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Columns::August 13, 2001
Digest
Regents approve new college
The University System of Georgia Board of Regents gave final approval for UGA’s new College of Environment and Design last week, allowing officials to begin working on the many details necessary to get the college fully organized.
The college will bring together the School of Environmental Design and the Institute of Ecology to form a unit that will conduct research, teaching and outreach on major environmental issues. An Academy of Environment and Environmental Design within the college will provide an administrative home for all UGA faculty members who have a professional interest and needed skills in environmental matters.
John Crowley, dean of the School of Environmental Design, will be the first dean of the new college. Crowley says the college’s first year will be devoted largely to organizational details, including plans and initiatives to gain permanent funding support. As a way to celebrate its establishment and create awareness of its mission, the college will sponsor several events during the year, including presentations by noted scholars and a major international conference on conservation law.
The regents also authorized the university to proceed with plans for a $10 million facility for research on new animal and human vaccines. According to information furnished to the regents, the building—funded this year by the Georgia General Assembly—is part of an agreement the state reached with Merial Pharmaceuticals to relocate its headquarters and research development operations to Georgia.
The regents were told that the building—about 27, 000 square feet in size—may be located in the university’s new research park off Riverbend Road. Scientists from UGA, Merial and probably other companies will work on developing vaccines to fight both human and animal diseases. UGA units using the building will include the College of Pharmacy, the department of biological engineering in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, and departments in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.
In other action, the regents approved creation of the Synovus Distinguished Chair in Servant Leadership in the Terry College of Business. Funded by a gift from the Bradley-Turner Foundation, the chair will be filled by a nationally known scholar whose teaching and research emphasis will be on how leaders serve others through an inspired vision and quality ethic.
Dunning appointed to commission
Art Dunning, vice president for public service and outreach has been appointed to Gov. Roy Barnes’s Hispanic Affairs Commission, a 22-person advisory group that will assist the governor’s administration on matters important to Georgia’s rapidly growing Latino community.
During a ceremony at the state capitol, Barnes swore in Dunning and other members of the panel, which includes Marítza Soto Keen, executive director of the Latin American Association; Frank P. Ros, the Coca-Cola Company’s director of Latin affairs; Roswell police chief Ed Williams; Luiz Marti, a chemist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture; and other business and community leaders.
“I believe that improving educational opportunities for Georgia’s Hispanic population is a vital step for improving the social and economic well being of the entire state,” says Dunning. “I plan to work toward that while serving on the governor’s commission.”
Historian receives Fulbright grant
William M. Leary, E. Merton Coulter Professor of History at UGA, has been awarded a Fulbright grant to lecture at the National University of Vietnam in Hanoi during the 2001-2002 academic year.
The announcement was made by the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. This is Leary’s third senior Fulbright lectureship, with previous stints teaching in Thailand and Taiwan.
Leary is one of approximately 2,000 U.S. grantees who will travel abroad through the Fulbright Program. Established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the program’s purpose is to build mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the rest of the world.
Recipients of Fulbright awards are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement and because they have demonstrated extraordinary leadership potential in their fields.
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