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Columns::August 25, 2003

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External funding marks third year of double-digit growth
For the third consecutive year, total external funding for research, instruction, and public service and outreach at the university has experienced double digit increases, says Gordhan L. Patel, vice president for research and associate provost.
“This is indeed good news for the University of Georgia and for the state of Georgia as a whole,” says President Michael F. Adams. “The research that is conducted at UGA is an important factor in the economic strength of this state. Another record year in research funding caps off our best academic year ever and sets the stage for another very strong year at UGA.”

Out of the pouch: Toledo’s MRE eggs are an improvement; now he’s tackling the watery texture.

Good taste: Food scientists upgrade soldiers’ ready-to-eat scrambled eggs

U.S. troops deployed in Iraq this year had MREs--“Meals Ready to Eat”--that were vastly improved over those available during the 1991 Gulf War. But scrambled eggs weren’t part of the ready-to-eat packages. The army stopped buying scrambled-egg MREs five years ago because they tasted so bad, says Romeo Toledo, a UGA food scientist who’s trying to change that.
“Eggs have been a major problem for the military,” says Toledo, whose research team is working with a U.S. Army grant to bring ready-to-eat eggs back into military rations.

‘Blaster’ gets the hook: Security experts close network traffic ports to slow progression of computer worm

As computer users the world over began dealing with the “Blaster” worm earlier this month, the security experts in UGA’s Office of Information Security and Network Operations decided to close the particular network traffic ports the worm was using to spread from one device to the next.
“We were especially worried because so many students and professors would be coming back to campus, with their laptops and PDAs,” says Stan Gatewood, chief information security officer at the university. “And at the same time all the computers in the new Student Learning Center would be going on line. We proposed to the senior administration at UGA that we could limit the risk by closing those ports.”

Music school names Richard Zimdars as its first Karlas Professor of Piano

Richard Zimdars, a faculty member at UGA since 1984, has

Richard Zimdars

been named the first recipient of the new Despy Karlas Professorship in Piano. The professorship was established by friends and admirers of Karlas, who joined the UGA faculty in 1946 and spent more than four decades at UGA. She retired as a full professor and has continued to be active in music.
As professor of piano in the School of Music, Zimdars combines the roles of teacher, performer and scholar. His students have won prizes in national competitions, have been awarded the Fulbright Grant for piano study in Germany and hold college teaching positions in the United States, Brazil and South Korea.

Farewell to summer

The State Botanical Garden offers the third and final concert

of this summer’s Sunflower Music Concerts Aug. 26 on the lawn at the garden. The concert takes place from 7 to 9 p.m. Tickets are $15 ($5 for Garden members), and must be purchased in advance. Call 542-6130 or purchase them at the Garden gift shop.

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