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Columns::June 17, 2002

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University receives a $3.5 million grant from Goizueta Foundation to improve Hispanic education

The university will receive a $3.5 million grant from the Goizueta Foundation of Atlanta to launch a major effort to help Georgia schools better educate children of the state’s booming Hispanic population.
The grant will create a center in UGA’s College of Education to improve education for Hispanics in the state. It will also establish an endowed faculty position for Hispanic teacher-education in the college, create a fund to support graduate students working on Hispanic educational improvements, and provide undergraduate scholarships for students fluent in Spanish.

Seeing with photos

The current exhibition at the gallery in the Tate Student Center is I Found It When I Stopped Looking, photographs by local photographer Frank Hamrick, included in his book of the same name published last year by Nexus Press.

Staff Council elects four new officers

Tony Hughey, a pharmacy technician in the College of Veterinary Medicine teaching hospital, is the new president of Staff Council.
Hughey, who has worked in the teaching hospital more than 21 years, was elected at the council’s June meeting and will assume office in July. He has been a member of Staff Council since 1994 and was vice president this year.

Dunn, Institute of Higher Education director, is named VP for instruction

Delmer Dunn

Delmer Dunn, director of the Institute of Higher Education, has been named UGA’s new vice president for instruction. The appointment is effective July 1.
Dunn has spent his entire academic career at UGA, except for one year as an American Political Science Congressional Fellow in Washington, D.C., and one year as a research associate with the Brookings Institution, also in Washington, D.C. He joined the political science department in 1967, and is currently Regents Professor of Political Science. His administrative experience includes serving as director of UGA’s Institute of Government from 1973 to 1982 and as associate vice president for academic affairs from 1988 to 1991

Two prominent scientists join UGA as Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholars

Two prominent scientists--a specialist in stem-cell research and an expert in the development of new drugs to fight diseases--are joining the UGA faculty as Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholars.
Stephen Dalton, a lecturer and researcher in molecular biosciences at the University of Adelaide in Australia, is joining the animal and dairy science department in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. He will be the GRA Eminent Scholar in Molecular Cell Biology.
Vasu Nair, who came to UGA from an endowed chair at the University of Iowa, is new head of the pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences department in the College of Pharmacy. Nair is the William Henry Terry Sr. GRA Eminent Scholar in Drug Discovery and director of the pharmacy college’s Drug Discovery Division.

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