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Columns::April 15, 2002

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The Golden Arch

Well over $1 billion a year flows into the Athens-area economy from the budgets and checkbooks of the University of Georgia, its employees and its students, according to a recently completed study by the university’s Terry College of Business.
That study, conducted by the Terry College’s Selig Center for Economic Growth, shows the Athens economy and UGA are bound together more closely than ever. In 1998, more than 20 percent of the jobs held by local residents owed their existence directly to UGA-related spending. Today, it’s about 30 percent, according to Selig Center Director Jeffrey M. Humphreys, who carried out the study.

Magazine ranks business, law, education among nation’s best

The Terry College of Business at UGA posted the most dramatic move in its category in the annual ranking of America’s best graduate schools by U.S. News and World Report. The Terry College rose 16 spots, from 50th to 34th (where it was tied with four other schools). Its M.B.A. program was ranked 13th among public business schools.
UGA’s College of Education and School of Law also ranked among the nation’s top graduate schools.

Four candidates for deanship to visit campus

Four finalists for the position of dean of UGA’s new School of Public and International Affairs will be on campus for interviews between April 15 and May 1.
While on campus, the candidates will meet with the search committee, with deans and senior administrators, and with faculty and directors of programs and centers that are part of the new school.

Two-day statewide symposium highlights undergraduate research

Heather Howdeshell, a senior anthropology major, is making an important scholarly contribution as she finishes the study of lost artifacts excavated from the Lake Springs site on the Savannah River by Joseph Caldwell in 1951. She, along with more than 100 students from various disciplines, will make presentations at the third statewide Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities Symposium on April 15 at UGA’s Tate Student Center. Visual and performing arts exhibitions will be held in Memorial Ballroom on April 16.
CURO, a part of the Honors Program, supports undergraduate research guided by faculty. The center gives students like Howdeshell, who will receive the Joshua Laerm Award for Undergraduate Research at the symposium, the opportunity to address research issues and discuss their scholarly and creative works, including learning from one another.

‘Living Newspaper’ lives again in Cellar Theatre

“Living newspapers” were popular and critically acclaimed productions that came out of the federally funded Federal Theatre Project of the 1930s. The shows provided a dramatized glance at current major news stories, developed through live scenes. The productions were extremely innovative for their time, using the latest in media technologies, often combining film clips and slides with live performance.
University Theatre has decided to revive the living newspaper in two exciting ways. The first act will revive a “Living Newspaper” from 1935. The second act will be a new play, based on significant events of 2001.

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