Engineering something new
More than 100 faculty from some two dozen disciplines across campus attended a day-long symposium April 19 focused on ways to develop a comprehensive program of engineering at UGA in order to capitalize on interdisciplinary research opportunities and expand options for students.
 Delivering the goods
Consumers seem to be growing more and more comfortable with buying their groceries online, according to one of the first academic studies of online grocery shopping.
Brenda Cude, chair of the housing and consumer economics department in UGA’s College of Family and Consumer Sciences, and co-author Michelle Morganosky of the University of Illinois presented their findings earlier this month at the annual meeting of the American Council on Consumer Interests in Washington, D.C.
Public officials, representatives from Bosnia
learn about grassroots advocacy
A beneficial fit
Andy Brantley came to UGA from Davidson College as associate vice president for human resources at the beginning of the calendar year. He talked with Columns about current and coming projects in Human Resources.
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Commencement takes over stadium, coliseum May 12
 The cheers of football and basketball fans--sounds typically heard in Sanford Stadium and Stegeman Coliseum--will be replaced by the strains of “Pomp and Circumstance” and the applause of proud parents and families May 12 as the university holds spring semester commencement.
An estimated 3,300 seniors are eligible to participate in the ceremony for undergraduates at 9:30 a.m. in Sanford Stadium, with Gov. Roy Barnes as the speaker.
Alumni return to campus
for annual reunion weekend
UGA alumni will renew ties with their alma mater and their former classmates when they return to campus May 4-6 for the annual alumni weekend.
Sponsored by the National Alumni Association, the weekend will include the NAA annual meeting and presentation of the Alumni Merit and Faculty Service Awards. Other scheduled activities include campus tours and open houses, a tour of a private art collection and special recognition of UGA Korean War veterans.
The weekend will honor the class of 1951 on its 50th anniversary.
Opening May 12 and continuing through July 1, the Georgia Museum of Art will display “A Bountiful Plenty from the Shelburne Museum: Folk Art Traditions in America.”
Vermont’s Shelburne Museum houses one of America’s premier collections of folk art, brought together by Electra Havemeyer Webb (1888-1960), who began buying before the first world war. Her passion for trade signs, cigar-store figures, weather vanes, ships’ carvings, carousel figures, scrimshaw, quilts and primitive paintings continued throughout her life and led, in 1947, to the founding of the Shelburne Museum.
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