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Columns::February 17, 2003

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Mid-year external grants and contracts up by 17.2 percent

Awards for external contracts and grants at UGA are ahead of last year by 17.2 percent, according to the fiscal year 2003 mid-year cumulative activity report released in January by the Office of the Vice President for Research.
“At the close of December, which is the midpoint of our fiscal year, cumulative funding for external contracts and grants was up $19 million over last year at this time,” says associate vice president for research Regina Smith, who directs the UGA office of sponsored research.

Rainforest Adventure returns to State Botanical Garden

In this year’s festival--Feb. 22 at the State Botanical Garden--families will meet live rainforest animals and view rainforest plants used for medicines, foods, beverages and building materials.

Broadcast journalist to host Peabody luncheon

Barbara Walters, host of ABC Television’s 20/20 and co-host of

Barbara Walters

The View, will present the 62nd George Foster Peabody Awards on May 19 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. The luncheon ceremony will honor the outstanding works in radio, television and new media that were broadcast during 2002.
“We are delighted that Ms. Walters will join us on this important day,” says Horace Newcomb, director of the Peabody Awards program. “Whether presenting the vital news of the day, introducing viewers to interesting and influential individuals with her interviews, or exploring contemporary culture on The View, her work exemplifies excellence, the single criterion applied in selecting winners of the Peabody Award.” Walters received a Peabody Award in 1995 for her profile of Christopher Reeve.

UGA receives $3.28 million from Nunnally Trust Fund

The university has received a $3.28 million trust fund that was established 27 years ago by a man who graduated from UGA nearly 100 years ago.
The late George Winship Nunnally of Atlanta created the fund with $1 million in 1975 to provide for his wife, Iona, following his death. Nunnally, a former president of the Nunnally Candy Co. and a 1904 graduate of UGA, stipulated that the fund transfer to the university when Mrs. Nunnally died.
At the time of her death last year, the fund had more than tripled in value. After all the legal paperwork was completed, UGA received $3,281,139 in the Iona Nunnally Trust Fund.

Ninth international symposium will explore ‘Globalization and Change in Central Asia’

April Palmerlee

The Center for Humanities and Arts will sponsor an international symposium on Feb. 19-21 on “Globalization and Change in Central Asia.” It is the ninth in the center’s Program for Global Understanding. Approximately 20 distinguished artists, scholars and diplomats will come to Masters Hall of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education to join in discussions about the effect of globalization on the cultures, arts, economies, and politics of the nations of the region.
April Palmerlee, senior coordinator for international women’s issues at the U.S. Department of State, will give the keynote address at 8 p.m. on Feb. 19. Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Palmerlee has served as the project director of the Council on Foreign Relations Roundtable on Afghanistan, which is composed of scholarly experts on the region, journalists, aid workers, U.S. policymakers and U.N. officials.

Proposals for engineering degrees, institute sent to Board of Regents

The University Council approved a plan for UGA to offer new bachelor’s and master’s degrees in three areas of engineering when resources are in place to support the programs.

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