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Construction closes portion of street
Construction of the Athletic Association’s academic achievement center will require closing a short section of East Rutherford Street effective April 23. The closure will remain in effect until completion of the project, slated for late 2002.
The area to be closed to vehicles is directly in front of the site of the former Alumni House, which was demolished in preparation for the new building. The closure will extend from East Rutherford Street’s intersection with Smith Street to the parking lot driveway on the other side of the project. Access to the coliseum parking lot from East Rutherford Street will be maintained throughout the project. The pedestrian sidewalk on the west side of the street also will remain open.
Construction of the $7.15 million, 26,859-square-foot academic achievement center is being funded privately through the University of Georgia Athletic Association. It will provide university athletes with computer labs, study and meeting space, library access, and office and instructional space for academic support personnel.
Rusk Center creates new scholarship
The UGA School of Law has established a new Rusk Center Latin American Legal Studies Scholarship Program. Created and administered by the Dean Rusk Center-International, Graduate and Comparative Legal Studies, the scholarships are supported by funding from the Office of the Vice President for Public Service and Outreach.
In the upcoming pilot summer, two UGA law students will spend six weeks at the Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The law school already has a faculty exchange in place with the Argentine university, and the student component will augment it. The students will help coordinate an international conference on arbitration, develop proposals for further collaborations, and pursue independent research projects. The inaugural recipients are first-year law students Amy Neesen of Thomasville and Kevin Woolf of Alpharetta, both of whom serve as research assistants at the Dean Rusk Center.
M.B.A. students win competition
A team of M.B.A. students from the Terry College of Business won state bragging rights and $5,000 in scholarship money after taking first place in a real estate case competition against four rival universities.
The team of five students from the Terry College made the best written and oral presentation to win the ninth annual School Challenge, sponsored by the Georgia chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties.
In addition to UGA, teams from Emory University, Georgia State University, Georgia Tech and Kennesaw State University were given the same scenario: Fictitious real estate investor George Martin is interested in purchasing the former Atlantic Envelope property located along Atlanta’s Northside Drive corridor. He is seeking advice on the most effective way to utilize the property: Should he convert it to high-tech office space, build a new building, redevelop it, or lease the building as is?
The UGA team recommended converting the property to a mixed-use residential and retail development. The team supported their recommendations with an in-depth research report and proposal that put them in the lead after the written portion of the competition. Their oral presentation allowed them to edge past the Georgia State team for a narrow victory.
Real estate professor David Downs, the team’s faculty adviser, and professional adviser Greg Haynes, who works in Atlanta with CB Richard Ellis, shared coaching responsibilities. Team members are John Blackwelder of Atlanta, Johnny Johnson of Oklahoma City, Okla., Natalie Rogers of Naperville, Ill., Charles Sakura of Nashville, Tenn., and Maranda Walker of Wichita, Kan. |
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