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Columns::February 3, 2003

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Good works: 2003 Hill Award recipients announced

The recipients of the Walter Barnard Hill Awards and the Walter

Donald Bower

Barnard Hill Distinguished Public Service and Outreach Fellow were recognized at a luncheon banquet during the annual Public Service and Outreach Conference on Jan. 29. This year’s winner of the Hill Fellowship is Donald W. Bower, Cooperative Extension Service/Family and Consumer Sciences. The Hill Award winners are Scott Brown, Cooperative Extension Service/Agricultural and Environmental Sciences; John Glisson, avian medicine; William Merka, poultry science; Richard Milford, Vinson Institute of Government; and Jeffrey Sanford, Business Outreach Services/Small Business Development Center.

State budget woes: no raises likely, some positive moves

Even in these tight budget times, Gov. Sonny Perdue’s budget plan includes items important to the University of Georgia and the University System, but for the first time in a decade, faculty and staff face a year with no pay increase.
“For tough times, this is a good budget for the University of Georgia,” says President Michael F. Adams.

Big Band Dance Party swings into Athens

The Performing Arts Center presents the Big Band Dance Party, celebrating the music and dance of the swing era, on Feb. 9 at 7:30 p.m. in Hodgson Hall. This high-energy show features the award-winning Jivin’ Lindy Hoppers and the Uptown Big Band.
Based in London, the Jivin’ Lindy Hoppers dance ensemble was founded in 1984 in response to a revival of interest in the Lindy Hop, a popular dance form that got its name from Charles Lindbergh’s solo flight across the Atlantic in 1927.

Symposium explores benefits of diversity in higher education

Michael Thurmond

Michael Thurmond, Georgia’s labor commissioner, will be the keynote speaker at a day-long cultural diversity symposium organized by UGA’s Center for Humanities and Arts on Feb. 7. The symposium, titled “Cultural Diversity at the University of Georgia in the 21st Century,” will explore the educational and social benefits of cultural diversity in higher education and will examine how the university can make diversity a part of its character.

University Council will consider six new degrees and institute in engineering

The university’s growing engineering program will take another step forward if the University Council approves proposals to create an institute of engineering and offer six bachelor’s and master’s degrees in engineering disciplines.
The council will consider the proposals at its first spring semester meeting Feb. 6 at 3:30 p.m. in the Chapel. Council meetings are open to anyone, but debate and voting are limited to elected council members.

Doctoral student Xiaoyu Zhang (left), geneticist Susan Wessler, and postdoctoral student Ning Jiang found active transposons in the rice genome.

Jumpin’ genes: Researchers identify first active DNA transposons in rice genomes

UGA researchers studying rice genomes, under a National Science Foundation Plant Genome Research Program award, have identified the species’ first active DNA transposons, or “jumping genes.”
In collaboration with researchers at several universities, a research group headed by geneticist Susan Wessler also discovered the first active “miniature inverted-repeat transposable element,” or MITE, of any organism.

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