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Columns::June 16, 2003

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Dawg Camp counselors are now planning for the coming season: From right, counter-clockwise, Neema Froutan, senior biology major; Jonathan Katz, sophomore biology major; Winters Richwine, senior accounting and finance major; Nathan Copeland, senior genetics and psychology major; Shomari Ruffin, senior biology and psychology major; Katie McDermott, junior marketing major; and Bobby Wechsler, junior marketing major.

Leaders of the pack: Couple’s $1 million gift will be used to help strengthen programs that develop leadership skills in students

An Atlanta couple has given the university $1 million to help strengthen programs that develop leadership skills in UGA students.
The gift from Andrew M. (Jack) Head and Jane S. Head went into an endowment that supports UGA’s Student Leadership Center. The center conducts programs designed to help students be more successful in school and after graduation.

School of Social Work dean named associate VP for academic affairs

Bonnie Yegidis, dean of the School of Social Work, has been

Bonnie Yegidis

named associate vice president for academic affairs and associate provost by Arnett C. Mace, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost. The appointment is effective July 21, pending approval by the University System of Georgia Board of Regents.
Yegidis’s career in academe spans more than 25 years. She has served as the dean of UGA’s social work school since 1995. Prior to her appointment at UGA, she was professor and director of the School of Social Work at the University of South Florida.

Vaccine development specialist is named GRA Eminent Scholar

A specialist in vaccine development and treatment

Ralph Tripp

approaches for respiratory virus infections joined the UGA faculty as a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar on May 1.
Ralph A. Tripp, section chief of the Viral Immunology Section in the Respiratory and Enteric Viruses Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since 1997, joined the College of Veterinary Medicine’s department of medical microbiology and parasitology as GRA Eminent Scholar in Animal Health Vaccine Development.

Law dean is stepping down from post at end of fiscal year

David E. Shipley, who has been dean of the School of Law for five years, will step down June 30 and take a position on the law school faculty.
Provost Arnett Mace has named Rebecca H. White, a law professor who has been serving as associate provost, as interim law dean beginning July 1.

‘Becoming a Nation’: Exhibition offers visual history of United States

Becoming a Nation: Americana from the Diplomatic Reception Rooms, U.S. Department of State, opens at the Georgia Museum of Art July 5 and will run through Aug. 31.
The exhibition includes more than 160 objects from one of the nation’s least-known cultural treasures, the period settings of the diplomatic reception rooms at the State Department.

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