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Columns::March 31, 2003

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Grant supports first Peabody Seminar
UGA’s Peabody Center for Media and Society will receive a $150,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to support the first Peabody Seminar.
The seminar, which will address the global implications of media industry consolidation, is scheduled for fall 2003. It is the first project of the newly established Peabody Center.
“The Ford Foundation has given us a great vote of confidence with this first grant,” says Horace Newcomb, director of the George Foster Peabody Awards. “Issues related to media industry ownership are vital not only to communication businesses, but to the general citizenry as well. This seminar will bring together groups that rarely sit together in deliberation of problems and prospects.”
Peabody Seminars are a major component of the center’s activities and are designed to bring small groups together to discuss media-related topics. Representatives of the Peabody board will gather with those representing academic researchers, policy makers, public advocacy groups and the media industries to exchange views and prepare Peabody white papers on the topics under review.
“The Ford Foundation grant is a terrific start for the Peabody Center, which will make major contributions to the media industry,” says John Soloski, dean of the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. “This success is a testament to Horace Newcomb’s hard work and contributions on behalf of the field.”

Journal a double finalist for NMA award
The Georgia Review, a quarterly journal of arts and letters published at UGA since 1947, is once again on the National Magazine Awards list of finalists as announced by the American Society of Magazine Editors. The magazine, whose two submissions in the fiction category are in the finalist’s circle, will be up against the New Yorker (also a double finalist) and Book when the NMA’s 2003 winners are announced on May 7 in New York City.
Each fiction entry consists of three short stories published during 2002 with judging based on the overall quality of the works. The Georgia Review’s two entries are by authors at many levels of accomplishment: Brock Clarke’s “For Those of
Us Who Need Such Things,” Joyce Carol Oates’s “Three Girls,” and Guy Davenport’s “The Owl of Minerva” make up one entry, while the second consists of Kevin Brockmeier’s “Space,” Christie Hodgen’s “A Jeweler’s Eye for Flaw,” and Carrie Brown’s “Wings.”
The Georgia Review has been edited since 2001 by T.R. Hummer.

Football player receives scholarship
Offensive tackle Jon Stinchcomb of the UGA football team has been chosen as a recipient of an NCAA postgraduate scholarship.
Stinchcomb is one of the most decorated athletes in UGA history. Last season, he was chosen as a Walker Camp All-American, and he also was an All-SEC selection, after helping the team go 13-1 and win the conference championship. Stinchcomb was picked as an Academic All-American, as he maintained a 3.75 grade-point average in microbiology.
The NCAA awarded 58 postgraduate scholarships of $6,900 each to 29 men and 29 women who participated in fall sports. To qualify for an NCAA postgraduate scholarship, an athlete must have an overall grade-point average of 3.200 (on a 4.000 scale) or its equivalent and must have performed with distinction as a member of the varsity team in the sport in which he or she was nominated. The athlete must have behaved, both on and off the field, in a manner that has brought credit to the athlete, the institution and intercollegiate athletics.
The athlete also must intend to continue academic work beyond the baccalaureate degree as a full-time or part-time graduate student.

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