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Columns::March 11, 2002

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UGA President Michael F. Adams (left) and Maurice Daniels, associate professor and director of the master’s in social work program.

Civil rights scholar will deliver annual Holmes-Hunter Lecture

Civil rights scholar Maurice C. Daniels, associate professor and director of the master’s in social work program at UGA, will deliver the 17th annual Holmes-Hunter Lecture March 12 at 2 p.m. in the Chapel. The event is free and open to the public.
The Holmes-Hunter Lecture was established in 1985 to honor Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter-Gault, the first African-American students admitted to UGA. The lecture focuses on race relations, black history or aspects of higher education with implications for race relations. Past lecturers have included Andrew Young, Cynthia Tucker, Vernon Jordan and Jesse Jackson.

‘Impeccable artistry’ comes to Hodgson Hall

The well-known chamber orchestra I Musici (pronounced “ee MOO-zee-chee) will perform in Hodgson Hall at 8 p.m. March 15. Tickets are $29-$33 (half-price students), and are available at the box office in the Performing Arts Center (542-4400).

National search under way for new grad dean

A UGA search committee has received applications from 31 candidates seeking to become the new dean of the Graduate School. Applications will be accepted until March 22.
The national search, which has drawn applicants from a variety of academic and administrative backgrounds, was begun earlier this year after former dean of the graduate school Gordhan H. Patel was named vice president for research.

Multicultural studies pioneer will give Tresp Lecture

Ron Takaki

Ron Takaki, a pioneer in the field of multicultural studies and a leading advocate for more inclusiveness of all ethnic cultures in American society, will speak at the University of Georgia March 13.
Takaki will deliver the annual Lothar Tresp Lecture at 3 p.m. in the Chapel. His talk, titled “Why Multiculturalism Matters in Modern America,” is open free to the public. The lecture is organized by the Honors Program and co-sponsored by the president’s office. A reception will be held in Moore College following the lecture.

Annual Nunn Forum focuses on commercialization of the academy

The explosive growth in the number of patents and copyrights, commercial ventures and new companies developed over the past decade by university faculties across the country will be examined at the sixth annual Sam Nunn Bank of America Policy Forum, jointly sponsored by UGA, Emory University and Georgia Tech.
Karen Holbrook, UGA’s senior vice president for academic affairs and provost, is the keynote speaker for the opening session of the public portion of the forum on “Commercialization of the Academy” to be held April 6-7 at Emory University’s Woodruff Health Sciences Center.

Don Potter (center) of the computer science department taught a trial run class in robotics this past fall. David Boucugnani (left) and David Barnhard were two of the 15 students in the class.

Looking for the cheese: Robotics course combines smart machines with student interest

David Boucugnani’s epiphany came at about two o’clock in the morning.
He and his classmates David Barnhard and David Caveney had been working for hours to make their wheeled robot wander across a surface of a table, find an object referred to as “the cheese,” then roll back, start over and head for it in a straight line. The class’s teacher, Don Potter in the department of computer science, was no help at all. He designed the problems. The students had to find the solutions.

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