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| Krishna M. Ella (from left) and K.V. Devaraj watch K.M. Srinivasmurthy and UGA President Michael F. Adams sign the initiative agreement. |
India Initiative leads to cooperative biotechnology research agreement
In April 2000, Gary Bertsch traveled to India to explore the idea of establishing a UGA presence in India. Bertsch, director of the Center for International Trade and Security, returned with an “incredibly positive” assessment of the possibilities.
Nearly two years later, Vice President for Research Gordhan Patel made the same trip and came back with enthusiasm rivaling Bertsch’s. After thoroughly evaluating the commitment displayed and resources available, Patel concluded that UGA couldn’t afford to turn down the opportunity.
“We went to India with a generous dose of skepticism,” he says. “But we returned convinced that our contacts will provide opportunities and resources that will position UGA in India in a unique manner not paralleled by any other American university.”
These trips and nearly two years of effort culminated in the signing of a formal agreement earlier this month between UGA and a delegation from Bangalore, India.
Campus memorial proposal gets University Council approval
University Council has approved a proposal for a campus memorial that would honor UGA students, faculty, staff and alumni who died “in the defense of democracy and their country.”
At its March 14 meeting, the council okayed a plan by its Facilities Committee for a memorial located immediately north of the new Student Learning Center in an area designated to be a “Muse’s Garden.” The memorial centerpiece would be a black marble wall engraved with the words “Their Names Live for Evermore. In grateful remembrance of the University of Georgia’s students, faculty, staff and alumni who have given their lives in the defense of democracy and their country.”
The medium is the message
James Carey, a scholar, media critic and teacher of journalists,
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will speak March 25 at noon in the Chapel. Touted by his peers as the “father of American cultural studies,” Carey will speak on “Ritual vs. Transmission: Revisited and Revised Views on the Nature of Communication.” Hosted by the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Peabody Awards, the event is free and open to the public.
“One of the most exciting things about Jim is that you never really know what he’ll talk about, but I can guarantee it will be absolutely captivating,” says Nate Kohn, professor of telecommunications.
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Han Park is named University Professor
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Han S. Park, professor of political science and director of the Center for the Study of Global Issues at UGA, has been named University Professor. The professorship recognizes faculty whose “actions as change-agents have improved the quality with which the university serves its missions.”
The appointment was approved earlier this month by the board of regents.
“While I am always humbled by the public recognition of my achievements, I am especially honored to have been distinguished by my own colleagues above so many other deserving scholars,” says Park. “I certainly regard the respect of my peers as the ultimate praise. I consider this great honor as further encouragement for me to continue the cause of educating young minds and helping my institution achieve even higher levels of academic excellence.”
Noted writer appointed first Hamilton Holmes Professor
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Reginald McKnight, currently a professor of English at the University of Michigan, has been named the first Hamilton Holmes Professor at the University of Georgia. McKnight, a nationally known novelist and writer, will join the Creative Writing Program in UGA’s department of English starting this summer.
The new professorship honors the late Hamilton Holmes, one of the first two African-American students at UGA. Holmes, who achieved a distinguished career as a physician and teacher in the Atlanta area, died in 1995.
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| Deryl Bailey (second from left) takes part in a conversation between the students he mentors and the “Lost Boys of Sudan.” |
Moving forward: Education professor’s program builds excellence in young men
Education professor Deryl Bailey is a man on the move. “Can’t talk now--gotta meet my guys at the Classic Center,” he says. “We’re helping the Georgia School Counselor Association get ready for their annual conference.”
Bailey’s “guys” are 15 young African-American high school students whom he tutors, mentors, challenges and cajoles into striving for excellence in school, work, play and appearance.
The students, mostly from Cedar Shoals High School, where his wife teaches, are members of an academic/fraternal program that Bailey, now an assistant professor of counseling in UGA’s College of Education, first developed as a high school counselor in North Carolina. The program is called “Gentlemen on the Move.”
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