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Columns::July 15, 2002

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The three little pigs: Pig cloning expands successes in food biotechnology

The University of Georgia and ProLinia, an agricultural biotechnology genetics company, have produced three healthy cloned piglets from skin cells from a commercial hog. The piglets were born on May 24 and 27, 2002.
“This accomplishment and the methods used can be a benchmark to move forward developments in hog-cloning efficiencies,” says Steven Stice, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and chief scientific officer at ProLinia.

The British (and Americans) are coming

Romantics and Revolutionaries: Regency Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery, London will be on display at the Georgia Museum of Art from July 20 through Sept. 29. The exhibition includes 70 portraits of famous men and women of the Regency period. Influential poets, painters, politicians and princes, painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, George Romney, Sir Thomas Lawrence and other luminaries, will be on view.

Annual analysis of minority buying power reports dramatic increases in disposable income for all groups

Last week, the Selig Center for Economic Growth released its

Jeff Humphreys

annual minority buying power report. “The Multicultural Econ-omy: Minority Buying Power in the New Century” includes estimates and projections of buying power for African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans and whites for 2002, with historical data back to 1990 and buying power estimates for each category through 2007.
Authored by Selig Center director Jeff Humphreys, the report estimates buying power by applying economic modeling and forecasting techniques to data from U.S. government sources. The Selig Center’s model combines statistical methods used in economic forecasting with those of marketing research.

Second annual Latinos conference will focus on health statewide

Rebecca Mullis

The health needs of Georgia’s growing Latino population will be the focus of the second annual Latino conference at the university July 29-31.
“In the past decade the Latino population in Georgia has grown 300 percent, from 109,000 in 1990 to 435,000 in 2000,” says Rebecca Mullis, chair of the foods and nutrition department in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences. “These new residents have a range of health needs that includes chronic diseases such as diabetes, but coupled with these diseases is a lack of access to health care and cultural barriers that often discourage families from seeking help.”

UGA offers employees fare-free bus transportation in county

University of Georgia employees can now ride Athens Transit buses without paying fares under an arrangement aimed at easing UGA’s parking crunch and reducing traffic on Athens streets.
The plan allows employees to ride Athens buses, known as “The Bus,” without charge by showing their university identification card. The arrangement includes bus routes on campus and anywhere the buses run in Clarke County, Monday through Friday.
The university will reimburse Athens Transit based on ridership

U. of Akron president, formerly at UGA, to speak at Commencement

Luis M. Proenza, a former UGA faculty member who is now president of the University of Akron, will return to UGA to speak at Commencement Aug. 10.
The exercises, at 9:30 a.m. in Stegeman Coliseum, will combine ceremonies for undergraduate, graduate and professional students who complete degree requirements at the end of summer semester.
Registrar Gary Moore estimates that about 2,230 undergraduate and professional students and 970 candidates for master’s and doctoral degrees will be eligible to participate in the ceremony. The exact number of eligible graduates won’t be known until final exams are over just before commencement.

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