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Columns::May 19, 2003

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Budget includes funds for three key university projects

Three key UGA construction projects took a step forward in the recently concluded Georgia General Assembly session.
The fiscal year 2003 amended budget includes $8.6 million in bonds which, when added to the $1.4 million appropriated last year, completes the state’s portion of funding for the Paul D. Coverdell Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences. The state funds match $10 million in federal funding and $20 million to be generated by the sponsored research activities that will be associated with the facility.

The new CCRC building on Riverbend Road is scheduled for completion this October.

CCRC expansion is expected to boost local economy by more than $14 million

A new building and two new faculty members will greatly enhance UGA’s research in medical glycobiology--the study of the role of complex carbohydrates in medicine--and may have lasting impact on the health of Georgians.
Scientists at the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center are focused on investigating the complex carbohydrates found on the surfaces of cells. These surface carbohydrates play significant roles in human disease--roles that are not completely understood. Researchers have discovered that changes in a cell’s surface can correlate with cancerous states; understanding the role of surface carbohydrates in such changes could lead to advances in diagnostic techniques, vaccines and remedies.

Research professor is named Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Stephen P. Hubbell, Distinguished Research Professor of

Stephen Hubbell

Plant Biology, has been named a Fellow of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He joins geneticists John Avise, Norman Giles and Wyatt Anderson and anthropologist Brent Berlin as the only members from UGA.
The academy was founded in 1780 by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock and other scholar-patriots “to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.”

Good job: Employee efforts recognized

Kate Character, certification official in student services, has received the College of Education’s 2003 Staff Award for Excellence.
Character received a plaque and $1,200 in ceremonies May 2 at River’s Crossing. The first runner-up, Elizabeth Platt, office manager in mathematics education, was awarded $750, and second runner-up, Freida Thornton, partnership liaison in elementary education, received $300.
Diane Wood, a 22-year employee of the student services office in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences, has been named this year’s recipient of the Nettie Marie Nickols Outstanding Staff Performance Award.
As a degree program specialist, Wood is responsible for verifying student records, certifying graduation requirements, scheduling courses, processing course overrides and access to classes, and maintaining the student database.

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