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Columns::January 21, 2003

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Linton Mann III was one of the UGA student-presenters at the National Issues Forum briefing at the Carter Library on Martin Luther King Day. He talked about his CURO project with the Survey Research Center.

Common ground:: Talking about race: UGA students explore sensitive topics

Finding common ground for action on racial and ethnic issues--like affirmative action, profiling, bilingual education--isn’t easy. Even discussing them in a group setting can be a challenge.
That’s what students in UGA’s Honors Program discovered fall semester when they participated in the National Issues Forum on “Racial and Ethnic Tensions: What Should We Do?”

New lecture series marks Founders’ Day

The University of Georgia Alumni Association will celebrate UGA’s 218th birthday Jan. 27 by introducing the Founders’ Day

Ronald Simpson

Lecture, a new lecture series developed by a group of retired faculty members who continue to be involved in the university’s academic life.
The lecture is sponsored by the UGA Alumni Association and the Emeriti Scholars, a group organized last year by 11 retired faculty members. Members of the group, who are especially known for their teaching abilities, are carrying out part-time teaching, research and service assignments.
Ronald D. Simpson, emeritus professor of education and former acting director of UGA’s Institute of Higher Education, will deliver the inaugural Founders’ Day Lecture on Jan. 27 at 3 p.m. in the Chapel.

Franklin College presents chamber concert

The American Chamber Players return to Athens Jan. 24 at

8 p.m. for a free Franklin College Chamber Music concert in Hodgson Hall of the Performing Arts Center.
Miles Hoffman formed the American Chamber Players in 1985 from a core group of artists at the Library of Congress Summer Chamber Festival. The six members of the ensemble perform repertoire ranging from familiar masterpieces to neglected gems to newly commissioned American works.

Federal judge will give annual Holmes-Hunter Lecture

When Horace T. Ward, the first African American to apply for admission to the University of Georgia, was denied entry to the

Horace Ward

university’s law school in 1950, he filed suit in federal district court contending racial discrimination. After seven years, with the case having been dismissed, the young man began and completed his legal education elsewhere.
It was not long before Ward returned to Georgia to practice law, and in 1961 he helped Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter become the first African-American students to gain admission to the same university that had denied him more than a decade earlier.
Ward, who went on to a distinguished career as a state senator and federal judge, will return to UGA to deliver a lecture named in honor of those first two African-American students. On Jan. 21 at 2 p.m. in the Chapel, Ward will give the 18th annual Holmes-Hunter Lecture.

Robert Maier injects hydrogen into a suspension of Helicobactor pylori bacteria. He measures the rate of hydrogen depletion as the bacteria metabolize the hydrogen.

Power supply: Study demonstrates that bacterial pathogens use molecular hydrogen as an energy source in animals

A new study, recently published in the journal Science, shows for the first time that some bacteria that cause diseases in humans use molecular hydrogen as an energy source. The research could point the way toward new treatment regimens for everything from ulcers and chronic gastritis to stomach cancer.
Microbiologists at UGA worked specifically in mice with the gastric bacterium Helicobacter pylori, a pathogen that colonizes the mucosal surfaces of the human stomach and gives rise to gastritis, peptic ulcers and sometimes certain types of gastric cancer.

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