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| Columns::February 24, 2003 Charlayne Hunter-Gault to deliver Darl Snyder Lecture Center for Reproductive Law, Policy director will give Edith House Lecture Four governors and a gift UGA degree programs expand this fall at Gwinnett University Center Asia conference opens March 1 Sturgeon resurgence Campus Closeup Development office names director of corporate, foundation relations Keeping it all together Regents approve four new Peabody board members South Campus job expo Campus News Newsmakers Cloudy--and cool! CNN reported on the “wireless cloud” covering downtown Athens through the efforts of the university’s New Media Institute. “The real ultra-cool part of what we’re doing down here is we’re trying to change the relationship that people have with information,” said Scott Shamp, the director of the New Media Institute. “These aren’t mature technologies. But some of the student projects are ones that we really expect to grow and become important resources for Athens. And really the most exciting thing is the businesses, the government, the students consider this to be a community resource and they’re excited about it.” Collapsing boom Jeff Humphreys, director of UGA’s Selig Center for Economic Growth, was quoted in the New York Times on the collapse of the long economic boom in the South, especially in Atlanta. “Unfortunately, we didn’t have another Olympics in 2002,” he said. Moreover, the negative effects of Atlanta’s earlier growth are generating serious opposition. “It’s being brought about by the stresses of the economic boom we’ve just gone through,” Humphreys said, “but it’s affecting our reputation as a good place to do business. Atlanta is just not as hungry for growth as it was even recently.” Republican juggling act The New York Times quoted Charles S. Bullock of UGA’s political science department in an analysis of the Republican Party’s “juggling act” in dealing with questions of race and civil rights over the past 40 years. Race is seldom mentioned explicitly any more, except in the campaigns of North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms. “A statement opposing affirmative action is as close as they come now,” Bullock said. Non-neophyte Democrats For an analysis of the credibility of Democratic Party presidential hopefuls on the issue of national security, the Christian Science Monitor quoted Loch Johnson, political science professor at UGA. “By the time the election comes around in ’04, Bush will have had four years’ experience fighting terrorism,” Johnson said. “So Democrats are going to have to have someone who doesn’t look like a neophyte on the issue.” Better animals “We’re not creating monsters, just better animals,” UGA’s Steve Stice told Granma Internacional of Cuba in a report on cloning research. Calling Stice “one of the world’s top specialists in cloning techniques,” the paper concluded that the “sagacity that enables his students to understand him is also a balm for those uninitiated into the mysteries of these complicated modern techniques.” Norwalk virus techniques The Detroit News quoted UGA’s Michael Doyle, director of the Center for Food Safety, in a story reviewing what’s known about the Norwalk virus, the culprit in the series of cruise ship intestinal illnesses last year. In about 14 million cases, the paper reported, people catch the bug through direct contact with someone who is infected, from touching or shaking hands, or being around them when they vomit. “The vomit can be aerosolized with multiple particles in the air,” Doyle told the Detroit News reporter. The Los Angeles Times and the Hartford Courant also ran the story. |
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