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Conference focuses on global change
Few issues have so galvanized the scientific community in the past decade as global climate change. While some aspects of the problem have been clarified, others remain unclear. Even if there were no climate change, however, there would still be unprecedented global change due to other factors.
Now a national conference at UGA will take a hard look at the issues. “The Big Unknowns in Global Change,” which takes place in the Chapel April 5-6, is free and open to the public.
“Each of these areas involves complex feedbacks, such that responses to change may also become drivers of change,” says Elgene Box, a professor in the department of geography and one of the organizers of the event. “Because of the complexity of earth systems and the lack of theory and data addressing mechanisms and feedbacks, we still cannot be certain about the degree or time frame of global change. One goal of this conference is to bridge the gap between disciplines involved in global-change research, in order to improve our ability to model the mechanisms, spatial patterns and time frames of such change.”
The conference will open April 5, at 9 a.m. with a section on climate and other drivers of global change. After a lunch break from 12:30-1:30 p.m., the afternoon session will be devoted to landscape change and biosphere response.
On April 6, the conference will begin at 9 a.m. with a session on human dimensions of global change. Following lunch, there will be a general discussion with the speakers in the geography-geology building on UGA’s South Campus.
For complete information online, go to www.uga.edu/globalchange.
Expo examines new technology
Technology Expo 2001 will be held April 4 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Georgia Center for Continuing Education. Sponsored by the UGA Campus Information Technology Forum, “Technology in the New Millennium: Making It Work for You,” will feature a host of seminars, a keynote address, hands-on labs and vendor exhibits between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
UGA practitioners will share their insights and experiences with products and strategies and demonstrate their innovative uses of technology.
“Online Learning and Assessment for Good Manufacturing Processes: State of the Art of E-Learning,” the keynote address by Tom Reeves of the department of instructional technology in UGA’s College of Education, will kick off the Expo at 9 a.m. in Masters Hall.
Exhibits open at 10 a.m. (with refreshments) and the seminars begin at 11 a.m. The Expo is free, and there is no registration process.
The Technology Expo 2001 program schedule and abstracts are available at www.uga.edu/techexpo.
Professor, alumnus win awards
A UGA professor and a UGA alumnus were two of the three authors of books published by the University of Georgia Press that won top honors at the 37th annual Georgia Author of the Year Awards presented last month at Mercer University in Macon.
Franklin Professor of English and Creative Writing Judith Ortiz Cofer won in the creative non-fiction essay division for her book Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer. Published in the fall of 2000, the collection of essays recounts one woman’s journey toward becoming an artist.
Alumna Joyce Rockwood Hudson won in the fiction category for her historical novel Apalachee. Set in early 18th-century Florida, Apalachee tells the story of Hinachuba Lucia, a Native American wise woman caught in the rapidly changing world of the early colonial South. |
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