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Columns::April 21, 2003

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Office of Research Services appoints a new director

By Judy Purdy
jbp@ovpr.uga.edu

Jerry NeSmith has been appointed to direct the Office of Research Services, following the December retirement of E. Lamar Houston. ORS provides cost-effective services to the campus research community.
NeSmith oversees a $7.5 million annual operation that includes eight operating business units that support UGA research and teaching programs. More than half the 74 positions throughout OSP are supported by sales-generated revenues.
NeSmith has 30 years of private-sector experience in product development, sales and marketing, working primarily in information technology. He most recently worked in IT management at Emory University. Since accepting the position in February, NeSmith has worked with his staff and his colleagues in Patel’s organization to set goals and strategies for the 2004 fiscal year. His short-term goals include updating tools to enhance staff capabilities, improving the menu of services provided to the research community and implementing the new Web-based chemical-tracking software, called Chematix, that will enable university personnel to efficiently and conveniently procure and track chemicals.
“The Web-based tracking system will assure that we are disposing of materials properly and help the university use expensive chemicals more effectively by making surplus chemicals available to other on-campus labs,” NeSmith says.

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