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Columns::March 4, 2002
Digest
Holbrook named finalist for ASU presidency
The committee searching for a new president for Arizona State University announced last week that Karen Holbrook, UGA’s senior vice president for academic affairs and provost, is one of two finalists for the position. The other is Michael Crow, executive vice provost of Columbia University. Both accepted the search committee’s invitation to come to Phoenix for interviews on Feb. 28.
A successor to ASU President Lattie Coor, who will retire June 30, is expected to be named by mid-March.
“I love the University of Georgia and have loved every day I have been here, but when I came nearly four years ago I told Dr. Adams my ultimate goal was to become a president,” Holbrook said following the announcement. “I am not seeking to leave Georgia, but have responded to the opportunity to consider the leadership position at Arizona State University, a first-rate institution with many of the same long-term objectives as UGA.”
CLACS gets grant for student travel
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies has been awarded funding to support travel by graduate students. A three-year field research grant from the Tinker Foundation will provide $10,000 a year to cover the costs of trips to Latin American sites. UGA is matching the grant for a total of $20,000 annually.
“We started the program three years ago with intramural support. The grant from Tinker is a recognition of the success of the program so far, and the potential of UGA students to become immersed in future scholarly work with Latin American topics,” says Fausto Sarmiento, professor of geography and co-director of CLACS. “We expect to award 15 students per year for field research travel to the region. In a few years, UGA will have at least 45 new Latin Americanists.”
Through CLACS, students are able to participate in programs covering a variety of topics--including mountain ecology, agriculture, anthropology, art, language, literature, and textiles and culture--in Mexico, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Brazil and Peru, among other countries.
“Spending eight or nine weeks in the field, identifying possible sites for future research and establishing contacts with future Latin American collaborators is extremely important for graduate students in the early stages of their careers,” says Brent Berlin, professor of anthropology and co-director of CLACS. “The Tinker grant is renewable, and we have high hopes that we will be able to continue with the program for many years to come.”
The Tinker Foundation supports projects that promote the interchange and exchange of information within the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries of the Western Hemisphere, with an emphasis on environmental policy, economic policy or governance issues.
Moot court team advances to nationals
The School of Law’s Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Team beat Emory University to advance to the national competition to be held March 11-16 in Washington, D.C.
The moot court team successfully argued a case regarding the regulation of access to the Internet to win the regional tournament last month in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. They also defeated the University of Miami in the semi-final round of competition.
“The students work very hard to prepare for each tournament by putting in a lot of extra hours on top of their course work,” says law school dean David Shipley. “It is a pleasure seeing their hard work pay off in their success at the competitions.”
The school’s winning team, comprised of second-year law students Patrick Kelly, Katie Lahnstein, Ryan Strickland and Tiana Mykkeltvedt, also walked away with the Best Brief Award. In addition, Mykkeltvedt was named Best Oralist and Strickland was named Fifth-Best Oralist. |
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