Columns::March 31, 2003

Bulletin board

Alumni-employee breakfast
All UGA alumni employees are invited to attend the Alumni Association’s annual “Workin’ like
a Dawg” breakfast April 9 from 7:30 to 9 a.m. at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education.
To reserve a place for this complimentary continental breakfast, call the Alumni Association (542-2251) by April 4.

Carter Award applications
The College of Arts and Sciences at Georgia State University is accepting applications for the fourth annual Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Award for Campus-Community Collaboration. The award recognizes campus and community groups that work together to produce measurable improvements in people’s lives. The winning program will receive $10,000, with the prize money divided equally between campus and community partners. The deadline to apply is June 9.
The winner of the 2002 award was the Beall’s Hill revitalization project, a partnership of Mercer University and CORE Neighborhood Revitalization in which Mercer students and faculty work with community members, local governments, the housing authority and businesses to restore and re-energize the historic neighborhoods surrounding the campus.
To be eligible for the 2003 award, programs must involve collaboration between a Georgia college or university and a community group. Programs must have been in operation for at least two years and should focus on improving the lives of families and communities and on learning, research and service for higher education participants.
A national selection committee will choose the finalists (to be announced in September) and the winner (to be announced in fall).
Applications can be downloaded at www.gsu.edu/carteraward. For more information, call 404/463-9538.

Travel funding
President Michael F. Adams has authorized an allocation of $100,000 from the President’s Venture Fund to support international travel for full-time teaching and research faculty during summer 2003. Arnett C. Mace Jr., senior vice president for academic affairs and provost, appointed a committee chaired by Clifton Pannell, associate dean of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, to devise a plan for distribution of the funds.
The committee has set a deadline of April 18 for receipt of applications. The committee expects to award
50 grants of up to $2,000 each, and will notify applicants by April 25. Application forms are available on the provost’s office Web site (www.uga.edu/provost) and should be returned via fax to Tammy Gilland at 542-2698.
The President’s Venture Fund is supported through the UGA Partners Program. Partners are individuals whose annual gifts to UGA total $2,500 or more and include unrestricted funds that can be used to meet funding challenges as they arise throughout the academic year. Faculty and staff may join the Partners Program with annual gifts totaling $1,500, including unrestricted funds.
The decision to allocate money from the President’s Venture Fund for international travel is in response to strictures on faculty travel due to the current budget situation.

Brooks Drive closings
Construction of utility infrastructure for the Coverdell Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences will begin next month and continue through the summer.
April 7-May 10: traffic on D.W. Brooks Drive, south of Carlton Street to the new curb cut, will be rerouted through the parking lot that is west of the Carlton Street parking deck and north of McWhorter Hall.
May 12-Sept. 5: D.W. Brooks Drive from Carlton Street to McWhorter Hall will be temporarily closed.

Return-to-school workshop
The ANSERS program will host a return-to-school workshop for UGA employees on April 9. There are daytime and evening sessions. Check the ANSERS Web site for further information (www.gactr.uga.edu/ustudies/ansers/employeeworkshops.html).

Woman’s Club luncheon
The University Woman’s Club annual spring luncheon and fashion show is scheduled for April 8, 11:30 a.m., at the Athens Country Club. The fashion selection this year is from Talbots. Tickets are available at 613-6348. Deadline for purchasing tickets is April 1.

Fulbright applications
The Fulbright Scholar Program is offering lecturing/research awards in some 140 countries for the 2004-2005 academic year. Application deadlines vary with type of award, beginning in May.
Traditional Fulbright awards are available from two months to an academic year or longer. A new short-term grants program--the Fulbright Senior Specialists Program-- offers two-to-six-week grants in a variety of disciplines and fields.
While foreign language skills are needed in some countries, most Fulbright lecturing assignments are in English. Some 80 percent of the awards are for lecturing.
UGA’s Office of International Affairs offers services for faculty interested in applying for Fulbright Awards. For information, check the international affairs Web site (www.uga.edu/oie and select “faculty resources”) or contact Shelli Bond (542-0010; sdbond@uga.edu).
For application information, contact the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, 3007 Tilden Street, NW, Suite 5L, Washington, D.C. 20008-3009 (202/686-7877; apprequest@cies.iie.org). Information and an online application are also available on the Web at www.cies.org.
The Fulbright program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State.

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