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Columns::July 21, 2003
Digest
State charities program recognizes UGA
For the second year in a row, UGA has been awarded the Governor’s Cup for its participation in the Statewide Campaign for Charities program.
The Governor’s Cup is presented each year to the college, university or state department in one of five categories with the highest contribution per employee. The $444,648.48 pledged by UGA faculty and staff was the highest amount in the category for institutions with at least 9,000 employees.
“The big winners in this are those within our local community who will benefit from the contributions received by those philanthropic service organizations who need support to meet the needs of those they serve,” says UGA President Michael F. Adams. “I appreciate your continued support for the local community and the University of Georgia.”
Environmental safety receives award
The university’s Environmental Safety Division has been awarded the Water Resources Project of Excellence Award for 2003 from the Georgia chapter of the American Water Resources Association. The award was given in recognition of the water remediation efforts at the Milledge Avenue hazardous waste landfill site.
The Milledge Avenue landfill was an approved chemical disposal site active from before 1969 to 1979. The chemicals deposited at the site resulted in impact to soil, groundwater and a down-gradient stream. ESD worked for many years at this site to investigate and address these conditions. The division’s efforts have included investigation and delineation of soil and groundwater impact; installation of a surface water treatment system; semi-annual groundwater, surface water and sediment sampling; installation of a cap on the landfill; and design and planting of a phytoremediation system in the area along the stream.
Public involvement included an open house, meetings with site neighbors, development of fact sheets regarding the site history, the landfill cap and the phytoremediation system.
Campus Transit wins at state ‘Roadeo’
UGA Campus Transit operators recently competed in the Georgia Department of Transportation and Georgia Transit Association’s annual Transit Roadeo, with places in individual competitions and winning the team competition.
Campus Transit’s Chris Baker was the first place winner. Martha Peterson placed third and Brad Frink, the 2002 first place winner, placed eighth in this year’s competition.
The Roadeo is an opportunity for drivers to showcase their skill, according to Ron Hamlin, manager of the Campus Transit System.
“For a relatively small transit provider such as ours--at least in terms of number of employees--the fact that drivers representing the university are frequently able to compete at such a high level speaks for the skill and training that they have and for the commitment to safety that this department has made to UGA,” Hamlin says.
Twenty-nine operators from 10 transit agencies across the state competed in uniform inspections, safety knowledge and a driving test involving 11 maneuvers and being scored on such factors as safety, smoothness and promptness against the clock. Competing were drivers from the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, Albany, Athens, Columbus and Rome, and Chatham, Cobb, Gwinnett and Bibb counties.
Nine faculty named CHA Research Fellows
The Center for Humanities and Arts has named nine CHA Research Fellows for the 2003-04 academic year. The CHA Research Fellowship Program supports UGA faculty engaged in humanities research or artistic creation or performance by providing one semester’s release time (two courses) from teaching.
The 2003-2004 CHA Research Fellows are: Judith Ortiz Cofer, English: “The Names of the Dead,” a sequence of poems; Stefanie S. Jackson, art: “Tragic Magic,” a set of oil paintings; Sandy Martin, religion: “Collected Writings and Speeches of James Walker Hood (1831-1918)”; Timothy B. Powell, English: “Global Memory: Mapping the Cultural Origins of Contemporary American Literature”; Beth Preston, philosophy: “Useful Things: Towards a Philosophy of Material Culture”; Susan Rosen-baum, English: “Frank O’Hara and the Museum of Modern Art”; Brigitte Rossbacher, Germanic and Slavic languages: “Sites of Memory in Post-Wall German Literature”; Aidan R. Wasley, English: “Auden and American Poetry”; and Hyangsoon Yi, comparative literature: “Korean Buddhist Cinema.” |
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