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Columns::April 14, 2003

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UGA ranks sixth nationally in Fulbrights
The Council for International Exchange of Scholars has announced that the University of Georgia ranked sixth nationally in 2002-03 for having five faculty Fulbright Scholars. Recipients of this year’s Fulbright Scholar Awards are Terence J. Centner, professor, agriculture and applied economics, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany, August 2002-February 2003; James H. McLaughlin, professor, elementary education, Veracruzana University, Xalapa, Mexico, January-July 2003; Robert Edward Rhoades, professor, anthropology, Catholic University of Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador, January-June 2003; Sara Hanna Schweitzer, associate professor, forest resources, Sofia University, St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia, Bulgaria, August 2002-January 2003; and Kim Howard Tan, professor emeritus, crop and soil sciences, National University of the South, Bahia Blanca, Argentina, March-May 2003.
“The University of Georgia has been breaking into the top tier of international education on several measures--the percentage of our students who study abroad (18 percent), the number of residential study-abroad sites (three) and now a top 10 ranking in faculty Fulbrights,” says Mark Lusk, associate provost of international affairs. “UGA is finally gaining recognition for the many years invested in becoming a leader in international education.”
The ranking did not include an additional Fulbright Senior Specialist (short-term grant) awarded to James Cobb of the history department. Cobb went to the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria, for one month in 2002.

Video explores state’s legislative history
A new video program, “By the Will of the People,” explores how the Georgia General Assembly has changed from its beginnings as a small group of wealthy landowners to a body representative of and answerable to Georgians today. Produced by the University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education’s media production department in cooperation with the Carl Vinson Institute of Government, the video was the final project of the state’s Commission for the Celebration of 250 Years of Representative Government.
“The 250 Commission felt that it was important to produce a video for use in government and history classes that not only calls attention to the history of representative government in our state but that also provides insight into such happenings as the shifts in power between the Office of the Governor and the General Assembly, and how the face of the legislature has changed,” says Mary Stakes, Vinson Institute civic education specialist.
“By the Will of the People” and its accompanying materials are available for purchase through the Carl Vinson Institute of Government at www.cviog.uga.edu/catalog or by calling 542-6377.

Moot court team wins state competition
The School of Law found itself in a win-win situation during the final round of the Intrastate Moot Court Competition as the school’s two teams faced off, clinching the state title for the fourth year in a row. The competition was hosted by Georgia State University College of Law late last month in Atlanta.
The winning team comprised second-year law students Christopher J. Latimer, Trinity M. Hundredmark and Alicia A. Timm. Latimer was also named best oralist of the competition.
Placing second, out of a field of eight composed of two teams from each accredited law school in Georgia, was the trio of Jeffrey P. Shiver, Jason M. Tate and Stephanie L. Kirven, also second-year UGA students.
This marks the fourth year UGA’s law school has won the competition and had a student named best oralist. Other institutions participating in the tournament were Emory, Georgia State and Mercer universities.

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