service
A south Georgia businesswoman is giving the university’s Center for International Trade and Security $1 million to help strengthen the center’s work in promoting global understanding and preparing students for international
service.
Humanities symposium will focus
on change in South Asia
The 2001 Center for Humanities and Arts international symposium will focus on “Globalization and Change in South Asia.”
Scheduled for Feb. 7-9 in Masters Hall of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education, the event will bring together more than 20 artists, scholars and diplomats from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the United States to discuss nationalism in the region, economic priorities, and art and literature in the diaspora.
Fantastic voyage
University Theatre presents Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories in Cellar Theatre of the Fine Arts Building on Feb. 7-10 at 8 p.m. and on Feb. 10 and 11 at 2:30 p.m.
The culture of spectacle
James J. Dowd shares his opinion about the recent firing of Coach Donnan.
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