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| Students Anthony Hamlet (foreground, from left) and Michael Moore helped set up the CENTAUR lab. In the background, Chris Stradtman (from left) and Jason Manous meet with clients. |
New connections: Computer network lab looks to next generation
Enterprise Information Technology Services and the UGA Research Foundation are collaborating with Spirent Communications to provide an advanced testing facility and staging area for deploying new networking technologies. The new lab opened Oct. 30.
The Collaboration for Excellence in Network Testing, Analysis and Unique Research lab tests next-generation network equipment and provides an opportunity for UGA technology students to get hands-on training and exposure to the most promising new networking technologies. The CENTAUR project is a public-private partnership intended to bring students and faculty together with innovative commercial technology organizations to advance the state of the art.
Performing Arts Center presents concert version of the opera La Bohème
Puccini’s La Bohème will be presented by the Western Opera Theater on Nov. 10 at 4 p.m. in Hodgson Hall. The production will be a concert version with live orchestra.
An annual favorite in the Performing Arts Center schedule, the company this year presents one of the most beloved and popular operas of all time. Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème received its first performance in 1896 in Turin. It tells the heartbreaking love story of Mimi and Rudolfo and the bohemian life they lead with their artist friends in the Latin quarter in 19th-century Paris. For this production, the setting has been moved to 1960s Paris. The opera will be sung in Italian with English supertitles projected above the stage.
Jurist, two UGA benefactors and administrator to get Blue Key Award
The UGA chapter of Blue Key honor society will recognize the state’s top jurist, two of the university’s leading benefactors, and a veteran university administrator at the annual Blue Key Banquet Nov. 8.
The Blue Key Service Award will be presented to Norman S. Fletcher, chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court; Mary Virginia Terry and her late husband, C. Herman Terry, after whom the Terry College of Business is named; and Gordhan Patel, UGA vice president for research. Fletcher will be the featured speaker for the banquet, which will be at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education.
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McGill Lecturer discusses challenges of journalism
Geneva Overholser, Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs
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Geneva Overholser
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Reporting for the University of Missouri School of Journalism, will deliver the 24th annual Ralph McGill Lecture Nov. 6 at 10 a.m. in the Chapel. The former ombudsman and syndicated columnist for the Washington Post will discuss “What Good Is Journalism?”
She will look at journalism from the perspective of the public, the journalists and the marketplace, describing the challenges journalism faces. The event is free and open to the public.
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| The new five-level East Campus Village parking deck will open for business this week with room for 850 vehicles. |
Constrcution projects add new structures to campus
Several major construction projects at the university will add important new structures to campus while complying with a core tenet of the campus master plan to shift parking from surface lots to decks.
The opening of the East Campus Village parking deck Nov. 4 is the first step in transforming a parking lot on East Campus into a spacious and attractive new living community for students.
Meanwhile, plans for the Coverdell Center for the Biomedical and Health Sciences are proceeding now that the Carlton Street parking deck can accommodate vehicles that have parked in the Stegeman Coliseum lot.
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| University of Georgia President Michael F. Adams (center) signs an agreement with President Daishun Ueyama (right) of Ryukoku University in Kyoto, Japan, allowing for the exchange of students in a collaborative effort between UGA and Ryukoku. Adams visited Japan in early August, accompanied by UGA professor Han Park (left) of the Center for Global Issues, to formalize the agreement, making it possible for UGA courses to be taught on-site at Ryukoku. |
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