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Columns::January 13, 2003

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$1 million gift will establish endowed chair in public policy

UGA will use a $1 million gift from Atlanta businessman Cecil Phillips to establish an endowed professorship in honor of former Gov. George D. Busbee, who holds two degrees from UGA.
The George D. Busbee Chair in Public Policy will be the first endowed faculty position in UGA’s new School of Public and International Affairs.

$6.7 million NSF grant funds study of land-use change in southern Appalachian Mountains

UGA has received a National Science Foundation grant of $6.7 million to study, with cooperating federal agencies and other universities, the ecological consequences of land-use change in the southern Appalachian Mountains.
The grant extends for another six years the Coweeta Long-Term Ecological Research program centered at the U.S. Forest Service’s Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory in Otto, N.C.

Woodruff, Honors Program student, named one of 40 Marshall Scholars

It’s been nearly 40 years since a UGA student has been selected

Josh Woodruff

as a Marshall Scholar, which makes it all the more noteworthy that Josh Woodruff, a senior in the Honors Program at UGA, has been named one of only 40 Marshall Scholarship recipients in the United States this year. In 1965, Joseph Harris was selected from UGA; he went on to become a chaired professor of English and folklore at Harvard.
Woodruff is the son of Drs. John and Ina Woodruff of Thomasville. He is a double major in biochemistry/molecular biology and cellular biology with a 3.96 GPA.

Full of beans: Food scientists develop high-protein hush puppies from deep-fried cowpea paste

UGA food scientists are working to introduce akara, a popular

West African food, to U.S. consumers through the frozen food and fast-food markets.
Similar to hush puppies, akara is made from deep-fried cowpea (black-eyed pea) paste.

2003 State of the University Address

President Michael F. Adams, delivering his sixth annual State of the University address, urged students to adopt an aggressive attitude toward ethics and personal integerity.

Adam Cureton is UGA’s newest Rhodes Scholar

For the fourth time since 1996, the University of Georgia

Adam Cureton

has a Rhodes Scholar in its ranks: Adam Cureton has been selected as one of 32 U.S. recipients of the renowned international study award.
Cureton is the son of Dr. Steven and Sally Cureton of Kingsport, Tenn., and will graduate next spring with a bachelor of arts degree in political theory and evolutionary theory and a master of arts degree in philosophy. A Foundation Fellow and Honors Program student at UGA, Cureton is an active participant in the Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities. His other honors include USAA Merit, OWC Merit and HOPE scholarships, and he was named a U.S. Presidential Scholar in 1999.

Alain Desvergnes’s “Yoknapatawpha,” The World of Faulkner is part of the Visualizing the Blues: Images of the American South on display at the Georgia Museum of Art from January 18 through March 23.

Three new exhibitions open at Georgia Museum of Art

Three new exhibitions open at the Georgia Museum of Art this week: a collection of images of the American South between 1862 and 1999, photographs by John Cohen and sculptures by Howard Rittenberry.

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