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Columns::October 29, 2001

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Construction is scheduled to begin in middle to late spring of 2002. In the first phase, a new and expanded facility for the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center will be constructed.

It takes a village: Plans for new Riverbend research park complex presented to cabinet

The university’s plans for a research village on a 100-acre site bordered by the Athens Perimeter and College Station Road were presented to the university cabinet at its Oct. 23 meeting.
The site is bisected by the Oconee River, and project planners intend to preserve the natural setting of the property.

‘Changing the design of the world’

William McDonough

Every November the Center for Humanities and Arts sponsors an Environmental Ethics Symposium, supported by a grant from ecologist Eugene P. Odum. This year the event will feature an illustrated lecture by designer William McDonough, hailed by Time in 1999 as a “Hero for the Planet” for potentially “changing the design of the world.”
McDonough will speak at 2 p.m. on Nov. 2 in rooms K-L of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education. His presentation is free and open to the public.

Research professor receives ‘MERIT’ award from NIH

Chung “David” Chu, Research Professor of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, has received a MERIT (Method to Extend Research in Time) Award from the National Institutes of Health. The nomination was submitted by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for Chu’s continuing and extensive research on drug design for HIV and AIDS-related diseases.
Chu is one of only two UGA professors this year to receive this prestigious award. Fewer than 5 percent of NIH investigators have received the MERIT award, which was established in 1986.

Research figures show increase for fiscal year 2001

Regina Smith

UGA research expenditures and extramural funding both showed an increase during fiscal year 2001, according to the Office of the Vice President for Research, with a significant increase in the amount of external funding awarded for research.
Expenditures in fiscal year 2001 rose to $272 million, a 5.4 percent increase over the previous year. At the same time, awards to UGA researchers fueled a 9.5 percent increase in overall awards from state, federal and private sources, which totaled $174 million. Of that amount--which includes support for research, instruction, public service and cooperative extension--funding for research experienced the largest growth, totaling $123 million. That number represents a 20 percent increase over research awards in fiscal year 2000.

UGA Diagnostic Laboratory performed a necropsy on Carlos, a 280-pound lowland gorilla that died at Zoo Atlanta

Killer diagnosis

Pathologist Corrie Brown and a team of four students and several residents gathered around a steel table under the bright lights in the Athens Diagnostic Laboratory recently to do an autopsy--or necropsy, as veterinarians call it--on Carlos, a 280-pound lowland gorilla.
It was an exciting first for the students--and for UGA’s College of Veterinary Medicine.

Gearing up for the future

Dale Threadgill

Faculty interested in learning more about an institutional initiative to link engineering and other disciplines to address research, instructional and outreach needs are invited to attend one of two public forums to be held Oct. 29 and 30 in Reception Hall of the Tate Student Center starting at 2:30 p.m. each day. Columns talked to Dale Threadgill, recently named to direct the UGA Faculty of Engineering, about the concept and plans for the coming year.

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