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Columns::September 9, 2002

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Degree program specialist Melanie Moss gets books ready to hand out to the largest ever first-year class of engineering majors at the university.

Shifting gears: Faculty of Engineering welcomes largest first-year class

The Faculty of Engineering at UGA welcomed its largest first-year class ever this fall semester. The new class of almost 90 declared majors more than doubled last year’s enrollment. The faculty and staff formally welcomed the new class at Driftmier Engineering Center on Aug. 26.
“The Franklin College advisers have gone to great efforts in making sure unspecified majors know about the UGA engineering program,” says Tim Foutz, undergraduate coordinator of the engineering programs. “And the admissions office has been great at letting high school students know that we have engineering at UGA.”

Criminal justice director is appointed first Saye Professor

The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia has

Susette Talarico

approved the appointment of Susette M. Talarico to the position of Albert Berry Saye Professor of American Government and Constitutional Law in UGA’s School of Public and International Affairs.
Talarico joined the faculty of UGA’s department of political science in 1977 and was promoted to the rank of professor in 1988. She is the director of the university’s Criminal Justice Studies Program.
“The excellence of Dr. Talarico’s teaching, as well as her many research contributions, make her superbly qualified to serve as the first Saye Professor,” says Thomas P. Lauth, dean of SPIA.

The university community is invited
to a farewell reception for
Provost Karen Holbrook
Sept. 18 • North Campus Quadrangle
4-6 p.m.

Academic Affairs coordinator named for UGA at Gwinnett

A new coordinator for UGA academic programs offered at

Cheryl Dozier

the Gwinnett University Center has been named. Cheryl D. Dozier, an associate professor in UGA’s School of Social Work, will serve in the new position of assistant vice president in academic affairs for UGA at Gwinnett. Her appointment was effective Sept. 3.
Dozier joined the UGA faculty in 1994 and for the past year has been a co-director of the part-time master’s in social work program offered by UGA at Gwinnett. She has taught graduate courses in substance abuse, social work practice methods, cultural diversity and supervision in the School of Social Work, and has been an adviser for master’s and doctoral students.

Sept. 11: One year later

As the nation gathers to remember the events of Sept. 11, 2001, the UGA community will commemorate the one-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks with its own day of remembrance and other events. From student organizations to the Georgia Museum of Art, groups from across campus will honor the memory of those who lost their lives and those who participated in the recovery efforts following the attacks.

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