Greening Up
A four-year project to convert D.W. Brooks Drive into an extension of central campus greenspace will begin July 1, 2001, the university announced last month. When all four projected phases are complete, the $4 million D.W. Brooks Mall will include wide sidewalks, open grassy areas, fountains, trees, an amphitheater and a series of terraces from Conner Hall to the Miller Plant Sciences Building.
North Koreans visit UGA, study agricultural research
Five representatives of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea spent two weeks last month learning about agricultural research from UGA specialists in Athens, Griffin and Tifton.
“This is an historic event,” says Ed Kanemasu, coordinator of international programs for UGA’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. “This is the first time the academy has sent representatives to the United States. Agriculture is a common ground. Everybody has to eat.”
University Cablevision announces changes
to its cable channel line-up
The channel line-up on the university cable system will change July 1 in an effort to provide more logical groupings of similar programming. Two channels are being added and none dropped in the rearrangement, says Jay Harriman, associate director of the Office of Instructional Support and Development.
Digest
* UGA attorneys argue appeal for affirmative action in admissions
* Jury finds for former comparative lit prof in gender-based lawsuit
* Provost is named to advisory committee to aid chancellor search
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University will purchase property adjacent to northwest campus
At a May 30 press conference, the Athens Housing Authority and the university announced an agreement in principle designed to lead to the sale of nearly five acres of the Parkview Extension neighborhood to UGA for $3.3 million.
Education dean selected to lead university’s diversity efforts
 Louis A. Castenell Jr., dean of the College of Education at UGA, has been tapped by Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Karen Holbrook to coordinate institutional efforts to promote diversity.
Forest Resources hosts
global water workshop
Scientists from around the world discussed the future of urban sewer and waste water systems at the International Water Workshop hosted by the Warnell School of Forest Resources and held at the Georgia Center in mid-May.
Major exhibition comes
to Georgia Museum of Art
The 50 works in this impressive exhibition, Master Paintings from the Scottish National Gallery, range in date from the 15th to the 19th centuries and feature both European and American artists, with works ranging from devotional subjects to portraiture. The exhibition, filling six galleries at the Georgia Museum of Art, is arranged to give visitors an overview of the history of European painting from the Italian high Renaissance to 19th-century British and French romanticism.
Title Wave
UGA’s women’s golf team and men’s tennis team won NCAA championships in May. With the title won by the women’s swim team in March, UGA has collected three national titles this year.
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