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Columns::October 7, 2002

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UGA Press holds ‘dirty’ book sale
The University of Georgia Press will hold its annual “Dirty” Book Sale from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Oct. 18 and Oct. 19. The sale will take place--rain or shine--on the North Quad under a giant tent near the Arch.
The “dirty” book sale will feature slightly damaged or shopworn books on sale at huge discounts. Gifts will be given to the first 200 customers. The Press will offer poetry by the pound: select UGA Press poetry titles at increased discounts. The newest and most popular titles from the Press also will be sold at a discount during the sale. For more information about the book sale, call 369-6163.

Rusk Center lecture focuses on U.N.
Abiodun Williams, director of strategic planning in the Office of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, will deliver the third lecture in the Dean Rusk Lecture series, titled “The United Nations and Peacebuilding,” Oct. 17 at 3:30 p.m. in the Larry Walker Room at Dean Rusk Hall. The four-part Dean Rusk Lectures commemorate the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Dean Rusk Center-International, Comparative and Graduate Legal Studies at UGA.
Williams has served in three U.N. peacekeeping operations as special assistant to the deputy special representative of the secretary-general in Bosnia and Herzegovina; special assistant to the representative of the secretary-general in Haiti; and political and humanitarian affairs adviser to the U.N. Preventive Deployment Force in Macedonia. He was Georgetown University Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service Assistant Professor of International Relations and has taught courses in international organization, theory and practice of international relations, and power and justice in the international system.
The remaining lecture in the series is “The United States and Europe: Political Cleavages and the Use of Law” by Manuel Medina Ortega, a member of the European Parliament, Oct. 28 at 3:30 p.m. in the Hatton Lovejoy Courtroom at the law school.
For more information regarding the lectures or the other events celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Dean Rusk Center, contact Hala Khuri at 542-5211.

Five receive Fulbright scholarships
Five UGA students were awarded Fulbright scholarships for studies or research abroad this school year. The award will fund the year’s living and travel expenses for the students traveling to different regions of the world with four diverse topics of study among them.
Divya Balakrishnan will study economics at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research in Bombay, India, in the fall of 2003. Her research will focus on the investigation of business incentives for the development of certain drugs in the pharmaceutical industry and non-business interests as represented by civil society groups.
Andrew Byrd will study at the University of Pavia in Pavia, Italy. He will work in the areas of Germanic and Anatolian linguistics with Paolo Ramat and Onosrio Carruba, two renowned scholars in the field.
Jason Craggs is a doctoral educational psychology student who will study in Norway with Knut Hagtvet, a professor and statistician at the University of Oslo.
Jawad Qureshi is a doctoral student in the field of Islamic studies. He plans to study at Damascus University in Syria and will focus on the 18th-century manuscripts of the Islamic scholar Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi.
Michele Terray is a doctoral student using the scholarship to advance her study of linguistics. She plans to categorize levels of linguistic borrowing and translation at the Center for Finnish Language Research in Helsinki, Finland.

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