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| Columns::September 2, 2003 Open wide: Food science building renovation, addition dedication scheduled UGA scientists lead international study of hot springs in Russia $1 million NSF grant will support biosensor research Magazine ranks UGA as top 20 public university for fourth consecutive year Carmical gift will be used to increase number of honors journalism courses Professor named pharmacy college’s teacher of the year Meeting and greeting Weight watcher: UGA researcher finds that nearly half of state’s children are overweight Campus Closeup Retirees Learning experience Guiding Lights Campus News Newsmakers Walking to progress UGA food scientist Mike Doyle was quoted in USA Today on a proposed national walking program to combat obesity. He said the food industry and government can cooperate in promoting exercise and calorie counting. “We are not going to eliminate obesity in this country in one fell swoop,” he said, “but with everybody working together, we can have a major impact.” Plant disease, human disease UGA plant pathologist J.W. Buck was quoted in the South African Sunday Times in a health-related article on human pathogens. “Historically, human pathogens like E. coli and salmonella have rarely been associated with plants, so plant disease scientists have not looked at them directly,” he said, concluding that that approach is changing. Two sides of a coin In a story about the loss of white-collar jobs to lower-paid workers overseas, the Dallas Morning News quoted Jeffrey Wenger, an assistant professor of public policy at UGA. “This is just the leading edge right now, but a trend that will grow,” he said. “It’s good for American consumers and bad for American workers. Unfortunately, they tend to be the same people.” The story was picked up by other newspapers too. Indian needs, U.S. technology Anupam Srivastava, executive director of the South Asia program in UGA’s School of Public and International Affairs, was quoted in the Asia Times about a U.S. agreement to sell military equipment to India’s special forces. “The U.S. technology is raising the standard of Indian intelligence and border surveillance,” he said. “American officials have been very sensitive to Indian needs after the Kargil war.” Avoiding conflicts Dennis Beresford of UGA’s School of Accounting was quoted in a Washington Post story on new Securities and Exchange Commission guidelines concerning the hiring of outside auditors to handle other chores for client corporations. He called it “an indirect way of making sure companies won’t engage their auditors to do those kinds of things.” The Seattle Post-Intelligencer also quoted Beresford in a report on the issue. McKinney’s move Political scientist Charles Bullock was quoted in the Ithaca (N.Y.) Journal coverage of the appointment of former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney as a visiting professor at Cornell University. He explained her election loss in 2002: “She won handily among African-American voters, about 81 percent, but she only got around 5 percent of the white vote.” Reviving dominance History and law professor Ed Larson was quoted in Reuters news service and Christian Science Monitor stories on the Alabama battle over display of the Ten Commandments in the judicial building in Montgomery. “There’s a religious revival going on,” he said. “These people dominated American culture 120 years ago. They lost all of that, but they’ve regained control in politics since Jimmy Carter was president.” Eccentric Hope Horace Newcomb, director of UGA’s Peabody Awards program, was quoted nationally in stories on the death of legendary comedian Bob Hope. In the Austin (Texas) American-Statesman, he called Hope’s humor “so eccentric. But in spite of the buffoonery and clumsy humor, he was more identifiable--more the Everyman than the hero.” |
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