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Columns::October 14, 2002

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From right: Amanda Jones, Jessica Hansel and Sarah Cherry fought the wind to hang a homecoming poster last year at the Tate Student Center.

Always and forever: Annual reunion celebrates good times, homecoming

There’ll be hypnotism and hip hop for students, reunions and recognition for grads, and football and fun for all when the university celebrates Homecoming Oct. 14-19.
“Always Good Times, Always Homecoming” is the theme of this year’s festivities, sponsored by the University Union’s Special Events Committee and the UGA Alumni Association.
Highlights of the celebration include performances by hypnotist Tom DeLuca and the hip hop group Outkast, the Homecoming Parade through downtown Athens, the crowning of the Homecoming King and Queen at the Georgia-Vanderbilt football game, and events sponsored by several schools and colleges.
The Alumni Association’s annual awards luncheon honoring outstanding alumni and faculty will be part of Homecoming this year, and the Red & Black student newspaper will show off its new building.

Italy from Siena and the South: New Georgia Museum of Art exhibitions offer early Italian works

The Georgia Museum of Art has just opened two exhibitions of

Italian works, one of Renaissance and baroque drawings, running through Dec. 8, and one of medieval and Renaissance panel paintings, running through Jan. 5.
Drawing in Renaissance and Baroque Siena: 16th- and 17th-Century Drawings from Sienese Collections offers the first comprehensive picture of Sienese drawing during the Renaissance and baroque periods--and is possibly the first exhibition in the United States ever devoted to Sienese drawings.
Sacred Treasures: Early Italian Paintings from Southern Collections is a landmark exhibition of Italian paintings on panel from collections in the American South.

Celebration of life: Memorial service for Eugene Odum scheduled for Oct. 16

Eugene P. Odum, director emeritus of UGA’s Institute of

Eugene Odum

Ecology, made his wishes clear: in the end, his life was to be celebrated rather than his death mourned. Odum’s colleagues and friends have planned an event that will do just that.
A memorial in celebration of the life of Odum (who died at his Athens home in August) is scheduled for Oct. 16 at 4 p.m. in Hodgson Hall in the Performing Arts Center. The event is free and open to the public--including the many colleagues, students and friends of Odum whose lives, both professional and personal, were affected by the man widely regarded as the “father of modern ecology.”

B.C. Wang, Ramsey-Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar of X-Ray Crystallography at UGA, brought together representatives from a number of universities in the South, raising more than $15 million to purchase equipment for use at the Advanced Photon Source.

UGA, consortium dedicate beamline at Argonne National Laboratory

A consortium of Southeastern universities, coordinated by researchers from UGA, will dedicate the first of two planned X-ray beamlines on Oct. 18 at the Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill. The consortium signed the memorandum of understanding for the new beamline with the Advanced Photon Source at the laboratory outside Chicago in 1999.
The new beamline will be an important advance in one of the world’s most powerful X-ray facilities, where scientists can study materials science, molecular environmental science and structural biology. The new beamline could help revolutionize structural research in the Southeast.

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