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Columns::August 13, 2001

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UGA hosts symposium about future of agriculture

Ann Veneman

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman will address the third annual “Symposium on the Future of American Agriculture: Southern Region” at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education. Veneman is scheduled to speak at 12:30 p.m. Aug. 16; Sen. Zell Miller will introduce Veneman.
“The symposium on the future of agriculture began three years ago with the backing of the late U.S. Sen. Paul Coverdell,” says Gale Buchanan, dean of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. “We are grateful that Sen. Zell Miller will carry on the tradition, by participating in this year’s event and conducting a Congressional field hearing.”

New associate VP will oversee research grants and contracts

The university has chosen a veteran administrator with a track record for increasing research funding to oversee its process of submitting applications for research grants and contracts.
Regina A. Smith, formerly executive director and assistant vice provost for research at the University of Connecticut, joined UGA at the beginning of the fiscal year as associate vice president for research.

Performing Arts Center offers priority purchasing for faculty, staff, students

Beginning Aug. 20, the Performing Arts Center is offering UGA faculty, staff and students a priority purchase period to order single tickets for the 2001-2002 season. Tickets will go on sale to the general public starting Aug. 27.

Distinguished professorship in forest finance honors late dean Hargreaves

Mike Clutter

UGA’s Warnell School of Forest Resources has established a distinguished professorship in honor of the late Leon “Buddy” Hargreaves Jr., former dean of the school. The Leon Hargreaves Distinguished Professorship in Forest Finance, the school’s first named professorship, will be filled by an expert on state and federal financial policies that affect forest lands, economic development and environmental quality in Georgia.
Mike Clutter, former director of decision support and information resources at the Timber Company, has been appointed to the position.

Dailey will direct Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute

Harry Dailey

Harry Dailey, professor of microbiology and biochemistry and molecular biology, has been named by Provost Karen Holbrook to direct the new Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute at UGA.
Dailey was head of the department of microbiology from 1986 to 1997 and leads the research team, funded by the National Institutes of Health, that discovered the gene defect that causes South African Variegate porphyria, a disease that affects an estimated 20,000 individuals. He is also a member of the structural genomics collaboration recently funded by NIH.

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