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Columns::October 21, 2002

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College of Education receives $10.3 million grant to revitalize teaching of mathematics

Pat Wilson

The College of Education is helping lead a nationwide effort to revitalize the teaching of mathematics from pre-kindergarten through college.
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $10.3 million grant to UGA’s department of mathematics education for a five-year project which will focus on improving the mathematical proficiency of both new teachers and those already in the field, preparing a new generation of teacher educators, and conducting research on proficiency in teaching and in doing mathematics.

Kendall Buster’s sculpture Subterrain is on display in visual arts building

Subterrain, the work of visiting sculptor Kendall Buster, is a site-specific installation in the main gallery of the visual arts building. It has been created with the assistance of students who are taking a course on sculpture in spatial context under the direction of Imi Hwangbo, associate professor of art. The work will be on display through Nov. 11.

Bill Fox of UGA’s automotive department manages alternative fuel vehicles such as these electric cars. The journalism college uses them for live campus broadcasts of the student-run TV program Newsource 15.

Considering the alternative: Motor pool uses a number of vehicles that don’t burn gasoline

Bill Fox has pleasant memories of the first alternative-fuel buses he rode as a UGA student.
“Back in the 1980s, alternative fuel was used in buses for campus transit,” says Fox, now director of the university’s motor pool. “They were fueled by peanut oil and smelled like a big Nutter Butter rolling down the road.”
Unfortunately, he says, the cost of running the peanut-oil buses was too high. But great strides have been made over the past 20 years, and the UGA motor pool now has a number of alternative-fuel vehicles, including bifuel passenger vans and trucks, electric vehicles and a compressed-natural-gas passenger van.

Dean of students is new interim head for institutional diversity

Rodney D. Bennett, dean of students at the university, assumed

Rodney Bennett

additional duties as interim associate provost for institutional diversity effective Oct. 15.
Bennett succeeds Louis A. Castenell Jr., who has asked to be allowed to resume devoting his full energies to his position as dean of the College of Education. Castenell has held the joint appointment since June 2001.
When he announced that Bennett would be taking over responsibility for the institutional diversity office, Arnett C. Mace Jr., interim senior vice president for academic affairs and provost, also announced the appointment of an 11-member search committee to identify candidates for the permanent position, which coordinates institutional efforts to promote diversity.

Thirteen undergraduates join CURO apprenticeship program

Alicia Gourdine, a political science and international affairs major, is spending her first semester in college on a research project with faculty mentor Christopher Allen, who had co-written a book she used in her comparative government class in high school. Now she and Allen are studying how the United States can employ new ways to increase governmental efficiency and representation.
Alexander Nunez, a history and political science major in the Honors program, is working with philosophy mentor Bradley Bassler on the distinction between the finite and the infinite by looking at the views expressed by philosophers of different eras.
These two students are among a group of 13 first-year students at the university who have been given the opportunity to develop a mentoring relationship with a faculty member and gain research experience through the Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities apprenticeship program.

Law professor joins provost’s office as interim associate VP for academic affairs

Rebecca H. White, J. Alton Hosch Professor in the School

Rebecca White

of Law, will move to the Office of the Provost on Nov. 1 to assume an interim position as associate vice president for academic affairs and associate provost. In this role, she will report directly to Arnett C. Mace Jr., interim provost and senior vice president for academic affairs. Her responsibilities will include program priorities, budgets, revisions to the guidelines for promotion and tenure, various academic initiatives and extended education.

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