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Columns::April 21, 2003

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University hosts state championship for future problem solvers

About 30 academic teams--students and their teachers--from schools throughout Georgia will compete for state championships in the 29th annual Georgia Future Problem Solving Bowl, to be held in Athens April 25-26.
The event will involve more than 300 student participants who have earned the chance to compete at the state level for team championships. Some competitors have already won scenario writing and community problem solving components of the program.

Rising star will give piano recital

The Performing Arts Center presents award-winning pianist

Orion Weiss

Orion Weiss on April 27, at 3 p.m. in Ramsey Hall. Tickets are $17, available at the ticket office in the Performing Arts Center, open weekdays 8 a.m.-5 p.m. and two hours before concerts. Student tickets are half-price.
Twenty-year-old American pianist Orion Weiss has already established himself as an extraordinarily talented young pianist, exhibiting great maturity and depth as well as remarkable technical skills. He was recently chosen to be a member of Chamber Music Society Two at Lincoln Center, and he was the 2001 winner of the Mieczyslaw Munz Scholarship at New York’s Juilliard School.

UGA’s top students and teachers recognized at Honors Day ceremony

Honors Day, the university’s annual recognition of top student scholars and outstanding teachers and advisers, will be held April 23 at 2 p.m. in the Ramsey Student Center.
Susan Wessler, Distinguished Research Professor of Botany, will be the Honors Day speaker. Undergraduate classes will be cancelled for sixth, seventh and eighth periods (1:25-4:25 p.m.) so students and faculty can attend.

Flower(ing) power: UGA scientists plot key events in plant evolution

Since Charles Darwin grasped evolution more than 150

Arabidopsis

years ago, scientists have sought to better understand when and how the vast variety of plants today diverged from common ancestors.
A new UGA study, just published in Nature, demonstrates key events in plant evolution. It allows scientists to infer what gene order may have looked like in a common ancestor of higher plants. And it shows one way plants may have differentiated from their ancestors and each other.other.
“By studying the completed sequence of the smallest flowering plant, Arabidopsis, we showed that most of its genes were duplicated about 200 million years ago and duplicated again about 80 million years ago,” says Andrew Paterson, the plant geneticist who directed the study. “The ensuing loss of ‘extra genes’ caused many of the differences among modern plants.”

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