60th Peabody Award winners announced
 Razor-sharp coverage of the 2000 presidential campaign from an unlikely source, a freshman comedy focusing on a loving but quirky American family, and an invaluable public service effort on colon cancer are among the 34 winners of the 60th annual Peabody Awards.
The award winners, chosen from nearly 1,100 entries, were announced last week by the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, which has administered the awards program since its inception in 1940. The awards will be presented at a May 21 luncheon at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York. Christiane Amanpour, chief international correspondent for CNN and contributing correspondent for CBS’s 60 Minutes, will host this year’s awards ceremony.
Georgia General Assembly funds
University System’s top budget priorities
The University System’s top budget priorities were met in the 2001 Georgia General Assembly with the considerable support of Gov. Roy E. Barnes. Both the $60 million pay-raise request and $18 million to cover a credit-hour shortfall resulting from semester conversion were included in the final budget as adopted.
Banking on the future
No stream or creek is unimportant in the overall scheme of the global environment, according to Joachim Tourbier, a professor at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany. He and Richard Westmacott, a professor in UGA’s School of Environmental Design, along with a group of 15 landscape architecture students from both universities, cooperated on a streambank restoration project on Little Clouds Creek in Oconee County during the last week of February.
Coming together to tackle
aging issues
The findings of a national multidisciplinary conference on the legal and ethical aspects of dementia, held at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education in December, are soon to be published. Columns spoke with Ned Spurgeon, the law professor who organized the conference, about its lasting impact.
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Symposium focuses
on comprehensive engineering at UGA
 Faculty interested in exploring ways to advance comprehensive engineering at UGA will have an opportunity to come together April 19.
A day-long interdisciplinary symposium has been scheduled at the State Botanical Garden with the goal of identifying new opportunities for interaction between faculty currently involved in engineering activities and those in related fields.
The gathering is an outgrowth of conversations initiated over the past 18 months by Brahm Verma and Dale Threadgill, both of the department of biological and agricultural engineering in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.
Major safety improvements
to Baldwin Street begin
The university and the Athens-Clarke County government are making major improvements to enhance safety on Baldwin Street.
The improvements will slow vehicles, increase visibility for both pedestrians and motorists, prevent pedestrians from crossing the street except at designated points, and synchronize traffic signals, says Dexter Adams, grounds manager for UGA’s physical plant.
Realism, impressionism,
cubism, surrealism:
Modern masters at the
Georgia Museum of Art
Modern Masters: From Corot to Kandinsky, on display at the Georgia Museum of Art through June 18, includes more than 50 paintings by such European masters as Renoir, Picasso, Gauguin, Chagall, Pissarro, Magritte, Corot, Dalí, Bouguereau and Millet, as well as American expatriate painter John Singer Sargent.
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