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Columns::February 25, 2002

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2002 Gates Cambridge Scholars from UGA are William Hollingsworth (left), a Ph.D. student working in computer science, and Yi Lee, a senior in the Honors Program working on two bachelor’s degrees.

Two Gates to Cambridge

For the second year in a row, UGA students have been awarded Gates Cambridge Scholarships. The scholarship program, funded by a $210 million endowment from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is in its second year.
The 2002 scholars from UGA are William Hollingsworth, a Ph.D. student working in computer science, and Yi Lee, a senior in the Honors Program.
The merit-based scholarships--patterned after the University of Oxford’s Rhodes Scholarships--cover one to three years of study at the University of Cambridge. Gates Cambridge Scholarships are open to students from any country except Britain.

Women’s History Month opens with ‘Regret’

The keynote event for this year’s celebration of Women’s History Month is the March 4 showing of the film Regret to Inform and discussion with the filmmaker, Barbara Sonneborn. Her presentation is the also this year’s Center for Humanities and Arts-Peabody Lecture.
The film will be shown at 7:30 p.m. in the Tate Theater. An open reception will precede the showing, at 6:45 in the Tate Student Center Gallery. Discussion will follow the film, moderated by Horace Newcomb, director of the Peabody Awards program. In addition to winning a Peabody Award, Sonneborn’s film was nominated for an Academy Award in 1999 and earned awards for best director and best cinematographer for a documentary feature at that year’s Sundance Festival.

New approach to campus parking regulations adopted

The UGA cabinet approved last week a new campus parking plan which guarantees permit holders a parking place within a designated lot or cluster of lots; offers a range of rates based on proximity to the campus core; eliminates the distinction between student, staff and faculty lots; and provides incentives for reducing the number of cars coming to campus each day, such as carpooling or bicycling.
“This is not a revision of our current plan,” says George Stafford, associate vice president for finance and administration. “This is a completely new plan that allocates available parking through a system that is as fair and equitable as we can make it.”

Spring Charter Lecture will deal with the relationship between man and nature

William Cronon

Environmental historian and author William Cronon, whose writings challenge conventional thinking about the environment and the link between people and the natural world, will present the spring Charter Lecture Feb. 28.
Cronon, also an authority on the history of the American West and urban history, will speak at 4 p.m. in the Chapel. His talk, “Humanist Environmentalism: A Manifesto,” is open to the public.
His 1991 book, Nature’s Metropolis, won the Bancroft Prize in American history and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

Grad School administrator says faculty key to recruitment success

Curtis Byrd

Curtis Byrd is a man with a mission: recruit more graduate students to the University of Georgia--especially minority students.
Curtis Byrd also is a man with a plan. Lots of plans, in fact. Since arriving at UGA in 1999 from Arizona State University, Byrd has traveled throughout the state and beyond to spread the word about UGA programs and support offered to graduate students.
“I’m particularly focusing on
students from HBCUs and Hispanic-serving institutions,” says Byrd, director of graduate recruitment and retention. “They’re used to getting a lot of attention in those settings. I want to facilitate a good transition from those smaller schools to a large Research 1 institution.”

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