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Columns::February 25, 2002

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MAP program expands to include Emory
The College of Pharmacy’s Medication Access Program has received $286,000 from the Carlos and Marguerite Mason Trust to expand the program of facilitating access to free or discounted medications for solid organ transplant patients who reside in Georgia. The program, which was started three years ago by Marie Chisholm, a College of Pharmacy faculty member at the Medical College of Georgia, will expand to include Emory University’s organ transplant recipients. The two-year grant is in addition to more than $1.4 million already received from the Mason Trust to establish and expand the MAP program in Georgia.
“This new initiative is in keeping with UGA President Michael Adams’s desire to increase collaborations between UGA and other universities,” says Svein Oie, dean of the College of Pharmacy.
MAP is the first program of its kind in the state and even in the country. Georgia transplant patients are referred from transplant centers and other facilities throughout the state into assistance programs that provide free or discounted medication to eligible patients.

Foundation Fellows finalists visit campus
Sixty-two prospective freshmen competing for the university’s most prestigious scholarship award for undergraduates visited campus for the last stage of the selection process Feb. 22 and 23.
The students--from Georgia and 11 other states--are finalists for the Foundation Fellows Program, which not only covers the full cost of attendance at UGA, but provides travel-study and academic conference/research grants, and a variety of other academic enrichment opportunities. The finalists were selected from a record number of applicants and boast an average SAT of 1503 and average GPA of 4.08 (on a 4.0 scale).
About one-third of the group will be awarded Foundation Fellowships. The others will be awarded Ramsey Honors Scholarships, which include a $4,000 stipend for in-state students and a $6,000 stipend for out-of-state students, and a $2,000 travel-study grant.
“Ramsey Honors Scholarships give us the opportunity to place all of the finalists for the Foundation Fellowship on major scholarships,” says Jere Morehead, associate provost and director of both the Honors and Foundation Fellows programs. “That’s extremely helpful in our efforts to attract these outstanding students.”
This year’s finalists, chosen from 686 applicants, are about evenly divided between males and females, and 24 of the 62 are from out of state, indicating the rising national profile of the program, says Steven Elliott-Gower, associate director of the Foundation Fellows Program.

M.B.A. students win Georgia Bowl
Two teams of M.B.A. students from the Terry College of Business finished first and second out of a field of six teams entered in the 2002 Georgia Bowl Business Plan Competition held earlier this month in Athens.
Nutracare of Georgia and Aqua Vitae Enterprises, both made up of Terry College M.B.A.s, topped teams from the University of Louisville, Kennesaw State University, the University of Tennessee and Georgia Tech.
The annual competition pits business plans formulated by the students and their advisers against other new venture ideas. A panel of judges from Georgia’s venture capital and financial community determines which plan has the best chance to succeed and turn profitable.
The first-place Nutracare team of Amy Ohde, Brian Pope, Hannah Osborn, Lisa Munson and Joel Shine developed a plan based on marketing and distributing innovative, new nutraceutical products as nutritional supplements with scientifically documented health benefits.

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