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Coming together to tackle aging issues
Major safety improvements to Baldwin Street begin
Campus dedications set for two historical markers
Mr. Adams goes to Washington
Professor helps coordinate project to produce ‘Healthy Grandparents’
Health promotion and behavior head named to new state commission
Arch support
Jorge Atiles and Doug Bachtel of the College of Family and Consumer Sciences were featured in a USA Today story on Census 2000 data for Georgia, particularly the tremendous growth in the state’s Hispanic population. “The Latinos you’re seeing here are not all coming from Mexico or Guatemala,” Atiles said. “Many of them are coming from Texas and California and Florida. They come because they hear from their friends or family that they can find a better quality of life and a more peaceful environment here.” Bachtel noted the decline in population in Savannah, Macon and Albany. “Basically, what’s happening in those second-tier cities is you have a phenomenon of white flight, and they’re moving to the suburbs,” he said.
HOPE transformation
The New York Times described the role of the HOPE Scholarship in transforming UGA. “Seemingly overnight, one of the South’s largest public universities has become enormously competitive, able to pick and choose from among the region’s best high school seniors, insisting on test scores that would have been unimaginably high less than a decade ago.”
Genomic clues
UGA geneticist John McDonald is quoted in a Nature magazine article on the human genome project. McDonald is an expert on transposable elements, bits of DNA that move around genetic sequences, sometimes causing harm, sometimes doing good. “You can look at mobile elements as organisms in an ecosystem. We’re seeing trends that we had no clue existed before, and these trends need to be explained,” he said. “I wouldn’t have been able to tell you that before we had the genome sequence.”
Privacy concerns
UGA law professor Eugene Wilkes is quoted in a Seattle Times story on high-tech surveillance techniques used by police. The Supreme Court was hearing arguments on the use of a thermal-imaging device to detect marijuana growing in a man’s garage. “For the first time, the Supreme Court is going to tell us how far the government can go in snooping into our private residences and personal lives,” said Wilkes.
Dirr retiring
The Chronicle of Higher Education published a lengthy feature on the retirement of UGA horticulture professor Michael A. Dirr, described in the headline as the author of A Horticulture Bible. “He is considered by many to be the most influential and respected expert on ornamental trees and shrubs in this country--and beyond.”
Foot-and-mouth complacency?
The European outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease prompted U.S. News and World Report to speak to veterinary pathologist Corrie Brown. “We’ve become a bit complacent in America about the potential for an outbreak of this or other similar diseases,” she said. “That’s where the danger lies.” Brown also told the Atlanta Constitution that an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the United States could have a $200 billion impact on the economy.
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