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Columns::September 15, 2003

$6.7 million grant will support research that could eventually treat some cancers and Parkinson’s disease
U. of Tennessee administrator will head Georgia Center
Former administrative information systems director is named interim CIO
Rising numbers: Freshman class is more racially, ethnically diverse
South (Georgia) campus
Study by UGA scientists reveals that laboratory rats ‘under the influence’ find it hard to concentrate
Study: Property values increase near greenspaces
Campus Closeup
Administrative Changes
Forum essay: On revising student papers
Rolling out the welcome mat

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Newsmakers

Flexible negotiations
The International Herald Tribune quoted UGA historian William Stueck in a story on the most recent round of negotiations with North Korea. “The Americans are going to be a little more flexible in talking to the North Koreans with the Chinese as observers,” he said.

New approach
UGA economist Andy Keeler, an expert on environmental issues, was quoted in the Philadelphia Inquirer in an analysis of the pros and cons of state regulation of carbon dioxide emissions. “This is all new territory,” Keeler said.

Green eggs, no ham
UGA research into more palatable scrambled eggs for military MREs was featured in the Christian Science Monitor. UGA food scientist Romeo Toledo told the reporter that “the troops want them [ready-to-eat eggs], but the scrambled eggs in the MREs were rubbery, had a strange aftertaste and even stranger colors, sometimes reddish and sometimes green.” The Monitor reported that Toledo’s team is making progress on the challenge.

Pretty strange accounting
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review quoted UGA accounting professor Dennis Beresford in a story on the failure of the accounting procedures at Allegheny Energy shortly after accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers had reported that the energy company’s books were in good order. “That’s pretty strange,” said Beresford, former chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board. “I don’t know how you can have a clean opinion one year and the next year you fall apart.”

Journalism at odds
The Boston Globe reported on the rising numbers of females in journalism apparent in the annual survey conducted by UGA journalism professor Lee Becker. Becker was interviewed about why many newsrooms are still male-dominated even though two-thirds of journalism students are women. “I think that while the newsroom can be friendly to women you have to look at the occupation,” he said. “There are some occupational characteristics that are at odds with family social life, at odds with child rearing.”

South Korean vulnerability
Han Park, director of UGA’s Center for the Study of Global Issues, was quoted in USA Today coverage of North Korean discussions in Beijing in August. He noted that Seoul is heated and cooled by natural gas, supplied by underground pipelines. “Seoul would become a big fireball” in a war, he said. “It’s too destructive to even think about.” Park was also interviewed live from campus on CNN International.

Improving on the periodic table
UGA geology professor Bruce Railsback’s work redesigning the periodic table of the elements was reported in Nature. “I want people to see that broad patterns in geochemistry can be viewed in one framework,” he said.

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