University Council approves School of Public and International Affairs
A School of Public and International Affairs that would immediately give the University of Georgia one of the nation’s top academic programs in that field moved a step closer to reality when the University Council approved the school last month.
Developed over the past two years by a faculty planning committee, the school would offer teaching, research and service programs in domestic and international affairs and address problems of public management and policy, according to the proposal approved by the council.
Live and learn
When Michelle Garfield speaks about the value of a residential college, she knows what she’s talking about. In her undergraduate days at Princeton, she lived in such a setting--where learning and culture didn’t stop when you reached the door after class.
Garfield, now acting assistant dean in UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, will bring her past forward when she becomes the first residential dean for the Franklin Residential College, which will open in revamped Rutherford Hall in the Myers complex on South Campus this fall.
Firm and fair
Beginning fall semester 2000, students who were charged with violating the university’s honesty policy faced a discussion with the faculty member bringing the charge rather than a formal hearing. The policy is carried out in the office of Ann Crowther, assistant vice president for instruction, who reported on the first semester under the revised procedures for the Educational Affairs Committee of University Council.
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Poet Terry Hummer is named editor of UGA literary journal
Terry R. Hummer, a widely published poet, fiction writer and literary critic who has been editor of two major literary magazines, will be the next editor of The Georgia Review, the University of Georgia’s prize-winning literary journal.
Hummer, currently a professor and Senior Poet at Virginia Commonwealth University, will become the Review’s permanent editor July 1, pending approval by the University System of Georgia Board of Regents. He will also hold a faculty appointment as professor of English.
Genetics researcher
will give spring Charter Lecture
Mary-Claire King, the leader of the research team that produced the first genetic proof that breast cancer can be an inherited disease, is a pre-eminent medical researcher and an authority on human genetic diversity and evolution.
In addition to her ground-breaking studies on cancer, King, a professor of medicine and genetics at the University of Washington, has brought her genetics expertise to bear on another distressing problem--human-rights violations.
Venus approaches on wings of glass
UGA is switching from the original copper broadband network to a new fiber optic network called Venus, and the Electronics Shop is splicing and installing the fiber optic cable.
The big brass is in town
The School of Music at the University of Georgia is sponsoring an International Brass Festival from March14 through March18. One highlight of the festival is a free public concert by the German Brass at 8 p.m. on March17 in Hodgson Hall of the Performing Arts Center.
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