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Columns::August 26, 2002

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Christine Miller and Bert DeSimone worked together to bring wireless access to Herty Field. (Photo by Peter Frey)

Herty--Unplugged

Herty Field--a green expanse on North Campus with a large cascading fountain--now has another attraction for students, faculty and staff: wireless access to the Internet. The new access, operational since mid-summer, is the first segment of a wireless network that will be constructed on campus over the next several years. Called PAWS--the Personal Wireless/Walkup System--the project will allow authorized users to use their Web browsers, check e-mail or use any other Internet-enabled application.
The system is not designed for use by the general public. Only those with a valid UGA MyID identification and password will be able to use the PAWS system. (UGA faculty, staff and employees who do not have a MyID identification may acquire one on the Web at www.uga.edu/myid.)

Former Boston College dean appointed to Parham Chair

The Thomas M. “Jim” Parham Professorship in Family and Children Studies: Issues in Social Policy was established last fall as the first endowed chair at the School of Social Work. June Hopps, former dean of the Graduate School of Social Work at Boston College, has been selected as the Parham Professor beginning this semester.
The Parham Professorship honors the late Jim Parham’s contribution to social welfare policy and work with needy families throughout Georgia and the nation. The school sought an internationally recognized scholar with outstanding teaching and research records in social policy. Hopps’s distinction as a professor, dean, publications editor and recipient of numerous national awards and honors earned her the appointment.

Twenty new Foundation Fellows, seven Ramsey Scholars enter UGA

For 20 incoming first-year students, the decision to attend UGA is a rewarding one--both academically and financially.
The students--from Georgia and six other states--are recipients of the university’s prestigious Foundation Fellowship, created to provide an enhanced educational experience for academically outstanding undergraduate students. The class of 2006 also includes seven Ramsey Honors Scholars

Law school appoints three professors to endowed positions

The School of Law has appointed two current faculty members to endowed positions. Sarajane N. Love will be the first holder of the Verner F. Chaffin Professorship of Fiduciary Law, and Edward J. Larson has been named to the Herman E. Talmadge Chair of Law. In addition, the school has appointed Daniel M. Bodansky to fill its Emily and Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law.

Clinical and administrative pharmacy faculty member is named first Jowdy Professor

James Cooper

James W. Cooper has been chosen for the first Albert W. Jowdy Professorship in Pharmacy Care in the College of Pharmacy. Established in honor of professor emeritus Albert W. Jowdy, who passed away in September 2001, the professorship promotes excellence in pharmacy care through instruction and scholarship.
Cooper is a professor of clinical and administrative pharmacy and a member of the honors, graduate and gerontology faculties at UGA. He is also an assistant clinical professor at the Medical College of Georgia.

Reef grief: Common bacteria kills elkhorn coral off Florida Keys

Populations of the shallow-water Caribbean elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata, are being decimated by white pox disease. Losses of living elkhorn coral in the Florida Keys typically average 85 percent.
A team of scientific investigators, led by James Porter, professor of ecology and marine sciences at UGA, has identified the common fecal enteric bacteria, Serratia marcescens, as the cause of white pox.
The source of the bacteria that is killing the coral is still under investigation, but it can be found in the intestines of humans and other animals. It can also survive as a free-living microbe in both water and soil. This is the first time this common bacterium has been shown to cause the death of marine invertebrates.

Forte tickets now on sale

The Forte series is coordinated each year by the students in the Performing Arts Division of University Union, part of Student Activities.
Five varied performances are being presented this year, and tickets are now available at the cashier’s window in the Tate Student Center (542-8074, open 9 a.m.-4 p.m.). No season tickets are being offered this year.
The first show of the year will be the Second City National Touring Company on Oct. 16 at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Theater. Tickets are $12-$15 ($5-$7 students).

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