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Columns::November 26, 2001

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Grants of $7 million will support studies of substance abuse

Paul Roman

A UGA faculty member has been awarded two grants worth more than $7.3 million from the National Institutes of Health for his research on substance-abuse treatment organizations. Paul Roman, Distinguished Research Professor and director of the Center for Research on Behavioral Health and Human Services Delivery, will have five years of research support to explore two new areas: the organizational performance of treatment centers and the relationship between management and performance in long-term treatment programs.

Visiting Artist gives public lecture on Nov. 27

Marcos Novak will be the next visiting artist in the Lamar Dodd School of Art and will present a public lecture at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 27 in Griffith Auditorium of the Georgia Museum of Art.

University of Georgia Press director Nicole Mitchell

Full-court press

Nicole Mitchell moved to UGA this fall to become director of the University of Georgia Press. She had been with the University of Alabama Press since 1988, and had been director since 1996. She talked with Columns about her plans at UGA.

Business executive will speak on campus

Steve Forbes

Steve Forbes, president and chief executive officer of Forbes and editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine, will speak at the University of Georgia at 1:30 p.m. Nov. 30 in the Chapel.
The speech is co-sponsored by the Terry College of Business, the political science department, and the Office of the President.

European Union cabinet member will discuss emerging agricultural trade issues during Fanning Lecture

Anastassios Haniotis, a member of the agriculture commission cabinet for the European Union, will deliver the 2001 J.W. Fanning Lecture, entitled “Emerging Agricultural Trade Issues: Challenges for European Union and United States Policy.” The lecture, sponsored by the department of agricultural and applied economics and open free to the public, will be held in room E/F of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education at 11 a.m. on Nov. 28.

Dimitri Kolychev, a Foundation Fellow from Chamblee, looks at data worked up by undergraduate research students with Lee Pratt of the botany department.

Learning curve: Undergraduates add to database of genetic knowledge

Tucked in the third floor of the Miller Plant Sciences Building, an entire laboratory of undergraduates is adding to the world’s store of genetic knowledge. Not all of the students are even science majors, but already they have made important contributions to the growing databases of genes for everything from sorghum to humans.

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