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Columns::August 27, 2001
Digest
Record-setting class enters law school
The School of Law’s entering class of 2004 has posted some of the best academic credentials in the institution’s history.
A total of 236 students began classes Aug. 15 after completing three days of orientation. Their median grade point average is 3.65, the highest on record at the school—a significant jump from last year’s record of 3.59—and their median Law School Admissions Test score is 162, in the top 12 percent of test takers nationwide. Students in the top quarter of the class have scored 164 or higher on the LSAT and have grade-point averages of 3.84 or higher.
Women comprise 45 percent of the class, and 13 percent are minorities, with 25 of the 31 minority students being African-American. The average age of the entering students is 24. In keeping with the law school’s commitment to provide the finest legal education to state residents, 76 percent of the students hail from Georgia.
“Once again, we have one of the best entering classes among the nation’s public law schools,” says law school dean David E. Shipley. “I am proud of the work done by the admissions committee and the staff of our admissions office in reviewing more than 2,000 applications and working closely with faculty, students, staff and alumni to recruit this outstanding class.”
The group includes graduates from 88 institutions in 21 states. The schools supplying the largest number of students include the University of Georgia (67), Emory University (13), the Georgia Institute of Technology (12), Georgia State University (11), and the University of Virginia (6).
Four elected to UGA Circle of Honor
Terry Hoage, Liz Murphey, Al Parker and Johnny Rauch have been chosen for induction into the Circle of Honor—the university’s highest tribute paid to former Bulldog athletes or coaches.
Hoage, Murphey, Parker and Rauch will be honored at an induction banquet Sept. 28, at the Butts-Mehre Building, where the quartet will be permanently enshrined in the Circle of Honor exhibit. They also will be recognized at the
Sept. 29 Georgia-Arkansas football game.
Chemistry professor receives grant
Henry F. Schaefer, Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry and director of the Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, has been awarded a grant of $198,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy.
The grant is part of the first round of funding in DOE’s Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing program.
“This is an interesting program out of DOE for large-scale scientific computation. They are hopeful this program will grow rapidly over next few years, so we are happy to be in on the ground floor,” says Schaefer. “While this isn’t a lot of money for us at this point, the future could be very bright indeed.”
The Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry seeks to develop theoretical and computational methods through mathematical models for describing and understanding the movement and function of electrons in molecules and to apply the theoretical methods to significant problems of broad chemical interest.
Fifty-one projects will receive a total of
$57 million this fiscal year to advance fundamental research in several areas related to the department’s missions. Schaefer’s grant is in the area of chemical sciences.
SciDAC is an integrated program that will help create a new generation of scientific simulation codes. The codes will take full advantage of the computing capabilities of terascale computers (computers capable of doing trillions of calculations per second) to address ever larger, more complex problems.
Selected from more than 150 proposals, the SciDAC activities include 23 large projects that will each receive $500,000 to $4 million per year for three to five years, and 27 smaller projects, each with funding of up to $500,000 per year for three years.
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